{"id":13322,"date":"2016-12-09T13:57:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T13:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=13322"},"modified":"2016-12-09T13:57:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T13:57:18","slug":"pc-music-at-heaven-hyperactive-pop-highs-and-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/pc-music-at-heaven-hyperactive-pop-highs-and-lows\/","title":{"rendered":"PC Music at Heaven: hyperactive pop high’s and lows"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a time where pop music is recycled, dull and mediocre, PC music might be the eruption of colour we need in a black and white industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reporter: Andrew Whiteford | Sub-Editor: Hannah Grafton<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"GFOTY.

GFOTY. Photograph: Andrew Whiteford.<\/p><\/div>\n

PC Music first presented its ridiculously sugary and relentlessly weird sonic movement to the world three years ago and was received with a mixture of enthusiasm, loathing and uncertainty. The question was asked whether was it\u00a0a deliberately crap parody of today\u2019s music or overly digitised music taken to invigorating new boundaries?<\/p>\n

Despite never properly breaking through to the charting mainstream, Carly Rae Jepsen and Charli XCX have now collaborated with artists under the PC music brand \u2013 allowing for the cult-like fan base to continuously keep evolving.<\/p>\n

Their niche is tinny synth infused pop music, which sporadically grows into a overactive version of Ibiza house, often overlapped with distorted helium vocal offerings. Unavoidably, imaginably, the label showcase hit the highest of highs and the weirdest of weirdest lows. Alongside the good-humoured babble of pop heavyweight headliner Danny L Harle being accompanied by extras danced as angles in surgical masks and GFOTY closing her thirty minute set with a call to \u201ceat Pizza Express and drink Frappuccino\u2019s\u201d, there were moments of confusion and moments of genius.<\/p>\n

Spinee delivered\u00a0with a ferocious girl-power DJ set full of her well-known, fast paced remixes of Alan Walker \u2013 Faded and Evanescence \u2013 Bring Me To Life.\u00a0 Felicita took the crowd back to 1980\u2019s club kid Britain with his settling, Alice Glass and Ethan inspired production. Most surprisingly, label boss A G Cook played a low key set where it almost seemed like an interval due to a blackout of the stage and lack of dance bangers.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, GFOTY (Girlfriend Of The Year, daughter of Jeff Salmon) entered the stage in trademark form: hyper sexualised, ironic and constantly in character as a superficial, mentally unstable ex-girlfriend. Drinking Mo\u00ebt from a Starbucks tumbler she whipped through her discography from classic tracks \u2018Poison\u2019 featuring tense, pop-rock drums to the buzzing, glitchy \u2018Mr E.\u2019. It was refreshing to hear live instrumentation for the first time in the evening, as she had a guitarist (which she later mid-song decided to make out with, on stage).<\/p>\n

\"Hannah

Hannah Diamond. Photograph: Andrew Whiteford.<\/p><\/div>\n

Breakout star Hannah Diamond presented glossy glamour amongst her chaotic label mates. A highlight of the set was her 2016 single \u2018Hi\u2019, which was catchy and had the hipster-filled audience dancing like infatuated crazy teens. Onto the next track, \u2018Fade Away\u2019, Diamond\u2019s latest single, turned iconic London venue Heaven into Bergheim for three minutes but in an energetic German helium-techno kind of sense. Short-lived, Diamond returned to her famous child vocals for singles Keri Baby and Attachment, which the glittery crowd erupted to with the help of confetti exploding from the ceiling. Somehow, Diamond was able to turn four tracks into a thirty-minute set.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only natural at a label showcase that you are bound to gravitate towards certain artists and not enjoy others. Sometimes overwhelming, sometimes it just sounds like noise \u2013 but it\u2019s got to hear a point where an amalgamation of noise is more enjoyable to listen to than the same old 808\u2019s and two-bar Ableton loops on the airways. Sugary, addictive and stylish. It\u2019s advised to listen to PC music at your own risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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