Midfield General @ Ctrl Alt Dft, 10 Oct

The unclassifiable Midfield General visit Dundee's Reading Rooms

Article by Rosie Davies | 24 Sep 2009

Midfield General are hard to pin down. Their first album, Generalisation, was a mixture of soul, hip-hop, techno and a genre which the act's alter-ego Damian Harris claims to have created himself, namely "nu-skool breaks". Its high point was Midfielding, which had Noel Fielding (waaay before the Mighty Boosh phenomenon hit) providing one of the strangest, most hilarious monologues he's done, over the top of a laidback hip-hop beat. It pretty much sums up the ethos of the act, whose varied output echoes Harris's tongue-in-cheek persona; the next big track, Disco Sirens, was an electro-pop/hip-hop tune (yeah, try and imagine that) in which rapping, coming courtesy of Vila from Bumblebeez, battles with rave-style sirens and a funk bassline.

It's a mature booking for locally-revered Dundee night Ctrl Alt Dft, and one which will surely be rewarded by a diverse, interesting set from one of electronic music's quirkiest background men.