Various Acts - 'DFA Compilation #2' (EMI)
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By: Toby L
You might have noticed rockfeedback is a bit prone to support of the DFA. Ever since providing one of the first UK live-reviews (here we go... - Self-Publicity Ed) of The Rapture amidst their debut British tour over two years back, we've been hooked to the notion of disco-percussion mixing salaciously with contemporary rock angles and just slightly 'vehement' vocal spluttering. It's a spin and yarn that we're happy to get lost and caught up in - half unsure whether to dance, or ponder profusely.
Doing both is the answer. And so serene has the output and influence been of the DFA that even when creator and head of the organisation - James Murphy - releases his own grooves via his LCD Soundsystem, we're still in rapture (oops, sorry). For they rule, too.
Thus, at last a label that makes the geeks feel cool. A voice for the unspoken and once criminally untrendy.
The second in their series of 'Compilation' records sees the DFA label/production-team continue their flight. Three CDs, each spanning at least an hour, and numbering both the aforementioned, as well as NYC and beyond tasters and remixes from the jilted, compelling calibre of Black Dice, The Juan Maclean, and the very funky Black Leotard Front. The range embarked upon - icy-electronica-cool, enlaced with a sense of rhythmic desperation and tuneful ferocity; DFA acts are both soulful and live (or simply everything - try 'That's The Way I Like It' by Pixeltan).
Makes a change for 'dance' acts. And for those that have 'heard it all before' - try the darkly slammin' 'Alabama Sunshine' from our Rapture, or a devilish fusion of LCD's exasperatingly infectious 'Yeah' and 'Beat Connection'. The latter borders on pop music for robots that f**k. Subversive? Just a touch.
DFA - we're in your debt, and under your every command.
Artists in this article: Various Acts
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