It’s a shame that the absence of light has a bad reputation. Mike Skinner can (speak) sing songs about it. More specifically 15. After The Streets made pop culture history in 2002 with “Original Pirate Material” and the subsequent records, the project took a break. Skinner DJed in London clubs. During this period, he observed and archived in a nuanced way what happened between the dance floor, the back room, the exhilaration and the sticky days afterwards, in order to later write a brilliant love letter to that devastatingly tempting lifestyle.
Linguistically, he impresses with his usual Cockney dialect and seriously funny punchline
Musically, Skinner ties together loops of grime and garage, breakbeat and big beat, drum & bass, EBM, house and EDM on “The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light”. Linguistically, he impresses with his usual Cockney dialect and seriously funny punchlines. In the end, swing sound is the ejector, and in your head it’s as if a lighter clicks, a fag smolders and the last party group stumbles onto the night bus while the cleaning light comes on in the club.
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