Bangarang

This article deals with the EP. For the song of the same name, see Bangarang (song) .

Bangarang
EP from Skrillex
Publication (s)	December 23, 2011
admission	2011
Label (s)	Big Beat Records , Atlantic Records
Format (s)	Download, CD
Genre (s)	Dubstep , house , brostep
Title (number)	7 (on iTunes 8)
running time	30:08 minutes
production	12th Planet , Wolfgang Gartner , Kill the Noise , Skrillex, Varien
chronology Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites Bangarang -
Single release February 16, 2012 Bangarang

Bangarang is an EP from dubstep , brostep and house producer Skrillex . It was published on Beatport on December 23, 2011 and four days later in other places on the Internet. On January 24th, 2012 the album was released on CD . The Doors , Sirah , Wolfgang Gartner , 12th Planet , Kill the Noise and Ellie Goulding play a role in the album. The style of the album goes in the direction of dubstep, house and progressive house with influences from trance , rap rock , ska , experimental rock and drum and bass . It contains many technical breakdowns and vocal samples.

The album is his most commercially successful to date, reaching the charts in Australia , Canada , New Zealand , Norway , Switzerland , the UK and the US . The first single from the album was Bangarang . It was released on February 16, 2012. Other releases from the EP were Breakn 'a Sweat (feat. The Doors) and Kyoto .

composition

The first track from the album, Right In , is characterized by dubstep and house . He was described like this:

"One long adrenaline rush of stabbing keyboard chords, sawed-off vocal samples and Skrillex's trademark: squirming, squalling synth lines"

"A long adrenaline rush of striking keyboard chords, sawed-off vocal samples and Skrillex trademarks: writhing, screaming synth melodies"

- Alternative press

The title has been compared to First of the Year (Equinox) from his previous album More Monsters and Sprites .

The second title, Bangarang , has been compared to Right in and has also received positive reviews. An example:

“The laser-blasting inanity of the title track, which ends with someone bragging, 'I'm eating Fun Dip right now / Not givin' a fuck. ' Not a bad credo for music that makes a disco sugar high feel downright pornographic. "

- Jon Dolan : Rolling Stone

Breakn 'a Sweat features musical and vocal contributions from the rock band The Doors and was composed for the documentary Re: Generation .

It has been described like this:

"Proggy guitar hooks, psychedelic organ chords, and Jim Morrison samples with a snarling, Prodigy-esque vocal and a filthy slab of dub bass"

- Jon O'Brien ( Allmusic )

The Devil's Den together with Wolfgang Gartner was described as " Daft Punk -go- Dirty Vegas ".

Right on Time was described as follows:

“A percussive, hard house collaboration with 12th Planet and Kill the Noise which eventually builds into a feverish slice of happy hardcore”

- Jon O'Brien : Allmusic

and is very different from the rest of the album.

Kyoto was commented like this:

"[Kyoto is a] rap - metal fusion"

- Jon O'Brien : Allmusic

It is the second track from the EP together with Sirah and has been compared to the musical style of Linkin Park and Travis Barker .

Summit , the final track on the EP, was co-produced with Ellie Goulding . It's a slow electro song that has trance influences. Goulding's voice has been described as "ethereal" and "delicate" (ethereal and delicate).

The iTunes edition also contains the Orchestral Suite , produced by Varien.

Overall rating

Average rating
source	rating
Metacritic	64/100
reviews
source	rating
Allmusic
Alternative press
Robert Christgau	A−
Los Angeles Times
Rolling Stone
Spin
Sputnik Music
Toronto Star
The Washington Post	Positive

The album received various reviews. The average, calculated by Metacritic , was 60 out of a possible 100 points.

“Skrillex is a magician. His trick is turning the elusively thwumping UK dance music called dubstep into high-fiving dance-floor heavy metal. "

- Jon Dolan : Rolling Stone

“Bangarang is far smarter than Skrillex's reputation for doling out cheap, bludgeoning bass-bin thrills would let on, anyway. Its seven tracks display a remarkable gift for bending innumerable breeds of club music to his will, grinding cantankerous hip-hop braggadocio, thwacking hard-house grooves, trance tingles and Blake Baxter-esque Detroit-techno stomp into a short-attention-spanned blur of bone-rattling meanness that's undeniably thrilling, even if Moore has yet to elevate the results to a cohesive sum greater than its many parts. "

- Ben Rayner : Toronto Star

"Like cans of Monster Energy Drink, this collection is spracked out and ridiculous and fun and sometimes disposable, just one more shard of debris left in this kid's wake, and his generation's."

