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Stone Cold Killer — track of the month When you absolutely, positively, must decimate the dancefloor, this is the tune you need…
Róisín Murphy ‘Simulation’ Permanent Vacation
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SHE’S never played the pop game by its rules. Róisín Murphy’s knack with a song and memorable melody has always been accompanied by a determination to experiment, to push against the limitations of what an accessible tune can be. Her band Moloko wrapped up delicious pop confections in an array of fascinating, rhythmically complex adornments, messing with house and trip-hop boundaries. Her first solo record ‘Ruby Blue’ saw jazzy, leftfield arrangements, courtesy of Matthew Herbert, complement her transcendent voice; her second, ‘Overpowered’ collected some of the crème of the electronic crop (like Ewan Pearson, Seiji, Andy Cato) to build various electronic funk backdrops for Murphy to go to town on, in typically sassy fashion. In all these, though, she’s skirted the edge of the dancefloor, made tracks with grooves, perhaps more intended to be listened, rather than danced, to.
But ‘Simulation’, her surprise debut for Germany’s consistently excellent Permanent Vacation, sees Róisín stepping confidently onto the floor in serious style. A smoking, live-sounding house beat (produced by DJ Parrot, aka Richard Barratt, the dance innovator famed for his work with Sweet Exorcist and very recently as Crooked Man), rolling and low-slung, meets a
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Who’s behind it? Adam Port, &ME, Rampa, David Mayer and Reznik.
Sounds like? “Not always easy to describe our style, but house is our base for sure. Sometimes more tech and some- times deep, but always focused on the dancefloor,” says Adam.
Who’s on it? “Only the Keinemusik crew. We are not releasing music from other artists. This has always been the idea, from day one.”
Who’s playing it? “Jamie Jones, Axel Boman, Sven Väth, Maya Jane Coles, Dyed Soundorom, Till von Sein, Matthias
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Tanzmann, Agoria, Ewan Pearson, Pete Tong, Reboot, Josh Wink, Catz ‘n Dogz, Karotte, Nic Fanciulli...”
How’s it evolving? “Each of us is free to press anything onto wax. Right now all of us have only one slot in the year for a solo EP, so we know we have to make sure the music is the right choice. We don’t really have a masterplan about the style or sound of future releases. We go with the flow. Does that sound a little crazy?”
What’s next? “A great EP by David Mayer is ready to rumble! Please check our latest too, ‘Workparty 3’ which is out now,” Adam concludes.
snake-hipped disco bassline you could listen to for days, sinuous and sultry, while a celestial key riff that just goes and goes and goes seems beamed from the heavenly bodies. Hypnotic, the kind of groove to get lost in, it’s when the diva herself joins the party that it all kicks off. Her lush tones pushing the track onwards, speaking of “a simulation/a demonstration”, it’s almost a manifesto, a statement of intent from a singer and artist at the peak of her creative powers. At the breakdown, a swirling, uplifting moment of synth(etic) majesty, her voice becomes computerised and dovetails with her theme of the way technology, computers have infiltrated our world to such an extent that reality has become warped. Lyrically smart and a dancefloor bomb, all 11.35 minutes of it, it’s another clever subversion of the song form. We can’t wait to find out what’s next.
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