Audio By Carbonatix
With 1 day left in our spring campaign, we have a new $10,000 goal!
New Times members have already contributed more than $8,000 - can you help us hit our new goal and keep New Times free and in print every week? If New Times matters to you, please take action and contribute today.
The telephone connection crosses the Atlantic and Ivan Smagghe picks up in the studio amid zaps of off-putting metallic modulation crafted by his chum Arnaud Rebotini. Together they are the French outfit Black Strobe, who recently swooped into clubland stateside via a remix of the Rapture’s “Sister Savior” and the endorsement of their new London-based label, Outpost Recordings.
Smagghe, a resident DJ at the tres-cool Le Pulp nightclub in Paris, says their upcoming debut album, tentatively scheduled for a fall release, “will be a marriage of the rock-with-synths element, a pure techno and experimental direction, but of a deeper scope. We certainly have tricks up our sleeve.” In the meantime watch them stalk the Soho Lounge dance floor with a satchel full of new material, which will most likely include the brain-scanning Euro-smash “Me and Madonna.”
Black Strobe performs on Saturday, March 6, at Soho Lounge. See listings for more info.
