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LANGE
IT’S a year of change for Lange — the UK trance anymore: they’re into trance but
trance pioneer who has had his hand in they’re into Eric Prydz or Deadmau5 as
over 20 Top 40 chart productions. Finally well.”
letting out his debut artist album ‘Better
Late Than Never’ at the tail-end of last Following last year’s electro pumped
year, Lange has this year shifted agents, collaboration with Gareth Emery —
shifted perspective and started shifting ‘Another Me, Another You’ — Lange has
his sound to more experimental areas. kept a steady output with the epic vocal
“I’m trying to be a bit different without number ‘Out Of The Sky’ and the proggy
forgetting my trance roots,” he tells us. ‘Songless’ complimenting his remixes on
“I’ve been heavily infl uenced by electro labels like Vandit.
and minimal and I do like the progressive “I’m enjoying the gigs more than ever
stuff. I’m trying not to be too formulaic, too,” he says. “The Sunrise festival in
which I was guilty of in my early days. Poland was amazing with a crowd of
25,000, South Korea is a great new
“People like Deadmau5 have blurred what territory and I also played Hawaii for the
is house and what is trance in a way,” he fi rst time, which was unbelievable.”
adds. “It’s been instrumental in opening The next project for the veteran of the
the trance community’s eyes to other trance scene is knuckling down to his
musical perspectives. People don’t just like second album. ALLAN MCGRATH
First record you ever bought? A Shaking Stevens album on tape!
Weirdest thing you’ve seen all year? Gareth Emery coming to talk to me in his
Y-fronts whilst I was in bed with the missus.
Top gadget of 2008? BBC iPlayer or 4OD.
Your year in fi ve words… Stressful at times but rewarding. Style: Progressive electro-edged trance Best known for: Pioneering
Most important thing you’ve learned recently? That change can be a UK trance. Tune of 2008: Signalrunners feat Julie Thompson ‘The
wonderful thing. Shoulders’ (Anjunabeats) Producer of the year: Kyau & Albert
DAFT PUNK
YOU can’t get keep a good robot down. Mutant Lemur devices to trigger their
Despite having a fairly quiet 2008, the electroid grooves.
infl uence of Daft Punk remains everywhere
we look. From being sampled on Kanye On the visual side, and in their most
West’s 2007 mega hit ‘Stronger’ and on eccentric move yet, the Daft duo directed
Wiley’s 2008 chart botherer ‘In the the bizarre ‘Electroma’ — a road movie in
Summertime’, to inspiring everyone from which their robot selves, played by actors,
Justice to Deadmau5, both visually and quested across a robot-inhabited California
musically, and infl uencing legions of in order to become human. Always
Kitsuné disco punkers to start their own interested in the possibilities of fi lm,
band, these cyborgs are a force to be ‘Electroma’ had the distinction of being the
reckoned with. fi rst full-length movie directed by the pair
in the wake of videos for their tracks
Last year, the team of Guy Manuel De ‘Fresh’, ‘Robot Rock’ and more. Both of the
Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter Punks studiously avoided appearing on fi lm
released their second live CD, ‘Alive 2007’, themselves and were only interviewed with
an irreverent, pile-driving romp through their faces obscured.
their back catalogue, re-jigging the classics
and giving tracks from last album ‘Human De Homem-Christo meanwhile collaborated
After All’ an acid burnt techno re-spray. with leftfi eld French crooner Sebastian
They played a smattering of festivals, Tellier for the epic album ‘Sexuality’, a
performing in their LED light-clad robot sleazy electrofunk caper augmented by the
helmets, perched at the top of a erstwhile Punk’s production skills,
psychedelic disco pyramid. underpinning Tellier’s breathy Gallic tones.
After announcing that they would perform Allegedly at work on a new album — their
no live gigs in 2008, Daft Punk made a one- fi rst since 2005’s ‘Human After All’ —
off appearance at the 50th Grammy Awards, anything new from the house of Daft Punk
on 10th February, alongside Kanye West for is always awaited with baited breath.
a version of ‘Stronger’, using four Jazz BEN MURPHY
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