Could somebody please explain the term "electroclash" to me?

* Lots more women involved than regulartechno or electro
* Strong fashion emphasis
* Cheap drum sounds, electro beats, distortion on
* Arch/bored or crazy/wild vocals
* Lo-fi production with attitude
* Trash talking on the mike!!
* Humour (contrast with say Jeff Mills style techno)

That'll do, pig, that'll do.

i think this more than any other separates electroclash from yr dinner table electro

Hence another electroclash keyword: ego.

Which is where I can't see the 80s references anymore, as 80s synthpop had almost exlusively male vocals.

another electroclash keyword:ego

Heaven forbid some ego invade dance music, particularly at a time when its in a low ebb, all ego will do is help it!

Oh, yeah, absolutely! I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.

I mean, for Ewan Pearson alone, classic (he even saves "The Golden Path"! He is a GENIUS!)

Scott, actually The Clash + electro is called...
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Though that does equal bad electro too.

There's a great cash-in Ministry of Sound release in Australia called "Mashed" which goes for the more expansive definition, extending to Basement Jaxx and Tomcraft and Moguai and Gary Numan and heapsa Ewan Pearson - it's unwittingly fabulous, almost every track a killer.

Benassi's album is either astonishingly thematically consistent or astonishingly self-derivative - about six tracks do not deviate *whatsoever* from the "Satisfaction" blueprint, up to and including using the same monotone female robot vocal.

Tim, that comp sounds a lot like the Ministry Electro-Tech mix comp over here. Also, I noted our mind meld growing on the top tunes thread but I wasn't much rocked by Ewan's Futureshock mix and he got outshone on Ladytron's 'Evil' by Tony Senghore (yes, I'm ruining your Ewan high). When the hell is his Swag mix out?!

Looking forward to hearing Holly's electoclash track! Is "State of Mind" the one I'm looking for Tom? The ringtone is out already!

As a Pommie cunt recently returned to Blighty, I can confirm the OTMness of this statement.

Two questions:

1. Who is this Ewan Pearson and where do I get some?

2. Is is alright to think the new Rachel Stevens single is a. electroclash and b. damn fine? Sounds like Golfrapp to me...

Freeform Five-Perspex Sex (Ewan Pearson Remix)

Goldfrapp-Strict Machine (Ewan Pearson Remix)

Goldfrapp-Train (Ewan Pearson Remix)

I am not sure about him saving the Golden Path though Tim, the vocal needs to be banished to hell and then I'd agree definitely.

Any more pointers to this sort of thing?

You're right Ronan but the difference is that Ewan makes Wayne's shift from baritone to falsetto sound good instead of bad - he actually manages to frame those rising backing vocals (the "you are forgiven" part) in a way that makes sense, that lends the tune the sort of breathless awe the original wanted. So while I'll never actually like the vocals I think it's a pretty fantastic salvage job.

He did this with "Perspex Sex" too - when I listen to the original the vocals seem all out of place because Ewan's job is so definitive.

BTW Ronan did you ever hear that "Ronan Remix" of Goldfrapp's "Strict Machine"? It's pretty good!

"Also, I noted our mind meld growing on the top tunes thread but I wasn't much rocked by Ewan's Futureshock mix and he got outshone on Ladytron's 'Evil' by Tony Senghore (yes, I'm ruining your Ewan high)."

Barima, the Futureshock mix sounds underwhelming until that weedy electro synth comes in at the end and suddenly it becomes urgent and key. Ewan's big trick obviously is to keep tweaking and tweaking a tune and then throw in a curveball out of nowhere that takes it to a whole new level of largeness. When I get back from my week's sojourn I think I'll write a blog post about Ewan specifically focusing on how he brings a sense of the epic to electroclash - complementing but quite different too Jacques Du Cont's romanticist melodrama.

"I don't know, maybe hitting number one with Setting Sun was the worst thing that happened to them."

It struck me as them trying to go double or nothing on the utter failure of "The Test", and then patting themselves on the back because the result wasn't quite so astronomically bad. It's all a bit of a shame b/c I thought that, "The Test" aside, Come With Us was terrific.

BTW what is this "Ronan Mix"?!!? I record under "Omnipotent Baby" naturally!

I have to disagree here, Pearson turned "Evil" into a proto-rave house classic a la Expansions "Move Your Body"!