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emma dj - Lay2g
Cat. Nr: DN028
Format: DL
Release Date: June 7 2024
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/Lay2g

Emma dj doesn't give much away when it comes to his music. Twelve effortless stabs at post-bloghouse electronics brings the Paris-based, Finnish producer’s oeuvre out of the trap torpor of recent releases on Lee Gamble’s UIQ label, into the ecstatic crush of a world in chaos with the Lay2g LP on Danse Noire. Looking back at the late-2000s, early-2010s collision of the club and the stage, the album beckons to another era. It’s one of warehouse bands and indie sleaze, dance punk and industrial noise; a turn-of-the-millennium time where youth culture was rife with an after-9/11 nihilism so potent that an electro-drone band with a name like “Fuck Buttons” could be part of an Olympic opening ceremony.

Lay2g’s direct and dance-floor-friendly tracks with meaningless titles gleefully bump up against each other, whether in the crumbling industrial force of “I Fuck With Lies” or the propulsive gabber tempo of “Kd9.” It’s inspired by Emma’s early music education through hype.fm music charts and Dim Mak Records, with its echoes of Atari Teenage Riot’s digital hardcore or The Bloody Beetroots’ hoover synths. Crunchy, distorted, subs prop up the epic organ patches and math-y rhythmic structures of “RR.dkn.” A lumbering bass on “bQosYe” follows the lead of shattered top-end breakbeats and a syncopated vocal cut-up.

Managing the pain of contemporary reality with a sense of humor and humility is fundamental to the Nordic artist’s output, whether it’s in the wobbly subs of 2019’s Support Your Local Enemies or the offhand titling of 2023’s follow-up to Godrime, g0drm2. Meanwhile, Lay2g is a powerful, lightly-sardonic signpost in the no wave and mutant disco continuum, and a welcome harbinger of Paris’ deeply buried underground as it rears its uninhibited head.

Photo by Evgenia Nirka
Design by Niels Wehrspann
Mastering by Rashad Becker

Lay2g

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emma dj - 2Used

Last Night I Dreamt I Was Alone

Last Night I Dreamt I Was Alone (Loukeman Remix)

Taken from the 'Persona' EP, out now on Warp Records.

Bleep - http://smarturl.it/persona-bleep
Stream - http://smarturl.it/persona-stream

Win In The Flat World

My friend Sam is on vacation in Italy with his wife right now. I've told him repeatedly that I have a great Italian travel tip for him to share whenever he's ready, but I feel bad for stringing him along for so long. I wrote this song for Sam, about the tip.
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Well my friend 
Sam Hockley-Smith 
I’ve got a hot new tip
For your italian trip 

It’s gonna help you have fun 
Under the Tuscan sun

I think you’re gonna flip
For this helpful tip
It’s not the Leaning Tower
or some old shopping strip

It’s a truly unique way to see the sights
It’ll brighten your days and cool your nights

 Please take my advice 
It’s gonna make you feel nice 
For an authentic time
This tip’ll do just fine

It’s gonna make you feel good
Improve your mood
From Naples to Rome
You’re never gonna want to go home

If you take this tip it’ll be
The best trip to Italy

New York, New York
The city of lights
You work all day next to
Matt Zoller-Seitz
Grindin’ away on that ol’ website
But you deserve a break from that life
To go to Italy with your wife

Not gonna think about Katy Perry
New directions from Zayn and Harry
Not gonna think about Lorde
or the new Lil Yachty record
Just enjoy the Amalfi shore

I hope you can find
The time to unwind
Kick off your shoes and
Relax and recline

Enjoy the benefits
of our friendship    
Just let me know when you want to grip
My great Italian tip

Chatsongs

Italian Tip for Sam

Believer

I don't talk about that much

Just Because It's A Funeral Doesn't Mean We Can't Rave-Crystallmess (Look how far we've come byYaka)

In Flames

millennium new age deep thoughts producer/dj from Montreal, QC

Inquiries: cfcfmusic [at] gmail . com

Italian Tip for Sam

CFCF