This was another track which nearly missed out on a place here. It was only after listening to it, loud, on headphones that I gave it the nod for inclusion. To be fair, the opening 90 seconds of Dark Side of the Moon are not especially promising given that it starts out as sludgecore, then transitions to a fairly by-the-numbers industrial trance beat suggesting some gloomy dystopia. But then at 1:28, in comes a synth line of such infectious danceability that the doubts are blown aside. If Love Inc. - one of a number of aliases for Wolfgang Voight - intended to use the opening to create a mood of dystopian dread, it’s to be welcomed that he had a sense of humour to use as the track’s principal hook something which sounds like a Breakdancing flash mob gatecrashing a fascist rally. The light and colour of that synth line does battle throughout the track with more ominous sonic opponents, and by the end, like a real life flash mob, it disperses into the shadows again, leaving the status quo disrupted but in those piercing shards of sound, trying to reassert itself again.
Play it loud and dance free.
Video courtesy of yoshiochamaable
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