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I just downloaded a track called Absolut by Vitalic and Al Ferox, it is fucking nuts! His usual deadpan beats and then it segues into an eerie breakdown which sounds like the music from World War 2 footage, it's all sweeping off key strings and then out of nowhere there's a whipping snare noise and the track goes off again.

I've been googling all morning and it seems there is loads of Vitalic stuff knocking around. He records as Hustler Pornstar and Dima (as was said on the other thread).

Tracks which seem to exist which I didn't know of and am attempting to find on soulseek.

Vitalic-Absolut

Vitalic-Telerotica

Giorgio Moroder-The Midnight Express (Vitalic Remix)

The Hacker-Fading Away (Vitalic Remix) (er yeah I know!)

Vitalic-Relax

Vitalic-Soulshaker

Vitalic-Scratch Massive

Vitalic-La Rock (Al Ferox Remix) this was described as "the best dance track I've ever heard" on a discussion board I found.

Anyone know about this Al Ferox character? Is it just Vitalic himself again? Will his website ever be completed? Will he make an album and take over the world? Will he play live in Dublin? WHO KNOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 11 October 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I swear finding this stuff I feel like I'm downloading crazy illegal porn or something, it's all so good.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 11 October 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my god that absolut track is fucking amazing, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, this has made my day, year maybe, and there are still more downloading.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 11 October 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I found an interview with the bloke in a copy of Vice (the Australian version). His real name is Pascal Arbez-Nicolas. He has a new project called Silures with someone called Linda Lamb, and they have a release called All You Can Eat (single? album? it doesn't say) on Citizen Records.

...why do the tease with so little information!?

― Hayden Nicholls (Pop the Weasel), Saturday, 11 October 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Dima-Poetry

Dima-Fuckeristic

Dima-D'Aim

It seems the Fading Away remix is the Dima remix and it's the one on Dave Clarke World Service. Just realised.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 11 October 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Giorgio Moroder-The Midnight Express (Vitalic Remix)

This one is sooooo good. Ronan, don't know if you have it already but you need the Live@shockers set which you can find within a couple of seconds on Soulseek. Genius.

― Omar (Omar), Saturday, 11 October 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all pretty well-documented (almost complete discography) on discogs.com, complete with cross references and all.

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 11 October 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Also: Linda Lamb did the rather well known track "Hot Room" last year on International Deejay Gigolos - it was featured on a loads of electroclash compilations including Tiga's "American Gigolo".

(i'm sharing some more vitalic stuff on slsk, btw if anyone's interested)

Personal Vitalic favourites:
Silures - 21 Ghosts
the whole Poney EP
Bolz Bolz - Take A Walk (Dima Neo-Romantic Remix)
Hustler Pornstar - You Know What You Did Last Summer
Lady B - Swany (Vitalic Remix)
The Hacker - Fadin' Away (Dima Remix)
Dima - Poetry (The Year 2000 Remix)

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 11 October 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, the Citizen Records website has lots of info as well as a nice bio:

"Vitalic was born in 1973 in Borodianka-Ukraine-in a traditionnal Ukrainian family living from the selling of animal furs. In 1989, after the falling down of the Berlin wall, he could emigrate to Eastern Germany with his dog -Mini Robot- where he survived with parttime jobs and even masculine prostitution. Little by little, Vitalic decided to stop playing the "Trubka", a traditional Ukrainian instrument, and started to compose electronic music in a collective near Munich. Then Kobayashi Records (France) released his first EP in June 2001, followed by Gigolo Records (Munich) with the "Poney EP" - a record about the pain of ponies in funfairs.
Another EP should be released soon on the brand new label Citizen Records."

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 11 October 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I just got Vitalic-Icebreaker (Dima Remix) and it rocks in a Garnier style.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 11 October 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck, I wish I could get slsk working.

― adaml (adaml), Saturday, 11 October 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, it's Scratch Massive - Icebreaker (Dima Remix)
i love being totally drunk but what about tomorrow...

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 12 October 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

al ferox is a french techno producer on kobayashi records. he recorded an ep called vitalferox w/ vitalic. so it's actually "absolut" by vitalferox. there's a track on that ep called "suck da MC" which rocks even harder.

he (ferox) also runs a label called dancefloor killers, which released the vitalferox ep and also eps by david caretta and carl denza. the first mix cd of dancefloor killers tracks is insanely great (i ranted a bit about this on the other vitalic thread).

www.dancefloorkillers.com

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 12 October 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah the version I got listed it as a Vitalic track. I love the David Carretta stuff I've heard. Unsure if I've heard any Carl Denza.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 12 October 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the first mix cd of dancefloor killers tracks is insanely great

Just got this one on Soulseek. It is indeed insanely great. Total 91-92 style full-on banging techno madness.

