Following their excellent RA podcast in June, Benoit & Sergio catch up with fabric to talk about their new album, Azari and III and slow tempos. All before their live set in Room One next Saturday.
The breakthrough duo show their wares on this 15-track mix for XLR8R, which includes material from Lee Foss, Ariel Pink, LCD Soundsystem and Daft Punk.
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Benoit & Sergio Giorgini
Benoit & Sergio don’t make dance tracks—they tell stories. In the Washington, DC duo’s music, a sense of place and narrative infuse their rhythms and melodies, transcending the confines of “tech-house” or “electronic pop” and entering a genre-free realm of cinematic imagery and visceral pleasures. Benoit & Sergio draw from influences mostly uncommon to the house-and-techno zeitgeist—bands like Talking Heads, Pavement, Roxy Music, Paul Simon—while keeping an ear towards electronic-music contemporaries like Isolee, Thomas Melchior, and Ricardo Villalobos. The resulting tracks pulse with hooks and atmosphere, proudly flying their creators’ freak flag while giving listeners a little something extra to dance about.
