It’s been a while since this blog posted some unpretentious, straight up electro. Of the filthy, revved-up kind. After running this blog for a year and a half, I’ve become slightly immune to electro noise. This blog’s acquired a taste for simpler sounds: slighty more minimal melodies and building progressions. Tunes that utilize bass and percussion to great effect. But of course Pelski’s impartial to the odd filthy monster; back to his roots
My inbox is inundated with dirty electro banger after dirty electro banger. There’s few keeping the dirty-electro sound fresh. I’d say Alex Metric is certainly one of them. The once-great MSTRKRFT isn’t.
And every once and a while something that sounds really great arrives, and John Roman has been flooding my inbox with his filthy, driving bangers since January. Hailing from the other London (Ontario, Canada), John Roman’s just 19 years old and already causing a bit of a storm. His ‘Wreck The Discotek‘ is an earsplitting assault of reverberating electro riffs:
And every once and a while something that sounds really great arrives, and John Roman has been flooding my inbox with his filthy, driving bangers since January. Hailing from the other London (Ontario, Canada), John Roman’s just 19 years old and already causing a bit of a storm. His ‘Wreck The Discotek‘ is an earsplitting assault of reverberating electro riffs:John Roman – Wreck The Discotek [pelski highly recommends]
This is better than The Bloody Beetroots’ original. I’ve never quite understood the appeal of The ‘Beets (an affectionate nickname I tend to refrain from using). For an electro banger to stick-out, it’s got to be distinctive – their’s are not, they’re just loud and boisterous; you need a third ingredient. You could play ten Beetroot songs in a row (god knows there’s tonnes more than that) and I wouldn’t be able to distinguish between them. Rant over. Mr Roman re-crafts the angry banger into a better tune. Between slow piano chords and rising string, he drops the tune into a countinous blast of shuddery synth-work:
Bonus:
