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LN 036LP
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SloMo A/V is the meeting of DJ and producer Chloé Thévenin, who works in the studio to build soundscapes (as four albums and many soundtracks can testify), Dune Lunel, Paris-based art director, who has worked in the cultural field for over twenty years (her studio has produced many visual identities, with dynamic links between image and text), and Adrien Godin, a young artist from ECV Digital in Paris (Visual Communication school) who works as an art director and graphic designer. This special live recording is available on limited edition gatefold vinyl. SloMo A/V is not strictly speaking Chloé's ambient project, but an experience that could be described as immersive. Each SloMo A/V performance unfolds in the same way: Chloé builds the sounds live while something comes to life on the screen, in the way the image is manipulated, the way it slows down, distorting the sound, drawing it out or spurring it on. Here, sounds generate images, or perhaps it's the other way around: hard to tell in this enigmatic, hypnotic dialogue. Since 2015, SloMo A/V has been performed at the Centre Pompidou, the Philharmonie de Paris, the TAP in Poitiers, the Sonar Festival, the Lieu Unique in Nantes, and the Southbank Centre in London.
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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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DIYNAMIC 111EP
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French DJ and producer Chloé makes her debut on Diynamic Music with a rousing three-tracker. She is creating the soundscape to the portrayed landscape, and by that giving it a reference point -- a sudden impact. And this is "Last Go Round", the opening track of her EP, feels. "Revolve And Dive" follows up with an infectious bassline and synth elements that have "summer" and "open air" written all over them. Closing is "What Will Be": the layered bits of samples that morph and become part of the percussions will make it a feel-good anthem for months to come.
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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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BPC 245EP
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Parisian DJ Chloé returns to BPitch Control after a successful guest performance with Sasche Funke in 2006. The three tracks on Watch Out ignite a true display of sound and beat fireworks. Chloé deliberately chose not to use tonal elements, and there are also no signs of melodies. Only "The Shift" is a little more relaxed, while the electro epics "Chatterbox" and "Watch Out" are both masterfully shaped by powerful beats and thrilling sound fragments.
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PLAYRJC 001CD
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This is the first volume in a 4-part CD compilation series celebrating the 10th anniversary of Frankfurt's Robert Johnson club. Limited to an exclusive 2,000 copies, Live At Robert Johnson comes in a fold-out "art book" package, which allows fans to collect the series CDs separately and place them all within a 12"-sized booklet to create a final art piece that brings the release together in a unique sonic and visual way, further showcasing the club's strong affinity to contemporary art. Long-time resident Chloé is one of France's biggest DJs, who ignites this package and impeccably brings forward the essence of Robert Johnson's open-ended musical scope on this absolutely modern DJ mix that ranges from the bizarre beauty of DJ Koze, SIS's summer crasher "Orgsa," the floor-raising ruckus of Samim & Michal to Larry Heard's house classic "Spinal Tap." Other artists include: Gudrun Gut, Kalabrese, Shinedoe, Steve Angello, Partial Arts, Samim & Michal, Vincenzo, Daso & Pawas, Heiko Mso, Malte, Plein Soleil, Trulz & Robin, Baseman, Homebase, Seventeen Evergreen and Joakim.
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KTDJ 009EP
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"First extract from Chloé's debut album. We know, you've been awaiting her album for a long time. Not just a string of 12"s, it will be a real album, guided by Chloé's dreams, obsessions and her own unique universe. Just to keep you waiting, here comes the first sampler. The track is called 'Suspended,' a perfect definition of Chloé's music. B-side is a 'Broke' remix, Mattias Aguayo and Rockness' new project. They put the track into a trippy ambient mood and yes, we love it. It's getting hot in here."
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