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Hello, and welcome to the discotheque!

Welcome to at the discotheque - a blog created by Hackurr (you may know me for making rave / jungle music, or under the name dreamer eighty seven, for sample based house jams) essentially about all of the great new things happening in the French house, disco and future funk scenes, respectively (along with talk about the classics too!)

My reason for starting this little blog is simple - since winter 2024, I have grown fascinated with these genres and listen to them pretty much all of the time, so writing and talking about them I knew would come soon enough.

 In terms of what's to be expected here, you'll be seeing a variety of things about the genres mentioned above - this includes new releases, some reviews, recommendations, updates about what's going on in various scenes, possibly interviews (let's hope I get some sweet people on board with this!) or just random things if I ever find that one disco tune that needs to be written about.

To get this off to a good start - here's what's happening in the scene right now!

On February 3rd - Justice won the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic recording for their amazing track "Neverender" featuring Tame Impala (which featured on their fourth album Hyperdrama, released last April on Ed Banger) - congrats guys!


Speaking of Ed Banger - it was also announced that through the label, Cassius are dropping a repress of the exclusive "DJ tool" version of 1999 digitally and on vinyl through Bandcamp, giving a fresh take on one of the most important albums in the French house scene.


Finally, recently Washington D.C based producer and DJ Discoholic announced a brand new single featuring LA based singer DATAGIRL, "Blame it on the DJ" which is releasing tomorrow. Be sure to go and check it out.


That's it from me today. I hope you enjoy your stay at the discotheque.



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