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Whilst we're busy rifling though the drawers of vintage synth-pop we might as well grab an idea or two from that classic 80s children's show, Sesame Street. Because that's essentially the score with Mark Ronson's fizzy, perky and Juno-happy new single, 'Bang Bang Bang'.
Featuring the talents of Ronson’s old mucker, rapper Q-Tip, as well as vocals from MNDR, who moonlights as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ live keyboard player, the first single from Ronson's new album ‘Record Collection’ – the follow up to ‘Version’, which went triple platinum in the UK - is a playground funk triumph. Like Kelis' 'Milkshake' - only more carbonated.
The single is released through Columbia Records on July 11th 2010.
The song was built using a classic Eighties Duran Duran keyboard idea (‘Setting 32 on the Prophet V,’ says this self-confessed trainspotter and crate-digger) and a version of French nursery rhyme Alouette (MNDR’s idea). Add to this a writing contribution from Nick Hodgson of Kaiser Chiefs and ideas culled from Ronson’s experiences touring the festival circuit and the result hangs – bangs – together brilliantly.
‘When we played all those festivals in 2007, we’d end up in the dance tent. And I got so jealous when Justice or Soulwax or Pendulum would go into their double-time breaks, and all the kids would start jumping up and down. And we never had that tempo in our set. So I just wanted that in one of our songs’
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