- spin

“The go-for-the-throat tracks on Bangarang don't tell us much about Skrillex's long-term prospects. But they certainly demonstrate that for the moment, he's going to have to be dealt with — by friends and foes alike. "

- Alternative press

Track list

1. Right In - 3:00
2. Bangarang (feat.Sirah) - 3:35
3. Breakn 'a Sweat (with The Doors ) - 5:02
4. The Devil's Den (with Wolfgang Gartner ) - 4:52
5. Right on Time (with 12th Planet and Kill the Noise ) - 4:05
6. Kyoto (feat.Sirah) - 3:21
7. Summit (feat. Ellie Goulding ) - 6:13

iTunes bonus track

1. Skrillex Orchestral Suite (by Varien) - 6:55

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking
Switzerland	47
United Kingdom	31
United States	63

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Benjamin Boles: Skrillex - Bangerang EP | NOW Magazine. Nowtoronto.com, January 19, 2012, accessed April 26, 2012 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Jon O'Brien: Bangarang - Skrillex. AllMusic, January 24, 2012, accessed April 26, 2012 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Star-Ledger Entertainment Desk: CD reviews: Skrillex; Rev. Stef and Jubilation; Natasha Paremsky. NJ.com, January 30, 2012, accessed April 26, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Music Review: Skrillex -'Bangarang Ep '. (No longer available online.) Buzzinemusic.com, January 30, 2012, archived from the original on February 5, 2012 ; Retrieved April 26, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ John Lucas: Skrillex gleefully mashes up genres on seven-song Bangarang EP | Vancouver, Canada. Straight.com, January 6, 2012, accessed April 26, 2012 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Alternative Press | Reviews | Skrillex - Bangarang EP. Altpress.com, March 13, 2012, accessed April 26, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Skrillex - Bangarang (staff review). Sputnikmusic, December 23, 2011, accessed April 26, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Jon Dolan: Bangarang | Album Reviews. Rolling Stone, January 12, 2012, accessed April 26, 2012 . 
9. ^ The Stylus. (No longer available online.) The Stylus, March 13, 2012, archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; Retrieved April 26, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ^ Evan Rytlewski: Skrillex: Bangarang | Music | Music Review. The AV Club, January 24, 2012, accessed April 26, 2012 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b} Critic Reviews for Bangarang [EP] at Metacritic. Metacritic.com, accessed January 30, 2012 . 
12. ^ Robert Christgau: Skrillex / Clams Casino. (No longer available online.) MSN Music. Microsoft , February 14, 2012; archived from the original on September 14, 2013 ; Retrieved April 26, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ August Brown: Album Review: Skrillex's 'Bangarang'. Latimesblogs.latimes.com, January 24, 2012, accessed April 26, 2012 . 
14. ↑ ^{a b} Jon Dolan: Bangarang | Album Reviews. In: Rolling Stone. January 12, 2012, accessed April 26, 2012 . 
15. ^ ^{A b} Garrett Kamps: Skrillex, 'Bangarang' (OWSLA / Big Beat / Atlantic). SPIN.com, December 23, 2011, accessed January 30, 2012 . 
16. ↑ Skrillex - Bangarang (staff review). Sputnikmusic, December 23, 2011, accessed April 26, 2012 . 
17. ↑ ^{a b} Album reviews: Kathleen Edwards' shimmering sadness… (No longer available online.) Toronto.com, archived from the original on February 12, 2012 ; Retrieved January 30, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ Chris Richards: Critic review: Skrillex's 'Bangarang' lives in the glorious moment. In: The Washington Post. February 28, 2012, Retrieved April 26, 2012 . 
19. ↑ Bangarang by Skrillex. Itunes.apple.com, December 27, 2011, accessed April 26, 2012 .