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Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
There have been many notable nightclubs in film history. The Blue Angel in the Marlene Dietrich movie; the Copacabana in Goodfellas, accessible to privileged wiseguys via the kitchen; the Slow Club in Blue Velvet, with the emotionally damaged star turn Isabella Rossellini singing the song of the same name.
But the most staggering nightclub scene has to be in the 2019 film Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo, by the prize-winning director Abdellatif Kechiche. It is a sequel to an earlier film, about sexually charged goings-on in the French seaside town of Sète.
Machine Learning: Roisin Murphy Interviewed The thinking raverâs diva of choice chats simulation theory and Kanye West popping round for a cuppa.
Irish art-pop empress
RóisÃn Murphy kicks off her new(ish) disco-inflected solo LP with a sprawling eight-and-a-half-minute instrumental track called âSimulationâ.
I mean, who does that. Bold as fuck. And more to the point, why does it work so well?
âI fetishise ideas,â RóisÃn tells Clash chattily down the phone on around the squillionth week of lockdown, when asked if sheâs hinting at simulation theory.
Simulation theory, by the way, is the fashionable Elon Musk-favoured idea that weâre all living in some elaborate fabricated alien computer programme.
Fontaines DC are reborn as punk-funk disconauts, and the results are cracking Belgian DJs Soulwax have released a glittering remix of Fontaines DC’s A Hero’s Death
Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 05:30 Ed Power
In a year in which a terrible hush drowned out everything else, Fontaines DC’s A Hero’s Death provided a rare reason to the cheerful. The Dublin five-piece’s second album came out last July – that phoney moment of high summer when it almost felt the pandemic had gone away.
The world has shut down since then but now Fontaines DC are opening up. A remix of A Hero’s Death by Belgian DJs and producers Soulwax – aka brothers David and Stephen Dewaele – has just been released and gives the Dubliners a glittering retro-electro makeover.
What is there to say about Róisín? Visionary, Amazing, Exhibitionist? Our thesaurus just isn’t large enough…Neon Nights – 223 –
As the frontwoman and one half of UK-based, alternative dance-pop duo Moloko, Murphy celebrated a successful career throughout the 90s with mixer/producer Mark Brydon and their unique electronic partnership. Across their four studio albums the duo had a number of hit singles including ‘Sing It Back’, ‘The Time Is Now’, ‘Pure Pleasure Seeker’ and ‘Indigo’. Merging their sassy, eccentric and unconventional brand of electronic music, the band became known as one of the most iconic dance acts of the era.