“What on Earth is Deconstructed Club?”

Notes on reading

https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/deconstructed-club-music-understanding-the-avant-garde-dance-sound

What on earth is deconstructed club?

“it might just be easier to simply think of it as “dance music that isn’t too bothered about what the house and techno and tech-house lot are up to.” In fact, it might just be easier to simply think of it as “dance music that isn’t too bothered about what the house and techno and tech-house lot are up to.””

“The word “deconstructed” might usually bring to mind stuffy, tweed-clad university professors, but in this context it’s a little more literal. This is club music which has taken an anything goes approach, haphazardly and happily creating a space where DJs and producers can pay homage to nu-metal as readily as they do reggaeton. That’s the deconstructed element, you see – reconfiguring dance music’s DNA while throwing the concept of generic rigidity into the bin.”

“Without the linear 4/4 thud of more traditional dance music, you’ve got to lead with your head as much as your feet”

“Head to parties like London’s Acid Fantasy,”

“ The sheer diversity of sonic objects weaving in and out of the mix (listen to the Bala Club show on NTS for a taste of just how gloriously all over the place these kind of parties can be) is what makes deconstructed club music so thrilling. At their best, deconstructed records constitute a kind of abrasive music custom built for anxious times, noisily subverting the long-standing notion that clubs should purely operate as spaces for the more mindless end of hedonism.”

Talk about how the abrasive deconstructed nature of the sound is more about using the dancefloor as an artistic space to convey the anxiety of existing in modern society, rather than an escape based around hedonism (as opposed to standard “club” music)

“Thirty years on from the acid house explosion and there’s a certain kind of clubber who finds themselves longing for that DIY ethos, hoping to be moved by something that’s not gone through seventeen stages of refinement. They want an immediacy, an urgency, a vitality. Deconstructed club music might just be the thing they’re after.”