Dansez Maintenant

If it's sweetened, husky French voices, we're all ears here at FS. Musical style does not really matter - every now and then we sure like to get down 'n boogie. Here's three examples.

Kicking off with Hektor, a band that was featured here before. There first album Dans ta guele is out, and if this synthpop-tornado (think Superbus, Lio, Yelle, Chicks on Speed) does not hit you in the face, it sure is murder to your hips and knees. I just love the tipsy way Carine is singing, like she had just one glass of white wine too much before entering the vocal booth. Charming. The titletrack is jump-around-madness; Crever d'Amour is their electronic take on Barry 'Walrus of Love' White's heritage, and more suitable for horizontal dancing. Also check their MySpace-site.

Hektor - Dans Ta Gueule
Hektor - Crever d'Amour

Next up, from Belgium: Lunabee, also the band providing the illustration. Prenez garde aux flots bleus is the first album of this fille, who fell in love with synthesizers first, then got help from vocalist Pascale Vervloet, two lyricists and superprouducer Pierre Vervloesem (dEUS, X-Legged Sally). Lunabee makes funny, bit weird popmusic, that because of the dreamy sounds, and Pascale's highpitched voice, sounds fairytale-like. A few Lunabee-tracks were remixed, and thus made more danceable. More on MySpace.

Lunabee - Le lion des mers du Sud
Lunabee - Le lion des mers du Sud (Frederic de Carvalho remix)
Lunabee - Poupée de chair

Finally, Alden Tyrell. This Dutch dj/producer is playing all over the world, playing his Giorgio Moroder-influenced, nasty disco. He's on the Rotterdam Clone label, very fitting to his pseudonym, which Martijn Hoogendijk (his real name) took from the movie Blade Runner - Alden Tyrell is the 'boss' of the clones. His track La Voix features the both sweet and stern voice of France's Nancy Fortune (real name Julia Fedida, she's also a dj/producer). La Voix is on Alden's very good compilation Times Like These; a shiny remix is on the Clone-comp ReCloned. More on Alden Tyrell via MySpace.

Alden Tyrell - La Voix
Alden Tyrell - La Voix - Elitechnique remix