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Camo and Krooked - Zeitgeist by Fullofkittens 10/20/2014, 7:06pm PDT
I was looking for a particular sound. I had three requirements:
  1. 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.

  2. 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 running playlist (fuuuuck) and "good form running" has a cadence between 170-180 BPM (DnB, coincidentally).

  3. 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.




NAILED IT.

Zeitgeist 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 Random Access Memories. If you're like me and admired RAM's disco throwback fanciness but eventually didn't dig it because of its dearth of blippy beats and chubby bass sounds... Zeitgeist 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 Ultravisitor (10 years!? WTF) but Zeitgeist 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.
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