The Populists AKA Yan Wagner: Belgian Trip 12 Cheap

..What to say? This is a New Beat masterpiece, simply an instant classic! Yes there s that track you heard at Dekmantel festival last year.

Our take: More top-notch European electro from the Detriti label. Like most of the other stuff on Detriti, this has a heavy dance floor groove with the boom bap right in the foreground to get you moving. The Populists’ angle, though, is simple and minimal with 80s-sounding drum machines and synths, reminding me of being a kid in the mid-80s, rolling around in a circle at the skating rink while early hip hop like Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash pumped in the background. Like pretty much everything I’ve heard from Detriti, this is excellent.