RCRD THRWBCK: Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (Dam-Funk Remix)
Welcome to the fifth RCRD THRWBCK, where each weekend a different editor will select a record from our virtual stacks that they deem worthy for reevaluation and/or reintroduction.
Confession that is now somewhat embarassing to admit: this barely-a-year-old remix was my first introduction to Dam-Funk. Can't be up on everything all the time, and if you're going to not know someone, it might as well be someone a band as continually weird-referencing as Animal Collective works with. Anyway. At first, I hated it, because it's not overdosing on Vitamin D/ring-around-the-rosy vibes like the original. It also has no dynamics. This, I eventually realized, was kind of the point–Dam is just trying to hold down one of the most weightless bands in existence. If Animal Collective is a hot air balloon (which they are, frequently), Dam-Funk and his drum machines are the ropes and stakes keeping it grounded. And there's power inherent to that restraint, even if it's not made obvious by skull-crushing kick drums and varying levels of intensity. Letting it all hang out like that would be distasteful. And Dam-Funk, if anything, is a beacon of taste.
Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (Dam-Funk Remix)
