Fenech Soler's "The Cult Of Romance" remixed by Combo

Fenech Soler: from Northamptonshire, but don’t let that put you off

Fenech Soler have taken a leaf out of Stuart Price’s Les Rhythmes Digitales book. They’ve gone, “Hey, we make straightfaced Eurobouncy electropop, so shall we call ourselves something vaguely Fronchy? That way everyone will automatically think we are good.”

And then they’ve had a little think, and then they’ve answered, “Yes. Yes, we shall.” And then they’ve agreed with themselves, shaken hands with themselves, and done just that.

It’s worked a treat, too - they’ve been signed up to the Vulture label, which is run by Alan Braxe. At this point I could pretend to have heard of him, but I don’t like to mislead, readership. Apparently he’s some big dance cheese from across Le Channel, anway*.

Other factlets: they’re from Northamptonshire, so probably know how to pronounce “Towcester” correctly. They are insultingly young, with none of them currently over 21 years of age. And their new single, “The Cult Of Romance” came out this week.

The single’s good, but as is often the case these days there’s an even better remix. You can hear that remix, by Combo, below. It is 6 minutes of proper good hi-NRG emoelectro, it is.

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Buy Fenech Soler, “The Cult Of Romance” at iTunes

Fenech Soler on MySpace

*Having since listened to some of his stuff, I can confirm Mr Braxe makes a very pleasing racket indeed. “In Love With You” in particular is a fluffy-nosed delight. Oh, and it turns out he was one of the folk behind Stardust’s “Music Sounds Better With You”. Perhaps I should keep my smart remarks to myself in future.

[Image: Elisha Smith-Leverock, from Fenech Soler's MySpace]

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