Caltrops - No Stairway to Heaven





	[quote name="Fullofkittens"]I was looking for a particular sound. I had three requirements: <ol><li>I wanted it to scratch the itch that used to get scratched by Wolfgang Gartner et al of the electro house explosion of a few years ago, in terms of creative sound design and cool bass noises.</li> <li>It had to be at drum n bass tempos, because - since I never met a suburban middle class cliche I didn't like - I was looking for music to add to my <i>running playlist</i> (fuuuuck) and "good form running" has a cadence between 170-180 BPM (DnB, coincidentally).</li> <li>It had to not be Spor. He's great and all but I've been listening to him while jogging for years now and I needed something else.</li></ol> [youtube id=XK06toVASg0] NAILED IT. <i>Zeitgeist</i> is a 2013 album from Camo and Krooked, DnB producers who have made a lot of samey, uninteresting DnB over the years. Last year, apparently they saw Daft Punk's imminent resurgence coming and then decided to completely change their sound and make a drum-n-bass response to <i>Random Access Memories</i>. If you're like me and admired <i>RAM</i>'s disco throwback fanciness but eventually didn't dig it because of its dearth of blippy beats and chubby bass sounds... <i>Zeitgeist</i> fixes all that and is a much better album. It's really an overflowing buffet of awesome sound design ideas, surprising changes, and headnodding dnb bass grooves. It is a drum n bass album that could be enjoyed by anyone, even those who aren't fans of drum n bass.* It's not quite as ambitious as Squarepusher's 2004 masterpiece <i>Ultravisitor</i> (10 years!? WTF) but <i>Zeitgeist</i> is similar in its overall affect. Not many dance music LPs hang together as a long-form listening experience and create a coherent, cohesive sonic story like this does. It's really good. It goes a lot of places and balances a lot of things. It's a teenage wub wub symphony for the kids. The whole thing is available to stream on Spotify and I recommend listening to it from beginning to end. I strongly - STRONGLY - recommend never watching any of the other videos on YouTube, especially the one for the awesome talkbox slammer "Move Around" which was apparently brought to you by Red Bull. :( *All dance music has cheezy vocals and cringey pianos; they are present here. You just have to listen through that shit.[/quote]