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MICHAEL DADDINO VARIOUS web site ARTISTS Suck My Deck: Mixed by Ivan Smagghe (Bugged Out, U.K.) If electroclash at its worst looks and sounds like an unnecessary web site sacrifice of dance music's best qualities for the sake of rock and roll glamour, then Black Strobe's Ivan Smagghe web site is a bit like a Trojan Horse wheeled inside of rock's city walls. From its naughty title to its cover shot of Ivan the Rock God, Smagghe's latest mix-disc (his third in little over a year) bears all the outward hallmarks of belonging to the current trend of eclectic, songcentric, and rock-friendly DJ mixes: see Playgroup, Ladytron, Erland Oye, etc. Instead, Suck My Deck is Smagghe's most monomaniacally minimal and "tracky" release yet, determinedly charting a narrow course between rigid electro and seething acid house, and avoiding anything quite so garish as vocals almost entirely. This feels like a line in the sand at times: Anyone who doesn't enjoy subjecting their body to the groove is unlikely to respond to this.
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