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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...
...still coax a smile and a nod of the head—Batman, Thai food and Applebee’s are all namechecked in just the first two tracks. Grand Buffet’s most distinctive beats are also their most effective ones, from the minimalist thump of “Barbecue Gloves” to the piercingly deep bass of “Intruder Excluder” and “Nate Kukla’s History of Lemonade...
...whose pulverizing bassline and stainless snares sound more computerized than crunk. But soon the album’s pulled in opposite directions by tracks like Charles Manier’s “At The Bottle” (whose post-Kraftwerk synths and four-on-the-floor thump sound made for anime dancefloors) and a Telefon Tel Aviv rework of Midwest Product’s “A Genuine Display.” The latter’s rainy fragility is the compilation’s wildcard, showing that indie introspection can paint hip-hop and tech-house rhythms...
...about 2:45 p.m. Saturday in the Kurdish city of Gerdigo, in northern Iraq, I heard the thump of a mortar firing. It was coming from the battle line held by Ansar al-Islam, a Kurdish fundamentalist Islamic group that's allied with al-Qaeda, with some support from Saddam Hussein. The round landed in front of a forward emplacement held by the Kurdish 61st Uprising Battalion, part of the anti-Saddam Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Moments later, a second round landed even closer. The soldiers scurried into their foxholes, me along with them, before they popped back...
...perfect sound effects for a two-minute segment in the middle of Dreamcatcher. After the discussion about the perfect sound of a bathroom door being broken, it's on to the moment where the worm falls off the main character's body onto the floor. "The thump is major. I've been waiting six months for it," Kasdan says excitedly. The conversation begins to resemble discussions normally reserved for freshman stoners. "Is there any wetness in it?" Kasdan inquires about the splat. "I think it needs a little more weight...