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The enigma of The Black Devil Disco Club
Nearly 30 years after the first album this ‘extremely rare disco
masterpiece’, gets a follow up, an epic journey into the deepest
electronic disco, full of haunting vocals, warped lyrics, twisted yet
melodic electronics and crisp disco beats.
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The enigma of The Black Devil Disco Club
Nearly 30 years after the first album this ‘extremely rare disco
masterpiece’, gets a follow up, an epic journey into the deepest
electronic disco, full of haunting vocals, warped lyrics, twisted yet
melodic electronics and crisp disco beats.
In 2004 Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label released an album by Black Devil
called Disco Club, a re-issue of a long lost supposedly ‘italo disco’
classic from 1978. Given it’s absurdly ‘modern’ sound many doubted it’s
authenticity, some even suggesting that it was a collaboration between
Richard James and Luke Vibert.
The real story is stranger still. Although credited to Joachim Sherylee
and Junior Claristidge with executive production by Jacky Giordano, the
album is actually the work of obscure French producer Bernard Fevre
known only for his incredibly rare electronic masterpiece ‘The Strange
World of Bernard Fevre’ and the even rarer ‘Earthmessage ‘ as sampled
by the Chemical Brothers on ‘Got Glint?’ - from their ‘Surrender’ album.
Now comes new albums, so similar in sound and structure to the original
albums that it’s impossible to know if they were created near the time
of its predecessor or in the last few years and no Mr Fevre won’t say
when and where it was recorded…
Some even suggesting that it was some kind of a joke or a collaboration
between Richard James and Luke Vibert...
One thing’s for sure, you won’t hear a more unusual or beguiling
electronic dance record this year. Who knows the secret of the Black
Devil disco club?
Fans include: Morgan Geist of Metro Area, Lindstrom, Alden Tyrell,
Emperor Machine and Quiet Village, Pilooski, ParaOne...
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