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Berlin duo Modeselektor's mishmash of electro, hip-hop and techno was a standout live performance at last year's Electric Picnic festival. Stressing offbeat rhythms rather than instantaneous dancefloor gratification, Boogy Bytes joins the dots between The Detroit Experiment's moody soundscapes, Spank Rock's goofy funk rock, the broken beats and pristine trance melodies of James Holden, Nathan Fake's pastoral take on electronica, and TTC's hilarious Euro-rap. Modeselektor's gleeful disregard for structure and unwillingness to stick to one sound is refreshing, though the mix occasionally loses its flow. But whenever this happens, they simply pull out a long-forgotten classic such as the evocative break beat of Mike Paradinas's U-ziq Theme and quickly regain control. Last year's outlandish YoYoYoYoYo album shoved the Baltimore-bred, Diplo-approved Spank Rock crew into the limelight, as their bass- heavy electro-bop won friends and influenced other new-school hip- hop travellers at every turn. While the Fabric series has tended to be a hothouse for various European micro and minimal scenes, the Spank Rock lick could never be classified as either little or sparse.

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Both Spank Rock and XXXchange grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, though they did not meet until many years later, after they had both made independent forays into the underground rap and neo-electro scenes. Spank Rock was introduced to the music business after forging a friendship with Shawn J. Period, a producer who had worked with Mos Def and Talib Kweli.

Seated inside a Brooklyn falafel joint in the midst of an extended stay in New York City, the Baltimore-bred, Philly-based MC better known as Spankrock is having a good laugh at the strange arc that has led him to be associated with Baltimore club music, the bass music variation suddenly on national blast after more than 15 years as a secret handshake of sorts for Maryland-area black kids. But as a scrawny prep school kid sheltered from the city's rough streets, he felt a bit out of place as he came to embrace an entirely different avenue of urban culture. But I was really trying to be a conscious rapper like Mos Def. I thought I'd be signed when I was 16 on some backpacker, underground shit. I honestly thought I was gonna be a part of Black Star