Go March – Chop Chop (Yokozuna Records/N.E.W.S)
Go March - Chop Chop
Release Date: Out Now
I’m pretty sure there’s some
strong science at play behind this track from Belgian collective Go March but
I’m not gonna delve too deeply in to that. All I know is that I’ve listened to
this track around 25 times now and each time I listen to it I have the most
productive nine minutes of my day – it’s like speed without the comedown. ‘Chop
Chop’ is entirely instrumental and fuses the intensity of compatriots Goose,
the style of Hot Chip and the energy of Django Django to create one of the most
fiercely infectious tracks of the year. Using layers and layers of guitar notes
– from harmonics to chords – laid over a dirty synthesized bass line and
driving, rock’n’roll drums with the precision of a club smasher, Go March have
found the formula to create audible energy. This is twitchy, nervous,
distracted and on edge but, for me anyway, that seems to focus my mind purely
on the task at hand so it’s going to have to go on some kind of playlist. I
can’t imagine running (largely because I don’t go running) to this but I reckon
you’d smash your PB if you had this strapped in to your lug-holes on a loop.
Crazy good.