Meck ft. Dino - 'Feels Like ±«Óãtv'
If you were wishing to blend a dance smoothie out of all of the best left-of-centre (cough) 'banging tunes' (*blush*) which have tickled the feet of a dance happy nation over the past 20 years, it would probably sound bloody awful.
BUT, if you took a pipetteful of your noxious mixture, and used it as the basic DNA of a brand new song, and then roped in a singer who couldn't be more like Bernard Sumner out of New Order (ask your permanently bliss-addled uncle) if he actually WAS Bernard Sumner out of New Order, well...it would STILL sound bloody awful...but not a million miles away from how this song sounds. A song which is NOT bloody awful.
Still with me? Keen for more? Righto....
Well, it's just the curdled keyboard at the heart of this pounding indie-type pop song is taken from club anthem 'Don't You Want Me' by Felix, and the general demeanor and pulse of the tune it is sitting within is more pounding road-trip groove than robotic floor-killing electro-pulse. Which makes it a true hybrid, like those custard roses horticulturalists get in a tizz about, or bulldogs
Like every hybrid, this song has genetic pluses (a keen nose, a pleasing colour, the ability to sound fresher than any other over-sampled rock-raid dance track has in blimming ages) and minuses (a deformed face, no resistance to greenfly, a certain monotone quality), and probably will mutate again, once it's old enough to breed.
But for now, we can sit back in the knowledge that gene-splicing (and smoothie-making) is safer in this man's hands than in many. More research grants for Mr Eck, please!
PS: Look! The video contains no sexy ladies in uniform...is he MAD?
Released: April 9th
(Fraser McAlpine)
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