Electronic Music for Ballet - Shut up and Dance!

An utterly unique collaboration bringing together the finest in high art and quality music, Shut Up and Dance is five epic tracks of orchestrally-influenced, beat driven experimentation. Designed to be accompanied by ballet dancers from the Berlin Staatsballet, it's an ambitious and challenging peice of work, held together by the quality of the producers involved. Luciano's Drunken Ballet proves that he can weave his Italo-melodic flair over any project, be it the bare-bones DJ tools of No Model, No Tool, or this epic piece of formalism. Sleeparchive and Ame are equally successful, with the latter hitting the kind of big-room prog grooves it's okay to like and Sleeparchive turning in another piece of icy minimalism that leaves you desperately wishing you were as cool as him. Luke Slater (as The 7th Plain) provides the epilogue, an oneiric thirteen minutes of lush ambience that riffs off leitmotifs and anamolies in the intense swathes of keys. Devoid of beats and focused on drifting sine waves, it's a fittingly pretentious conclusion. Raise that leg, point-deux, and get down. [Liam Arnold]