Daft Science is the Daft Punk/Beastie Boys Mash-up you never knew you wanted

As a music fan I’m strictly a miserablelist. At least that’s what people tell me when I try to put Faith by The Cure on at parties. If a band has a jangly guitar, echoy vocals, lyrics about death, and can easily be pictured in black and white, then I know they’re going to put a smile on my face. Yet there are times when I re-join the human race’s concept of “happy music”, and I don’t just mean listening to New Order because they used to be Joy Division.

Case in point: Dj/producer Coinz has just released Daft Science: a mash up album of old material from Daft Punk and the Beastie Boys. And it’s awesome. I’m not a huge fan of either band: Daft Punk was always playing at my house my house, thanks to the obsession of the musicians in my family, so they got dull pretty quickly. The Beastie Boys always seemed to close to a novelty band for my liking, don’t get me wrong, I didn’t want Mike D to cut 4 Real into his arm or anything like that, they just didn’t hit the spot for me.

Which is why this album has surprised me more than anyone. Taking Daft Punk’s beats, and putting the Beastie Boys rhymes over it seems like the kind of genius move that should have been done well before this (it actually has, for some reason Coinz has been sitting on this album for two years).

Running at eight tracks of dance-rap greatness, Daft Science is a welcome distraction in these dark times and, for a while at least, made me popular at parties.