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Didier Sinclair, Baron (FR) - Lovely Flight
Read more . . . →French house never really went away, it just kept changing its clothes. “Lovely Flight” is Didier Sinclair and Baron doing the filtered-disco thing with enough polish to sound current and enough warmth to sound like they actually mean it. There is a looped vocal sample stretched across the top that does most of the emotional lifting, landing somewhere between wistful and giddy, and underneath it a bassline that bounces with that unmistakable Gallic swing. It is the sound of driving into a sunset with the windows down, which stays a cliché right up until a track actually earns it, and...
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Mr Tout Le Monde - Turn Around
Read more . . . →The bassline that slinks in at 0:48 does most of the work on “Turn Around,” and I’m completely fine with that. Mr Tout Le Monde makes warm, faintly melancholy electronic pop, the sort of thing that looks like a sunset but grooves hard enough to actually dance to. The vocal is breathy and a little resigned, sitting just behind the beat, giving the whole track an after-hours glow. The percussion stays soft and brushed the whole way through, so the bass ends up carrying the entire groove on its own: rubbery, melodic, walking up and down under everything like it’s...
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