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Release-Date:09.06.2023
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LeonXLeon - Itanewa
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LeonXLeon - Solid Dose
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LeonXLeon - Piano Mondo
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LeonXLeon - Italian Hitman
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LeonXLeon - Solid Dose (Bell Towers Remix)
More than four years after his previous EP and after having released some remixes and collaborations with Agar Agar,
Black Devil Disco Club or the Italian design studio Burro Studio, LeonxLeon comes back with a new EP, passing to the
electronic shaker the styles of music listened since the last release.
4 tracks all as different as each other with first Itanewa, where the Parisian producer tries for the first time to give voice,
without vocoder, well aware that on a track inspired by South African productions of the 80s, an instrumental version only
would not be enough to do justice. It is thus in a kind of invented Esperanto that the lyrics, a call to lightness and simplicity
according to the artist, are distilled between synthetic bass, keyboards and other percussions.
On Piano Mondo, we leave rather in the direction of South America with pianos of Bossa inspiration on a bass italo-disco,
rises and descents as if we were in Val d'Isere and breaks just long enough to catch its breath.
The idea of Solid Dose is completely different since it was a question of taking the post new-beat dance sound of the
beginning of the 90s, with a big blow, hence the title, of the synthetic bass sound "Solid Bass" which will be used in a lot
of ways at this period and which is coming back in force nowadays, and to mix it with the Nordic touch of dance music for
a soaring, evolving track, with arpegios which cross each other and an acid line which finally makes its appearance here.
The last track is a wink to the well-known movie that gave its name to the whole project: it is indeed Luc Besson's Léon
that we are talking about, re-cut on the dialogues of Nathalie Portman and Jean Reno, supported by a simple rhythmic,
analogical bass and electronic kick at the service of a dark atmosphere, closing the record at the antipodes of the first track,
without ever having left the universe of melodies and percussions that already characterized the previous releases of
LeonxLeon.

A1 - Itanewa
A2 - Solid Dose
B1 - Piano Mondo
B2 - Italian Hitman
B3 - Solid Dose (Bell Towers Remix) More