Elevator music: movin on up
Heads up on a new compilation from the folks at Fabric London: Elevator Music Vol 1, which manages to pull together some of the freshest club sounds from last year and introduces new talents emerging AS I WRITE THIS SENTENCE.
Known for their house music (Saturday) and hoodies (Friday), Fabric has now gone and done the reasonable thing by putting out a document of the weird and wonderful club music that is throwing the Friday/Saturday night spilt into a spin. It captures the myriad of musical mutations that are currently baffling observers keen to put a label on the sound that Elevator Music describes simply as ’140bpm or thereabouts’, and gives a big up to the people who have provided ever-more-diverse parameters for electronic music in 2009: Untold, Starkey, Martyn and the like.
But as these hot-hands continue to light up clubs across the country, a still-newer gaggle of genre-smashers is emerging, including February’s Wonky Disco guest Doc Daneeka, and Bristol boy Julio Bashmore.
These guys take in everything from soca-infused deep house swing, to the gritty swoon of a techy roller, and package it all up with a two-step punch. If this is setting the pace for 2010, we’re gonna be in for another vintage year. Check back soon for an interview with Doc Daneeka, before he hits the Arts Institute on Feb 11th.
