Wagner’s infinite melody “seeks deliberately to break all evenness of time and force and even scorns it occasionally; the wealth of its invention lies precisely in that which to an older ear sounds like a rhythmic paradox and blasphemy” (Nietzsche Contra Wagner p. 666).
In Dancing with Kadafi, Infected Mushroom expresses the “complete degeneration of rhythmic feeling, [by putting] chaos in place of rhythm”. Like Wagner, Infected Mushroom wanted a different sort of movement, overthrowing the “physiological presupposition of previous music,” in order to make one feel like swimming and floating, not walking and dancing. Before Infected Mushroom, the Trance music scene was about the catchy and simple melodies one would hear on a club’s dance floor (e.g. La Primavera by Sash!). Infected Mushroom, on the other hand, requires the listener to clear his mind of any presuppositions so that he may discover the complex, melodic trance Infected has to offer. A suspension of disbelief makes listening to Dancing with Kadafi like diving into the world of a long fairy tale. The song builds up from the dark and quiet, to something far more driving and exciting, making the music both beautiful and threatening at the same time.
This song almost made me cry at 5:05. I began for some strange reason to visualize the families and young children being torn apart in the Concentration Camps and then having no hope. At the end, the story made me think of the song "The Living Years" By Mike and the Mechanics. It was a very moving song. They did an EPIC job on it. Wish more were like it.
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