The latest from Germany’s NNHMN is a fine, Italo-influenced floor-filler. Dripping with reverb, it will get even the post-ironic Berliners moving.
Track of the Day
What are you afraid of? It ought to be missing the new Page single in the flow of Friday releases.
“För du är rädd” [EN: “Because You Are Scared”] is lifted from the Swedish duo’s current album, En ny våg [EN: A New Wave]. It has been remixed by Biomekkanik’s Christer Hermodsson with an 80s vibe.
Are those real guitars? Samples? Does it matter? To the purists (we are looking at you, Pär), synths and guitars should be kept apart. We like the New Wave angle, which keeps Page’s pop sensibilities intact while expanding their sonic framework.
There are only a few bands on this Earth that deserve to be driven to the ättestupa. One is Toto. Another is Foreigner. So, it is fittingly ironic (take note, Alanis Morrissette) that Laibach have turned out a cover of the latter’s hit, “I Want to Know What Love Is.”
The Slovenian art pranksters apply their subversive salve to the ballad. You will still want to push Foreigner off a cliff for the benefit of the community.
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a remix of Emmon’s “Machines.”
On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me two CDJs and a remix of Emmon’s “Machines.”
On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, three nights of clubbing, two CDJs, and a remix of Emmon’s “Machines”…
The result of a chance meeting between Emma Nylén and Terence Fixmer, the Emmon track has been given a radical makeover for the clubs. It was encouraged by DJ Hell, who rang Nylén personally to discuss releasing it on his Deejay Gigolo Records label.
The longest night is coming up. Interesting fact: in Christian mythology, the 25th of December was selected to celebrate the birth of Jesus because it approximates the point at which the amount of light starts to increase. For the ancients, who had time to consider these matters, the winter solstice meant the rebirth of the Sun. A lot of thought has been taken up by the tilting of our planet as it spins around a nuclear inferno.
Dave Baker has combined a lot of this into a track to raise funds for London Inner City Kitty. Do they know it’s Festivus? No, cats don’t have higher order philosophies. But they do appreciate being looked after when it gets dark and cold.
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