Tag: Adrian Lux

Adrian Lux – Damaged

“A somewhat ethereal quality to it.”

Tim: The song’s been around a couple of months, but the video’s a bit recent; I awaited until now to bring it out because it turns out I like watching the video more that hearing than song.

Tom: Is that a…

Tim: Compliment? I’m not sure.

Tim: I’m not even a big fan of skateboarding, so I don’t know what it is about that video that gets me, but I was sort of mesmerised by it. Though that might be the song, because there’s another (completely different) video for it here, which has a similar effect.

Though I don’t know, I might just be in a mesmerisable mood. Either way, I like the videos, and that enjoyment permeates through to the song. First time I heard a while back it didn’t do much for me, but now, well, I quite like it.

Tom: I think “mesmerised” is the right term: it has a somewhat ethereal quality to it that means it might not be the best for the dance track, but would work well in the middle of one of those chillout-dance compilations.

Tim: Ask me tomorrow morning, when the video isn’t fresh in my mind, and I don’t know what I’ll say – the vocals are a little sour for me, and the backing could possibly do with being lightened up a tad – but right now I’m happy with it, and would definitely dance to it. So that’s good then.

(time passes)

Tom: So what do you think now?

Tim: I like it. It’s good.

Saturday Flashback: Adrian Lux feat. The Good Natured – Alive

“We should have featured him before.”

Tim: You may remember that back in March I described Adrian Lux as ‘a Swedish bloke who puts out some cracking dance tracks’, and said we should have featured him before. Well, this is from last November.

Tim: This dance tune is great; the singer admittedly not so much.

Tom: Ooh, now that’s where I disagree with you. The instrumentation didn’t work for me, but the vocals did.

Tim: Really? Because her Kate Nash style voice during the verses grates on me really rather a lot. When she starts singing for the chorus it gets okay, mind, and when she stops altogether the bit that Adrian does is brilliant. You don’t agree?

Tom: Well, it’s competent, certainly, but the favourite part for me is the build – its promise never really seems to turn into a decent chorus.

Tim: A vocal chorus, no, but the dance bit it’s got is great. I’m listening to it on repeat for that, and my god I wish she’d shut up and let him do his bit, so I’d love an instrumental.

Tom: But there’s nothing going on, instrument-wise, during those vocals. It’s be a bloody quiet instrumental.

Tim: Well, yes, obviously, because most dance-pop tracks don’t have much under the verses. I’ll rephrase it: what I’d like is a slightly restructured. instrumental with the choruses as they are and suitable material to fill in for her singing. That way there’d be no disappointing build – it would just be proper dance music at the level of the chorus.

And the level of that chorus is exactly why we should have featured him previously.

Adrian Lux feat. Joakim Berg – All I Ever Wanted

I don’t know why we’ve not featured Adrian Lux here before.

Tom: Ooh. Basshunter cover? No. Not a Basshunter cover.

Tim: I don’t know why we’ve not featured Adrian Lux here before – he’s a Swedish bloke who puts out some cracking dance tracks every now and again. Take this, for example, his current track.

Tom: Ooh, it’s like the Killers went all dance-y. Well, more dance-y. Less human, anyway.

Tim: This is actually what I’d have liked the new Swedish House Mafia track to be like. Not only does it have a great dance melody to it (which appears early on rather than thirty seconds before the end), but it has decent vocals to it as well, with a good chorus tune to get going to.

Tom: The dark, growing voice means it’s probably not going to be a massively commercial club hit – but it’ll be appreciated by those who do hear it.

Tim: Yes, and it’s not an anthem anyone would be singing along to, but it does give it that little bit extra that helps people think ‘Oh yeah, I liked that one’, which can only be a good thing.