Discombobulate vs. Dead Mouse The Leet Prognosticator – ‘Visit Settle’

Discombobulate vs. Dead Mouse The Leet Prognosticator – ‘Visit Settle’

 

If UK dance music is about to become pop again, then this match made in heaven will surely lead the charge. Discombobulate’s rapid success in becoming one of the most talked-about dance acts in the country, and Dead Mouse The Leet Prognosticator’s ascent to the giddy heights of rave superstardom seem to have happened overnight. Both have ushered in a seismic shift in UK sugary-rushy-synthy-ravey-pop, without ever entering a club.

 

Frederick Discombobulate explains, ‘’Me and my bruv, Brandon were both working in McDonalds when a toddler accidently left their Speak and Spell Machine on the counter. We took the machine out on our fag break and started banging some sick shit out. One thing led to another and before we knew it we were dropping next level skills on a Teddy Touch and Tell machine, a Sinclair ZX-80, a Commodore 64 and an iRod’’.

 

When asked about their inspiration the duo are quite forthcoming, ‘’ We ain’t never been inside a club, bro. Can’t stand all those sweaty bastards jumping up and down looking like they’ve been electrocuted with Tasers, off their chops on yellow bentines, we’d rather stay at home and listen to Old School, like DJ Luck and MC Neat, and Craig David,  whilst playing Minecraft’’.  Brandon continues, ‘’As far as we’re concerned clubs are a waste of time. We ain’t party boys like Skrillo Pad and One Direction. I ain’t never heard of any of them names journalists always ask me about. Hacienda? That’s a type of burger innit? Zed Bias, a character from the Hobbit? Larry Levan, an actor in ‘enders, Ibiza, a type of motor, and Shoom, somewhere yer Granddad went  to pick up a bird and dance the samba, like wot they do on Strictly, innit?’

 

Dead Mouse the Leet Prognosticator’s identity has long been kept a secret from his fans. His oversized 1980’s Mouse head-shell cartridge mask shielding his face from prying eyes and dreadful theorising. Some assumed him to be the iconic rapper, Puffy Fetlock, others the Hungarian mime artist, Vinegar Bones; many believed him to be Roger Protz, the Trotskyite who escaped the ice pick to become one of the early founders of CAMRA, though most believed him to be Lips from Anvil attempting to forge (intended) a new musical direction without the cries of, ‘Play Long Stick Goes Boom, ya bastard!’ every night. 

 

Whoever Dead Mouse the Leet Prognosticator is however, it shouldn’t detract from the fact that along with Discombobulate, they have collaborated to produce a sophisticated piece of sugary-rushy-synthy-ravey-pop which will demolish hundreds of youth club discos all over the midlands. They borrow from all over the shop like a genre hungry moth trapped in a Light-emitting diode factory – their synths from drag, the snap of the snare from trap, the vocals from neo-shed, the beats from wriggle and the xylophones from plink.

 

Visit Settle starts with a woozy garridge beat, think Wookie on Quaaludes, before the sampled  pirate radio DJ voiceover  emotes, ‘Yo Visit Settle, Yo Yo Visit Settle, no finer place to put on the kettle….and have a brew’. . A mish-mash of dancey beats then come in and the biggest breakdown this side of Fry. It has elements of Discombobulate’s last album ‘Disambiguation’ alongside scatterings of Dead Mouse the Leet Prognosticator’s last 12”, ‘Airs and Graces in the Social Arena.’  It is a modern day trailblazing tune and catchy as hell.

 

But why the homage to the busy Yorkshire Dales market town of Settle? Is it a hot bed of sugary-rushy-synthy-ravey-pop fans out ‘til 11pm dancing inside melting pots of rampant abound?  Have the hardcore faces on the scene flocked there and put down their neo-roots? Brandon Discombobulate sets the record straight, ‘We often visit Settle with Dead Mouse the Leet Prognosticator. The Yorkshire Dales Falconry and Conservation Centre is next level shizzle. Malham Cove and Gordale  are sick, and Settle Play Barn is great for wet afternoons in the town.’

 

If UK dance music is about to become pop again, don’t miss this phenomenal cultural effect on dance music.

 

Visit Settle is out now