Music Review // 2ŁØT "Entropy" (ft. Paul Oakenfold)

 

Entropy occurs when two forces meet and it results in chaos.  I like to think of it as a bicycle just going with the perpetual motion until a stick is thrown into the spokes of the wheels and then it goes crashing over.  This is interesting in terms of this song, however, because I have to imagine that 2ŁØT has a lot of pop / electronic sound within this song without the help of Paul Oakenfold.  You'd think, based on the title, that adding Oakenfold to the mix would cause disorder but it somehow just seems to intensify what 2ŁØT is already doing.

As a song, musically, "Entropy" is very much electronic.  It is EDM at its purest, with this remix by Paul Oakenfold, as if you have ever seen video footage of the festivals with the ravers and their glowsticks, the musicians and their turntables.   I imagine this either being very much outside or inside of a club like that one scene in the "Blade" movie, but I also always like to think about the flashing lights, the rush of the energy, the sweat and just losing yourself in the music and not caring for that moment in time.

There is a line in here that says "Will love set me free" and it might, but this song is just something much more than its lyrics and more than its original form even.  It's not easy to explain because I don't think two elements of music have ever fit together so well before.  Imagine two pieces of a puzzle that were so much alike they almost looked like the same piece, but when put together they just somehow fit and it worked- it completed the puzzle.  I can only describe this as the magic of music.

Paul Oakenfold is someone I respect for the years he's been doing this and so to have a song by 2ŁØT, which was already a great song to begin with, given this treatment just feels like making a good thing even better.  But it's not so much that Oakenfold improves this sound as much as he just compliments it and that is what an artist who is truly great and the craft of remixing does- they don't outshine, they just point the spotlight a little bit brighter.