In being the first release past the post of where present meets future, it's an intriguing place to start looking at, in where the release both succeeds and fails, an example of what the future can best become.ДЇoremost, Noisia's production on this record feels like dance producers making tracks for rappers. If disco begot rap, and rap begot drum & bass and dubstep, then it's entirely possible for dance music-friendly bass music to give birth to this brand-new thing: rap at the edge of dance at the edge of riot. In an interview with Vibe, Foreign Beggars emcee Orifice Vulgatron referred to the collaboration as not 'progressive electronic bass music,' but rather 'futuristic electronic rapshit.' In a record owing more in execution to the collaboration between El-P and Killer Mike on Run the JewelsВ than anything typically expected to fill dancefloors at peak hour or bring a festival to its knees, I Am Legion represents EDM at present, and likely EDM far into the future. This fact may - above anything that Flosstradamus or Baauer may have done with trap music - show undeniable proof of the power of rap music and hip-hop culture in EDM-at-present. Released on Monday, September 2, I Am LegionВ (the long-awaited collaboration between UK rap duo Foreign Beggars and veteran Dutch electronic trio Noisia)В has immediately hit #1 overall on the Beatport chart.

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