- Patrons don't come much more significant than James Holden and Ivan Smagghe, and Rimini duo Margot have got both firmly in their corner. Holden released their France 2 EP on Border Community in 2010 and, according to Smagghe, he was simply too busy recording his recent album to release this one, so he handed it over to the Parisian for release on Kill The DJ.
"Magico Disco" is, as Smagghe puts it, "delirious, vocodered fluff." It's a rollicking seven-minute confection awash with sun-bleached trance pads and weaving synth lines, finished with an over-the-top vocal exhorting the transportative properties of some unknown discotheque. Tel Aviv's Red Axes contributes a slightly slowed take on the original with added synth flashes that doesn't fall far from the tree.
The wealth of additional tracks in the package could almost make it a mini-album. The heavy vocodered fug of "Castel" is "Magico Disco" after one too many bumps of ketamine, while the wandering bass riff on the spacey instrumental "Voice Chord" resembles a muted version of the one that anchors Daphni's "Ye Ye." "Rockstep" and "My Sisters" are both grittier iterations of the Margot sound, the former a kraut-touched slab of machine-funk, the latter a brooding clatter of snares, bass synth and Burial-like vocal snippets.
Tracklist A1 Magico Disco
A2 Magico Disco (Red Axes' Medical Disco Remix)
A3 Rock Step
B1 My Sisters
B2 Castel
B3 Voice Chord
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