More arguments against Electroclash, etc.

Kraut-rockers Neu engraved a short burst of electroclash on their 1973 album Neu 2, arriving at the same formula more than 20 years before Le Tigre, Chicks On Speed and all them suckers. Sure, the old german experimentalists and the new feminist art-school poseurs most likely don't employ the exact same ingredients cooking up a track, but listen to the song below and tell me that it doesn't sound a lot like some nineties preset drum-machine patterns with generic attitude-screeches. The 70s wins again.

Neu - Super 78

France never was any good at popular culture (except rap music, and Daft Punk), something the documentary Generation Electro clearly shows. So the kids there have made their own version of breakdance (actually the same thing with the robots and the headspins replaced by metrosexual dance moves from old Backstreet Boys-videos) called Tecktonik or some bullshit. Or they just refer to it as Electro.

But what do the french know about electro anyway? Isn't Miss Kittin french? Can't she tell them off? On the other hand, she might be too busy desecrating Elvis-classics and talking shit about Frank Sinatra to inform an up and coming generation what is right and wrong.

Who knows about electronic funk? The dutch, the frogs' neighbours in the north, that's who. To balance out the hate, here's a smooth one from Holland's finest.

Dexter - Valve (Live)

Elvis / Sinatra / Miss Kittin

Frankie Boy's lucky the mob had his back... otherwise he would never be mentioned anywhere near The King in the annals of popular music. Listen here to Elvis taking Blue Eyes' own song and making it better. As is stated in the comments section, "nutin against u frank but this should hav been written for the king".

Check the diamonds shining on the wrist, the futuristic outfit, and how he murders Willie Nelson on his own shit. This song should have been written for The King, too.

Miss Kittin can talk shit about Sinatra without a problem, but when she steps to The King, she better come correct. Her cover of Sweet Dreams was perfection, being everything the original should have been, but this version of Suspicious Minds better not leave the studio. The arrangement's wrong, the beat's wrong, the singing's wrong, the whole damn song's wrong. (The rest of the album seems to be making up for it, though.)

Here we got some favourite youtubes of the late great, for y'all to savor his sweet voice together with the striking features and adonis-like physique.

Elvis Presley - Devil in disguise

Elvis Presley - Crying in the Chapel

Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto


Läs även vad denne gentleman har att säga om Kungen.



Still holding the crown, holding it down...

Egyptian Lover besöker Malmö

"Some D.J.'s get a chance to become producers and some even recording artest. I have been one of those D.J.'s who did it all baby just like that. My time D.J.ing and traveling the world mixing for everyone who never knew I was a D.J. and finding out how good a D.J. I am is really cool to see them go wild. When I mix "Planet Rock" backwards they all go bizerk."

Egyptian Lover på Inkonst i Malmö!
Datum: 13/3 Tid: 23-03 Rum: Klubben Entré: 100:- (in-get förköp, kom i tid) Ålder: 20 år.

"I borrowed a few lines from other raps I wrote. It was so much fun in the studio I had to go back and record some more. I booked the time and grabbed my notebook of raps and went in to record my solo project "Beast Beats". My mother and sister read the title of my song and said "You better not make that song, don't play with the devil" So I went to the studio and changed my mind and programmed the beat to "Egypt Egypt" . I did not think this song was going to be a big hit, I just wanted a song to play at the dances I was D.J.ing at to say my name in it ( I was kinda vain)."

Egyptian Lover - Egypt Egypt (12'' Original Mix) (yousendit) - tillsammans med Numbers och Simulationszeitalter ett av de fetaste electro-spåren någonsin.

DMX Krew / Cylob / Ceephax live sets

DMX Krew and Cylob live sets... that's a very good thing.

Of course, it's all about supreme taste in electronic funk and acid. They know which classics you prefer better than yourself, plus they give you the news, in a tight, hot package.

Check here first. Then check this out.

Now it's time for Ceephax Acid Crew live sets (click here and go to bottom of page). Be sure to stop by his homepage which has won many prestigious design awards.