Review: Having released the music from Pete Herbet & Danton Eeprom to Inigo Vontier and Tronik Youth in the past, La Dame Noir have their sound covered when it comes to deep house, funky club, disco with baerlic toppings. This four track various artist EP brings to the table a mixed bag of remixes from the label's other known affiliates like Max Jones, Motel 77 and Middle Sky Boom. The looped vocals of Did Virgo's "Expression" - and its searing synthlines - deliver a trance-like quality, with more EBM inspired tech-trance making its way into No_LP's remix of Sara Zinger. Dawad's remix of "Morning Call" turns in something reminiscent to Miss Kitten & The Hacker, with an indie-electro shake up, replete with rock guitars, hitting all the right spots in Damon Jee's remix to "Shakira".
Review: It really does seems as if Tel Aviv is fertile ground for the indie dance scene at present, and following in the footsteps of Red Axes, Moscoman and Autarkic is homeboy Eliezer - who follows up great music on Days Of Being Wild, Eskimo Recordings and Night Noise with this new thriller for La Dame Noir. The Jericho 1979 EP features the brooding nu-romantics of "Bauhaus" (featuring Curses) with its po-faced vocals and moody arrangement. The Middle Sky Boom remix is more groovy with its punk funk swagger, while equally as chilling yet seductive (and romantic) is the is coldwave noir of "Post Snow" which gets a driving and hypnotic rework by Niv Ast up next.
Review: Having made his debut on Marseille-based digital download imprint La Dame Noir back in 2014, Dame Noir is no newcomer. Even so, he's released little of note since, with "Rise & Shine" - his belated return to Le Dame Noir - marking his first solo single for almost three years. We can happily report that he's in fine form throughout, from the squelchy acid bass, trippy synth lines and locked-in drums of opener "Show Me", to the loved-up arpeggio style melodies, druggy electronics and unfussy nu-disco drums of "Rise and Shine". Sweet-voiced vocalist Alta makes a guest appearance on the atmospheric psychedelic disco chug of "Kiss ME, Kill You", a track that is immediately re-cast as an early morning space-disco throb-job by remixer Max Pask.
Review: Unhelpfully, there's little info out there about the identities of the producers behind the Motel 77 project, just a rambling project bio that says very little in a lot of words. So what do we know? Well, this is the mystery hoteliers' debut single, and it appears on the label helmed by Marseilles-based party crew La Dame Noir. Of the four original cuts on offer, it's the stylish, beefed-up Italo-disco hum of "Clash", "Dirty Dancer" and "Dykwe" that most impress, with the latter rising above the crowd thanks to particularly druggy arpeggio style bassline and a trippy, new wave-influenced vibe. Thomass Jackson emphasizes these darker, more psychedelic elements on his standout remix of "Dywke", which is almost worth the price of the EP on its own.
Review: It sounds like Moderna and Theus Mago have tapped into the zeitgeist on their latest release. In particular, the title track, with its rumbling bass and cold bleeps, provides a background for a woman singing 'your techno is misogynist", first in Spanish and then in English. Hopefully it'll serve to get more labels, DJs and artists to grapple with this important issue. Elsewhere, the pair deliver a grinding, noisy workout on "Francesca (Wild at Heart)" , while they opt for a different approach on "Can You Se Her". Tripped out and stripped back, its druggy vocals and intergalactic sounds make for an inspired, unusual track.
Review: For the uninitiated, Thomass Jackson is a particularly hirsute producer from Argentina, who has previously released eccentric fusions of disco, boogie, new wave, nu-disco and house on Electrique Music, Legendary Sound Research and Gomma. Here he pops up on Marseille-based La Dame Noir, delivering three more stylish, eccentric, and hugely atmospheric compositions. Choose between the dark Italo-goes-nu-disco wobble of "One Of Them People", the A Love From Outer Space style cosmic chug of "Simon", and the slightly more house-centric weird disco of "Think About C". A&N remix the latter, doing their best impression of Scandolearic-era Todd Terje, while The Golden Bug delivers an even creepier, pitched-down revision of "One Of Them People".
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