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Also search their remix of Number One by Playgroup.

And Ivan Smagghe's Death Disco, and How To Kill The DJ mixes. Not heard his new one yet.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 28 March 2004 12:46 (twenty years ago) link

And that amazing track on DJ Kaos's '02 Christmas gift cd!!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 28 March 2004 12:58 (twenty years ago) link

Also good Eple - Röyksopp remix. Apparently crap live, at least so I've been told. Has Smagghe's Death Disco mix album been mentioned yet? Bleep!

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 28 March 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

sean otm about the remixes. i love the rapture and dominatrix ones. plus they're really nice guys.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:55 (twenty years ago) link

they played here last night? really? i'm so out of it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 28 March 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago) link

they're the guys that did that awesome track on that karat comp that's kicking my ass right now! 'fall down rise-up'...it's like the best videogame music ever!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 29 March 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago) link

zzzz

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 29 March 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago) link

i like the "ghost track" remix but everything else is "eh"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 29 March 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago) link

(if i was being particularly mean i would say "vitalic-lite")

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 29 March 2004 01:59 (twenty years ago) link

"Me & Madonna" is a bit uninspiring true - but the Volga Select track (also on the Channel 2 comp and by Smagge I think) is great.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 29 March 2004 02:52 (twenty years ago) link

I like Me & Madonna! It's very indie I guess but I love it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago) link

Haha the only thing I've heard is the Me & Madonna/Like I Love You mashup which is awesome... that and the Ghosttrack remix which is similarly great.

Vitalic-lite is absolutely fine with me bearing in mind the real Vitalic don't seem to be doing much at the moment.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:58 (twenty years ago) link

Their remix of Sir Drew's 'Shemale' kicks my ass. Same for 'Robot Soul'. Volga Select remixed something on Paris' Pet label - forgot the name but it's electro-pop niceness. The Sonovac mix of 'Innerstrings' - rough.

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 29 March 2004 13:24 (twenty years ago) link

Black Strobe only sound like Vitalic on that Tiefschwarz remix.

I also like Fitting Together and that Sir Drew remix.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 29 March 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah "Fitting Together"!!!

The Justin/Black Strobe bootleg is brilliant - demonstrates completely that the only problem with "Me & Madonna" was the vocal.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago) link

It's so odd for a dance track to use a vocal which one way or another has been done by shite pop punk one hit wonders about 15 times.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 08:19 (twenty years ago) link

I also like Fitting Together

What's that?

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 12:51 (twenty years ago) link

It was on the Hooj Choons Le Future Le Funk mix last year. Original track by Black Strobe.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link

You have to worry when someone validates their liking for an artist due to them being "really nice guys".

― ___ (___), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 12:58 (twenty years ago) link

fitting together also b-side to "me & madonna" 12"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:41 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks, I knew I had that somewhere. I prefer the Two Fairlight Bitches Remix, without the vocals...

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:14 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

whoa who's heard "The Abwehr Disco" then?

I played it at work today and felt guilty afterwards it was so dark and menacing. That synth after a minute or so!

Brilliant track, perhaps their best to date.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 17 July 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, that's a great track, though I can't decide whether I like "Abwehr Tango" or "Abwehr Disco" better: "Disco" is a lot heavier and more oppressive, where "Tango" is a bit more spacious (though it lacks that great overdriven synth you mentioned).

Not so sold on the "Chemical Sweet Girl" A-side, though -- I guess I just like their italo-influenced stuff more than their Front 242/EBM stuff...

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Saturday, 17 July 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

(not that there's a hard and fast line there, of course)

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Saturday, 17 July 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah I don't think Chemical Sweet Girl is great either, just doesn't really gel, like Italian Fireflies it's a bit ambiguous.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 17 July 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Man alive - this 'Abwher Disco' is going to eat me alive! What a track.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 26 July 2004 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

just heard their Axel F cover and I can't get that damn melody out of my head

― manuel (manuel), Sunday, 10 October 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

the Essential Mix is really amazing isn't it?

I mean "The Abwehr Disco" hinted at their Vitalic style rawness, but this mix really hammers that home, imagine seeing them play!

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 8 January 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link

The WIT remix is my new hottness.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Saturday, 8 January 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link

the Essential Mix is really amazing isn't it?

Total acid madness! (although I did seem them play a set for 2 men, a dog and an alien from the planet Trainspotter somewhere in Paris way back when nobody knew them and well...all they're stuff nowaday is a bit facile, you know just jumping on whatever trend passes them by. ;)

imagine seeing them play

Yeah they have beards. Cool.

