Ever the flamboyant producer, Bottin serves up a rambunctious affair, all rough, gurgling electro bass, countenanced by an all-grinning disco campiness.
There are two, maybe even three, extremes to the in-vogue disco sounds of 2012/13. On the one hand, we have the slow, introverted edits of DJ Harvey, Mark E, The Revenge – the longstanding manifestation of modern disco. But on the other hand, we have the silly, spoof-like stuff that chin-stroking Harvey-loyalists might well turn their noses up at. Bottin unabashedly falls into the latter of the two.
On ‘Dirty’ he wields a no-holds-barred approach, drawing on signature Italo disco as well as sleazy and distortion-based funk that was such a staple of Ed Banger records circa 2007.
Bottin has been pushing this shamelessly kitschy offshoot of disco for some time, but never has it sounded so right. Here he strips the customary rounded and bouyant edges away to reveal something rawer, but with the fun still firmly in place, hard-hitting and yet perfectly daft.
With his two fingers up and an I-don’t-give-a-shit swagger, Bottin imbues this disco burner with a touch of punk and new-wave.
TIN | Released: November
