Electric City Underground, AKA Paul Charron, Kirk Comstock and Jordi Comstock, AKA Air Traffic Control After Dark, have released a new video for “The Beat” from their ninth EP (the appropriately titled 9). Well into the territory of dance music, the song is a celebration unto itself and a self-actualized argument for escapism that needs no justification beyond its own existence, but the fact that we’re living in 2020 certainly helps.
“The Beat” is the final of four videos to be released from Electric City Underground’s 9 EP, but the first to be written (following “As 1”, “Jump” and “Let’s Begin”). As you would expect, the entire EP was written, recorded and produced under lock-down, with each of the band members working from isolated studio environments.
While it’s somewhat unusual, the band recorded the dance groove in their habitual tuning of 432Hz; designed to stimulate DNA and growth. Designed to be an overall cathartic experience, it’s certainly not going to hurt.
For Comstock, the song represents the act of musical creation itself—an experience that, at its best moments, surpasses the best of our own intentions, transcends conscious creation and into what many have described as becoming a conduit for the divine.
“It was written for when you just need four and a half minutes of beat-driven escape from the broken state of anything and everything,” says Kirk Comstock.
“‘The Beat’ is when your in that mentally released place where the music is playing on autopilot and your head is clear. That’s when I think nothing of business. I just am. When your muscle memory and focus are so good that it doesn’t feel like your doing it and the whole room is feeling it too. Magic.”