Good morning world. As sometimes less is more, I’m not going to make your ears bleed today but reveal a rather minimalistic, versatile approach to electronic dance music: Still unreleased, this piece of music has been growing on me for the past two days until I finally decided to break down genre boarders once again by posting it here.
Arsenal, Belgium’s finest purveyors of multicolored, contemporary pop music are about to release “a pastel tinted rival to MGMT’s Electric Feel“, to quote themselves. Along with their Estupendo EP comes a free remix from Brazilian mastermind button pusher Gui Boratto, keeping most of the vocals intact while reconstructing the song in a brilliant minimalistic way.
(Oh, if you’re more into banging kick drums, aggressive synths and catchy vocals, just skip this one and wait for my next blog post tomorrow evening.)
Today’s musical contribution to world peace, the greater good and the fight against the oil spill comes from French Disco Demons resident Monsieur Adi: Unlike lots of cheap reworks circulating the blogosphere, consisting only of the popular “back to life, back to reality”-vocals, Monsieur Adi delights with a classical harpsicord & strings intro, sounding the bell for an epic artificial orchestra, building up tension for those catchy vocals, backed by heavy sawtooth synths – “a super clash of baroque and electro”, as the maestro himself described it to me.
So I was having a conversation with my buddy Audiolook the other day about how the Disco Demons blog was all about huge, nasty bangers about one or two years ago – which are now largely conspicuous by their absence. Of course, my taste in music has changed a lot over the years of blogging (and is still evolving continuously), but the main reason for the lack of ferocious bass monsters is an overall trend towards soft retro disco sounds. This is of course only my humble opinion, but as always I’m strongly convinced that I am perfectly right.
However, I’m not telling you this because I think my drunk conversations with visual artists are illuminating enough to share them with the world but because I happened to find a remix in my inbox that deserves the terminus “banger” – again at last. Tom Deluxx is ripping up the Cyberpunkers’ track OMG, featuring painful builds and epic drops. If you like this 192k preview, head over to Beatport to buy the full 320kbps madness.
Having always been a huge fan of Moloko and especially Róisín Murphy, this amazing rework of her song Momma’s Place that was washed ashore on my electronic coast in the gray of dawn somehow woke a certain desire in me to share it with the music-hungry masses, completely ignoring the fact that I’m still typing with only 9 fingers, high on painkillers and broad-spectrum antibiotics.
Sticking to a precious advice from two readers, I’ll just “shut the fuck up and post some more fucking music”. Here you are, bitches:
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