Satirical dance bangers from a duo who set Mark Fisher to a 4/4 kick drum and made it work.
☢Mushroom CloudDance music that knows exactly what it's doing and pretends it doesn't.
The album was recorded in 2024 — the hottest year on record. A year of devastating floods in Valencia and wildfires reducing an area the size of Paris to ash. What should dance music sound like when the world is genuinely falling apart?
Hottest Day of the Year uses the grammar of EDM — euphoric builds, ecstatic drops, swaggering MC chat — to deliver something rather different. The conceptual framework sits so far beneath the surface that you could easily mistake it for a very good club record. That's the point.
Climate rave: an ironically dissociative format that mirrors the times while refusing to pretend it's fine.
They are not fine with how things are. The music is great for the gym.
DJ Climate & MC Change — Jim Brouwer (Nottingham) and Simon Raven (Newcastle) — are a UK DJ/MC duo making satirical dance music about the state of the world.
Their debut double-length LP Hottest Day of the Year (2024) smuggles post-Brexit despair, climate anxiety, and Capitalist Realism critique inside music designed to make a dancefloor go properly mental. Think Frank Zappa fronting a Fred Again set, aged 47, having read too much Mark Fisher.
The two have collaborated since at least 2014, when their video work Human Freak – Queue Here won the Nottingham Castle Open. Influenced equally by Detroit Techno's political imagination, the cultural criticism of Mark Fisher and Slavoj Žižek, and the comedy of watching Rick Beato explain why everything went wrong.
They describe their genre as “Intelligent Dance Marketing”.
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