Category: Dance (Page 20 of 26)

Watch Moby videos, win Moby tickets

September 3, 2009 /

Everyone’s favorite bald, bespectacled techno god is launching a US tour in support of his album Wait for Me, and as a means of getting the word out, Moby and LP33.tv have devised a plan where they will give away a pair of tickets to one lucky person in each city on the tour.

But here’s the thing: this is no ‘enter your name and sit back’ contest, no sir. Contestants must log on to Moby’s Facebook page and rate the videos on his player. They will rack up one entry for each video they rate, with the opportunity to rack up more entries for every embeddable video they host on a web page. (No word on whether all videos must be rated favorably, but since this is aimed at his most dedicated fans, odds are that will not be an issue.)

To see the contest rules, click here. Good luck, y’all, bodyrock y’all.

Alternative, Ambient, Artists, Concerts, Dance, Electronica, External Music, giveaway, Pop, Videos

Röyksopp: Junior

August 21, 2009 /

Röyksopp are the best musical group to come out of Norway since A-ha (sorry, Turbonegro fans), and they’ve had hit after hit thanks mainly to the use of their songs in commercials. “Epple” was used by Apple, “So Easy” was picked up by T-Mobile for their commercials, and Geico used “Remind Me” in their ads in America. Nothing from Junior has been picked up yet, although it’s hard to see why since it is full of instantly high-energy beats, melodies and incredibly vocal hooks that would go great with the Geico lizard or the Verizon guy. Röyksopp waste no time cutting to the chase with Junior. The album opens with the bouncy beats “Happy Up There,” a great song for sure, but one that is absolutely left in the dust by the following track, “The Girl and the Robot.” Put bluntly, this is a dance track for the ages, one that will go down history as a crowning achievement of what electronic music was capable of in the 00s. It has it all, like some sort of perfect amalgamation of everything great that’s come out of dance music since 1977. Cold electronic synths, acid house style effects, dance-punk energy, it’s all there and all made even better by a dynamite vocal performance by Swedish dance diva Robyn, who delvers the heartfelt lines about a woman in love with…well, a robot (or possibly a workaholic, it’s never made clear) with gut-wrenching intensity. While the rest of the album never matches that level of brilliance, its hard to hold that against it. After all, it’s not really fair to expect more than one earth-shattering work of undeniable genius on a record. A few tracks do come close though, including “Tricky Tricky” which features biting mean vocals by Karin Dreijer Andersson of the Knife, and the dreamy “Miss It So Much” which features vocals by another Swedish seductress, Lykke Li. This is a hell of a dance record, and would easily be the best of the year if it wasn’t for Its Blitz! by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. But being second best to what is so far the album of the year isn’t something to be ashamed of in the least. (Astralwerks 2009)

Röyksopp MySpace Page

CD Reviews, Dance, Electronica

Herclues And Love Affair: Sidetracked

July 31, 2009 /

Hercules and Love Affair are the dominant force in the drive to bring disco back to the dance floors in America. First with their insanely great self-titled debut and now with Sidetracked, a DJ mix arranged by Hercules’ creative force Andy Butler. Not surprisingly, Sidetracked is predominately a disco record, either with classic disco-era tracks like Todd Terry and Class Action’s
“Weekend” or with retro-sounding tracks such as the new Hercules & Love Affair track “I Can’t Wait.” Acid house and straight-up old-school house also make cameos on Sidetracked early on with tracks by Dubwise and WestBam, but by the halfway point they’re gone, making the way for vintage disco extravaganzas such as Studio X, Ray Martinez and the Rainbow Team. This isn’t Nu-Disco, this is straight up ’70s and early ’80s old-school disco, and that’s not a sound that has aged well for some, no matter how much they like modern dance music. If you were around back then or just want to hear what your parents did coke to back in the day, then you’ll probably eat this up. But for those of you more interested in dance-punk, DnB, or other more 21st century dancefloor sounds, you probably won’t find much of note on Sidetracked. (Renaissance Recordings 2009)

Hercules And Love Affair MySpace Page

CD QuickTakes, CD Reviews, Dance, Electronica

INF: The Go Round

July 31, 2009 /

Breaks records are usually intended for DJs, when they can be mixed and sampled with other tracks for DJ sets or remixes. Once in a while, though, one can break through to more mainstream audiences. DJ Food did it with their Jazz Brakes series, and now it looks like INF might with The Go Round, an infectious collection of ’60s-influenced loops, grooves and beats. The Go Round sounds like some magical out-of-place artifact from 1960s London, combining groovy instrumentals with modern beats to create a soundtrack to the best crime movie Michael Caine never made. One can imagine Mini Coopers tearing through the streets to the pulse-pounding beats of the title track, a romantic interlude to the gentle guitar strums and eastern drum beats of “The Boogie Man” and the final fight scene to the awesomely named “Power Move, Baby.” The Go Round is brief, clocking it at just over half an hour, so it’s not a lot of bang for your buck. But it’s still a fun listen that would serve as great background music for a party, dinner, or car chase. (Beats Broke 2009)

INF’s MySpace Page

CD QuickTakes, CD Reviews, Dance, Electronica, Instrumental

Bad Boy Bill: The Album

July 24, 2009 /

Bad Boy Bill has been a DJ for what seems like forever, starting in the late ’80s and churning out amazing mix after mix ever since. His Bangin’ the Box series and House Connection albums (with Richard ‘Humpty’ Vission) are legendary collections of Hi-NRG house that never let up, sometimes mixing over 40 tracks in the course of an hour. It’s amazing that it has taken him this long to create an artist album comprised entirely of original material. It’s even more amazing that it’s not all together that good. Instead of focusing on the frantic house that made Bill a standard in dance clubs worldwide, Bill’s decided to embrace standard dance-pop for The Album. Some of it is great, like the throbbing “Headlock” or the single “Fast Life,” but the rest of the songs are too derivative, annoying or just plain boring. Even worse is his pointless cover of Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit,” which takes the song’s classic hook and buries it with annoying fader effects, giving you a maddening taste of it before cutting it away. The best tracks on The Album will probably show up in a Bad Boy Bill mix eventually, and will probably sound even better, so there’ s no point in picking up this very unfortunate misfire. (Nettwerk Records 2009)

Bad Boy Bill MySpace Page

CD QuickTakes, CD Reviews, Dance, Electronica, Pop

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