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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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