Founded by CHLOÉ and forged in the twilight between dancefloor heat and gallery ambience, Paris-based imprint Lumière Noire continues to navigate the liminal zones of sound art and club culture. Their latest instalment ‘Flash Vol. 2‘ is a curated polyphony, as suitable for museum installations as for the sweat-soaked pulse of a 5AM closing set.
This second volume collates four artists with very different sonic lexicons but a shared affinity for the unpredictable. Stockholm-based producer Paresse opens the dispatch with ‘SEM EMS’, a dubwise detour cloaked in machine-made grooves and low-end fog. Bordeaux-based sound architect Costello injects serrated minimalism into ‘Fresh Flesh’, evoking dystopian disco with haunted organ stabs and twisted metallic edges. The closing piece ‘Venere’ sees CHLOÉ and Destiino (Yuksek’s spectral alias) reunite for a phantasmagoric abstraction blending mutant synths, stuttering FX and a kind of hypnotic collage that hovers somewhere between trance and musique concrète.
Our pick for the premiere is ‘H00V‘ from Frankfurt-based luminary Lauer – a track that doesn’t so much announce itself as crash in through the side door. Built on a snarling, rubberized bassline and precision-tooled garage drums, ‘H00V’ flirts with early-2000s UK pressure while keeping one eye locked on the horizon. Bells shimmer, snares pop like pressure valves and laser-drenched FX cascade through the mix like echoes in a steel corridor. The result is a tightly coiled, club-ready transmission that feels both nostalgic and spatially adventurous.
‘Flash Vol. 2‘ is scheduled for release 6th June via Lumière Noire Records. Order a copy from here.
TRACKLIST
- Paresse – SEM EMS
- Costello – Fresh Flesh
- Destiino & CHLOÉ – Venere
- Lauer – H00V