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Death from Above 1979 made an immediate splash upon debuting in 2004 with You're a Woman, I'm a Machine. Bassist/synth player Jesse F. Keeler and drummer/vocalist Sebastien Grainger hail from Toronto, where they met and formed Death from Above in 2001. (The "1979" was added later, after a spat with U.S.-based music collective DFA.) Without a guitarist -- or any other bandmember, for that matter -- Keeler and Grainger were free to push their rhythmic sound as far as it would go, and they eventually arrived a... Read More