The style clash monster is back!
"All Good Things Must Come To A Beginning" is the first of six thematic EPs every two weeks that lead towards the release of the second Urban Delights album in October. The first EP features four songs of the upcoming album: retrofuturistics partyrockin beats and indietronica for the mashup generation. catchy 21st century songs with a diy feel that celebrate the clash of funky electronic grooves and indie guitars. Yes, with this EP good things will beginn - with spectacular 12 weeks of "BOGOF". each release of an EP "for sale" is followed by some surprise "for free" one week later. 12 visual artists will be featured on the way with their interpretation of the songs.
"Maybe Baby" features the only guest appearance on the new album: soulful berlin singer Ms Marx already teamed up with Boysnoise founder Kid Alex as well as with Denyo and his German hiphop band Beginner. On this twisted science fiction funk track she sounds like a forgotten soul singer from the 60s, wanting to be loved - but instead being cut up, rearranged and transformed by beat mangler Harry K. and guitar maniac Malte Hagemeister. Hypnotic, sexy, upbeat - like a futuristic version of mark ronson. A dancefloor filler for a space age soulnighter.
"Break It All Down" - the dynamic duo shouts it out like it was the anthem for a generation in changing times: "We gotta tear it all apart, we gotta make a new start!" so you can create something new. phoenix from the ashes. And yes it does sound fresh: an infectious stripped down tom-tom-groove, a prominent live bass, some spare cutting tele-guitar-riffs and a hooky electro-synth line makes you wonder if this is the new LCD Soundsystem. Unusual lyrics on a dancefloor demand a change: "Don´t need something to die for. We need something to live for"
"Motor City" sounds like a UK indie rock band got hijacked by some mad electro-clash-soundsystem. The lyrics strongly demand: "I get up and i know I´m not to pretty, head up cause this is motor city!" underdogs of the world unite - to this playful breakbeat styleclash in the mindset of non conformists like gorillaz or outkast. You hear Kraftwerk, you hear The Police, mashed up with dirty synth lines, surprising breaks, hysterical shout vocals that maybe remind of the Chili Peppers and yet another uptempo party slammer that makes you wanna move.
"Electroshock" could be a theme song for the musical transformers that Urban Delights are: "we like it when things get hot, we like things that electroshock!". More electronic than the other songs this one shows their love for vintage sampledelica as well as for deep down & dirty dubstep synth madness. Expect the unexpexted seems to be the bottom line of this electroclash-song, and Harry K. nods: "we love it when the worlds collide. It´s gotta be fun and exciting, so we always try something new."
Released by:
minorbutmajor
Release/catalogue number: mbm001
Release date: Jul 31, 2009