Sometimes on our travels through the vast, engulfing world of internet music, we come across little gems of songs from artists we've heard nothing about, and are instantly enthralled. I love when that happens; it's a very dumbed-down version of crate digging, thumbing through LPs without more than the graphic on the cover and hearsay from friends to go by the quality of the music within. Shamefully, this is an experience that is becoming more and more extinct, transferred away from some music asshole's record shop and over to torrent lists and iTunes. Thankfully, that magic that we feel when we discover a song that turns you on to the artist's entire musical discography still occurs, and boy is it great when it happens.
I loved house music a lot when I was a kid. Daft Punk's Discovery was one of the first albums I ever downloaded on Napster, at the ripe young age of 10 no less, and it was a major catalyst for a huge jump into techno music and EDM in general. While it didn't have the major musical staying power hip-hop did on my tastes, I can definitely appreciate a groovy song like this.
Soul Clap is a fantastic DJ-duo from Boston that has a really awesome website consisting of some podcast mixes, mixtapes, and full releases available to stream. I spent an entire afternoon taking in some of the more interesting-sounding tracks on there, and if you like what you hear, it's definitely worth checking out.
"Sex in the Kitchen" manages to be all at once something you would hear at the club at 2:00 a.m., and something you could flip on at 2:00 p.m. while driving through a rainy afternoon before work. It's a tightrope few of the noisier dance conductors ever manage to balance on, and it's pretty much nonexistent on the dance-mix radio stations, but does it ever work here. The smooth R&B vocals fit perfectly in the second movement of the song without sounding intrusive, or even sampled for that matter. It's a great, mellow, full, chilled out banger, and Soul Clap is one of those artists worth having on your iPod, even if it's just for that kinda mood. Awwwwh yeahh.
Listen.