[Nostalgia already?]Standing on the shoulders of yesterday's brief pop-remix reflection, the second part in the ongoing Disco Pop series presents four mainstream electronic artists who stand on the cusp of appealing to a wide and heterogeneous array of listeners.
As I've mentioned before, The Twelves recent output of mixtapes and remixes places them on an inevitable path to popular reception, and their latest production is virtually identical to a Top-40 pop love song.
With their melodic and slightly dubbed out remix of Phoenix back in May, Classixx corned the market on a unique varietal of popular summer house music. "I'll Get You" features similar synthesizer notes, yet introduces a more repetitive vocal structure and pushes the up tempo, making the track a suitable start to weekend.While the abymsal chorus on "Audacity of Huge" threatens to relegate the latest Simian Mobile Disco release to the dustbin of obscurity, Chris Keating from Yeasayer saves the track with his superb delivery of prescient post-Golden Age lyrics.
Part intellectual, part rap star, Keating regales us with a series of boasts, "I got that Mama Cass you know I got that Peter Tosh / Book collection with an autographed James Joyce / Double Dutch dinosaur duplex in Dubai / I’ll be there with my friend the Sultan of Brunei," only to hit us with his modern quandary, "I got it all / Yes it’s true / So why don’t I have you…"
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