Bang Gang! They Shot Me Down.
THE BANG GANG DEEJAYS
D Is For Disco, E Is For Dancing
(MODULAR) A+
That is the cover art for the new Bang Gang Deejays compilation/disco/mixtape CD, titled D Is For Disco, E Is For Dancing (ho ho ho!) Someone drew that you know. Someone drew it with one of those pencil things (ask your parents) and spent a considerable amount of time on it. It shows because the imagery is very, very good. It really does make it all the more upsetting that someone probably spent the same amount of time in front of Photoshop coming up with this particular visionary masterpiece which was unveiled this week. And by ‘visionary masterpiece’, I obviously mean ‘absolute crock of shit’.
But back to the Bang Gang double-disc set.
Never has there been a more appropriate time to cry “Poppers O’Clock” at a CD then now, and with this very disc. D Is For Disco, (ademwithan)E Is For Dancing is a compilation which not only throws itself into your ears as a solid party record, it’s also a fine example of what a lot of “the youth” around Australia are taking a lot of drugs to dancing their little hearts out to in those discotheque’s week in, week out. There’s even some pop music on there (hello M.I.A, The Presets, Cut Copy, The Tough Alliance, Late Of The Pier, et cetera,) but it’s probably best not to tell the kiddies about that.
The CD also plays as the launching pad of the new Bag Raiders remix of Cut Copy’s next single from In Ghost Colours, “Far Away”, which is all sorts of delicious. Plus, it has the Crookers Remix of that “Day ‘N’ Nite” song I once saw someone cut their foot open on a wine glass to.
The Bang Gang Deejays comprise of six of Australia’s best, er, Deejays, and this is their second CD release after last years equally as impressive Light Sound Dance (LSD, FYI, would you look at that), whose only downside as a compilation was its inclusion of a Wolfmother “track”. THANK GOD THERE’S NONE OF THAT POPPYCOCK ON HERE THEN.
I’m having a chat down the blower with one of the Bangers, Jaime Doom in the next few days, so expect that up on the site next week some time. Visual aid of Doom here; hanging out with Kylie’s back-up dancers in someone’s garden, no doubt.
All in all, this is a pretty strong snapshot of what I’ve been listening to over the last 8 months or so when I feel like sniffing some poppers dancing around the lounge, or when I’m getting ready (read: looking for a Van She t-shirt, then slapping it on) to dance in nightclubs with people half my age. You’ll obviously like it too if you’re much of the same.
No remix of Girls Aloud’s “The Promise” on here though. Bit of a pity, I’m not going to lie.
You can view the full, wondrous 2 disc tracklisting here.