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LN 024LP
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$20.00
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RELEASE DATE: 12/6/2019
Hot off the heels of Aluxes, his 2018 Lumière Noire debut EP (LN 008EP), young Mexican DJ/producer Iñigo Vontier is inviting Chloé's label on a trip to the far corners of the body and mind with an album of demented grooves, psychedelic take-offs, and imaginary comic strips of mystical rituals. A bewitching debut full-length. The DJ/producer fully asserts his origins by brandishing the album's title El Hijo Del Maiz ("the son of the corn") almost as an emblem: "in Mexico, corn is eaten daily. It has long been defined as 'the gold of America', and I consider all Mexicans as children of corn". Whether contemplative or frenetic, the collection of tracks that make up El Hijo Del Maiz takes the kitchen sink and throws it out the window: languid rhythms, haunted vocals, and mysterious percussion fuel a discombobulated house set that scrambles the listener's five senses. Following the demented, dystopian "Xu Xu", which explores an imaginary jungle that harbored Mayan and Egyptian pyramids, Middle Eastern accents are once more present in the off-kilter "Bo Ni Ke" and its Japanese-influenced vocal trickery, which Moroccan flutes à la Jajouka transform into a feverish trance. With the following three tracks, Iñigo Vontier raises himself to the same level of excellence as the Pachanga duo (of which pride of the Mexican scene Rebolledo): the slumbering voice of "Awaken", heard as through the veil of hypnosis, slowly introduces a techno beat which literally brings the listener to a levitative state. In a house-ier vein, yet continuing in the same psychedelic, '90s-infused spirit, "Don't Go Back" disrupts the genre's usual signatures with an out-of-tune keyboard that is becoming the artist's trademark, destabilizing the listener into a drunken vertigo, with a good helping of sexiness. The ode to the magical herb "Marijuana" (featuring Thomass Jackson) proudly tramples into the debate that such a provocative title inevitably provokes. In the end, El Hijo Del Maiz is an album-length confirmation of Iñigo Vontier's uniqueness, and his adherence to Lumière Noire's policy of letting artists fully express their vision -- while letting their passions guide their idiosyncrasies and explorations of innovative electronic signatures. Also features Drugface and Beyou.
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LN 017EP
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Endless Revisions, Chloé's first LP in over six years, saw the musician turn a new leaf in her creative journey. Not content with pushing the boundaries of her creative output with this wider palette of an album, Chloé released Endless Revisions Live (LN 020LP), which saw the producer graft the new material and inspiration that came out while playing live on stage back onto the album's compositions. Here is a few other versions of the album's tracks. Enter this four-remix EP, imprinted with the touch of top-shelf producers. Features Alain Chamfort, Flavien Berger, Fort Romeau, Inigo Vontier, and Marc Houle.
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LN 020LP
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Musicians have a tendency not to stay in place. They have a need to stay in motion, to get lost (maybe in order to better find themselves), to step out of their comfort zone and produce their work into new forms, to turn a mirror to their output -- and stare into it themselves. These are, among others, the reasons that motivated the first live recording made of tracks from Endless Revisions (2017), Chloé's first LP since 2010 -- an album that saw the musician achieve a higher level in her creative prowess. A multi-faceted Pandora's box of mysterious drifts, the album is anchored by hits like "The Dawn" and "Recall". An artist who deliberately plays with labels, taking in contemporary and novel forms, boldly launching into experimentation (as demonstrated by her collaboration with percussionist Vassiléna Sérafimova), Chloé wanted to take the album's tracks and transform them in front of an audience by feeding them with new textures and inspirations. Performed over a year at events such as Nuits Sonores, Sónar, Mutek (in Montréal and Mexico), The Peacock Society, and festivals such as Marsatac, Musilac and, Colors of Ostrava, Endless Revisions' live performance has evolved with every show. It was out of the question to let these new versions -- replayed, recreated, and restructured alongside the evolution of the performance's very architecture -- fade away without a trace Chloé's prolific Lumière Noire label, in the wake of its first anniversary, had to produce a recording that bears witness to the work that these ephemeral creations represents. Slowly introduced by "Dune", then propeled by the impulse of "Because It's There", the mix is articulated around the appropriately titled "Outerspace", followed by "Party Moonster" and the bewitching "The Dawn", heard here in "clubbier" versions and adapted to a context in which the audience (whose enjoyment of the performance was audibly captured in the recordings), must be kept in suspense, as if carried away in a narrative. The set leads up to "Moonscape", an exclusive track created during the performance series, before the performance ends with a new version of "Sometimes", Chloé's relentless 2002 instant classic. At nearly 50 minutes, this recording is like a snapshot of a work's vital momentum, remaining faithful to the spirit of Chloé's Endless Revisions while detaching itself in order to conquer new territories.
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LN 022EP
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Local Suicide, aka Munich's Brax Moody and Greek-born Vamparela, has it in spades. With its swerving bass slithering over a slow tempo, "Leopard Gum" is the perfect slow burner. The synths that come crashing across the track's Smagghe & Cross remix add their saturated signature that provide a different kind of hook through its breathless nine-minute run. The same measured tempo is found once more on the more ethereal "Already There", where Local Suicide affirm their adherence to the more captivating signatures of new wave and post disco. Lauer adds a surprising electro pop shimmer to the track.
