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65DaysOfStatic
WE WERE EXPLODING ANYWAY HASSLE RECORDS 5.7.10 @www.vanguard-online.co.uk
There are some albums that are written for a specific purpose. Whether this is to get across a political agenda, to entertain or frighten people, or just to make them think, everybody has at least a good handful of concept albums in their collection, regardless of whether or not they realise it. What 65DaysOfStatic have created with “We Were Exploding Anyway” is a concept album that, in a very postmodern way, goes beyond the concept album. In the late 1990s, a game came out on the original Playstation called “Music”; this was essentially a catalogue of samples that you could layer and adjust the speed of to make your own tracks. I bought its successor, “Music 2000” and created enough pieces of music to fill an album. Which I did. But despite the self worth that I got from this small achievement, I knew that nobody else would like what I had made – there was nothing to identify any of the compositions as being my own. And they tended to just loop until I felt they had gone on for long enough. There are three factors that are required to make a meaningful dance/electro track. There has to be a hook, it needs to develop in some way, and there needs to be something that identifies it as belonging to the artist who produced it. Whether this is a signature beat (like David Guetta’s reversing truck sound), an instrument (like Mark Ronson’s horns) or a vocalist, that’s what makes this genre truly exciting. Sadly, 65DaysOfStatic don’t appear to have realised this. For, while fulfilling the first two requirements, they are totally devoid of anything to make their collections of samples and noises their own. And so they have created the weirdest concept album of 2010: nine songs to soundtrack TV sports montages. www.65daysofstatic.com |
