Astronomia / Coffin Dance by Vicetone
Astronomia is a 2010 electronic dance track by Tony Igy, the stage name of the Russian producer Anton Igumnov from the Rostov region. Igumnov has said he wrote it in FL Studio 4 over about two months, and he recalls that it became a summer hit in Russia that year. The catalogue entry is the remix by the Dutch duo Vicetone, credited Vicetone and Tony Igy, which came out on 9 July 2014. Ruben den Boer of Vicetone has said that he liked the original while he was still at school, and that it did not exactly fit the duo's sets, so he made their own version and sent it to Igy, who he thinks liked it. Igy's label would not sign off on an official release, so Vicetone put the remix out for free as a little gift for their fans. After the success of their 2016 song Nevada, the duo says, they were approached about an official release. The meme came six years later. In early 2020 clips of dancing pallbearers from Ghana, among them footage from a 2017 BBC report on funerals where the dead are sent off with dance, began to be set to the 2014 remix on TikTok, and the combination became known as Coffin Dance. Den Boer says he has no clue who paired them first. Igy has said that young people from Africa contacted him through social media about the renewed attention. The name Coffin Dance belongs to the meme and is not a title of the song, which is still Astronomia.
À propos de Astronomia / Coffin Dance
Astronomia is a 2010 electronic dance track by Tony Igy, the stage name of the Russian producer Anton Igumnov from the Rostov region. Igumnov has said he wrote it in FL Studio 4 over about two months, and he recalls that it became a summer hit in Russia that year. The catalogue entry is the remix by the Dutch duo Vicetone, credited Vicetone and Tony Igy, which came out on 9 July 2014.
Ruben den Boer of Vicetone has said that he liked the original while he was still at school, and that it did not exactly fit the duo's sets, so he made their own version and sent it to Igy, who he thinks liked it. Igy's label would not sign off on an official release, so Vicetone put the remix out for free as a little gift for their fans. After the success of their 2016 song Nevada, the duo says, they were approached about an official release.
The meme came six years later. In early 2020 clips of dancing pallbearers from Ghana, among them footage from a 2017 BBC report on funerals where the dead are sent off with dance, began to be set to the 2014 remix on TikTok, and the combination became known as Coffin Dance. Den Boer says he has no clue who paired them first.
Igy has said that young people from Africa contacted him through social media about the renewed attention. The name Coffin Dance belongs to the meme and is not a title of the song, which is still Astronomia.