If you liked Kraftwerk and D.A.F., early Yello, Soft Cell and Human League, then you'll love what the International Deejay Gigolos, Disko B and City Rockers labels have been unleashing these past few years in the name of electroclash?essentially, the primitive pulse of early-'80s Swiss, German and UK synth-pop with the steel phallus of late-'80s Belgian New Beat, encased in a shiny 21stcentury carapace. The fourth in the Dr Lektroluv series features artists familiar to fans of the aforementioned imprints' recent output. These range from Bangkok Impact (23-year-old Finnish computer whizz Sami Luski) and the Mysterymen, whose "Electromode" is bassgasmic nitro-deluxe house, to dawn-of-electro types such as original sleazetronicists Neon Judgement and this season's digital disco favourites, Liaisons Dangereuses, and their ubiquitous "Peut Etre... Pas".
If you liked Kraftwerk and D.A.F., early Yello, Soft Cell and Human League, then you’ll love what the International Deejay Gigolos, Disko B and City Rockers labels have been unleashing these past few years in the name of electroclash?essentially, the primitive pulse of early-’80s Swiss, German and UK synth-pop with the steel phallus of late-’80s Belgian New Beat, encased in a shiny 21stcentury carapace.
The fourth in the Dr Lektroluv series features artists familiar to fans of the aforementioned imprints’ recent output. These range from Bangkok Impact (23-year-old Finnish computer whizz Sami Luski) and the Mysterymen, whose “Electromode” is bassgasmic nitro-deluxe house, to dawn-of-electro types such as original sleazetronicists Neon Judgement and this season’s digital disco favourites, Liaisons Dangereuses, and their ubiquitous “Peut Etre… Pas”.