― Omar (Omar), Saturday, 8 January 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Has anyone heard the Rammstein remix? That ought to be awesome.

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 8 January 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

oh no I really like the WIT mix!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Me too. I put it on a crushtape.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link

which hasn't worked yet, perhaps I should have put "The Abwehr Disco" on instead.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link

that's for CRUSH tapes

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

tapes for people you want to crush?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

YEAH.

You know - puny humans, people like that.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

that would be a good tape.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

make it! post it!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

TECHNOLOGIC

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link

"fabric 23: ivan smagghe"

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

the essential mix = 10x as good as "suck my deck" or "death disco"

how many times must i tell you people??

smagghe is the fuse ... rebotini is the spark ... BLACKSTROBE IS THE BOMB

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 10 February 2005 05:42 (nineteen years ago) link

anyway even though smagghe's disappointed me twice now, i'm still excited enough to post mp3s

from 1991, credited to one morgan lekcirt and one "ellis d." (not to be confused with ellis dee)

also from 1991, i just like this one, i don't know why, it reminds me of blackstrobe but even more of miss kittin

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 10 February 2005 05:59 (nineteen years ago) link

yay!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 February 2005 06:01 (nineteen years ago) link

those are yousendit links (sorry)

the first record has truly astounding cover art

the second is much more minimal but you can see from whence the power flows ... "what are you doing with your hand, beavis?"

well if anybody likes those let me know and maybe i'll get my mp3 blog off the ground.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 10 February 2005 06:01 (nineteen years ago) link

hey ok Blackstrobe Fabric would be better but Smagghe's mixes are all really really good! and always different!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 10 February 2005 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link

If the mix is anything like his set at Fabric before Christmas it will be mindbendingly good.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 10 February 2005 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I have to say is anyone else kind of a bit miffed with the idea of it being Fabric TWENTY THREE by now, I mean for fuck's sake it's like pokemon. I don't want anymore of those boxes and I find it faintly sickening that Fabric have created such a strong brand for mix cds, there's a sort of horrible inevitability about all of them.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 10 February 2005 11:06 (nineteen years ago) link

even if they are often good!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 10 February 2005 11:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Ronan, you are outdoing yourself this time.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 10 February 2005 11:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean, isn't anyone else getting really annoyed that all these great mix CDs keep dropping off the production line with such crushing inevitability?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 10 February 2005 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link

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OMG watching the "Other Side Of Paris" DVD now - Smagghe and Rebotini gallavanting around Paris, such elegant and decadent hosts! Has anyone else seen this? Ivan has a really odd accent, I like it.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Saturday, 17 December 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm thinking of moving to Paris.

So fickle.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Saturday, 17 December 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Ronan, come and play out in SF!

Black Strobe - if you're reading this, you too! I'm sure all the goth kids hanging around the malls of Pleasanton and Hayward would totally dig it.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Saturday, 17 December 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link

The Paris DVD is the best of the lot- Smagghe and Rebotini are by far the best hosts (and Damian Lazarus doesn't even show up on the DVD side of the London disc!). Great mix too.

― telephone thing, Saturday, 17 December 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Adam, have you got that Jennygoesdirty single "Amoreux Solitaires" that came out on Kill The DJ this year? If not check it out, it has a very Black Strobe feel to it, all the mixes.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 17 December 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

No!

I will, thank you.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

going to see them tomorrow night! been thrashing the other side of paris, & i'm still not getting sick of "the abwehr disco".

― etc, Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Has "Shining Bright Star" been released on vinyl yet?

― telephone thing, Thursday, 2 March 2006 07:30 (eighteen years ago) link

what happened to these guys? what are they doing?

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

wait, I didn't follow this up? (& tim, sorry for not emailing you abou this; + I'll be able to make it to the post office later in the week)

so, I figured they'd be DJing w/maybe a sampler or something, but they were a full on BAND!!! three butch french goths all in cut-off black tees (arnaud's was plain, gtr/bass/keys guy's was sisters of mercy, drummer's was . . . . dandy warhols?!) stomping around, plundering the back catalogue. the drummer was keerazy - had this huge kit that he'd metronomically thrash/recreate everything on while managing to um "mix" between the different tracks - they didn't let up once! arnaud would prowl up & down the stage & terrorise the crowd, & I finally um "got" their vocals - "me & madonna" = excellent live, was nice to hear "bright shining star" for the first time; & me & my friend went absolutely apeshit to "the abwehr disco". came across as such a metal band! no Ivan, sadly. & the DJ before them played a great remix of "all I ever wanted"! didn't get to ask her who'd done it, though.

