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"We're big fans of French synthpop like Jacno, Deux, Ruth, and Serge Blenner. This kind of playful synthetic sound mixed with weird and sometimes depressing poetry had a big influence on us as kids and as musicians," reveal the French duo DAT Politics. Since 1999, Claude Pailliot and Gaetan Collet have been working on music shaped by those influences, without referring to them directly, on various albums and EPs for labels such as FatCat Records, A-Musik, Chicks on Speed Records, and Sub Rosa. Drone, noise, and musique concrète are other points of reference that clearly come through in their electronic songs, though they're also closely related to pop music. This time around, their songs once again took shape under such extra-musical influences as astronomy, philosophy, and programming language, as well as surrealism, fantasy films, and their own dreams. The nine tracks on No Void, which the duo describes as a "hallucinating ride in a space roller coaster: scary and funny!", were created in winter 2014 in a small cabin in northern France. The whimsical tour de force was recorded using computers, old beat-up synthesizers, worn-out keyboards, samplers, voice boxes, and children's toy instruments. Pailliot and Collet whisper into the microphone in French and English, their voices naked or distorted by a vocoder, at times using both languages in the same song, as the track "Reptiloid" demonstrates with poignant levity. The work occupies an eclectic territory that includes catchy melodies, versatile singing with pop appeal, and playfully rocking chiptune, synthwave, and electro. Pailliot and Collet's appreciation for Depeche Mode, Yazoo, OMD, Jean Michel Jarre, and Kraftwerk is as apparent as their love of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze and the soundtrack worlds of Ennio Morricone, Giorgio Moroder, and John Carpenter. Yet rather than simply repackaging their personal preferences, the duo transforms art into something totally autonomous using a creative "cut-up" method as practiced by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. DAT Politics' songs are a combination of surreal stories, hidden meanings, and a search for clues within one's own subconscious. And as DAT Politics seeks mainly to electrify in a live setting, every track begins with bass and rhythms. Despite the atmospherically dense interplay between melancholy and joy, this approach is what makes No Void above all an album intent on rocking it in high style.
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STRIKE 154LP
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LP version. Includes download code. "We're big fans of French synthpop like Jacno, Deux, Ruth, and Serge Blenner. This kind of playful synthetic sound mixed with weird and sometimes depressing poetry had a big influence on us as kids and as musicians," reveal the French duo DAT Politics. Since 1999, Claude Pailliot and Gaetan Collet have been working on music shaped by those influences, without referring to them directly, on various albums and EPs for labels such as FatCat Records, A-Musik, Chicks on Speed Records, and Sub Rosa. Drone, noise, and musique concrète are other points of reference that clearly come through in their electronic songs, though they're also closely related to pop music. This time around, their songs once again took shape under such extra-musical influences as astronomy, philosophy, and programming language, as well as surrealism, fantasy films, and their own dreams. The nine tracks on No Void, which the duo describes as a "hallucinating ride in a space roller coaster: scary and funny!", were created in winter 2014 in a small cabin in northern France. The whimsical tour de force was recorded using computers, old beat-up synthesizers, worn-out keyboards, samplers, voice boxes, and children's toy instruments. Pailliot and Collet whisper into the microphone in French and English, their voices naked or distorted by a vocoder, at times using both languages in the same song, as the track "Reptiloid" demonstrates with poignant levity. The work occupies an eclectic territory that includes catchy melodies, versatile singing with pop appeal, and playfully rocking chiptune, synthwave, and electro. Pailliot and Collet's appreciation for Depeche Mode, Yazoo, OMD, Jean Michel Jarre, and Kraftwerk is as apparent as their love of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze and the soundtrack worlds of Ennio Morricone, Giorgio Moroder, and John Carpenter. Yet rather than simply repackaging their personal preferences, the duo transforms art into something totally autonomous using a creative "cut-up" method as practiced by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. DAT Politics' songs are a combination of surreal stories, hidden meanings, and a search for clues within one's own subconscious. And as DAT Politics seeks mainly to electrify in a live setting, every track begins with bass and rhythms. Despite the atmospherically dense interplay between melancholy and joy, this approach is what makes No Void above all an album intent on rocking it in high style.
