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against there being any quality albums come out of electroclash. Felix Da Housecat's Kittenz And Thee Glitz and Devin Dazzle, Ladytron's first 2, Chicks On Speed's 99 Cents, all easily equal recent efforts by Cut Copy, Late Of The Pier, Metronomy, etc. And because, unlike the current batch of albums, it was so mixed with actual dance music, there were masses of classic singles and compilations, with City Rockers and International Deejay Gigolos being the main 2 labels.

There's obviously earlier elements that have influenced bands fusing dance music and songs since 2002, but it was what happened in the early 2000s that brought a lot of those influences to the fore. Late 90s, although it was happening, it was rare to hear distinctly synthesised sounds in anything other than techno and trance; things was mainly about sampling and sample manipulation, you didn't hear many raw sawtooth tones or things that sounded like an analogue synthesiser outside of proper dance music. There really weren't many people exploring old synth pop, new wave, new romantic and classic house until after electroclash had happened. Even the current italo disco revival, interest in italo was first renewed in the late 90s by I-F, who, around the same time, recorded the song that's thought of as responsible for first kicking off electroclash and the electro revival of this decade generally.

never really produced any quality albums until well into its lifespan, and way after what originally was morphed into something different, it produced many classic singles, though. Although electroclash obviously didn't have quite the same impact as that, it too left a slew of classic singles, and has probably been as influential in this decade as Strokes-y guitar indie has. The current trend is a direct descendant of electroclash, as has been the blog house likes of Justice/Digitalism/Simian Mobile Disco and everything that came out in the wake of that, electro house generally, bands like Goldfrapp, pop music like Girls Aloud, Richard X's productions and latter day Kylie, and all manner of things. For a scene that was a fashionista flash in the pan in 2001/2002, it's influence is pretty wide ranging considering we're still hearing and talking about music not a million miles away from it in 2008.

Since when was Blur's The Universal "explicitly optimisic"?

Cambridge on the tour dates, and got very excited.

Then I remembered it was US tour dates, so it's Cambridge MA, rather than Cambridge UK. Bah.

Barfly date is now at The Soul Tree. As The Barfly inconveniently decided to close down.

The Hercules And Love affair track is more Shoom circa 1988 than Studio 54 circa 1978. It's fantastic, though.

this video does make me want to have sex with Uffie, it doesn't really make me want to buy a Ducati. Fail.

For about £500 more than a pair of CDJ1000s and a mixer, you can do pretty much the exact same thing with a pair of Jazzmutant Lemurs and a laptop.

He may be something of a "personality DJ" but his co-host, Mark Hughes knows his stuff. As someone's pointed out, he plays a lot of often classic hiphop and early acid house, and is a professional club DJ and producer.

looks a really good lineup, but on a Thursday at 6-12? Would have been great as an all day Saturday, with late licenses.

got a lot better recently, to the point that they're actually quite good, technically. I've hear recordings from mid 2006, though, and it's pretty grim.

They used to be Shard? Oh dear

DatA remix of Minuit Jacuzzi on this is literally one of the best things released this year.

Almost as bad as Trash Fashion. Yes, that bad. Bandwagon jumping scenester chancers.

The Cambridge date should be alright, though, as it's a Kill Em All Let Got Sort It Out event, so at least there'll be some decent DJs (Erol Alkan and Filthy Dukes confirmed so far)

version of Atlantis To Interzone has been available for a while on the twin 12"/7" remix pack on Merok for a good 6 months or so. Plus it's the version on the video they filmed for it

From what it seems, they're taking House Mouse along with them on tour and I'd think that'd be the fee for both, so that sets it at about £150, which is probably about right.

rocking Cambridge's Club Goo's early set are as follows:

Cansei de Ser Sexy - Let's Make Love (And Listen Death To Above)
Coco Electrik - Apple Pie (Skylab remix)
Clinic - Monkey On Your Back
The Cramps - Bikini Girls With Machine Guns
Elton Motello - Jet Boy, Jet Girl
Princess Superstar - Coochie Coo
Fannypack - Smack It Up
The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health
The Prodigy - Girls
Piney Gir - My Generation

the Skylab remix at a club on Wednesday. It's defintely going to be a regular, and by all rights, should be in every club up and down the country.

for more of the same kind of thing, check out the 2 Anne Shenton Compiled Electronic Bible compilations, which feature a lot of the same bands as Thee Sheffield Radiphonic Workshop's

A bit of a Chicks On Speed tribute band, really, except without the ideas.

Was a shame so many people were talking loudly over her.