I haven’t talked much about dance music on hip2besquare in awhile. It’s pretty clear that I have a craving for this type of music in my blood otherwise bands like Hot Chip wouldn’t be on my radar. But the dance / electro scene isn’t exactly my style. If I walked into, lets say, the Heartthrob night at Middlesex Lounge on a regular basis I’d become very well known, real quick. And not for my flashy outfit. Heck, those are a dime a dozen at that show. Nope, I’d be the nerdy looking dude that wears loafers to the party.

Simian Mobile Disco is about as top of your game as you’re going to get with dance music in today’s over populated dance music genre. Hailing from the island of Great Britain, these guys are every where. This little track includes the out spoken songtress, Beth Ditto, who is the front singer for the British group, Gossip.

Starting out innocently enough with a piano line, it immediately reverts to 80′s synth juice within a matter of seconds. Enter Beth. Her power stop singing reminds me of singers like Tina Turner. You know that by looking at her face she’s feeling the intensity of the song but knows how to restrain herself vocally where appropriate. In the chorus as she belts, “Finally…” it’s hard to resist calling out “…It has happened to me”.

Listen:

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Besides the slowed down action that Heartbreak puts on this tune, there’s not much difference between this mix and the original, but I feel this speed is very fitting for the music and Beth’s vocals to boot.