DOWNLOAD: BEEP - Robopup + Robopup (Elephant & Castle Remix)
(Photo: Bryce Davesne)
One thing I've always loved about music is its genetic makeup, how styles that are seemingly unrelated actually share the same DNA. With San Franciso trio BEEP, for instance, the group plays imbalanced instrumental music as indebted to free jazz icon Sun Ra as asymmetrical indie band Deerhoof. The music shows how two different musical pipelines can actually deliver water to the same house. And then there's the Elephant & Castle remix of BEEP track "Robopup," which forgoes instruments entirely, filtering the song through purely electronic screens. But even that track shows how contemporary bass music has as much in common with free jazz, electric jazz, and indie rock as the original version of "Robopup." These kinds of connections are fun, and all the more so because you can hear them in both the original version and Elephant & Castle remix of "Robopup." BEEP have an album, City Of The Future, which is out now on Third Culture Records.
BEEP - Robopup (Elephant & Castle Remix)
