The more I listen to LBCK the more embarrassed I am that I haven’t known about them for longer. With bloggers lavishing praise left and right it looks like this is just the beginning for Alex Nobel and Mike Lucas-the Long Beach City Kids. I think part of what makes this group so exciting is that while the group is primarily disco influenced, they’ve got a big range. You’d never think tracks like “Disco Thrills” and “Giallo” could possibly come from the same producers. “Disco Thrills” is like Bit Funk or Sidechains and “Giallo” is more like Whitenoise or Boys Noize. I’ll put it this way…I put on “Disco Thrills” and my dog ran up to me; I put on “Giallo” and it ran away.

LBCK – Disco Thrills

LBCK are doing the premiere  of the “Start” music video at Dragonfly Monday, July 26th with fellow DJs…wait for it…DCUP and Binary’s own, Fabian! Check out the event page here. Let me just say this, I live in Nashville, TN. If those three acts were playing here you couldn’t keep me away. Lightning would have to hit DCUP’s plane out of Atlanta for him to ever play here. LA, consider yourself lucky.

I always try to come up with my own descriptions for these songs, but Kick Kick Snare got it exactly right when they said “Disco Thrills” is “a fusion of late nineties French house vibes and disco touches without being overly reverential.” That’s more than just a clever way of saying it’s like Daft Punk, but not like Daft Punk. LBCK have something going on here that is thoroughly theirs.  It’s like someone threw an early 90s tv theme song, a silky disco track, and a glitched out LA banger in a blender and hit chop. I’ve got a set in the works for tomorrow and as soon as I heard this I ran to my tables to figure out how I’d get it in. The Ed Hardy peanut gallery might not deem it “fist-pumpable,” but they’ll deal.

Posted by: Evan