domingo, 25 de diciembre de 2011

HecklerPlay: And A Very Festive Dubstep Christmas To You

Alongside all the presents and sherry we receive at this time of year, it's also a time of year where we have to put up with a variety of seasonal music. Why we only get terrible holiday songs at Christmas is a mystery to us. Surely someone would have exploited the magic of Jesus rising from the dead at Easter.

There isn't a happy medium with Christmas music. Traditional carols are essentially reserved for Church goers, or children who knock on your door and expect some sort of payment as their angelic attempts at singing fail miserably. As for people like Slade and The Pogues? They're laughing all the way to the bank.

Younger children now associate X Factor with Christmas and for those left in limbo, there's really nothing there to inspire. Because all Christmas songs are essentially nothing but novelty records, someone has decided to at least merge the current popular sound of dubstep with a traditional seasonal image.

Visit a club that's blasting out dubstep and you'll be met with a strange sight. You'll see hoards of people who'll think they know everything about any topic. Grouping together in various corners of a room, these folk will send visual daggers flying across to those who don't know the latest trend of wearing braces as a belt or drinking lighter fuel mixed with pineapple juice [don't knock it 'til you've tried it, Ed].

If Benny Hill was alive, he'd have loved dubstep. Because he liked to run aimlessly and used slow motion techniques, he was essentially a pioneer of the genres unique dancing style. Watch anyone attempt to move around to a wobbly synth, you'll be confused as to whether they're suffering from sort of disease where all of their actions are thirty seconds behind the rest of us, or if a stroke is kicking in

An image of Christmas always whips up the same boring picture, such as Santa, snow covered fields and a tree that is decorated much better than yours. Once a tree is up and the pine needles haven't cut you open, attaching a set of twinkling lights can look a bit tedious and the best you can literally do to spruce your Christmas centre piece.

Realising this, the Cadger family have decided to spruce up their neighbourhood with a musical lightshow that reflects the various elements in a song. Using Skrillex – the dubstep equivalent of Nickleback -  here are the lights in full action. For those familiar with The Chemical Brothers video for Star Guitar, it's the same sort of idea, but on a amateur level:

Epileptic people attempting to get home on a night must hate running that gauntlet of seizure inducing traumas.

Just want Santa would have wanted.

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