"Meine Idee/My Idea," Daso Franke (2007): Cologne based music producer, has since this song died of cancer. Incandescent late nite New Wave electro disco; and the New Wave is in that fat bass, and maybe the vaguely melancholy washes of synths, and if you must know, the disco part is when it gets all wound up, the synths going off like heart-racing alarms, bounciness prevails, faster and faster to nowhere, grooving down the freeway to nowhere in particular,
"Krack," Soulwax (2020): Alt-indie disco-forward EDM record; "rock music without electric guitars," says some promotional content. Has a big windup, some abstracted breathy vocal group tease, and then staggering, swaggering, jumping up and down, strutting back and forth electro tribal mashup. The squawk-box vocal, minimal, is indecipherable, and could have been one of the guys in Cabaret Voltaire. New wave noir electronic music with some hiphop bit-beats production values. A Banger.
"Lost tape," Mutual Attraction (2001): You know sometimes how it's the singer and sometimes it's the song? Well, likewise, sometimes it's the dance music and sometimes it's the dancer or dancers. The dance music here is vaguely psychedelic ethnic fusion over a vintage Space Invaders dance music click-track; maybe a little House music in trance mode. Like something you might hear in a hip African restaurant. A little blank and generic but good enough exotic dance music vibes. The dancer in the video is one Kezza Palmer aka Mr Shapes. Kezza likes to dance and Kezza does indeed shape the music, giving it a more downbeat yet spiritually buoyant cast. As if this were the soundtrack to his daily Tai Chi workout, a skipping-in-place shuffle that does a Snoopy dance over personal demons and cranky passersby; bubbling over in playful low-key teasing enthusiasm as if a live action Energizer Bunny.
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