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Dirty Basement (7" Edit) / Be With You / Dirty Basement (LP Vocal) / Dirty Basement (LP Instrumental) GENUINE ARTICLE
Coming over like a UK take on Missy Elliot, Elektrons are a Manchester duo dealing in east end grime. The brainchild of Justin and Luke Unabomber, Elektrons are here joined by mic queen Eska on latest single DIRTY BASEMENT, the meeting place slap bang between Missy Elliot, Basement Jaxx and MIA.
There's nothing particularly awe inspiring or jaw dropping here though, DIRTY BASEMENT your typical UK grime mash up, all tough beats, pounding bass lines and snappy samples. Eska provides a certain attitude and style, but again its nothing you won't have heard countless times before, her vocal style doing the job well enough but hardly standing out as anything particularly fresh or original.
Backed by a string of lacklustre remixes and the instrumental coffee house grime of BE WITH YOU, DIRTY BASEMENT is never anything more than mildly diverting; an undemanding cross between Missy Elliot and Basement Jaxx, nothing more, nothing less.
BIOGRAPHY
Justin and Luke Unabomber have stepped away from the decks and into the studio as Elektrons. Building on the dirty basement ethos of their Manchester club Electric Chair, Elektrons' forthcoming album is a distillation of the across-the-board phuturustic black music inspirations and dirty, sexy attitude that have always informed their DJ sets and rocked dirty basements all over the world. Featuring UK mic queen Eska sounding like Missy Elliot doing the Saturday night house show on an East End grime pirate, first single DIRTY BASEMENT is both a crunk-house collision of all that's freshest and most dynamic in music right now and a bold affirmation of their anti-bling warehouse party nightlife aesthetic, a call to arms for the weekend to, as Justin puts it: "let your hair down, feel it, get dirty."
LINE UP
Justin Unabomber
Luke Unabomber
Eska Mtungwazi
DISCOGRAPHY
DIRTY BASEMENT FEATURING ESKA (Genuine Article>2007) Dirty Basement (7" Edit) Be With You Dirty Basement (LP Vocal) Dirty Basement (LP Instrumental)
LINKS
Genuine Article>www.genuinearticle.net
FURTHER LISTENING
Missy Elliot
Basement Jaxx
MIA
Review date: April 2007 |
