Format: mix CD
Label: !K7
Released: October 26
Wonderfully named Montreal duo Dave 1 and P-Thugg aka Chromeo spinning a luxurious sounding selection of synthpop, disco and electro funk, explaining a lot about the origins of their own sound in the process.
First up is Kano, not the street tough East End grime lord but the Italo house innovator, whose proto-electro offering ‘Ikeya-Seki’ is the missing link between Giorgio Moroder and ‘Popcorn’. Irresistible vintage French disco from Pierre Perpall (an online payment system, surely) follows - and is gone far too quickly - and the other 26 tracks take in everything from Lifelike’s pulsating, Daft Punk-like digi-disco (‘Sequencer’), Leo Sayer, The Alan Parsons Project and Chrome’s covering The Eagles’ ‘I Can’t Tell You Why’.
The pair have insisted their choice is not ironic, saying they love the innocent sincerity of the 70s/80s era, and although this track listing will be considered downright cheesy by some, in the right conditions it’s hard to dislike.
Ben Willmott
6&½/10
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