Three Cheers for MSTRKRFT! Three cheers for them! When I find myself literally skipping through the streets to a new track on ‘The Pod’, and I look up the name, only to find that it’s the latest and greatest from the Canadian duo.
Chromeo (in turn another duo from across the pond), gets by decently with its soulful, electrofunky beats anyway. However, for some, and for dancing, they’re a bit too clean, a bit too unadventurous. Which is why the drill of a MSTRKRFT grinding beat on top does beautiful, beautiful things for it. Speed up the pace a little, add a little kick…a consistent tapping of the frequency of that little hollow just behind your heart.
But enough evangelising. This wasn’t a great dance-hall song before the Masters got their hands on it. Now it is. What they bring isn’t inventive to a great extent, doesn’t reinvent the wheel in any particular fashion, but where it succeeds is smoothly changing the genre of a song. Think of it as a heart transplant. Only it requires the lightning of pure electro. And takes place inside the Daft Punk pyramid for added effect. It’s electronic, it’s punchy, and it’s good. Give it a listen
