BODY LANGUAGE VOL. 8

A1 Siriusmo  Nights Off A2 Animal Collective  My Girls B1 Missy Elliot  Lick Shots (Instrumental) B2 Mark Pritchard & Om™mas Keith  Wind It Up B3 Major Lazer  Pon De Floor feat VYBZ Kartel C1 Moderat  A New Error C2 Peverelist  Clunk Click Every Trip D1 Felix Da Housecat  Kickdrum D2 Modeselektor  The Black Block (Marcel Dettman Redifinition) Modeselektor should require very little introduction. The Berlin-based duo of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary have destroyed so many dancefloors around the world that their reputation precedes them and, as producers too, their stature has grown and grown. They™ve released two critically-acclaimed albums - Hello Mom! and Happy Birthday! - and collaborated with the likes of Thom Yorke and Paul St Hilaire. Most recently they worked with Apparat on the much talked-about Moderat project: a collision of futuristic beat-styles, moody synth-textures and vocals, which has won them a whole load of new fans and seen them tour the globe with a truly mind-melting, chest-thumping audio-visual live show. Somehow or other, Modeselektor still find time to be among the best, most reliable party-smashing DJs on the planet. Their contribution to Get Physical™s Body Language mix series is a riotous, bass-heavy affair, one which takes in all kinds of interesting developments in cutting edge contemporary dance music. MDSLKTR draw a natural line from the fizzing aqua-crunk of Rustie™s ˜Zig-Zag™ to the R&B bump of Missy Elliott™s Timbaland-produced ˜Lick Shots™, from the skippy 90s techno of G-Man™s ˜Quo Vadis™ to the tough Berghain minimalism of Norman Nodge. Dubstep - a big influence on the Moderat project - plays a pivotal role in the mix: moody, synth-led masterpieces by Peverelist and Benga recall classic Detroit techno, while Untold™s devastating ˜Anaconda™ is sheer dancefloor energy. Scuba™s ˜Klinik™ isn™t so much dubstep as broken, reductionist house music. Throughout the mix, Gernot and Sebastian astound with their ability to bring apparently disparate tunes together into perfect synchrony: who else would have thought to marry the edgy 2-step of Horsepower Productions to the austere 4/4 pulse of vintage Robert Hood, and on into the crunching digital dancehall of Major Lazer? Sometimes the links that Modeselektor forge are less bizarre but no less effective: Joker & Rustie