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...Retrochine blend movie music with lashings of trip-hop, electronica and funk. Some use movie samples as their starting point: "Riding at the Speed of Sound" jazzes up the pathos-imbued vocals of 1960s starlet Carrie Ku Mei with rock riffs and a break-beat exuberance worthy of Basement Jaxx. Others are simply inspired by the movies, like the cheeky "(21st Century) Char Siu Bao," which features present-day siren Gloria Tang singing in Mandarin to the tune of "Mambo Italiano...
...Basement Jaxx...
London’s Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton are house music’s biggest sellouts. The pair have so relentlessly contaminated house’s righteous four on the floor thump that Jaxx tracks readily tear apart dance floors of any persuasion other than indie. On Kish Kash, they finally complete their music’s dissolution into the poptastic...
With a few exceptions later into the album (sounding more like the Jaxx of old), these tracks are so treacherous that you’ve got to either dive into the vortex or leave. Even the beats almost don’t matter as much as the immaculate racket, which actualizes rave music’s coveted state of “mental” while rendering the listener totally helpless. It’s an instant delirium machine; as J.C. Chasez coldly implores, “plug it in, baby.” —Ryan...
...with soaring female vocals and synthesized, mechanical beats. Fun to dance to, it sounds a bit like disco music, but is constrained by the formulaic construction of the songs. You won’t hear much of this music if you go to a reputable club. Think Spiller, Basement Jaxx, or Eiffel 65 (“I’m blue, a-ba-di a-ba-dai”) and you’ve got Eurodance...