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This collaboration between two French producers and DJs best known for their disco re-edits and remixes of other artists' work lives up to its portmanteau moniker. It contains the expected nonchalant swing that characterises the disco revival of the past half-decade ? but also the slightly numbed narcosis that's a hallmark of fellow French producers such as Chlo� and Etienne Jaumet. These qualities make for uneasy bedfellows ? but less because they jar interestingly, rather because they negate and detract from each other; too morose and anonymous to work as disco, too sunny and breezy to ever be really uncomfortable listening. It rarely puts a foot wrong, as such ? apart from when Jarvis Cocker creeps unwanted into earshot, his voice as strained and smarmy as ever. But when even the steel drums on Falkenburg and the madcap circus piano on Grace sound too low-key to excite, there's something wrong. Amid its sluggishness, Discodeine sparkles intermittently ? but too rarely.
China Chow Alecia Elliott Kat Von D Ana Paula Lemes Vanessa Simmons
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