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Horns are big at the moment - see also the foghorn in Ame's "Enoi" and the horns in Solomun and Stimming's "Feuervogel".

The first Lawrence album is odd but great, it's like Theo Parrish but with black eyeliner.

Efdemin and Pantha Du Prince are both great but... I'm not sure I see the novelty, exactly. Isnt it just more of that brand of fragile melancholy tech-house that Lawrence in particular has made for ages (and which, in a more general sense, has always found a home on Dial and to a lesser extent...

Yeah the "extreme" ethos over it kinda annoys because it's always impliedly "more extreme than normal dance music." But electroclash/electro-house did all this stuff the first time round - even the hardest Ed Banger/Kitsune doesn't top Vitalic, or Ewan Pearson remixing Freeform Five, or Black...

I like them when they go for a queasy, quasi-industrial slo-mo sound - like Krazy Baldhead's "Strings of Death" or the better SebastiAn tracks. Overall the label is quite hit and miss. Both Ed Banger comps are solid 6/10s I'd say. Much better than most current Kitsune though! In its favour Ed...

'Asides from the first tack its pretty waste- and not really as "pop" as people have been making out (nor as "hip hop", though that doesn't mean of course that its especially grime). Putting "Boy in Da Corner" aside, and listening to it with reference to "Showtime" its deficient in almost every...

Nope, C Tricky Stewart has been around for ever and a day. If I remember correctly he did Mya's "Case of the Ex" and also some stuff on Blu Cantrell's first album (check the excellent "Waste My Time"), as well as quite a bit of Southern hip hop I think - definitely did a lot of production work...

"I can't agree with Beyonce’s Irreplaceable as equally affecting as this tour de force, although the contrast is striking. Beyonce’s narrator as all-powerful diva who can dial up a replacement lover as easily as the cab she calls for the unfaithful one she's kicking out might conceal the hurt...

Nah I don't really think bateman is a good muzic writer! Was just playing along with sick boy's comparison. Thanks for votes of confidence though peeps. Dave would love to know more about your dissertation. And did you read Lunar Park? (love that the sugababes thread has morphed into a...

Er, Guybrush, no offence but... that idea of good pop seems deeply flawed to me. It seems a recipe for bad pop, everyone trying to make a "Hey Ya". Most really good pop does go over/under the head of a whole chunk of people, because most good music does.

Actually Guybrush I just read your post again: are you saying that you actually think "Crazy" and "LDN" were the pop songs of the year? Or that the "pop song of the year" doesn't offend anyone? I don't remember a great deal of unanimity at all about "Crazy" actually, quite a few people were...

it's not the "not feeling this" comments i'm talking about so much as "lol bad 80s rock" etc. Best pop song of the year so far for me obviously, yr mileage may vary, what I'm referring to is the implication this thread gives that not only is this song not good but could not possibly be good...

This is so obviously the pop song of the year so far. I'm surprised that so many posters seem to go out of their way to dismiss stuff like this. I know Dissensus has always been a bit stiff when it comes to pop but I thought peeps were a bit more cluey.

Bateman had pretty interesting taste in music actually. He would have made a good music critic. The most boring and simple response anyone can have to American Psycho - even more than "it is America itself that is psychopathic DO YOU SEE!?!" - is "ha ha lol Huey Lewis & the News suck".

I adored the promo DJ mix Bodzin put out in, oh, April last year. Great mix of sounds, including some more housey stuff than he does now - "SL Mirage" and "Atlas" done in collab-o with Marc Romboy are like gothic takes on the Get Physical handclap electro-disco template, still wooshy like other...

I think the Sugababes are - or were - pretty amazing. The two post Mutya songs were bad but the heights they've hit previously have been pretty fucking high. Here is something I recently wrote about the gorgeous "Ace Reject", which wasn't even a single: Sugababes - "Ace Reject" This song has...

Ha that is such a Jay Haze record. Check Chelonis R Jones if you haven't already, and Tres Demented's "She'z Satan",

At the risk of boringly belaboring the obvious, I think it's important not to think of this idea in relation only to generally ubiquitous (pop) culture phenomena such as JT, but also locally ubiquitous stuff as well. e.g. I would imagine that if we look at, say, "freak-folk" music - which...

"Bashment flavoured funky house" This sounds like my long-hoped-for New Horizons revival - this would make sense as a fusion of funky house, post-garage sounds and minimal production tricks (producers like Eulberg and especially Jona often inadvertantly steal a lot of ideas from New Horizons...

The recent-ish track I recommend to dubstep-sceptics like myself is Toastyboy's "Splash" - if only more dubstep was like this! Stelfox you'll love it, it sounds like Lenky making dubstep sorta.