sword and shield

artwork: basit khan

As seen by recent posts on Palms Out and this very blog, we are a generation obsessed with Daft Punk. Our parents may have rejected disco in 1979 at a sporting event, but we are the ones that rediscovered it. Or at the very least, we saw through the bullshit like Disco Duck and Disco Inferno and a landfill of other cheesy anthems destined to be on a 70’s compilation.

Labels like Crydamoure and Roulé (both members of Daft Punk’s vanity labels) took the best hooks, looped them, added some glitz and then set ‘em loose. There wasn’t much more to a lot of my favorite records ever than an 8 bar loop and some intro. It was these boiled-down, to the point tracks that made me fall in love with house music.

Catching my ear lately has been California’s own Melee Beats. I have a feeling Melee realized the beauty of these chopped up disco gems and took the liberty of adding some wobbly bass and those pop hooks that we all love. This music has more strut in it than Travolta ever did walking down a New York street.

Melee Beats - Distraction