Salt n' Pepa. Mel and Kim. Diplo and Switch. French and Saunders. Jigga and Bouncy.
How I enjoy a famous coupling. How's about everyone's favourite electro-tech wizard Boys Noize and seminal scene establisher Erol Alkan? Although their working relationship goes a long way back, this EP is the first time we've seen them go fully beat to beat on production duties together. Suffice to say, it's an absolute monster.
What with the ever increasing prevalance of harder edged tech-house slowly swooping in and brushing more commercial electro to the side, these leaders of the scene have put together a release with an almightily rugged kick.
Death Suite is marginally less strong than Waves. Seemingly taking their cue from The Chemical Brothers 'Electronic Battle Weapon' series, it's a rough and ready acid techno number. Utterly relentless and completely unforgiving it ploughs on despairingly with acid squiggles, tiny vocal snippets, occasional snares and even a little bit of cowbell. If this is what to expect from death, I'm quite excited.
Waves is the big one from this EP. Clearly destined to be whipped out by all sorts of DJs in all sorts of scenarios, I can see it being highly auspicious in the Bestival dance tent come September. Although still pretty tough, it has a little more melody going on, mainly built around arpeggiated synth patterns. The track also brings in some pretty gnarly tribal disco percussion before dropping out to nothing around the 3 minute mark. From there we get a gradual ascent into more synths, drum patterns, the sound of jumping into the ocean (no, really) and lasers zooming by in the background. Fantastically overblown and somewhat ridiculous, it seems we have an anthem in the making.
Exciting news too, Bristol's very own MonkeyKnifeFight! will be hosting an album launch party at the Thekla for the new Boys Noize album 'Power'. For those not in the know, The Thekla is the-best-boat-that's-also-a-club the UK has to offer and puts on all sorts of amazing parties all the time. Check the facebook event HERE.
And finally, check the video below of Erol and Alex rocking Germany's Melt festival with Waves.
