An energy filled and DJ friendly record with a synthesizer focus and kraut slant; it’s a surprise this is a U.S. record.
[Listen | Purchase] New from San Francisco comes Voltaire Records. To open this imprint’s account is Publicist, known as Sebastian Thomson to some and the drummer from Trans Am to others.
“Keep It Off The Record” contains deep funk bass lines and solid beats combined with disguised vocoder lyrics. A disco slice is perched on the EP from the get go, it’s flavor running throughout. This is not revivalist disco, but a arpeggiated electro floor pleaser. Think along the lines of Bangkok Impact and Putsch ’79, maybe even a hint of Polygamy Boys. The flipside sees a cosmic element land on the grooves, with “Schnell & Sauber” spinning Krautrock notes into the spirals of synth. “Miscalculation” aches of the Nordic synth sound; not in the Lindstrom way, but with body and muscle. The EP finishes with the full glimmer throttle action of “Hand to Mouth.” In some ways the tracks are reminiscent of the Ghostly Disco Nouveau series, but there is much more of a cosmic influence in the Voltaire material.
So, what’s it all about? Keep It Off The Record is an energy filled and DJ friendly record with a synthesizer focus and kraut slant; it’s a surprise this is a U.S. record. Not to stereotype but this 12” has a definitive European sound, a neo-disco electro slant of Scandinavia or perhaps Holland. A clever club record, and a decent piece of cosmic. A label to keep the peepers on.
Keep It Off The Record is out now on Voltaire. [Listen | Purchase]
