Karoshi are Dan Burt and Sam Burt, they release their debut single Not Sitting on the 6th September. Karoshi will be hoping for good things from this release, following Radio 6 and Radio 2 air play and a top 10 in club chart.
This single and its many remixes is an over synthetic indulgence of manufactured beats and Jedward like vocals, singing us the most unimaginative and thoughtless lyrics. Known as twisted electro pop, the radio edit, plus original are far from great.
The Radio Edit, is a horror show of artificial colourings flavours and E numbers, over edited, over produced and ultimately awful. The track which sounds like Jedward performing a Keisha pop track, with all the sensitivity to production that a nuclear bomb has to human welfare.
Not really belonging as a pop track, or a dance track, the cheesy synths and horrendous drum beats lay down a musical mess, the lyrics and vocals are horrid, with the references to classic song titles completely unplaced and then the chorus starts. It really is time to throw up at this point, such is the over indulgence of sugar filled cheesy hooks. Even the rather good guitar riff at the end of the track does nothing for me as I am by that time completely turned off and too busy trying to get rid of the horrible taste left in my mouth.
The Club Mixes improve things, the electronic and over indulged production, now has a meaning as a dance track, rather than a pop track, with less focussing on the vocals and more focussing on improving the beats, the track begins to work a little better, but by no means is Not Sitting, ever going to be a dance floor classic in any of its guises.
The Cassette Jam remix tries to turn this track into a heavy electro-trance track, it succeeds, but it does not succeed well. Completely over worked and trashy, but then you cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear I guess.
If you are still listening by the PerQX remix, then things do improve a little, extremely commercial dance floor it may be, but it has at least turned this track into something listenable and the lack of vocals is a credit to the mix. Still far too synthetic and over produced, but at least Not Sitting now becomes a track which can be listened to and if played on a club dance floor, it would make you dance, with its big beats and tempo changes, with the dramatic violin plays prior to a demonic trance rhythm quite nice.
The Mr Fogg Remix is the best of a bad bunch really, in fact this is actually quite a good track, the production has concentrated on giving the track texture and there are signs of sensitive attempts to deepen the sound. With a distinct lack of vocals and a concentration on effected cries, which actually sound quite good. This remix does at least work as a club track.
Over produced, over indulged and lacking in every department, the remixes save the track a little, but at the same time, they prove even more so that for this track to be effective, it needs to be far removed from the pop style that the group attempt to produce with the original version and radio edit of this track.
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If you are still listening by the PerQX remix, then things do improve a little, extremely commercial dance floor it may be, but it has at least turned this track into something listenable and the lack of vocals is a credit to the mix. Still far too synthetic and over produced, but at least Not Sitting now becomes a track which can be listened to and if played on a club dance floor, it would make you dance, with its big beats and tempo changes, with the dramatic violin plays prior to a demonic trance rhythm quite nice.
