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AEROPLANEYou fly with Aeroplane once, you don’t forget it. In just three years, the Italian-Belgian duo have established themselves as party-starting DJs, remixers du jour -with their spacious cosmic-disco re-rerubs of Grace Jones (William’s Blood), Friendly Fires (Paris) and Sebastien Tellier (Kilometer) - and, via their own piano-sprinkled melancholic beauties like Caramellas, leaders of the nu-disco and Balearica scene.So Aeroplane’s debut album, We Can’t Fly, arrives with sky-high hopes. Now that our appetites have been whetted by those brief, tantalising excursions, what delights await us on their maiden long-haul flight?
Plenty, it turns out. Recorded in Toulouse, Paris, London and Los Angeles, We Can’t Fly (co-produced by Bertrand Burgalat), is a grown up, dazzlingly accomplished record that showcases not just a passion for stately, soulful disco and early 80s electronica, but a lush and bittersweet set of influences that stretch from Abba and film soundtracks to Floyd, the Stones and the Italian crooners that Vito Deluca’s mama played him in his Brussels youth.
Aeroplane is now a one-man operation, Vito having amicably parted company with his bandmate Stephen Fasano. Not that we should be alarmed. “There are worse things in life!” says Vito. “Stephen’s gonna do music on his own, I’m gonna do music on my own.
PUNKS JUMP UP
Punks Jump Up are Londoner Joe Attard and Swede David Andersson. Taking a love of The Clash, 909s, Nike trainers and Stussy rings, they’ve pushed their sound in various directions, from punk-funk to speed garage. Best known as remixers (Gossip, Digitalism, Peter Bjorn and John), they’ve kept an album under wraps for a long time now, subject to constant revision as their style evolves. Releases include Be You (Cassette), and Dance To Our Disco (Kitsuné) featuring Pele from The Hives. Their own Cassette label has released 12s by Simian Mobile Disco, Springmine Disaster, Sci-Fi-Skane, Meat Boys, Elektrofant…
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SUPPORTING DJS:
AARON AXELSEN (POPSCENE)
BT MAGNUM (BEAT ELECTRIC)
JEFFREY PARADISE (BLOW UP SF)
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