MODESELEKTOR - BODY LANGUAGE VOL. 8

Get Physical’s 8th Body Language compilation comes courtesy of Berlin’s eclectic electro-dub pioneers and two of the most in demand human beings in electronic music Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary aka Modeselektor.
Modeselektor have a history of releasing cheeky cut and paste mixtapes, and earlier this year they teamed up with Bpitch control’s atmospheric badman Apparat to release the critically acclaimed production masterclass Moderat. The experience is hugely prevalent on this latest project, the blazing energy and quick-fire selection of their mixes is merged with the mature, assured musicality of moderat and the result is an incendiary mix which delivers both the party provisions and a lesson in freshness, reanimating lost classics and fusing them with some of the most exciting and cutting edge music on the planet at this exact moment in time.
From the opening salvoes of Rustie’s raging arpeggiator on Zig Zag the pace is quickly dropped to the half step rhythm of Missy Elliot’s Lick Shots from here the mix twists and turns through the euphoric breaks of Boy 8 Bit’s Cricket Scores, the deuche hypno-funk triple header of Alex Cortex, G Man and Norman Nodge , the pensive bass assault of Benga’s Emotions, and Untold’s anthem-in-the-making Anaconda leading into a 45 second taste of Starkey aka Move’s All Skate which beautifully sets up the immense drop of Busta’s seminal Gimmie Some More. And that’s only the first 20 minutes.
The pressure keeps coming as the mix turns darker, touching on the Bristolian tech-dub of Joker and Rustie, Mark Pritchard and Om Mas Keith’s batty winding Wind It Up providing another nod to past masters with Robert Hood’s Unix before fast forwarding nearly twenty years to Major Lazer’s club annihilator Pon De Floor. Towards the close the boys use a couple of their own productions combined with two of Siriusmo’s dutty synth perversions to twist the mix through sugar coated synthery and more dubstep tumpings with a little help from Animal Collective, Scuba and Si Begg to break things up.
Body Language 8 is a fairly accurate representation of what a nightclub sounds like in late 2009, as well as a consumate lesson in the correct creative use of Ableton Live, and if there’s a whiff of disposability on this mix, for the love of God, don’t let it stop you from putting this on and bopping round your kitchen like a shaved and lightly medicated chimpanzee. Modeselektor’s studio output certainly has more longevity but their mixes are a hell of a lot of fun.

Words by Chris Lawes.

*Modeselektor perform live at Fabric for the Body Language Vol. 8 launch this Thursday at Fabric along with Joker and Patchwork Pirates. Grab any remaining tickets HERE.