BEAT DOWN SATURDAY - ELECTRO

Nothing screams Saturday night like dance music, get your clubfoot stomping to this one!

SebastiAn Necking with Himself

Electronic dance music has been undeniably more prevalent in the last decade than in the years before. Before you put your arguing pants on, I’m talking about Dance music’s foray not only into the extreme mainstream of pop music but also into the indie back alleys… and let’s not forget the mass pummeling of dance music festivals that have popped up over the last decade.

In amongst this explosion of dance, there have been genres considered the new movement, gaining success to a degree that far surpasses its brother and sister electronic dance music genres.

These said genres have come up in such a big way as to rise from the underground to the heights of mainstream culture and practically implode on themselves under the immense weight of their popularity…a success that can be tracked much like a bell-curve…or Greece’s financial sector.

What genre’s you ask? Well you probably don’t because you already know what I’m talking about; BREAKS, ELECTRO and DUBSTEP. Yep, we are currently in the midst of a DUBSTEP explosion that is cracking up faster than it came together out of the underground somewhere in London. The rise of DUBSTEP saw youngsters hailing a new movement particularly popular amongst the young blokes as you didn’t really need any tight rhythm or even motor skills to dance to it. You can just bop along with a slight side to side sway thrown in there and you can pretty much get away with it. We now see BRITNEY SPEARS introducing elements of DUBSTEP into her tracks and you know this is a fairly good indicator that the fuse has been lit for a DUBSTEP implosion…but what do I know.

Flash back a few years and we saw the meteoric rise of electro with one record label arguably at the forefront and a duo that was comin atcha like Margaret Thatcher from every direction. The label – ED BANGER, The Duo – JUSTICE. These dudes were the hottest ticket in town, and by town I mean the universe. At their height they turned down MADONNA. She wanted them to support her on one of her massively over the top tours, they said no. U2 wanted them to remix their track BOOTS which turned out to be a pile of shit, but that’s another story.

These guys were bigger than the ‘rocks’ that Charlie Sheen claims to have ‘banged’. Their CROSS album was huge and their tours circled the globe multiple times. Everyone was waiting to see what they would do for their next studio LP. We got the answer a few months ago in the form of CIVILISATION. 

My first opinion of the track is that if these guys believe that they can bring electro back from the dead with this, then they are kidding themselves, and probably a lot of diehard fans as well. ED BANGER has a lot more to offer than just JUSTICE. Scratch the surface and you see a whole stable of artists making tunes to varying degrees of success. A lot of people think they all sound the same, which is a fair comment, but I disagree with it. Then again I think all DRUM N BASS sounds the same. Not that I don’t like DRUM N BASS…but anyway.

So the QUESTION I’m trying to ask is who will bring back ELECTRO to the forefront if JUSTICE only has the capacity to turn out a whole album that sounds like CIVILISATION?

Well I already know the answer to this one and have for quite awhile – SebastiAn. He dropped his debut original studio LP TOTAL last week with a monster 23 track list. Not that all tracks are what I would call full length or not that we haven’t heard a couple of them before, But hell I would put ROSS ROSS ROSS and MOTOR on every single LP that I released if I had created them.

Get your 2-step on to the first single off SebastiAns album TOTAL. It’s called EMBODY and has a pretty cool film clip to go with it directed by ED BANGER in house Art Director SoMe.

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