

There is already a trap remix of Daft Punk’s new single ‘Get Lucky’ doing the rounds.

That’s right – a single that not only isn’t out yet, but has only been available to hear through fan-shot footage of a trailer video from a festival, and which the whole damn point of seems to be to bring a bit of organic ’70s and ’80s session musician soul back to electronic music, has been trapped out. Turnt up. Whatever you want to call it. This is the world that we live in.

Honestly, we’re not snobs when it comes to this sort of thing. Some of the best dance music ever made has been unlicensed bootlegs, and there will always be room for big dumb festival bangers (just ask Joe Muggs). There’s always gonna be room for big dumb unlicensed trap bootlegs, when they’re done well. But unfortunately, just as with electro in 2006 and Mt Eden in 2010, the phrase “trap remix” in 2013 is synonymous with a particularly leechy method of trying to get big off someone else’s work – and that’s before you get into the whole culture reappropriation issues with using the term. It’s music with no long term goal behind some Soundcloud plays; thief music, as Lee Gamble might put it. The sort of music that we probably shouldn’t publicise, and certainly should be bigger than poking fun at. But we’re gluttons for punishment at FACT, and like moths to a (Waka Flocka) flame, we spent the first half of this week trawling the internet’s trap underbelly for the very worst examples of this phenomenon. Here’s the best – well, worst – of what we found.

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