Tag Archives: dance music

I’ll Sample YOU In A Minute *shakes fist*

  By Lisa McInerney | July 18, 2011 - 4:18 pm | The Culch
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Well now. A spectacular splat of mud-splaying has been playing out this past week between dance heavyweights Ministry Of Sound and easy-listening-crud heavyweights Syco (Simon Cowell’s company. See what he did there?). Ministry Of Sound have signed young dance sensation Avicii, a.k.a Tim Berg, a Swedish DJ/producer who’s tipped to be the next David Guetta, though I don’t remember putting in a repeat order. Anyway, clearly somebody did, as Avicii’s been making waves with his track Fade Into Darkness, formerly known as Penguin. It’s an undemanding piece of popshine, pretty much perfect for mass consumption. According to Ministry Of Sound, while Penguin was notching up the radio play from the likes of Pete Tong, Annie Mac and Scott Mills, they had been working with Avicii in order to develop the track from a cheerful instrumental (Penguin) to a smash hit vocal (Fade Into Darkness). In the course of MOS’s seeking out … There’s more →

New Music: The Suicide of Western Culture

  By Éilish Burke | February 8, 2011 - 7:29 pm | Music
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Proving that it’s not just the Nordics of our Euro brethren that can release electronica ready to crawl into your earhole and linger there, is the duo from Spain known as Suicide of Western Culture. Although recorded over a year ago now, their eponymous debut album is beginning to take flight with high praise in Spain and a slot at what is shaping up to be one of the best festivals this year, Primavera Sound. All in all it looks like 2011 is going to be the breakthrough year for the pair with a penchant for Daft-Punkish facial anonymity. And it’s no wonder with tracks as lovely (and punchy) as This is The Last Time I Shake Your Hand: Taking their DIY ethos seriously and inspired by bands like Godspeed You Black Emperor the album was created in a London youth hostel using a super limited roster of equipment including … There’s more →

Gerrout yisser Glo-sticks for Utah Saints

  By Éilish Burke | August 19, 2010 - 12:30 pm | Music
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The absolute bang of the early 90s off this: You’ve got to love Kate Bush for letting a pair of maddouravits like Utah Saints sample her classic Cloudbusting, but they went and made it a classic of their own. It’s a well known fact that everyone was off their boxes on dance drugs at least 60% of the time between 1988-1994 (even your Ma) and it’s a safe bet that tracks from Utah Saints, a duo from the north of England, were being heavily rotated on most of those nightclub turntables. Their anarchic, sample-heavy house music was en vogue and resulted in hits such as the aforementioned Something Good, What Can you Do For Me? and Believe in Me. Well the pair haven’t retired, much to my surprise. I’d have thought they’d be in some kind of long-term convalescent home, chilling out in the multi-sensory room for 5 hours a day. … There’s more →