No Sleep Til Br0klyn

Thanks to Jacob from Barbelith, I’ve become obsessed with the music of the Br0klyn Beats label for the past three days. It’s all amazingly good, and it seems to be scratching an itch I didn’t even realize that I had. One of the things that I really love about most of the Br0klyn Beats artists is how they achieve a very elegant balance of dissonant rhythmic noise and actual pop/disco grooves. There’s a sense of compositional complexity, particularly in the work of Donna Summer, that I don’t find in a lot of other cut-up electronic music – the Br0klyn Beats folks seem genuinely interested in making songs rather than just soundscapes or experiments in harsh audio texture.

Nettle “The End Of Public Space” (from Brutal Police Menace)

Criterion “Honky Tonk Hits” (from the [sic] series)

DJ/Rupture “Rumbo Babylon” (from the [sic] series)