Danger - 9 /17/2007

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  • What good is a music review in the age of the Internet? Is it merely a pointer to what you should download this week? Is it a chance to have your opinions righteously confirmed or flame-baitingly challenged? It's certainly not a venue for meditations on the nature of musical expression, pop culture or the vagaries of taste. (Unless you're Pitchfork or blogging to yourself.) The questions are simple: Are the beats good or not? Can I spin it in a set or not? So let's just put it this way: I love this release. And if you enjoy Kavinsky, Daft Punk, Justice, SNES and have fond memories of your Reagan-era consumerist childhood, you probably will too. Danger's goal is to score the raddest video game that never came out. On "4h30," militant 16-bit crunch slams into Bon Jovi afterburner chords and pops the glockenspiel Tubular Bells-slash-Exorcist style. If that sounds trite and about five years too late to even be ironically nostalgic, this extended player is not for you. But, if the very idea of phony Streets of Rage teasers animated with love by Danger himself brings unironic tears to your eyes for days gone by and jolts you into flashbacks of just barely beating Dr. Wily with one sliver of health left, then this EP is most definitely for you. It's three stunning, stupid, triumphant singles plus two middling remixes. It pretty much rules.
  • Tracklist
      1. 4h30 2. 3h11 3. 3h16 4. 4h30 (Riot Kid Remix) 5. 4h30 (Oliver $ Remix)
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