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Vienna Ditto are a trip hop band from England who describe their music as voodoo sci-fi blues. Formed in 2008, they have featured on BBC Radio One, Channel 4 and played at Glastonbury in 2009. Many of their songs are given as free use for video projects.
Vienna Ditto the duo of singer Hattie Taylor and guitarist Nigel Firth’s uniting because of their shared appreciation for filthy Chicago blues, sinister psychedelia and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Taking those influences, the pair create music that’s both familiar and unique.
The band's free use policy on many of their tracks saw their song La Niña Blanca uploaded on 18 October 2014 on a free source music channel, though it didn't initially garner much attention,[7] with less than 5000 views by April 2016.
The track was later used as an opening theme by the YouTuber Dakota Hendrix, who also went by the title The Gender Terrorist. On 17 May 2016 the YouTube channel LeafyIsHere released a parody video of the Gender Terrorist channel, which received over 3.7 million hits by December 2016.[9] A follow-up video on 31 May 2016 received over 2.9 million views in the same time frame,[10] with many commentators responding to the music and asking for the track's name. Consequently, views of the track on YouTube rose, and by the end of 2016 exceeded 62,000 views.
(Two other Vienna Ditto tracks - The Undefeated and
I Know His Blood - on the same free music channel
already had views greater than 29,000.)