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My name's Pete; I'm the 7 billionth voice on Earth. This is a collection of every song I've loved in 2010, in the order that I discovered (and obsessed over) them. That, and a few things that me and one or two friends find unbelievably hilarious. |
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Enter Shikari – The Jester
A few years ago I saw Enter Shikari at the Reading Festival, and caught an instrumental track that sounded like it should’ve been produced in an arcade. On drugs.
The crowd went mental, and when I got home, I had a hunt around for it. Not really being a Shikari fan usually though, I only listened to the first few seconds of a lot of tracks, and never found it amongst them. I gave up, and I put this on – in my searching, I’d noticed it sticking out from the others; it seemed to be more of a self-aware piss-take than most of their stuff. Since then, I’ve realised I was looking at Enter Shikari in a very narrow light, but the most important thing at the time was that halfway through listening to it, it dropped away and turned into the arcade madness.
Almost exactly two minutes in, everything changes. A bouncing creature of a beat starts careering about, and everything builds. See what I saw when I first heard this track: the sides of a huge great mosh pit parting, and moving further and further away from each other as the track climbs. Feel the tension, imagine being in the wall. And then, as it drops into the really glorious rave, imagine that mosh pit collapsing as those two walls of people charge at each other, and everything goes mad.