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LN 021EP
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Over the past few months, Bajram Bili has been a revelation at Lumière Noire. On the label's compilation From Above (LN 015LP, 2018), the French producer drew praise from listeners, DJs and critics alike with the eight house-y, cerebral minutes of his contribution, "Restart". Adrien Gachet has been making music under the exotic moniker for several years, combining krautrock and IDM influences into a rather convoluted genre; this debut Lumière Noire EP is bound to elicit further interest in the artist.
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LN 015LP
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In just a year of existence, Chloé's Lumière Noire has brought emerging artists and promising newcomers together; this first compilation of 13 brand new tracks expands the roster, expanding the label's eclectic vision. When Chloé talks about her label, she puts forward the fundamental values that informed her own musical journey, her own musical taste, and, of course, the predominance of human relationships: "I followed my bliss and only commissioned tracks from artists that I respect and whose music I love. That to me is Lumière Noire's musical palette." With this unmixed compilation, Chloé makes a case for a label aesthetic that is based in open-mindedness. Familiar Lumière Noire artists are represented, as are new faces, producing a kind of group photo presaging what's next for the fledgling label. Lyon's Markus Gibb leads the track listing with a deep chiaroscuro matching the label's ethos, followed by fellow mainstays Il Est Vilaine, with the band's usual electro-pop elegance. Sutja Gutierrez, who released his debut EP, The Legend of Time (LN 015EP, 2017) on Lumière Noire, pursues his electro- Shamanism, while Iñigo Vontier (whose Aluxes (LN 008EP, 2017) came out on the label) brings his C O N T R A project online, a further development in voodoo house. Elsewhere, Suuns lead singer Ben Shemie contributes a synthy, psych-pop debut that is as brilliant as it is surprising. Dutch producer Drvg Cvltvre brings uncompromising dark electro with the hypnotic and claustrophobic "Last Rites". Jonathan Fitoussi's airy, minimalism brings the respite of his Versatile Espaces Timbrés (2018). Benedikt Frey's deep techno track is on par with his Artificial (2017), while Bajram Bili, Théo Muller and Lumi, bring the compilation to a close. These audacious choices are anchored down with the likes of Permanent Vacation pioneer Lauer's hooky, '80s-infused style and Franck Agrario, half of English duo Swayzak's David Brown's project, weaves an ethno mood into "Grace"'s techno. Bringing together different generations, genres, and styles may not necessarily be Chloé's MO. She invokes a more arbitrary, personal logic: "I like to mix of-the-moment tracks and more timeless ones, but the rule is above all 'do I love this or not?'. That was my ethos when I started Lumière Noire". In that way, the label is definitely in keeping with its time.
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LN 011EP
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The cornerstone track from Chloé's new album is an adventurously dark landscape dotted by Montreal rock band Suuns' singer Ben Shemie's vocals. This EP features four astounding remixes by Moiré, Jonathan Kaspar, Douglas Greed, and Autarkic.
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LN 008EP
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Mexican producer Iñigo Vontier releases his fifth EP, including a remix from Tolouse Low Trax. "Aluxes" opens a channel to occult forces. The EP's title track, with its sparse, unfathomable voices and its bouncing, metered rhythm, is like a serene spell. The facetious "Patito" and its stubborn metallic rhythm brings back Vontier's precious dark disco essence. Detlef Weinrich's, a member of Kreidler, tasks his Tolouse Low Trax side project with remixing "Macaco". His remix is light-years from weekender minimal techno, and closer to Dopplereffekt.
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Il Est Vilaine aren't from Brittany, but they sure are tricksters. Two outcasts refusing to eat at the same table as the tech-house scene queens, serving up three whiplash-on-the-dancefloor cuts drenched in sweaty hedonistic disco and wrapped in a battered motorcycle jacket (with a gooey post-punk-pop core for good measure). Il Est Vilaine have traded their Oberkampf stomping grounds for a sleepless weekend of Spanish groupies, discount bikinis, whiskey, and bukkake. And a creative spurt that left Lumiere Noire with a mutant of a record, the sound of rock and techno crashing through a drum kit mid-coitus.
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LN 006EP
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After four years of absence as a producer, The Dawn announces the release of Chloé's forthcoming third album, planned for the fall of 2017. Chloé's The Dawn heralds the return of the Paris-based DJ and producer. It is her inaugural release on her own label Lumière Noire, which she recently set up as a separate entity. Over the ten-plus minutes of "The Dawn", a spoken-word track languishes over melodic washes in a dramatic progression that evokes a novel, or noir-ish cinema. The Berlin-based whiz kid inverts Chloé's light-drenched, full-bodied production into a tense, captivating chiaroscuro.
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LN 005EP
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An EP from Sutja Gutierrez, the promising Spanish electronic producer. His eclectic and hyperactive style brings together experimental lo-fi pop with electronic and psychedelic elements. Lumière Noire's Chloé has resolved to make 2017 the year that Lumière Noire becomes a fully-fledged record label: "The idea is to take the time to work on a 12" the way we would on a full album, to be a vector between the artists so that they can collaborate together and remix each other's work, to come up with a visual identity." "Carousel" features Yula Kasp. Features a remix by Sebastopol.
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