It’s time for another installment of Dance Music Thursday!
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Alfred Soto: Bad Basement Jaxx mimicry lives!
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Thomas Inskeep: This is the weirdest EDM-disco hybrid I’ve ever heard, and I mean that as a compliment. An airhorn in your song is never a good idea, but sampling Bettye Swann most definitely is. I can even accept the drops in here. It’s like old-school Daft Punk on Four Loko.
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Micha Cavaseno: I mean, I loved Discovery too, guys. And I appreciate that the build up to the final climax really didn’t sound like the rest of the song but IDK man, like, why the little ironic “sexy” vibes in order to sound self-effacing and corny on your best song so far?
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Katherine St Asaph: It’s a sad commentary on the industry, or something, when you can have a career as long as Martina Sorbara does and still fail to be credited on your single. It’d even be useful information in this case; it’d explain why “Peanut Butter Jelly” is like “Hello” minus the fun.
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Will Adams: Bloodshy and Style of Eye have proven their dancepop sensibilities more than once as Galantis (and several times with Miike Snow and Icona Pop, respectively). So it’s more than disappointing to see them resorting to meme-disco that went stale the moment “Barbara Streisand” reached its peak.
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Scott Mildenhall: It’s Duck Sauce 2: The Duckening. When talented, pop-proficient musicians like the ones involved in this are allowed to bring an element of madness to their method, sparks can fly. When the results end up as real life hits, that can only be cause for celebration. And air horns. Those air horns aren’t arbitrary — nothing about this really is — but there’s so much joy in something that sounds so delighted to give that impression.
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Edward Okulicz: To some people, the strings are an excuse to drop in the cut-up vocals and drops. For me, it’s the other way around. I’d listen to the sample and the backing with just about anything on top, fortunately.
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Patrick St. Michel: A fun little song that even makes air horns sound like a goofy good time. If it gets kids at Ultra to YouTube some older music, all the better.
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Brad Shoup: Bettye Swann figures strongly as a vocal godhead for me. Her track’s sampled here, but she’s nought to be found, which means there better be a good reason. Enter weird-text specialist Christian Karlsson. Each verse has an evocative line, a ragged pitched-up “visualize it,” and a pitched-down “I’ll give you something to do”. The net effect is… surprisingly not threatening, more like watching Twin Peaks with some distance. Throughout all this is the stirring filter-soul, cutting whatever sour affect may remain.
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Jonathan Bogart: More bone-dumb EDM should take cues from the bone-dumb end of glam.
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