The Shuffle Demons are a Canadian band led by Richard Underhill, who've provided some of the most innovative and high-energy jazz to come out of North America in years. They're virtually impossible to find outside Canada and were equally non-existant on the Web until this page was created to solve both of those problems.
The band started as three saxophones, stand-up bass, and drums. They played a type of jazz they termed "Bop Rap," with wild free-jazz improvisations and some hip tunes. They wore wild suits, berrets, and goatees, covering the occasional Monk or Rollins tune but mostly writing their own jazz heads and humorous tributes to Toronto's public transportation system among other things.
The Band now consists of one saxophone (with some heavily computerized effects), drums, bass, and guitar, and they play a version of acid jazz which they like to call "Cyber-Jazz" or "Trip-Hop."
This page currently provides exhaustive information of both incarnations of the band, but is slightly partial to the jazz-oriented group which gained the Shuffle Demons their international reputation.
The other Shuffle Demon website, Hipster' Online has disappeared off the face of the Earth.
If anyone has any information salvaged from it's FAQ and or other pages, please Mail Me.
This page is organized into the folowing sections:
Demons were presented with Gold Records at their reunion gig in October, for Hockey Night in Canada which appeared on a compilation CD called Contact the Allstar Collection. Here's a picture:
Rich Underhill's new band is on the web. See the Link Section.
With the page:
The old "Hipsters Online" page has disappeared from the net. If anyone has any information from the excellent but defunct page, I'd love to feature some of it here, with credit to Chucki Ho. E-mail Me!
New layout with seperate pages for each bit of information, indcluding one for each album with graphics & information.
The Last Spadina Bus ran on July 27th, 1997, and the Demons were there playing a tribute on the bus to the subject which landed them one of their biggest hits ever.
The Demons are back from Europe again! You can look at the Tour Dates
The Demons' Latest release is the drastically new style EP Get Right.
Contacting the Demons:
You can join the swingin' Society of Streetniks and be welcomed into the billowing folds of Demondom by sending your name and address to them via:
This is a fan-generated web-page provided for fellow Demonites across the world; Demon Derek is in no way affiliated with the Shuffle Demons or Stubby Records (though he sometimes wishes he was).
