We'll probably look back on this as a golden age of British electronic music, like the first days of disco, as unprepossessing producer types coax thunderous hits out of vocalists no one's heard of and live shows are euphoric, with dozens of people on stage.
Clean Bandit, friends of Disclosure and Rudimental, couldn't be more 2014 four Cambridge graduates (two of whom met in a string quartet) operating out of a council-funded studio in Kilburn, they found some of these guest singers on a kind of music tech apprentice scheme. But if that all sounds a bit "austerity", they're marked out by their old-fashioned sense of 1980s pop entitlement as seen in those lavish, pan-global videos (drum kits under waterfalls; Lily Cole as a mermaid) and by their commitment to dead men's music. Mozart's House, which opens with a bit of String Quartet No 21, features words you've not heard since your Associated Board clarinet exam.
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by Kate Mossman via Electronic music | The Guardian
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