Monday, October 05, 2020

Esta Noche EP - Rodion & Alejandro Paz (Lumiere Noir Records)


Title: Esta Noche EP

Artist: Rodion & Alejandro Paz

Label: Lumiere Noir Records

Cat Number: LN030

Genre: Darkside Chug

 

1: Esta Noche

2: Esta Noche (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix)

3: Una Vez Mas

4: Dime Que No

 

‘Esta Noche’ follows up the impressive ‘Diaoul’ on Chloe’s Lumiere Noir’ and, if anything, I love it more. It’s a disorientating drive through a post-disco hinterland, where the happiness count is carefully calibrated against a darker, more deliberate arcane sense of dynamics. Both versions of the title track hit home, with Fabrizio Mammarella’s more stripped down metallic take being an aboe variant of the fuller sounding original. Both ‘Una Vez Mas’ and ‘Dime Que No’ offer different views through the dance floor looking glass. There’s plenty of melody, but also a healthy amount of dislocationas well; which is, as well as a propensity for invoking various deities through the medium of high frequency but chugtastic BPM with disembodied vocals, what it’s all about. 

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