― etc, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 06:56 (eighteen years ago) link

that sounds amazing!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 07:03 (eighteen years ago) link

anyone heard this?

― W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 07:19 (eighteen years ago) link

wow - that sounds pretty great. Where was that?

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 10:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I still can't believe I lamed out of seeing THAT. goddamnit.

― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

new album? produced by paul epworth??

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Sunday, 5 November 2006 03:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Just got a promo of their forthcoming remix comp! It's really good!

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 5 November 2006 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link

new album? produced by paul epworth??

I'd read that he'd just remixed "Shining Bright Star", but yeah I wanna hear this RIGHT THE FUCK NOW

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Sunday, 5 November 2006 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh... Any info you can share on that remix comp? Title, tracklist, label, anything is more than welcome.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 5 November 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.remixblackstrobe.com/Podcast/7CD73EA6-68FC-4444-AB14-5EE68396FDF6.html

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Sunday, 5 November 2006 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought they had effectively broken up when Arnaud began releasing his own stuff on electrohouse labels....

Is Ivan involved in this album?

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 5 November 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

yes he is! (well, so says the internets.)

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Sunday, 5 November 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't understand: why would they need Paul Epworth to produce their album? They're not The Rapture. If anyone already has a production aesthetic it's Black Strobe.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 5 November 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought it odd that they weren't self producing too but i'm guessing that it is the black strobe band in the studio (drummer, keyboardist and guitarist too) as opposed to just ivan and arnaud. maybe play louder felt it had more chance of crossing over if it had more of a rock production?

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 5 November 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

five months pass...

;___;

― haitch, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Gah.

I like tracks 1 and 10 on the new album but some of the rest is a bit wanky thus far.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

10 being the insane one with the disco beat and echoing guitars and heavy accented "ah jooot want to feeerk" slobbering

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

joost, sorry.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

This is a bad deal for all concerned. It means Smagghe can concentrate on his increasingly lumpen and dull DJing and Arnaud can turn them into some woeful third rate industrial act.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I might end up in the minority on this one, but I'm pleasantly surprised by the album. Mercifully they haven't thrown the electro baby out with the bathwater. As Black Strobe were never exactly subtle to begin with, the noisy guitars go well with the overdriven synths and there are some big fuck off riffs in there as well (one bluesy track about half way through in particular).

There are a couple of clunkers in there and I kind of wish Arnaud would sing less but overall it's much better than I expected.

― Matt DC, Monday, 7 May 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

They might be trying a little too hard with all this BLACK STROBE SMASH PUNY HOUSE MUSIC stuff, I'll admit.

― Matt DC, Monday, 7 May 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

Any thoughts on Arnaud's new one? Sounds pretty good to me, especially the slower tracks.

― mmmm, Thursday, 19 May 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Possibly my fav of the year. Just great.

― mmmm, Saturday, 24 September 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

what the fuck is this shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viaD_9xEo00

― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link

two years pass...

black strobe : goth electro. hit and miss.

arnaud rebotini : fucking brilliant analogue electronica. 'the first 13 minutes of love' is the best thing that tangerine dream never made in 1979.

― mark e, Sunday, 27 December 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link

black strobe had a good few hits imo. their essential mix was really great: https://soundcloud.com/ash-bradshaw/blackstrobe-essential-mix-28

― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Monday, 28 December 2015 10:55 (eight years ago) link

is that arnaud a new record?

― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Monday, 28 December 2015 10:55 (eight years ago) link

Arnaud's album for a couple of years ago was pretty great iirc, it was like a goth Delia and Gavin.

― Matt DC, Monday, 28 December 2015 12:23 (eight years ago) link

LG : this is the album that features the track i mentioned, and the one that Matt is on about :

http://www.discogs.com/Arnaud-Rebotini-Someone-Gave-Me-Religion/master/340983

far better than the black strobe stuff.

― mark e, Monday, 28 December 2015 12:36 (eight years ago) link

For some reason at the time, Black Strobe made me feel like an EBM revival was just around the corner.. there were those Ivan Smagghe mixes around the same time as well that kind of hinted at it. The ~dark~ side of electro-house

― lute bro (brimstead), Sunday, 3 January 2016 00:40 (eight years ago) link

four years pass...

https://soundcloud.com/arnaudrebotini

arnaud has been playing with his machines while in lockdown and posting the results (and some excellent remixes) on his soundcloud.

'digital lockdown' is very classic era cabs.

― mark e, Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link

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