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FESTIVAL SPECIAL: Stag & Dagger, London

The inaugural Stag and Dagger festival ran over the last weekend through London's eastern clublands. DrownedinSound presents a three-way of a post featuring some of the acts that helped it stride to success.

Munch Munch’s ‘Wedding’ bounds like a dab-maddened three-legged pony through fields of (in)famous pop, ruining songs by Phil Collins and …Trail of Dead in a brilliant mash. The Bristol quartet manage to sound more epic than they really should in their four-minute squabble, but not in a bad way. They aren’t Embrace, but what they lack in face-raking dreariness they more than make up for in dippy ebullience; students of pop’s chemistry flicking snotballs at sir.

Download: Munch Munch - 'Wedding'

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DiScover: Munch Munch

In which A-Trak strip ‘Beeper’ for parts before standing back and laughing uproariously as it teeters about, unhinged and disorientated without its rumbling London bass.

Download: Count and Sinden - 'Beeper' (A-Trak remix)

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Ed Banger re-imagine Bumblebeez ‘Pump Up the Bass’ as a leering, lumbering beast. Drone-y and sedate, this has the turning circle of a tank but when the punches come, they pack. A reversed wash turns the bruising psychedelic.

Download: Bumblebeez - 'Pump up the Bass'

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- Kev Kharas

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