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REC 163LP
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Since their signature on Record Makers in 2005, the three boys from Hypnolove have never followed any rules and made everything possible to make their fans dance, with no disregard for '80s pop music, considered at the time far too cheesy. Eurodance, Italo, sweet space disco, boogie-funk: all these styles and subgenres that have somehow become respectable and craved by diggers today are part of Hypnolove's sound. After Eurolove thirteen years ago, a first LP considered by the band as a thrilling compilation of singles mixing new-wave and Italo, Hypnolove was back on stage (and in clubs) helped by genius producer Mickey Moonlight. Ghost Carnival (REC 098LP), their second album was then focused on zouk, exotica music and Italian disco. For their third album entirely recorded in a proper studio for the first time, Hypnolove was forced to more coherence in their sound. They decided to follow a clear line: make a 100% French record inspired by the French dance music made in France during the '70s and '80s, when a handful of studio heads were driven by the ambition of conquering the world by re-appropriating the emerging new genre that was funk at the time. Slap basslines, silly erotic hip-hop-ish lyrics, edgy guitar grooves... This new version of funk invented by some French ambitious musicians found its identity under the name of French boogie. The record also recalls their all-time favorite soundtracks composed by Serge Gainsbourg, Pierre Bachelet, Francis Lai, or Vladimir Cosma. Plexus is a joyful record, full of irony and sublimated by wet voices dipped into a cocktail of Isabelle Adjani's "Pull Marine" and Corryne Charby's music. A record in which the band dives feet first in the groovy bass lines, the Macumba disco, the "Paris Latino-like" boogie, the disco balls and the luminous dancefloors, the '80's and 2020s...
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Electro-pop mish-mash, menagerie of French horn and ante-Raphael-ish harps, counter-tenor male trio and female voices escaping from the room over there, at the end of the hallway. It's the carnival of the phantoms, a Day of the Dead in Mexico, with the Consul as an ill guide. At the helm, the Hypnolove trio, based in the south of France but with wide origins: French, Portuguese, German. Their first album, Eurolove and the hit "Mademoiselle" was released in 2006. Since that time, music has remained a passion: a group of true musicians, who perform for pleasure before everything, as if they were still teenagers infatuated with electro-pop, New Order or Pet Shop Boys, or, years later, sharing obscure bands, strange and stranger cryptic producers, uncertain records. Produced by Mickey Moonlight, the English ambassador to Ed Banger Records -- it had to take a scatterbrain like him to properly channel the trio. Nine titles in all, and above all else, a pop odyssey. Cover artwork by Yazbukey. Featuring guest appearances by Findlay Brown, Puro Instinct, and Freya Parry.
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Hypnolove are a cult band from Toulouse, France. Their first album Eurolove included the pop song "Mademoiselle," which featured across French National radio stations, a Kiss cover, a track featuring Feist and even a punk track. Logic dictates the first single, which comes with Mickey Moonlight's dubs, old-school style. No other remixes will be available; simply the original tracks and their dub versions, released on limited edition 12" vinyl, with cover art by Manu Cossu.
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