Tim: This is from Germany, and it was one of my favourite tracks of the night. Quick warning: it’s straight-up drum’n’bass, so I wasn’t initially going to post it, but since you brought us Hadouken! yesterday, I figured why not.
Tom: Hey, there’s plenty of good drum and bass out there. There’s plenty of crap drum and bass, too. Which one’s this?
Tom: Okay, I hate to be the genre-pedant, but I’m not sure this is drum and bass. Let’s stick with ‘electronica’, or just ‘pop’. This ain’t got a patch on Pendulum.
Tim: Fair enough. That’s the actual video for the song, there; the Unser Song Für Malmö performance left a bit to be desired, as the vocal wasn’t quite as intense as it should have been, although it was proper lasers o’clock in the arena.
Tom: I want a laser-based alarm clock now. 8am, time to wake up, BEDROOM RAVE.
Tim: I’m not sure what it was that made me really like it – partly it was the lasers, and partly it was the Revenge of the Nerds vibe to the lyrics. Mostly, though, I think it was just that I was in the get-up-and-jump-around mood for drum’n’bass – I’d been slightly over-excited since I realised the ridiculousness of starting my Valentine’s Day evening watching the German business news (and since you ask, Nestlé stocks were on the way up, and there was something about Heinz as well).
Tom: Interesting. Can’t say I’m feeling it myself – is it the same for you now you’re not “in the moment”, so to speak?
Tim: Actually, yes – watching it back three weeks later I can’t get quite as excited about it, but I still think it’s a good track, and I’d actually have quite liked to see it in Malmö – it’d certainly have been more interesting than Cascada.