So how do you step out of the shadow of the godheads of French House? Sound exactly like them, apparently. Louis La Roche, for the last two years has crawled through the dregs of Daft Punk knockoffs to come out at the top of the heap, being less derivative and more dedicated to bringing the same thumping, pulsing melodica of classic House back to the forefront of the French mindset and club-goers everywhere. At times cheesy, but crafted with enough tongue-in-cheek to remind us that dance music is about just that - dancing and having fun - La Roche makes good use of 120+ BPM tempos to enforce a strict code of ‘get down’ with tracks like “Get Down” and “Love”. But it’s on the Peach EP’s (2008) penultimate song, “Do You Remember”, that we get the most convincing sign of a true genius: wet wah-wah squeal’s over a genius Motown-esque sample asking the listener to “turn back the time to the days when our love new,” - it’s the perfect sentiment to sum up a man who holds the gods in high favor, but blazes his own path through retrospective respect to unlock the all the hips on the dancefloor.
Listen to “Do You Remember”
Download “The Peach EP”
