Here's a brand new demo + rmx from the Valerie Collective's youngest member/co-founder, Raphael Pegase. If you need a compelling reason to preview "Dream Awake," Pegase is the vox behind Minitel Rose, he produced College's Secret Diary debut and is already collabing/touring with the Outrunners, Anoraak, Russ Chimes and Jupiter (starting this weekend in Barcelona with Chimes). Don't expect an EP any time soon - Raph said by email this morning, "I'm just at the beginning of my project. I want to travel with my music; I want to start with DJ/live sets around the world and then reflect on a release." Having caught most of Valerie last weekend at Webster Hall, the live piece fits either of these song titles perfectly.
Greetings from the set of Electroma II: Deliblatska Peščara. Tomorrow night we will drag Tang/vermouth-dipped lychee peels across each other's cheeks under the empty sky of Serbia's Vojvodina province, in honor of the Valerie Collective's US debut at Webster Hall (which includes College, Anoraak, Russ Chimes, Lovelock, and many special guests). We will do this in reverent silence but you may enjoy the beats below.
The real thing might suck sometimes, but the French concept of your teenage years is always perfect - self discovery, chemical (and peer) exploration, finding your personal brand, passing out on Sparks-soaked linoleum and doing it all over again.
But living for today is boring when you can be a Hollywood star from the glamorized redux of 80s pop culture. The Teenagers name drop Dirty Dancing and proclaim their love for all things 90210, M83's Saturdays=Youth is a self-described ode to teenage life on MTV, and Kavinsky's "Flashback," (from the 1986 EP, of course), documents the cool kid's dangerous post-prom moonlight Ferrari excursions. Now France's David Grellier, known on the electrobloghaus circuit as College, is rebuilding the cache of your forgotten early-morning/after epiphanies right alongside his peers, retouching blemishes and socially awkward incidents with the stroke of a synth. Call it Kavinsky on klonopin or M83 on a hott clap holiday.
01- Stephen Falken - Everything Must Go 02- Roman Salzger - Alpha Centauri 03- Alden Tyrell - Odessa Theme 04- Lifelike - High On 05- Lovelock - Love Reaction 06- College - Teenage Color (Russ Chimes Remix) 07- Pnau - Lover 08- Bangkok Impact - Bright Light, Dim Light 09- Pony Pony Run Run - Star Survivor (Russ Chimes'Drive To Survive Remix) 10- Sedat The Turkish Avenger - Sunrise (Original Mix) 11- Pnau featuring Ladyhawke - Embrace 12- Loose Shus - Total Fox 13- Xinobi - Day Off (Anoraak Remix) 14- Error Love - Top Of The Charts (Number One In The Uk) 15- Melinda Jackson - Magic (Moustache Remix)
