Yes, it's a French (gasp!) dance music (aspirate!) label run by Daft Punk's manager, but I'm kind of excited about it. For one, Ed Banger events are the balls-out, Dionysian experiences rock concerts should be. What's more, I can't stop listening to that new Justice album.

tocharian wrote:Yes, it's a French (gasp!) dance music (aspirate!) label run by Daft Punk's manager, but I'm kind of excited about it. For one, Ed Banger events are the balls-out, Dionysian experiences rock concerts should be. What's more, I can't stop listening to that new Justice album.

Well, I've seen Justice live, and while they've got a big cross that lights up (cool) otherwise they are some more pasty guys who hide behind a pile of equipment and play with laptops, and ramp up builds and twiddle the high pass filter. It was much more tedious than just a DJ playing great records, because it professed to be a 'rock concert' when it was just a triggering of prerecorded sound with no spectacle. Left me cold.

Plus they don't exactly do anything new. They are basically just Daft Punk, but with more powerful software. Old disco and funk records recombined with heavy sidechain compression. However, they add a macho, noisy, big-beatish, rock n'roll aesthetic to it, which for me misses the point of electronic dance music; to create something rock and roll bands cannot. The huge bass work sounds pretty cool, but I don't know why everyone gets so excited about them.

Uffie / Feadz stuff is pretty good in a filthy, crunky kind of way. Sebastian is mostly unlistenable to me. You can make things exciting without ten tons of digital distortion and artifacts.

Ed Banger may be superficially sexy, but it's not some paradigm shift. It's just a record label.

CRAP.

Whoa, I guess it does feel kind of shitty to have someone rain artillery fire on music that you love. Well, I totally asked for it. Fire away.

I guess I don’t have any expectations for dance music… that it be something wholly discreet from rock music, that it owe nothing to Daft Punk… other than it make me want to lose my shit and boogie down. If the whole rock thing were just a gimmick, that would be one thing, but Justice are honest to god purveyors of the stuff and their incorporation of, say, Metallica riffs into “Waters of Nazareth,” just comes off as really instinctual. Has anybody done that before or with such finesse? Maybe, but I can’t come up with examples.

So, I say let go of your unnecessary expectations. You might have more fun.

Oh yeah, no way, NOT CRAP.

i like Busy P, hence the non crap vote

I can't put most Daft Punk type music into its proper context, but I do enjoy that Justice stuff. I haven't listened to the whole album yet.

I am out of my depth.

Melissa, you know about lots of stuff that I don't know about. That is all.