George Michael, Prince and Leonard Cohen were among the artists we lost that year, but the death that cast the longest shadow came early – on 10 January.
Marred by the deaths of numerous musical heroes, 2016 truly felt cursed. We agree.įor David Robert Jones William Basinski Musex International/BMI The combination of deliciously programmed breaks, head-turning fills and breakdowns, and the catchiest melody heard this side of a football terrace, brought the world of dance music to a rare, unanimous decision: that this one slaps. In classic Objekt fashion, what was actually made was an alarmingly effective club weapon that looked both back and forwards with equal reverence – and subsequently got played literally fucking everywhere. While Objekt has never expressed the intention behind 2017 song Theme From Q (besides the clearly nonsense backstory that it took inspiration from a tune heard at an imaginary club in west Berlin), it certainly sounds like his attempt at making a 90s house banger. Ostensibly created as an ode to tear-out dubstepper Rusko, the result was a wildly unique slice of wobbly dancefloor chaos. Take Cactus, the track that arguably cemented his reputation as one of the defining producers of his generation (or any generation, to be honest). Objekt’s tongue-in-cheek attempts at aping the basic genre conventions of club music has yielded some of his wildest and most exciting works.
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It’s distracted but obsessive, here and there, full of big ideas and dead ends euphoric but completely devastating. The murky R&B of the opening chapter, the smoky club synths of the first drop, the sweet release of the spaced-out middle section collapsing into that timeless hook – “ She’s working at the pyramids tonight.”īlonde is often cited as proof of Ocean’s status as a generation-defining songwriter, but there’s a case for Pyramids being the best example of how he captures the mood of the era. Evoking Prince’s Purple Rain era, Frank freewheels between genres with ease across the 10 minutes. It’s the kind of concept that’s so wild ambitious it could only be handled by a songwriter as deft and sensitive as Frank Ocean. Pyramids is his only song which spans centuries – Cleopatra at the pyramids of ancient Egypt juxtaposed with a Vegas pimp falling in love with a client. Long drives, fast years, endless streams. One of the through-lines that runs through Frank Ocean’s catalogue is the idea of time.
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