Review
Genre and Mood
Brodinski made Let the Beat Control Your Body for the dancefloor, and gave its voice to Louisahhh. Resident Advisor placed him among the Paris electro producers, with a taste for house and UK bass; the genres named here, techno and electro, follow that. The feelings, energetic and hypnotic, are this page’s reading of a title that is an order to the dancer; no review describes how the track sounds.
Song Summary
The track is the second half of Bromance #1, catalogue number BRO-001, released on 21 November 2011: Gesaffelstein’s Control Movement on one side, Brodinski’s Let the Beat Control Your Body featuring Louisahhh on the other. It was the first release of Bromance, the label Brodinski launched after the death of DJ Mehdi in September 2011, with Manu Barron and Guillaume Berg.
Musical Breakdown
No source walks through the track part by part, so this breakdown points at what to listen for rather than describing a timeline.
Intro
A club track begins for the DJ who has to mix it in. Listen for how long the beat runs before anything else arrives.
Main Section
This is where the title should come true. Listen for where Louisahhh’s voice enters and what it does to the beat around it.
Outro
Listen for how the track hands the floor back to the DJ.
Concepts in Focus
Louisahhh is the <a href=“https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/concept/featured-artist/” class=“concept-link font-medium text-primary-700 underline decoration-dotted underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-solid dark:text-primary-400” data-concept=“featured-artist” title=“A guest performer credited on another artist’s track, usually as “feat.”: a rapper’s verse, a singer’s hook or a second voice. Features bring together different styles and audiences and are central to hip-hop, R&B and dance music.“>featured artist here, the guest credited on another artist’s track. Bromance signed her from late 2011, and Fact described Nobody Rules The Streets, on Bromance #3 in June 2012, as a reunion of the pair after this one.
The track’s career shows club culture at work. In May 2012 Magnetic Magazine’s Yosh admitted he had been “caught sleeping” on it “as it grew from a WMC banger to one the biggest songs of Coachella”: spread by DJs from the Winter Music Conference in Miami to a California festival, without a chart in sight.
Later Louisahhh made her own remix of it with Maelstrom, the first track of their Translations EP, presented by Zone and Bromance: the featured singer turned remixer.
Artistic Context
Brodinski, born Louis Rogé in Reims, later turned towards Atlanta rap on his 2015 album Brava, and eventually closed Bromance. Louisahhh went on to her own techno, heard on Louisahhh – Like A Vice and in Vitalic’s hands on Louisahhh – Love Is a Punk (Vitalic Remix).
Impact and Reception
The track’s reception lives in DJ sets more than in reviews: the one written account found here is a blog writer admitting he came to it late. The original runs 5:10 on MusicBrainz; the label’s upload here is a few seconds shorter. Play it loud, standing up, and see whether the title works on you.
