[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/2075803″ params=”auto_play=false&player_type=tiny&font=Arial&color=ff7700″ width=”100%” height=”18″ iframe=”false” /]
Throw your weird ass tassled hats into the air, it’s graduation time!
Voltron’s “Sophomore EP” is not only the follow-up to last year’s “Freshman EP”, but a documentation of their continued blossoming evolution into… hybrid dancefloor savants? The nightclub equivalent of a grad student? A thesis on ‘Neoclassical Assumptions in Contemporary Prescriptive Slang’ jammed into an mp3? Whatever you want to call it, it’s full of huge contributions from Bambounou, Gremino, Jean Nipon and Brownz as well as two original productions from the promising young academics themselves.
Meanwhile, on remix duties, Bambounou’s interpretation of “Play It” sounds like someone constructed a car alarm made entirely of tropical birds, stripping off the glossy sheen of Voltron’s synthesizers and banging out a version that sounds like it was simultaneously constructed on seventeen different models of antiquated drum machines.
At first you might think that the unique hook of Brownz remix of “Play It” is the “someone-ripping-a-thousand-rolls-of-packing-tape” bass rumble that kicks in early on in the track, but you’re fooling yourself. Instead, it’s the nervousness-inducing orchestral rumble that starts scaling upwards in the background of the track, slowly
crawling to the front of the track sounding somewhat like a dancefloor-adaption of the most gut-wrenching thriller movie you’ve watched.