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Flashmob is the new eagerly awaited album from Vitalic. It has been four years since his debut album Ok Cowboy in 2005, and his latest is a treat for any fan or even a new-bee to his sound. The Dijon based producer, Pascal Arbez has done it again with some almighty hard hitting sounds that excite the soul and make you twitch for your long lost glow stick. The rightfully entitled Flashmob creates a feeling of unity, and pure excitement, with an industrial disco sound, with some sticky sweet vocals. It conjours up images of the mysterious world of ‘flashmobbing,’ an underground craze where people gather together in a spontaneous moment to create something extraordinary and unusual, like a giant pillow fight in Trafalgar Square or a mass hockie-cockie in Paddington.

The title track, Flashmob is a classic club track, but with its tediously ‘go-faster’ explosions, it feels more like the dirty fairground ride tunes that are banged out by men in tight tee-shirts and fags limply hanging out of the sides of their mouth to attract naughty kids reeling from a bottle of Scrumpy to spend another two quid on the rollercoaster. 

Second Life gives you the feeling that your youth will last forever, or that you are taken back to the days of old- I can imagine listening to this tune in years to come with a fond heart. The squeaky quirk of Arbez makes you want to throw your finger in the air and gyrate. 

The album is a little tiresome at times, making you want to scream out ‘stop’ but Arbez just will not let you. With some pretty cool vocals adding to the funky rifts in One Above One he is saved from being just a little annoying. This is not, may I say, brilliantly intelligent electronica. But who cares when you can set out across the city with a huge smile on your face and a secret party in your headphones. 

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Aquila Dunford Wood