Has DBL found a substitute for Popcorn? No.
Publisher: Shock Records
Tue, 24 January 2006
by: Darth Bin Laden
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There's a funny trend in dance music to be tirelessly repetitive. It becomes annoying to the point of wanting to know why it's so hard to do something original. Dance tracks so often are the same four bars of music recycled to equally repetitive vocals. Occasionally changing time signature, or churning out constant remixes does not equal innovation. Adding verses to dance tracks is a step in the right direction, but it fails to spark anything new. Even this latest release from The Infadels fails to impress despite an obvious rock influence in the musical progression in the song. However, it fails to be new because it's nothing we haven't heard before.
I'm not even the biggest fan of dance music, anyone from my year 10 formal can tell you that. However I do oblige some of it, as I've seen some of my friend's younger acquaintances (as young as 11) making use of the software that is often the major tool in the production of these sorts of tracks. Through friends I have experienced seriously haunting mixes (and I mean haunting in the scare-the-shit-out-of-me way). Dance music that it developed around its core fundamentals is often quite brilliant, extremely catchy and can make even the most cynical of us break out into an embarrassing little jig.
So that's where it becomes a bit of a Catch 22. In order for dance music to progress, it needs to innovate beyond its roots. But if it leaves its roots, it loses the core pieces that have garnered such a large following in the first place, and often winds up sounding like a poor version of the genre stylings it is attempting to imitate. However, due to my rock preferences, I am not privy to the inner workings of the dance music crowd. But I'm fairly sure its safe to assume that there is just as much difference in the fans of certain types of dance as there is difference in the fans of bands such as Greenday and Mudvayne.
As for this single, Can't Get Enough by The Infadels, there isn't much to it. I have heard Jagged 67 in heavy rotation on Triple JJJ some days, but the CD was the first time I got a hold of this track. As I write this review I am listening to entirely different music because I didn't take much of a liking to this particular track. I found it too much of a bastard child of the dance/rock movement that is becoming prominent in many parts of Europe, and the London dance scene. Perhaps that is simply the influence that The Infadels had, however I believe it doesn't work.
One of the other remaining two tracks on the album are a needlessly long remix by Jagz Kooner, weighing in at somewhere near 7 and a half minutes, and unlike the 'rock operas' by Greenday on their latest album, there is no real change in what is going on; it is, in essence, the same thing for 450 seconds. It seems pointless to me (and some may argue the same thing about Jesus Of Suburbia). The Mekon Remix is a more enjoyable mix than the original track, but nothing is overly different from what has been done already on the CD. There is also a music video included, which I found largely uninspiring.
Overall, it's a single. I don't buy singles myself, as there is this lovely little shop in Sydney that sells brand new albums for $10. Why pay half price for something that has 1/10th of the quantity? If you find this for $2 somewhere, and you think you might enjoy it, by all means pick it up. However, in my personal opinion, it's not worth $4.99.
by: Darth Bin Laden
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