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(Now Playing) Donk - Episode 6 of 23

Feb 16, 2009

VBS correspondent Jamie Hedgeson goes to the desolate factory town of Bolton in the UK (think Detroit) to report on the music phenomenon called Donk.

Since the advent of acid house in the late 80s, British techno music has been in a long, baffling search for some sort of universal lowest common denominator. Breakbeat, digital hardcore, and gabber all made strong efforts in the race for the bottom, but none of them holds a candle to Donk.

Combining the 150bpm madness of happy hardcore with indecipherable North English rap and then overlaying the whole mess with a single, infuriating “donk” sound, Donk may well be the apotheosis of all ridiculous dance music to date. It is also the only local thing going for an entire population of working-class kids with dwindling outside prospects.

We meet up with Black Out Crew, commonly referred to as the Beatles of the Donk scene. Their video “Put a Donk On It!” has almost 4 million views on YouTube. So come along for ecstasy fueled all nighters into the bizarre scene that is Donk.

  • crypt

    16 days ago

    god no..

  • augustiniak

    about 1 month ago

    every time they say "donk" it feels like someone is flicking me in the forehead.

  • leeharveygriswald

    2 months ago

    i thought the unh-tisssssssss unh-tisssssssss unh-tisssssssss unh-tisssssssss of house was bad. ...

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