It's impossible to underestimate Faze Action's role in bringing about the richness and breadth to electronic music that we now take for granted. In 2008, disco is a recognized part of contemporary dance music's fabric, but it wasn't always so. Back in the mid-nineties, when the likes of Lindstrom and Todd Terje were still young pups, brothers Robin and Simon Lee released a string of essential 12"s on Nuphonic under the name Faze Action.
This rare opportunity to catch Faze Action in their original line-up, delving into their formidable back catalogue and previewing new material from their forthcoming LP, should not be missed.
Live support comes from Paris-based Etienne Jaumet, whose hypnotic, retro-futurist electronica is the perfect compliment to Faze Action's strident disco exoticism.
Jaumet is one half of Zombie Zombie, whose rip-roaring, krautrock-influenced A Land For Renegades LP is one of the year's most exciting and accomplished debuts.As a solo performer, he delves yet deeper into a dressing box of inspirations drawn from horror movie soundtracks, vintage italo, kosmische, library music and psychedelia, concocting a sound that is sensuous, intoxicating and more than a little foreboding.Breathtaking in its imagination and cinematic scope, Jaumet's live show - which takes in saxophone and a vast array of vintage keyboards and synthesizers - is essential viewing.
LIVE: FAZE ACTION + ETIENNE JAUMET
DJ: DOLAN BERGIN + JAMES PRIESTLY
8-3
£10 adv, £6 before 9, £12 after


