A production duo who built a following on records that sound like they were made as a joke and then refuse to stop being good are a specific pleasure, and the garage-inflected end of house music is where that sense of humour survives best. Vocal samples used slightly wrong, basslines that arrive a beat late, arrangements that keep undercutting their own big moments. It should not work on a large floor and does. Avalon in early December is a good pairing for it: an old theatre with genuine grandeur hosting music that is entirely unimpressed with itself. Crowd will be mixed between people who know the records and people brought along, and the second group usually leaves more enthusiastic than the first. Late start, long set, and the last half hour is where the best decisions get made.
A production duo who built a following on records that sound like they were made as a joke and then refuse to stop being good are a specific pleasure, and the garage-inflected end of house music is where that sense of humour survives best. Vocal samples used slightly wrong, basslines that arrive a beat late, arrangements that keep undercutting their own big moments. It should not work on a large floor and does. Avalon in early December is a good pairing for it: an old theatre with genuine grandeur hosting music that is entirely unimpressed with itself. Crowd will be mixed between people who know the records and people brought along, and the second group usually leaves more enthusiastic than the first. Late start, long set, and the last half hour is where the best decisions get made.
A production duo who built a following on records that sound like they were made as a joke and then refuse to stop being good are a specific pleasure, and the garage-inflected end of house music is where that sense of humour survives best. Vocal samples used slightly wrong, basslines that arrive a beat late, arrangements that keep undercutting their own big moments. It should not work on a large floor and does. Avalon in early December is a good pairing for it: an old theatre with genuine grandeur hosting music that is entirely unimpressed with itself. Crowd will be mixed between people who know the records and people brought along, and the second group usually leaves more enthusiastic than the first. Late start, long set, and the last half hour is where the best decisions get made.