A sure fire way to near empty a dance floor at an electro house club in four minutes: Start off your set with two funk slow jams with extensive keyboard solos.
How to make it half full again: Set Ableton Live to 126 bpm and add some Justice-esque noisy synths. (Which is sad in an of itself. I’ll get back to this in a day or two.)
I have mixed feelings about Seymour Bits. Dutch electro funk with fits of booty bass. He looked pretty cool on stage in a white jump suit with a minimal keyboard/two microphones/computer setup. Unfortunately he’s not as clever and funky as Chromeo in the slow jams and nowhere near as convincing and energizing as Dj Funk when commanding us to shake that Booty our Mama Gave Us. This, coupled with his obvious thing for go-go dancers* (which is only ever ok if done out of irony or by transvestites or ironic transvestites) leaves me biased. I didn’t think the set was particularly good but on the other hand I had quite a funky good time.
I haven’t made good on the whole buying a new camera thing yet so here’s another crappy phone cam video:
* There were no go-go dancers present last night. Thank God.
Things that rock: Pancakes. And wine.
