好音乐岂能被“Shut Down”。Danny Howells的这张作品在每个精准的节拍点上都震颤跃动，透着灵动的朝气和深邃的质感，层层剥开的华美音景令人沉醉。这是典型的Howells式手法，傲然凌驾于流派藩篱之上，在理性至上的声学架构中保持百分百的舞池杀伤力。 “Shut Down”在House Heaven与Danny式迪斯科之间架起一道失衡而无双的桥梁。扭曲的打击乐循环与魅惑人声采样相互撕扯，催眠效果的放克吉他连复段和华丽和弦如狡黠神偷般闪转腾挪，在模拟福音与数字未来主义的张力中迸发惊心动魄的美感。 You can’t keep a good man down. Or should that be, you can’t keep a God man shut down? Er, no it shouldn’t actually – we don’t need to resort to painful punnery or woeful wordplay here (much as it can provide an entertaining diversion). This is DANNY HOWELLS we be talking about – you know it’s gonna be beyond essential, you just want us to tell you how far beyond, and why. GodSexy (the best unused track title in Prince’s sadly now dormant Future Titles notebook) throbs and bounces in all the right places. Positively sprightly whilst also oozing depth, it unveils itself layer after beautiful layer. In true Howells style, it sits alone and imperious in a world above and beyond mere genres, sonically cerebral yet simultaneously 100% dancefloor ready. Urgently uplifting, inspirationally intense. Shut Down is House Heaven meets Danny Does Disco in characteristically off-kilter (and peerless) fashion. Driven by a twisted percussive loop and a seductive vocal sample, aided and abetted by hypnotically funky guitar licks and lush chords that duck and dive like the (original) Artful Dodger, it’s all about the tension between analogue evangelism and digital futurism. Yowsah. Team Selador – we’ll be here in sunshine or in shadow, oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, we love you so!