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AlunaGeorge - Attracting Flies
Electronic duo AlunaGeorge (no space intentional) first came on to the scene last year with the single 'Your Drums, Your Love' released in September to a modest chart ranking of number fifty. They followed up with the much more notable single 'White Noise', a collaboration with Disclosure as a featured artist (according to wikipedia) which reached a lofty no.2 in the UK singles chart.
Their new single Attracting Flies is this week's song of the week. I caught this song while watching Later with Jools Holland last week, which has always been a great source of new music for me. (more on that in my next post)
On first hearing this song on TV the other night, I couldn't help but think that it would be very easy to make your own song (at least in theory). All you really need is a catchy little electronic beat like the one at the beginning of this song and featured throughout. You could probably cook up one of these playing around with an little online synthesiser or an app on your phone. And from there you can mix in some vocals and backing music and voila! Of course it undoubtedly is probably much harder than that but I still think that in principle it does come down to this initial little electro beat, especially for this song. For me it was enough for me to want to carry on listening when I could have quite easily changed channel and watched something else. It provides the hook to entice the listener in.
A début album Body Music is set for release in the summer on the 8th July.
Their new single Attracting Flies is this week's song of the week. I caught this song while watching Later with Jools Holland last week, which has always been a great source of new music for me. (more on that in my next post)
On first hearing this song on TV the other night, I couldn't help but think that it would be very easy to make your own song (at least in theory). All you really need is a catchy little electronic beat like the one at the beginning of this song and featured throughout. You could probably cook up one of these playing around with an little online synthesiser or an app on your phone. And from there you can mix in some vocals and backing music and voila! Of course it undoubtedly is probably much harder than that but I still think that in principle it does come down to this initial little electro beat, especially for this song. For me it was enough for me to want to carry on listening when I could have quite easily changed channel and watched something else. It provides the hook to entice the listener in.
A début album Body Music is set for release in the summer on the 8th July.
[Sources - Wikipedia, Youtube]
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