The Pop Corporation

The 90’s penchant for a shuffly breakbeat is back amongst the hip performers. Rochelle Jordan and Kelela have been all over it, and now it’s the turn of Vagabon and their new single ‘Do Your Worst’.

Vagabon’s Laetitia Tamko says: “I was nestled in the German countryside when Teo Halm, who co-produced this with me, and I were experimenting in my home studio late into the night, I was listening to a lot of club music and I set out to make an instrumental that drew from the music you’d hear at an underground club in Germany or the UK yet still lived in the Vagabon musical lexicon.”

“A year later, when I returned to the U.S, I got Rostam involved and he had a great idea of adding a layer of live drums on top of the breakbeat from my Germany session.”

That’s not the greatest anecdote in the world, but it does give you a taste before you press play. Give it a whirl, it’s cool.