AAA Best New Indie Dance: December 2024

Raw (Stigma remix)

INCOMING : Hyperstellar - Words In A Void #BordelloAParigi

Release date : 2024-12-16
Buy : https://bordelloaparigi.com/shop/vinyl/hyperstellar-message-to-nowhere-w-the-hacker-remix-ep/

Like the morning sun penetrating a Winter sky, a shimmering frost flecks the brightness of “Message to Nowhere”. The four tracker showcases the sound of Ruben Benabou’s Hyperstellar nom de plume, a sound that draws inspiration from sci-fi soundtracks and the warmer currents of electro. Refracted bleeps introduce the title piece, shorn beats cutting through glowing synthlines as the EP takes flight. Tight terse drum patterns are the launchpad from which melodies sail and swoop in “Words in a Void”, bittersweet strings and warbling pads bending and shifting above juddering basslines. Fellow Frenchman, and all-round electro virtuoso, The Hacker remixes “Message to Nowhere”. Pulling the track toward the centre of the floor, scissoring snares slice through echoing notes and silken shrouds in this machine funk remake. Temperatures rise for the close. Bold key changes and snapping rhythms gather in “A Thousand Nights”, a lively late evening close to a quartet of sheer quality.

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INCOMING : Hyperstellar - Words In A Void #BordelloAParigi

Oxygen EP

Like That (feat. Borey)

Acidité is a track I produced during a very quick session in my Marseilles studio in late 2023. I think the idea was to produce dance tracks that would have a certain harshness to them and sound sort of unpolished. I realize that is what I end up liking the most when it comes to dance music - when it sounds as being straight out of the home studio, with very little means and maybe some « mistakes » left here and there for the sake of it. Acidité revolves around 3 main ingredients - a Behringer TD3 riff (the Behringer cheap reincarnation of the legendary TB303), a conga loop and an iconic JB funk stab sample. It segues midway into a more trancey and motoric tunnel like techno track, driven by a « lately bass » straight line.

DGTL039: The Populists - 'Acidité' (radio edit)

Fred Ventura and Rafał Lachmirowicz, aka Also Playable Mono, have teamed up, All We Need being the pairing’s audio vision of italo disco. Steady kicks and cascading cowbells pave the way for an infectious synthline before a vocoder-enveloped Ventura smoulders with a burning intensity. Bold chords and pulsating rhythms are at the robotic heart of “System Breakdown On Wikileaks”. Bombastic and brilliant, this electrified disco dreadnaught swings with the power of a wrecking ball; a power that only amplifies the track’s impacting message of our very civilisation’s future. Scaling notes spiral ever higher in the addictive groove of “In The Night”, A.P.Mono’s computerised words adopting the mantle of his machines. Circling samples introduce “The News”. Rhythms are clean and tight, snapping at the tails of soaring synthwork with Ventura’s smoky social commentary, coupled with the silken and sonorous Chelsea Muller, offering something better for us all.

Digital: https://bordelloaparigi.bandcamp.com/album/all-we-need

Vinyl: https://bordelloaparigi.com/shop/vinyl/also-playable-mono-feat-fred-ventura-all-we-need-ep/

Also Playable Mono - In The Night

Hardware obsessives CYRK have previously been remixed by label head Jorkes and contributed a standout track to Queer Base vol.2 back in Spring. With those and other releases they have fomented a signature sound that blends techno with Italo. It draws on their skills in the live arena as well as a deep-rooted chemistry and love for rave music in all its forms. 

Superb opener Peek A Boo is a love-drenched sound with bright Italo melodies and smeared pads. There is widescreen cosmic energy in the melodies while the dusty mid-tempo house drums bounce at an inviting pace. 

New Millenium is another retro-future trip to the stars with a mix of bright, busy keys and more rugged synth lines. The drums are snappy and tinged with early Chicago rawness, which means that this classy and emotive party starter makes a real impact. 

The magical and bubbly Euphoria is a more serene sound with thought-provoking chords suspending you above the analogue drums and acid-tinged bassline as wispy melodies bring things to life in HD colour. 

Artwork and photography by Daniel Rajcsanyi

Bandcamp

CYRK - Euphoria

all of our digital + 12" releases here:
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by jorkes and daniel rajcsanyi

CYRK - Euphoria

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