i haven't heard the follow blog dance acts:

Aren't Pilooski more of a disco edits affair? see e.g his edit of John Miles' "Stranger in the City". Pretty great (though narcoleptic tempo), but then I haven't heard the original so it's hard to assess Pilooski's contribution.

Is 'blog dance' now a cohesive term?

kissy sell out is a very very wack jaques lu cont rip off. the teenagers is an adequate indie rock band. they're ok but nothing you havn't heard a thousand times before.

i thought curtis vodka was authentic alaskan club music

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I saw Drop The Lime on Friday, he was pretty good and has been better in the past to boot. I suspect he doesn't deserve to be lumped in with most of these, but I'll cheerfully admit that's a kneejerk reaction to their names and/or the little I know about any of them

the pilooski re-edit of that frankie valli song is, bizarrely and inexplicably, about to be a massive hit in the UK. and yeah he's more beardo disco than blog house. i recognise some of the other names from CDs i put straight into the charity shop pile from the envelope.

I quite like Kissy Sell Out, more than any other blog house I think, partly because as remixers they're good at getting the best out of very mediocre pop songs. I can well imagine their own stuff being wack though.

Does It Offend You Yeah = 5th rate Justice ripoff.

all good:
Surkin
Guns n' Bombs
Tepr

GnB sound very MSTRKRFT tho i'm only going by their Chromeo remix really. Surkin are a bit more filtery and cut-up whereas what i've heard of Tepr sounds a bit funkier but also big on chopping up vocals.

crazy blog

blance

that's totally what i'm calling it hereon

I was thinking the same. I also has the advantage of sounding like 'blag'

blahnce

the only zzz i know are a dutch suicide-y organ-and-drums duo. a bit too spacedout garagerock to be considered blogdance, i think...

seen the teenagers twice recently. they are terrible. does it offend you, yeah followed them the last time and i can't really say if they were only great by comparison. they do a lovely sort of !!! dance punk thing. and a cover of a devo song that sounds quite like the original.

and i can't stand that pilooski-edit of frankie vallie's beggin'. even though the original is one of my favourite songs ever and pilooski doesn't seem to have added much.

I also has the advantage of sounding like 'blag'

Blaggett?

pilooski has done at least a couple of EPs of his own material, one of which came out a couple months back. cousin cole has been around a while, he does mash-ups.

boys noize is good, very abrasive and noisy. search his tiga remix. surkin is also good, more on the "actually sounds like the housier end of daft punk fetishism" side than all the MSTRKRFT clones, but he has about four songs at this point. also he looks about twelve.

the latest drop the lime stuff is cool.
I started this thread on it a while back
Trouble & Bass - Drop the Lime / Math Head / + crew

boyz noize is ok
I like a lot of the pilooski and d-i-r-t-y edits

most of the rest I haven't heard. curtis vodka is latest hollertronix clone (crunk / electro mash-ups)

To answer the initial post, yes, you're missing out on quite a bit.

Guns N Bombs is less rock than MSTRKRFT and smarter in their programming. That said, the hooks are a bit more buried but definitely still there.

the appropriate term is Slam Dance.

boyz noise was put by a friend onto my hd during a massive file-trading session one day. it was the first thing i listened to from his collection, and it was the first i deleted. kid was a secret kitsune/ed banger type. but he did give me everrything that depeche mode ever did, for the most part, so it was worth it.

I can't believe they put ", yeah" at the end of a band name.

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ok, since most of these acts seem to have at least one fan here, how about we really notch up the cheap ADD dilettantism and you recommend me you're favourite track from each group.

i don't care much about most of these acts (though Cousin Cole's JT/Lindstrom mashup is big fun)... but I'd heartily recommend the wonderful Boys Noize remix of Feist's "My Moon My Man" to anyone - especially to people who get a headche from all the trebly midrange stuff, since it's closer to, uhm, proper dance music. it's equally poppy and tracky, banging but not in in the typical blog dance fashion - more elegant, pretty, wistful.

Surkin - Radio Fireworks
Tepr (ft. Grand Marnier) - Jacuzzi
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Cousin Cole's Missy/Mysterians mash-up is great.

kissy's justice remix is ace. the LET THERE BE LIGHT ONE.
yeah the FESIT boyz noise mix is ace too. pilooski's done a couple of intelligent unusual re-edits, notably of the the's GIANT.

now listening, tepr's "minuit jacuzzi" and surkin's "radio fireworks":

tepr (writing while listening):

okay, so its a stop start, slightly wonky affair, with synth stabs on every beat, and grinding saws. nice enough. doesn't help that this is a 128 bit mp3 but i get the idea. when the groove finally settles a bit, the vocal hook is reasonably catchy and emotional. later, some standard chopped-up vox, vinyl effects and plastic organ sound that works.

final verdict: for a large part, it sounds sounds a little braxe-lite, but it's certainly playable, dynamics are good, if predictable. uhm, a B ?

surkin:

okay, more stop-start vocal snatches. at 192, at least. this could be tepr, too - not helping my conviction that so much of this stuff is interchangeable. okay, tension still building... when the beat drops it's not very heavy, and nothing else changes up, same choppy vox. same story when the beat drops for the second time. slowly more vocal snippets filter in, and it gets busier, slightly more 'driving', but i'm already getting annoyed. now, suddenly, big distorted "guitar" riff transplanted on top. then it carries on. then it finishes.

verdict: really boring dynamics, nothing catches my ear. if i'm in the mood for this kind of thing, i'd probably listen to sinden first. D.

now the tepr has come on again, and this time around it's rathing annoying me.

i think they work best mixed with other tracks hence this 'interchangeability' thing - lot of dance music across the board has that effect, especially if you're listening to it rather than dancing and applying critics ear.

see if you like What I Need by Curses! (Drop the Lime under a difft. name)

(the exclamation point is part of the name, I'm not screamin at you)

could probably add Bird Peterson to the list

Hey, I know Bird Peterson ... saw the man 2 days ago

quite like "what i need" - appreciate the ardkore-esque bare-bones approach, actual bass, enjoyably frantic - B+

really liking the boyz noize feist remix too!! mind taker's comments seconded. A!