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Delirious/dumb electro-house to have you looning it up in no time here. The beatdown-offering London duo put a caricaturised
slant on Fake Blood’s
Mars, PJU’s Attard and Andersson resetting the mechanics
of how the synth slinky is given lift-off so that punters can imitate bonkers
fluorescent creatures from the lagoon. If Fake Blood’s vertical bungee jump was
on the traumatic side, here’s the happy-go-lucky/daft as a brush return trip –
most distinct of all is that
Blockhead
never plunges downwards with its breaks cut.
Also buying a ticket for a jaunt to the Red Planet
offering complimentary bubble and squeak is Hey Today!’s nonsensical-but-nice
mix riding its own great glass elevator to the Milky Way out of Germany (this
being the Milky Way where different coloured cars race against each other), and
Zombie Nation, looking to pogo the highest in a dizzy synth tizzy as one half electro
raver, one half apiarist. All go to show that stoopid fresh electro house with
the emphasis on the stoopid is still giving producers the giggles, and like it
or not, the right to go bouncing along a keyboard remains abated.
Just curtailing the upwards bounce in favour of a
flatter, hula-hooping motion to pan out a marginally more sensible (actually,
forget that) dancefloor flash, In Flagranti make shorter star jumps with disco
deviation for a greater body jack. All nutty thus far, 8-bit impressionist Stopmakingme
is where the silliness of the package subsides, Dan Avery’s hot electro shimmer
and computer game blipper allowing cowbell, tom-tom and spoon-bending back-up to
throw the fun and games back in. Symbol One forge a mainly self-reliant electro
mix, double-barrelled so that it’s smooth enough to roll up your blazer sleeves
to, and hypnotic enough with its synths to have you lying down on a bed of
soft, dreamy edges trying to butter up the no-time-to-talk electro steps.