Out now: Exildiscount – Next Big Thing
Don’t let the title “Next Big Thing” fool you: the follow-up to Berlin-born artist and DJ Exildiscount’s 2019 debut “Gift” on Reveller Records makes no claim to deliver the hottest shit right now. Instead, their EP serves as a comment on fragile masculinity packaged in infinitely danceable beats.
Ranging in tempo from 100 to 130 BPM, the EP offers a stylistically diverse approach united by tongue-in-cheek subversiveness. The opening track “IdNTT” is a Dark Disco/New Beat anthem built around a “mantra of denial” voice loop. In “Going to Bed Hungry,” house beats and an EBM-inspired bass line suggest danceability, while a sampled monologue cries out against ideological brainwashing. The third and last track of the EP culminates in euphoria born out of driving beats and organ melodies, ranging from harmony to madness. It is nothing less than a battle call: "Down with the Dickness!”
Digital release: June 11th, 2021