"party dress, disco ball, drinks for two"
Saturn Returns To Disco starts off with synth arpeggios with machine beat and off beat percussion that sounds like someone rapping on your front door. As the song embraces you Kid Moxie's (aka L.A. based singer, bass player, actress Elena Charbila) vox smoothly sail in. Her vocal aesthetic is dream pop forward.
"space disco"
The production, the aura courtesy of LUXXURY, a master of his own brand of space disco pushes a lot of buttons. The track at once feels sci-fi, feels 80's vintage, feels fable-esque and otherworldly. The nearly 4 minute song flies by, maybe because it is such dense escapist fair and I wanted to be gone longer.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Kid Moxie is the moniker of Greek born Elena Charbila, bass play-ing singer and actress based in Los Angeles. Throughout her latest two albums, she has received substantial international press coverage by some of the world’s top outlets like Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, Noisey, Stereogum and many more. Notable collaborations on her music include The Gaslamp Killer, Twin Peaks, Angelo Badalamenti. '4AM', originally released on her Perfect Shadow album, was also released as a single.
LUXXURY makes dance music for adults. Raw, funky bass-lines plucked with grown-man finesse. A mastery of space disco native only to those who lived through the late '70s/early '80s. Dust in the glitter that vibrates in the space between string stabs, bongo slaps, and guitar jabs-while the steady pulse and astral effects feel beamed in from a more cybernetic future Los Angeles. That's where the nu-disco wizard born Blake Robin dwells when he isn't on the road opening for Giorgio Moroder or the Juan MacLean, leading his 4 piece band on late-night TV or remixing live at DJ sets in Mexico City, New York and London. In fact, you might've first felt his deft touch via the controversial Luxxury Edits-where he uses multi-tracks (stems) of classic hits to create dubby slow-disco versions-but his original music is no less arresting, with a sound that reflects not only a newfound earnestness of expression but a lifelong love for the craft of disco.
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