Black Devil, or Black Devil Disco Club, is an electronic
disco music project by Bernard Fevre, a French musician who also released synthesizer compositions on
library music
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Backgroun ...
albums under his own name and under the alias Milpatte.
''Disco Club''
The first Black Devil release was the relatively obscure ''Disco Club'' six-track
EP in 1978. The actual artist name and album title are ambiguous; releases, reviews, and even the official artist and label websites use "Black Devil" and "Black Devil Disco Club" interchangeably.
Songwriting credits on the EP named Junior Claristidge and Joachim Sherylee, aliases for Bernard Fevre and Jacky Giordano, respectively. In a 2007 interview, Fevre explained that Giordano's role was not musical; he just financed the recordings, and the co-writing credit was a way of recouping that investment.
The 1978 EP was reissued in 2004 on the
Rephlex label. Collectors unaware of the original LP release initially speculated that the reissue was a hoax by Rephlex founders.
The reissue press release read as follows:
The album is similar to ''
From Here to Eternity
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'' by
Giorgio Moroder, an
electronica album produced one year earlier at
Musicland Studios
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Munich
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,
Germany
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Track listings
; ''Disco Club''
;France
: RCA Victor PL 37164
;Italy
: OUT OUT-ST 25006
; 2004 "Disco Club" reissue
The 2004 reissue had four editions, some of which featured a new "128 bpm" remix by Luke Vibert under his Kerrier District alias:
;;UK
: Rephlex CAT 146 EP
;;UK
: Rephlex CAT 146 R
;;UK
: Rephlex CAT 146 T
;;UK
: Rephlex CAT 146 CD
New releases
After the success of the reissue, Fevre started to produce music again, performing live and relaunching the Black Devil Disco Club project. He released several new albums via the
Lo Recordings
Lo Recordings is a label founded in 1995 by Jon Tye. They are noted for their strong visual style thanks to Non-Format, with whom they work very closely and won a D&AD award for several of their releases sleeves.
Musical style
Lo recordings m ...
label: ''28 After'' (2006), ''Black Devil in Dub'' (2007; remixes of songs from ''28 After''), and ''Eight Oh Eight'' (2008). A new record, ''Circus'', was scheduled to be released April 11, 2011, and features
Nancy Sinatra
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Nancy Sinatr ...
,
Afrika Bambaataa, Faris Badwan
the Horrors
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, YACHT,
Jon Spencer
Jon Spencer (born February 5, 1965) is an American singer, composer and guitarist. He has been involved in multiple musical acts, such as Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, Heavy Trash and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
History
Jon Spencer was bor ...
(Blues Explosion), Aja Emma (Cosmetics), CocknBullKid, Nancy Fortune, and Nicolas Ker (Poni Hoax).
* 2007 - ''Black Devil in Dub'' (remixes of songs from ''28 After'')
* 2008 - ''Eight Oh Eight''
* 2009 - ''Black Devil Disco Club Presents: The Strange New World of Bernard Fevre''
* 2011 - ''Circus'' (features Nancy Sinatra, Afrika Bambaataa, Faris Badwan the Horrors, YACHT, Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion), Aja Emma (Cosmetics), CocknBullKid, Nancy Fortune, and Nicolas Ker (Poni Hoax).)
* 2013 - ''Black Moon White Sun''
* 2020 - ''Lucifer is a Flower''
A single from the record, "My Screen", featuring Nicolas Ker, was released on 11 October 2010.
Appearances
The dub version of the song "The Devil In Us" was featured on
Grand Theft Auto IV
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on the fictional radio station "Electro choc"
"'H' Friend" (Free Disco Permanent Midnight remix) was featured on the third episode of the first season of the 2021 series
Chucky (TV series)
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[https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a37940349/chucky-season-1-soundtrack-songs]
References
External links
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* (defunct)
Official Lo Recordings websiteOfficial Black Devil Disco Club MySpace
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French electronic music groups
Rephlex Records artists