A ton of scenes and sounds try to claim it, but I reckon if Friday night could sing it'd gargle and hum like Eurodisco: throbbing, ecstatic and covered in post-work sweat. The Phenomenal Handclap Band's original is more chill - more Tuesday night, really - but Ilya Santana straps on one of those arpeggiated, Moroder synths and "You'll Disappear" goes woosh, jetting off into the stratosphere in search of stardust and alien love. What's that? Friday night's tonight? Fuck yeah.
Sounds Like: Giorgio Moroder, Harmonia, Vangelis
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - You'll Disappear (Ilya Santana Remix)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - You'll Disappear
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The original mix of "Odyle" - available to hear at Heloise & The Savoir Faire's MySpace page - is confusing enough; a bawdy concoction of drunken, arpeggiated disco, big mama punk vox akin to Beth Ditto's and the usual, heady, electro rush. When that James Pants gets ahold of it though - he of super-fresh jive styles and Stones Throw approve - the whole thing laxes out, finds a different space and gets its groove on; Pants fixing it up with isolated shimmers of synth and one of his trademark slacker G-Funk basslines. It's a come on Heloise responds to, her throat dropping its punkish affectations in favour of more sultry, slowly ecstatic 90s house tones. More sexy turkey profiled on Heloise & The Savoir Faire's debut LP Trash, Rats and Microphones available now through Elijah Wood's Simian Records.
Sounds Like: Neptunes, Baby D, Hall & Oates
Heloise & The Savoir Faire - Odyle (James Pants Remix)
Previously:
James Pants - Ka$h (Trizzy & XXXchange Remix)
James Pants - Dragonslayer
James Pants - We're Through
Howard Johnson - Say You Wanna (Pants Re-Edit)
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