aaamusic | On 23, Oct 2011

Full Time Hobby releases new single of Brighton-based duo Fujiya & Miyagi, between continuity and the search for the perfect sound.

Electro-pop or electro-wave, call it as you wish, Ecstatic Dancer is a compendium of a genre that draws its origins to the first experiments of Death in Vegas, and to the dark explorations of Andy Weatherall and Two Lone Swordsmen.

As Best explains, “Ecstatic Dancer was written and produced over the last six months. We decided to release it as a single rather than put it on the next LP as in many ways it feels like an extension of ‘Ventriloquizzing’ rather than the beginning of something else. It has an unashamedly glam beat because we like glam unashamedly. The title came from a drawing by Oskar Kokoschka. Lyrically it takes its cues from fifties songs which described dance moves, like the mash potato etc”

Heavily influenced by TLS’ manifesto Sexbeat, Ecstatic Dancer excels in its celebration of 50s’ dances and moves, but fails in terms of innovation, representing the same cliché of out-dated Kraut-influenced tunes.

Fujiya & Miyagi cockered us with the amazing Ventriloquizzing and I’m sure they’ll forgive our high expectations.

Ecstatic Dancer will be available to download from 24th October and also forms part of the digital reissue of Ventriloquizzing on 31st October.

 

Lorenzo Coretti