Dancefloor Bombs

Dancefloor Bombs

27 May, 2011
by: Music Team

Once again the clubbing team are here to provide some dancefloor ammo for the weekend ahead.

Tom picks: Ilija Rudman - Let This Dream Be Real (Dub Mix)

Ilija Rudman - Let This Dream Be Real - Dub Mix by Ilija Rudman Music Page

 Last week I chose an anthem to accompany the sunshine. I'll be honest with you about this weeks choice - on a sunny spring afternoon this song makes as much sense as a dog in a wig.

But believe me, if you've ever been in a pitch black club sometime on a Saturday or Sunday morning (you can't remember which), sprawled somewhere after crashing and burning spectacularly sometime about 20 minutes ago but just on the cusp of a second wave, then you're exactly the sort of person this tune was made for. It's deep, dark disco; a hazy journey which will turn your world into the most comfortable and perfect place in all the universe for seven minutes. Don't get up and dance, don't speak to anybody or even notice what's going on around you, just let the bassline roll across the room, let each drum kick hit you with perfect precision, watch each stab of a synth flash across the room like a laser. lt's Gwen Guthrie's Seventh Heaven for today's generation - decadent, dreamy and downright dirty.

Alex picks: Blawan - Getting Me Down

Blawan – Getting Me Down by ana_basha

Two weekends ago I heard this get wheeled five times in two days: three times by Pearson sound on Friday night and twice by Deadboy on the Saturday - and it was still one of the most enjoyable moments of either of their sets. That is definitely saying something. But what it is about ‘Getting Me Down’ that makes it quite so enjoyable is hard to define; it has an indefinable quality to it. And that is definitely not saying anything. But it’s a quality with considerable appeal - a limited supply of one-track white labels came out this week after months of love from people like the Hessle boys and 2562, and they were flying off the shelves so quickly that some shops apparently had to enforce a “one copy per customer” rule to thwart the speculators.

Blawan superimposes an organic-sounding percussive lattice - formed of off-beat high hats and a muffled wood block on the fourth - over an echo-laden bass line that growls like a wheezy, shackled grizzly in a cave. This earthy low-end is offset by the luscious vocals of Brandy’s 1994 debut ‘I Wanna Be Down’. Though the vocals are heavily manipulated, so much of Brandy’s vox is present that ‘Getting…’ ends up sounding a bit like 90s vocal house re-imagined for the garage-obsessed bass generation. But good.  

Joj picks: Rockwell - BTKRSH

Rockwell - BTKRSH by Rockwell

The first track off of the forthcoming Evolution EP Vol. 2 from Shogun Audio, Rockwell’s BTKRSH shows the expert producer on a slightly different tack, or at least occupying some more frequency bands than we're used to. In contrast with the scooped and spacious productions we’ve heard from the man before with the deep and moody ‘Underpass’ or the incredible percussive glitch-athon that was ‘Full Circle’, 'BTKRSH' has instead launched an all out assault on the mid-range.

The origin of the title is pretty blatant from the start, opening up with bit-crushed 16-bit pads that build and swell, humming the listener into a hypnotic ambience, only to pull the rug out from under them on reaching that first drop. The pace is suddenly rushing, as robotic chatter develops into driving hooks and groaning bass synths dip and slide under a digital ruckus. Groovy, fresh and danceable. Yes Rockwell, more like this please.

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