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Since 1999, DAT Politics is by far one of the most ecstatic electro party bands on the planet. Their remarkably energetic live shows explain the cult-like enthusiasm that surrounds the French electronic combo as they've been touring the world extensively over the years. DAT Politics channel a rough-edged turbo-pop mood through their laptops to create some of the most unexpectedly catchy and lively music ever assembled. The possibility of mistakes and chaos in their hot-wired dance tracks is achieved by approaching songwriting and performance the same way a garage band might. DAT Politics' new album Blitz Gazer is an exhilarating reboot in the band's career. Entirely recorded in Berlin in 2011 by the newly-formed duo, this new piece will certainly give satisfaction to the electro-maniac fanbase who will find in these 12 tunes their share of synthetic '80s hits, catchy loops and bouncy drum machines. Less expected, but pleasantly surprising, is their ability to turn the voltage level down by chanting neon-lite robo-ballads. Some dreamy melodic breaks rise in a rhythmic electric storm, exploring a brand-new aspect of the band's wide influences and possibilities. Blitz Gazer is a magnificent patchwork, a dynamic and fanciful mixture that only DAT Politics could have pulled off.
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COSR 040CD
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This is DAT Politics' fourth full-length record for the Chicks On Speed label. France's favorite electro-Chiptune pioneers do it again with Mad Kit, gathering together a special type of straight-beat propulsion in their gloriously catchy, melodic and eminently danceable music. This album is an espresso shot of playful, booty-shaking, dance-y synth-pop ripe with digitalized vocals, distorted breaks and electric frequencies that will most definitely permanently place them in a luxury spot on the international electronic map. These are ridiculously bleepy, squiggly tracks in a neon-spectrum of zigzagging rainbow colors. Mad Kit creates its own hyperactive sound with a solid body of tracks that will be in heavy rotation, rocking braindance parties all over the world.
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COSR 031CD
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On their third album for Chicks On Speed Records, DAT Politics are more fun and exciting than ever. With Wow Twist they finally capture the pure raw euphoria of their live sets and confront glitch, power pop, electronica and punk on their most song-oriented and fresh album to date. The French laptop trio make their album sound mature and pop, without affecting their taste for the playful electronic odysseys and obviously, the eleven titles of Wow Twist possess a new knack for perversely catchy hooks.
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COSR 015CD
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2004 release. The French northern electronic trio Dat Politics presents their fifth record. Taking up again the pop elements of their previous release Plugs Plus (COSR 006CD), Dat Politics confirm their attachment to naive and hypnotic melodies and propose some complex and efficient digital compositions. Go Pets Go is without a doubt the trio's most complete album, gathering all the sonic facets from their previous works: a digital folk touch supported by collaborations with Kevin Blechdom and Nathan Michel, some dream-like and cynical lyrics, a couple of Nintendo techno mini-hits and compositions based on recordings of insects and pets.
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Plugs Plus is the fourth album by the computer quartet Dat Politics. Based in the historic industrial city of Lille, their cheap laptops generate epileptic micro-rhythms escorted by child-like acid melodies. But the real novelty resides in the warped and distortioned singing exercises which are mixed-up inside their digital hymns. Help in their experiments comes from some protagonists of the international electronica jet-set -- Blectum From Blechdom, Matmos, Kid 606, Felix Kubin, Lesser -- and as a result, Plugs Plus is a pixellated pop snapshot focused on failed flirt and gastronomy. After work with innovative and respectable labels such as A-Musik, Mille Plateaux, Skipp and Tigerbeat6, the laptop-band collaborates here with the electro-trash label from the Berlin-based trio Chicks On Speed to diffuse their domestic and terribly exotic new sonic adventures. Funny, futuristic and radical: this is future electronic pop.
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MEOW 027LP
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"The triumphant return of Tigerbeat6 favorites Dat Politics. There amazingly well received Sous Hit (pronounced 'sweet') CD recently released on Digital Narcis issued here on gloriously eyecatching clear red vinyl along with new full color artwork and two amazing new bonus tracks."
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