"My purpose was simple: to catch the feel, the pulse of rock, as I had lived through it. What I was after was guts, and flash, and energy, and speed" - NIK COHN - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When the music was new and had no rules" -LUNA C
Thursday, March 6, 2014
rocktronica
Heard this at the hairdresser's the other day, instantly grabbed by its combo of minimalist and maximalist, early-90s slamming and EDM overblare.
Turns out to be five years old, and by a indie-dance duo whose other output looks to be a misguided hash of electro-house and rap
Did they stumble on perfection just the once?
Takes skill and taste to make something so batteringly brain-evacauting; to sustain the feeling of fixatedness without it becoming boring and benumbing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsLAUQoiasw
ReplyDeleteThe Looks is all of the great eletro minus the middling hip hop.
The Looks has all of the great electro minus the middling hip hop.
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Pounding. But it could do with a big, ***-off drop about 2/3s of the way thru. Shurely, the silence makes the noise louder.
ReplyDeletePounding. But needs a big, ****-off drop about 2/3s of the way thru.
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