To continue along the distinctly trance-themed path of recent selections, next up we have Maxime Denuc and his excellent new LP Club Imperiale. Named after a now-shuttered nightspot that overlooked the beach on Italy’s picturesque Tuscan coast, the album is framed as a work of speculative historical fiction, imagining a point of creative symbiosis between the Catholic church and the ecstatic dancefloors of the early ’90s. In simpler terms it occupies one of my favourite sub-genres, seemingly set up to answer the question: “what if trance but minus drums plus reverb?”.
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Maxime Denuc – Atlantis
