Think what you wish about the current crop of muscular electro producers (the new Big Beat?) Bloody Beetroots know their way around a synthesizer, and they flex hard on their debut album,Romborama. BB are famous for their grinding and epic dance tracks, but they aren’t just some ignorant electro cronies. Their influences range far and wide, and on Rama, increasing the expected spectrum of sounds tenfold. ’80s house can particularly be heard on “Ffa1985, “HouseN84″ (big surprise), and “Mother”, but the Beetroots continuously transform these influences into something of their own creation, rather than just duplicating tracks of a respective genre. However, BB aren’t afraid to stray from their normal direction, and with the dark pop of the J-Davey collaborative “Make Me Blank”, the just plain weirdness of “Little Stars” (which sounds like it’s from a Super Mario video game), and the string-heavy “Second Streets Have No Name,” the guys do a pretty awesome job of destroying any perceptions of BB as unoriginal.

Bloody Beetroots are able to make a nearly perfect debut dance album: they make valiant efforts at creativity without becoming too dense or existential, and they always keep in mind that the goal is fun. And if dance music can be this artistic and still not lose its flair, BB seems to have quite a promising future.

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