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DIALECT 037EP
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Kool Menthol. That's the name redolent of night and nicotine from Il Est Vilaine's new EP, featuring four tracks that send shivers down the spine and warm the body. The eponymous single unfolds like an infectious groove worthy of an '80s Tokyo nightclub. Moreover, it's still the illustrator Apollo Thomas who signs the group's artworks, tinting their universe with an irresistible Japanese touch. Orientalism? Not entirely, as evidenced by "Revenge," which sounds more like the soundtrack of an electric western, and "Quetzacoatl," falsely tropical, incantatory, and metallic, rising like a Raëlian mantra in the after-hours. "Ramassama," on the other hand, feels like a chase scene from an Italian horror film with a slightly dazed Dario Argento. In short, the two rascals from Il Est Vilaine reaffirm their stamp of cowboy clubbers with this disco-like EP where there always remains a strong rock undertone.
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DIALECT 032LP
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After the release of their first album (DIALECT 028LP), Il Est Vilaine ask to artists and friends to deliver a series of highflying remixes: Tolouse Low Trax, Krikor, Khidja, Marvin & Guy, Golden Bug, Rubin Steiner, C.A.R.... Tolouse Low Trax opens the ball with a de-structured version of "Yvré-L'Evêque" while keeping the darkness of the track. You can hear a nod to the track "Holland Tunnel Dive" anthem of the Salon des Amateurs. For the eponymous track, Khidja were inspired by the sounds of the land of the rising sun which is a good thing to accompany the song of Narumi Hedgehog! A bright version and influenced by YMO's Sakamato era. Golden Bug and In Field proposes an alternative just as trippy as the original version of "Marilyn Drum", a trip between neighborhood hospitals and crazy guru. Another version of "Yvré-L'Evêque" this time Krikor takes care of it and takes out his sampler for a digi-dancehall version that only he has the secret, Faya! Rubin Steiner delivers a version back to the roots of "Bar À Gwin" featuring Macdara, mixing deep house texture and '80s NY-hip-hop/electro. The two Italians of Marvin & Guy bring out the hits, the guitars and the arpeggios for an epic version of "Les Mystères de Lorient". To close the album, Narumi Hérisson is at the controls of her piano for a dreamy and sensitive version of "Phare Ouest" where her voice and that of Yula Kasp are mixed in a great harmony.
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DIALECT 028LP
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After several EPs on labels such as Lumière Noir, Kill the DJs, or Bahnsteig 23, here is the first album of French duo Il Est Vilaine, infused with a Yellow Magic Orchestra-ish touch but rooted in the French musical landscape. A road trip in Brittany as a red thread, the two hooligans of Il Est Vilaine revisit Kawaii pop, crazy rock like Devo and Detroit techno with a surprising coherence. An album long matured and awaited by the band's fans. Il Est Vilaine aren't Bretons, but they sure are tricksters. The Francophiles among you might have caught on to the corny pun in their name (beating a certain presidential candidate to the punch all while turning the name of the pastoral Ille-et-Vilaine region into, literally, "he's a nasty woman,") but the real takeaway is that these born-and-bred Parisians don't take themselves too seriously -- especially in an era in which there is much too much of that happening. It was in 2014 (and on Dialect Recordings) that Florent and Simon tossed their debut 12" into the ring, the rightfully named Scandale -- a tight little bombshell released that roused the electronic music scene out of its complacent little catnap. So, there it was, 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). A clear mission statement right out of the gates, watermarked with mystical incantations and throbbing with rock n' roll's primitive drive. Everything and the kitchen sink, and a bag of chips -- an invitation to just let lose that's even better than the sum of its parts. Features C.A.R., Yula Kasp, Narumi Hérisson, Marcus, Macdara, and Sofia Fanego.
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LN 007EP
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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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KTDJ 038EP
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Chloé inaugurates her Lumiére Noire series, focusing on "techno tracks with psychedelic, vintage or krautrock vapors... unreleased tracks by established artists and newcomers, that I usually play in my dj sets... [Il Est Vilaine is] composed of Simon Says, a longtime friend from Dialect Recordings, and Florent aka Dorian Grey, a up-and-coming it-boy who focuses on hard techno and rave parties (he's a former member of the hedonistic Parisian nightlife collective Washin Mashin.)... The villains offered me four haunting and unstoppable tracks that put us in the leather boots of a beat-up James Dean crawling out of a back-room and attempting to conquer the Wild West."
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