Thursday 26 October 2006



Klaxons are somewhere over the rainbow

Sometimes I just don’t get how 1 +1 =2. Press releases for UK trio Klaxons say they’re cut from the same cloth as Happy Mondays, Altern8, and rave culture. I don’t hear it, save for the industrial siren wail motif on [MP3] “Atlantis to Interzone”, one of the tracks from their Xan Valleys EP. When iTunes searches out the CD Information, the genre for the EP comes back as electronica/dance, but I just don’t hear it. I have just been reading an article/interview with Amanda Palmer of Dresden Dolls and Peter Murphy of Bauhaus, where they discuss the deconstruction of all musical genres. Too much bastardization, cross-pollination, and genre-weaving is making classifications even more redundant. Do you like it? Does it move you? That’s all you really need to know. [MP3] “Gravitys Rainbow” has the potential to become one of those songs that will defy classification, yet still make a connection with the crowd. In my opinion, the closest Klaxons comes to rave is the remixes of “Atlantis to Interzone” and “Gravitys Rainbow” that close out the EP.

[MP3] Klaxons “Gravitys Rainbow (Van She Remix”

[MP3] Klaxons “Atlantis to Interzone (Crystal Castles Remix)

[Find more mp3s at the Hype Machine.]





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