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Thursday, October 29, 2009
New Releases / Video Dirtee E.S.P.
Posted by Dean Fawkes on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Speaking of Wiz! He's back with the new Dizzee Rascal video.
If the singles from Tongue 'N' Cheek have so far mined late '90s big beat ("Bonkers") and Ibiza-styled trance ("Holiday"), "Dirtee Cash" is full-on late '80s crossover acid house, which continues the album's deliberately low-brow through-line of mainstream British dance history and works as a sort of follow-up to the "Pussyole (Old Skool)" Wiley-bait that Dizzee put out a couple of years ago before his hit-or-miss abandonment of grime credibility.
Wiz hears the song, in any case, and conjures up a black-faced, beauty-contestanted, rugby shirted, mandolin enhanced, Margaret Thatchered, 'The Wicker Man' book-bonfire dance of death.
As you do.
It's a nice change of pace, both visually and musically. Not as sure-fire a trick as earlier ones. Until you realize it's only a vague update to the 1989 number-one "Dirty Cash" by The Adventures Of Stevie V.
"Road Rage," from the album, should've been the single anyway.
But it is! Or will be.
It's now the next song scheduled for release.
Pop telepathy! Bam!
Which reminds us. Remember when we wanted an extended all-aboard-the-trance-train version of "Holiday"? (We do.)
Bam!
And how, for the last year, we obsessed, again and again, about Little Boots properly unleashing "Earthquake"?
Bam!
We love it when E.S.P. demands come together.
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