Drums Of Death “Generation Hexed” (Review)

Lately I’m getting lots of personal requests to review albums. Even though my review skills are amateuristic and probably rather poor I absolutely love it! It’s always nice to be hearing/judging a complete package then just a single, lose, separate track of which I get dozens. The album I’ll be “reviewing” is Generation Hexed from Drums Of Death.

I wasn’t very fimiliar with Drums Of Death when I got the promo copy in my inbox, so I had nu clue of what to expect. After listening to the intro song Karaoke … I was still rather clueless, clearly an intro track! But then starting from track two it was clear were this was going to: rave, acid like house tunes and jumpy beats, but also funky synths and lot of bleeps (accompanied with the jumping beats still of course)! When reading about Drums Of Death on the web I read people describing Drums Of Death as Grimey music, no idea what it is, but apparently this! All the beats and bleeps are accompanied by the vocal work of Colin Bailey (real name of DoD) who’s voice reminds me a lot of of the voice of James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) apart from Colin doing a bit more yelling. Half-way the album there is this great instrumental track “Creak” which brings a nice break/pauze in the album by pulling down the BPM and having long build ups. After that break it’s just straight on party music again, you can easily understand why DOD gets such good feedback on his live performances, this music is just made for live shows in my opinion.

Generation Hexed is already released on the Hot Chip associated Greco-Roman label (now that I read that, it even has some Hot Chip like influences!). We got the permission to share one track as a free download, “Everything All At Dub” gives a pretty good idea how the album sounds.

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Drums Of Death – Everything All At Dub

Complete tracklist:
1. Karaoke
2. Science & Reason
3. Won’t Be Long
4. Lonely Days
5. Creak
6. Everything All At Once
7. All These Plans
8. Modern Age
9. London Teeth
10. Voodoo Lovers (feat. Gonzales)

New vids

Vitalic‘s new album Flashmob is a must for all you dance/music lovers! Take a look at the video clip for his new single Poison Lips. The vocals remind me of his first album OK Cowboy, which for me was one of the best dance albums… ever.

Then there’s the new Drums Of Death single…

Drums of Death – Got Yr Thing from Darling on Vimeo.

… And an interview with Armand Van Helden and DJ Mehdi, who were doing some dj-sets together.

Scion Radio 17: A-Trak & DJ Mehdi Interview from Scion A/V on Vimeo.

As you probably already know, A-Trak recently teamed up with Armand Van Helden as Duck Sauce. They just made the latest mix cd for Mixmag. It’s filled with funky disco house. I’ll give you a preview: the first 3 tracks of the mix.

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Duck Sauce – Mixmag First 3 Tracks

1. His Majesty Andre – Spades
2. Mr. Oizo – Gay Dentist (JFK edit)
3. Armand Van Helden & DJ Sneak – Psychic Bounty Killaz