Friday, December 17, 2004

The excellent NYC electro blog Voltage presents their download of the week
Afrika Bambaataa with Gary Numan: "Metal"

The best electroclash took '80s styles - like new wave and electrofunk - and mixed them up in ways that no one thought of doing back in the '80s. This track is a literal embodiment of that principle: the godfather of hip-hop meets the original new wave humanoid. The quote from "Heart of Glass" is cute but gratuitous; the clunky rap by MC Chatterbox should have been cut. Otherwise, Numan's quavering robotics and Bambaataa's beats (more solid than ever) have been welded together almost seamlessly.

Totally agreed. Brilliant at moments and uncomfortably cheesy at others.

[Thanks Maxx, er, I mean Maximus.]

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