Another review I did recently:
Berlin’s Modeselektor are like the Obama of the electronic world, gradually winning over sceptics and uniting dance music’s various factions with their off-kilter sound and general disregard for genres the same way Barack connects with world leaders. Fans from the minimal, house and hip hop fraternities have all sung their praises and they even convinced indie messiah Thom Yorke to make an appearance on their album Happy Birthday.
Body Language vol. 8 gives Modeselektor the opportunity to demonstrate their scattergun approach to DJing and they waste no time in creating a brilliant party mix by merging techno into breakbeat into hip hop into electro – and that’s just the first few tracks. The mark of a great party DJ is the ability to carefully blend the more obscure with the familiar, and the welcome inclusion of 2-step in the shape of Horsepower Productions and Busta Rhymes’ classic Gimme Some More shows these two have it in spades. Dubstep has clearly struck a chord with the pair as tracks from Benga, Joker and Scuba are interwoven between the synth sounds of Siriusmo and the pulsing throb of Marcel Dettman’s excellent revision of Modeselektor’s own The Black Block. I could have probably done without the ubiquitous Animal Collective, but then that’s one to keep the indie kids happy.
The way Modeselektor combine tracks that on first glance appear at odds with each other is the key to this album’s appeal and fans who appreciate the eclecticism of artists like Diplo or have a predilection for bass will garner some enjoyment from this. And as Modeselektor themselves say on Fill #1, ‘expect the unexpected’.
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