Deconstructed Club
Bass · 2010 · 120 to 160 BPM · also known as Post-Club, Deconstructed
Deconstructed club shatters the dancefloor into fragments: signifiers of rave, reggaeton and grime cut apart and reglued without a stable grid, a post-internet aesthetic mixing violence and fragility. PC Music on one side, NON and Janus collectives on the other, the style served as a laboratory for the decade's experimental pop, from Arca to SOPHIE. It treats the club track less as a functional tool than a piece meant to be listened to as much as danced to.
16 reference tracks
- M.I.A.: Teqkilla (2010)
- Arca: Xen (2014)
- SOPHIE: Lemonade (2015)
- SOPHIE: Ponyboy (2018)
- Lotic: Hunted (2018)
- Amnesia Scanner: AS Going (2020)
- Arca: Prada (2021)
- aya: what if i should fall asleep and slipp under (2021)
- Sofia Isella: Everybody Supports Women (2023)
- Katseye: Gnarly (2025)
- Sophie: Faceshopping
- Arca: Bruja
- Arca: Incendio
- Arca: Riquiquí
- Arca: Ripples
- Arca: Rip the Slit
At a glance
- Tempo: 120 to 160 BPM
- First appeared: around 2010
- Machines: Ableton Live, Xfer Serum, Max/MSP, Native Instruments Reaktor
- The sound: Sound design granulaire, Collages sans grille, Ableton et Max, Impacts métalliques et silences
- Labels: Hyperdub, Pan, SVBKVLT, NON Worldwide, Janus, PC Music
- Key artists: Arca, SOPHIE, Lotic, Elysia Crampton, Rabit, Amnesia Scanner
Producing Deconstructed Club
Deconstructed club has no fixed tempo, and that is the point: start from a base of 130 to 140 BPM to converse with grime and dembow, then break it with tempo automation, sections dropping to 90 or jumping to 160, rhythmic fragments from rave, reggaeton, grime and ballroom never holding for more than four bars. A saturated gabber kick might run four bars, a dembow pattern for two, an isolated grime snare for one, followed by silence, with metallic impacts and slamming doors placed off-grid as drums. The sub works as an impact rather than a line, a sine explosion at 40 Hz with the pitch envelope dropping an octave in 200 milliseconds, kick and sub ignoring or colliding rather than sidechaining cleanly. On top, granular synthesis stretches voices into clouds and hyperreal textures snap like plastic and latex.
The full production course, in French: tempo, drums, bass, sounds, arrangement, mix, plugins and machines, and a step by step start.
Frequently asked
What is Deconstructed Club?
Deconstructed club shatters the dancefloor into fragments: signifiers of rave, reggaeton and grime cut apart and reglued without a stable grid, a post-internet aesthetic mixing violence and fragility. PC Music on one side, NON and Janus collectives on the other, the style served as a laboratory…
What tempo is Deconstructed Club played at?
Between 120 and 160 BPM.
Who are the key Deconstructed Club artists?
Arca, SOPHIE, Lotic, Elysia Crampton, Rabit, Amnesia Scanner.
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