oh, POW.
the first time we did it was a moderate stroke of genius, the second a bit of cheek, and now NYE RELOADED takes its rightful place as a brighton institution.
reprising all the best cliches of NYE - from the guaranteed most dramatic (and, ok, ironic) countdown in town to acres of sweets, smoke, strobe, balloons, party poppers etc and a quite exquisite, never-to-be-repeated playlist made up entirely of the hardest-thinking deejays in showbusiness’ (props to my deejay pardner Nikon Driver) BEST OF 2007…
BATTLES - ATLAS
well, duh - the most unexpected ICFTHS hit of the year - everyone’s favourite zombie sex jam was so good it wd have created queues at the side of the dancefloor in a smaller venue.
TTC - TURBO
2007 was the year France’s premier neo-electro hip-hop heads shd have crossed over, their 3615 album being as dayglo as Fluo and as XXL as Hyphy. a purist-baiting aesthetic, for sure, but it found a home you know where.
VON SUDENFED - SERIOUS BRAINSKIN
this genetically randomized offspring of Mouse On Mars and Mark E. Smith plus Grimestep still sounds like a musical subgenre of one, six months on.
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - ALL MY FRIENDS
it was the year James Murphy ditched (most of) the irony, made a ‘proper’ album and targeted dancing feet plus beating hearts at the same time.
CHROME HOOF - SPOKES OF URIDIUM
London’s apocalyptic dance/doom cult produced a record which included metal riffola, sci-fi conceptualism and disco dynamics. jaws dropped, and were promptly stomped on.
JUSTICE - PHANTOM PT. 2 (SOULWAX RMX)
bringing together the primary architects and current satanic overlords of whatever-we’re-calling-the-burning-graveyard-where-electroclash-used-to-be, Justice brought the cinematic melodrama, and Soulwax tweaked it into an unstoppable machine.
BONDE DO ROLE - DAVINA GOSA
that they were having fun, no one doubted - whether they cd translate that to an album was another thing - but haters were duly proved wrong, and this particular slice of Baile Funk slayed every time.
CURSES! - HUNGRY 4 LOVE
while indolent types milked indie dance, weakly, Drop The Lime dreamt up a new moniker to make brutal, self-demolishing house music with cut and paste tactics.
M.I.A. - XR2
that it cd easily have been the backstreet frenzy of ‘Bird Flu’ or looped dancehall sass of ‘Boyz’ (not to mention ‘Paper Planes'’ melting hearts) demonstrates amply how strong M.I.A. came back.
DAN DEACON - WHAM CITY
this high-NRG 12-minute cartoon epic by 2007’s Man Most Likely To Explode With Happiness came from possibly the best-named album of the year, Spiderman Of The Rings. still funny, still fucking awesome.
all of the above are guaranteed to be played come Friday plus other highlights of another vintage year for crossover musics: DIZZEE RASCAL, LIARS, SHY CHILD, DURRTY GOODZ, GLASS CANDY, KLAXONS, CHROMEO, AMERIE, HOLY FUCK, HOT CHIP, MARNIE STERN, MR OIZO, SOULJAH BOY, DON CASH, FUTURE OF THE LEFT, TEPR, YELLE, EVE, BURAKA SOM SISTEMA, HELP SHE CAN’T SWIM, KELIS, CHAMILLIONAIRE, A MOUNTAIN OF ONE, LATE OF THE PIER, LES PETITS PILOUS, OF MONTREAL, GANG GANG DANCE, FREE BLOOD, PHAROAHE MONCH, SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, BEST FWENDS, THE GO! TEAM, SEBASTIAN, RIHANNA, BLACK KIDS, REMY MA, DUKE DAMONT, LETHAL BIZZLE, ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI plus MORE.
aaaand because i’m feeling benevolent, shd you, yes, you, feel like attending, make yrself known in the comment box or send me an email for cheaper entry. ooo, etc etc, etc etc.
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by kicking_k on Thursday, January 10th, 2008
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