Kaskade Vs. Deadmau5 - Move For Me

Reviewed by Helen Stephenson

I am a great believer that the UK and those across the Atlantic (in this case America and Canada) are on equal footing musically. In fact, it frustrates me when people claim that one or the other country is currently musically superior to the other. I would like to think that at least some Americans and Canadians would agree with me that both music scenes are as valid as the other, and both are willing to accept the other’s music. Unfortunately, Kaskade and Deadmau5’s management did not agree until recently.

‘Move For Me’ was released across the pond in 2008. Whilst there is sometimes a lag of a couple of months between tracks being released on one side of the Atlantic compared to the other, a year and half delay is out of the ordinary and a little puzzling. Do the people pulling the strings behind Kaskade and Deadmau5 really believe that the UK is a year and a half behind the music trends of their own countries? Or were they waiting for Deadmau5 to hit the peak of his popularity here, and if so how do they know that the time is now? Perhaps his sold out show at the Newcastle O2 Academy last month was the giveaway, but I’d like to think that dance music DJs have a better habit of enduring after their mass popularity and continuing to perform to sold out venues long after their first chart successes, unlike pop artists. See Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy as examples (an all British sample I admit, but we’re all equal, right?). So why the gap? Answers on a postcard, please.

‘Move For Me’ is a beautiful little song, catchy and no doubt already performing well on the UK dance scene. My only complaint is a lack of forward movement within the song. Neither the music nor the lyrics have enough of interest to grab your attention; unfortunately it features nothing out of the ordinary from a number of dance hits I have heard recently. Nevertheless I found myself singing along to the hook in no time at all. Overall it is a pleasant enough track; it just doesn’t have enough individuality to make it stand out as a classic, enduring tune.

3/5