― Omar (Omar), Saturday, 18 October 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

oh for a broadband connection.

I am full on loving that 12 Angry Men track "looser" by the way, it's a total Vitalic rip off but worth downloading any day. Especially if you have broadband.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 18 October 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

When come back bring album.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd settle for come back at this stage.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

An EP or just a single would be nice.

― stevo (stevo), Sunday, 25 January 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i think he's going through that 'difficult second single' syndrome.

― stirmonster, Sunday, 25 January 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

hi, twitch!

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 25 January 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

hi lauren! are you in the uk yet? hope to see yr boys tonight / tomorrow - could be messy!

― stirmonster, Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Grrr yeah, just a single please!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not coming over until the 6th, which means yet again i miss glasgow and all attendant fun. *SOB*
be extra special messy for me, okay? and tell the kids i love 'em.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I have something called "Vitalic Presents Onurb" (or at least that's what the files says). Does anyone (Ronan?) know what this is?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anybody know the lyrics to "Poney"?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 26 January 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=lyrics+vitalic+poney&btnG=Google+Search

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 26 January 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently they are "dudduhdudhduhduhduhDUHDUHDUHDUHDUHDUHduhduhduh"

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 26 January 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

@d@ml, Onrub are labelmates of Vitalic's on Citizen Records. There's a bio on the Citizen's updated website alongside some pics of our much-missed-hero looking cool and moody in a suit + buttoned up shirt.

http://www.citizen-records.com/

― stevo (stevo), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracking down this stuff on had copy is a bitch.

I've decided that Vitalic will probably provide all my techno needs from now on, though the mosta Kompakt thread was interesting reading.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

I saw him last night, and it was fucking incredible. I mean I was just drinking, for once, and it was as good as anything I've ever seen.

It's always difficult to compare nights but one thing I can say, definitively, is that I have never, ever, EVER seen a crowd go so totally fucking spastic mental as when he played La Rock for the second time, at the end of his set. It was just absolutely ridiculous, incessant screaming, jumping, glasses breaking, an entire room of people trying to escape their bodies, like getting bashed around the place and this big howl just welling up around you. AMAZING.

The rest of his set was full of mental moments but none quite so mad. He has alot of new material, it seems, one track in particular is like industrial metal or something.

I can't wait for the album. So so much. Oh also he threw a record into the crowd and I caught it and continued talking to my friend, I was sort of pissed and didn't realise why I had caught it or what it was for a few minutes.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan, you're headed for journalistic greatness. What record was it?

I got hold of the Silures, Bolz Bolz remix disc and Dima - 'Fukeristic EP' a few months ago, so I'm on my way.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i maintain that vitalic makes the best electronica ever made by anybody that isn't in kraftwerk or new order.

― the surface noise for the sake of noise (electricsound), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

'esccape their bodies' = greatness

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

what will ronan do though once his youth wears off?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"it'll happen to YOU"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

go indie?

― the surface noise for the sake of noise (electricsound), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"do you love house music, but hate the 'house scene'?"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I am certain new material will appear anywhere between the next 1-5 months.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha "album".

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 4 June 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

he's playing in london tonight, isn't he? at that sonar thing.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i KNEW there was gig i was looking out for - but I think that's next week, the 11th. Ocean is it?

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

bugger it IS tonite

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

[gpallis] J'aime Vitalic beacoup, actuallement, le remixes (il s'appelle Dima ou Bolz Bolz) sont fantastique.
[gpallis] A Londres.
[gpallis] Est-il popular (um, je ne sais pas le mot?) en suisse, dizzee?
[alex skiatala] dima est son 2eme nom de scene pour la scène française
[alex skiatala] pas vraiment je connais car il est passé a sonar
[alex skiatala] tu connais fuckeristic ep
[gpallis] Entendais-tu son remix de "fading away"? S'est comme la mémoire d'un boum. Trop etonnant.
[gpallis] Non, par qui?
[alex skiatala] dima alias vitalic sur step-2-house
[gpallis] Oh! Wow!
[alex skiatala] il a produit aussi sur dancefloorkiller
[gpallis] je ne comprend pas sa message, il a produit la meme ep sur deux labels?
[gpallis] (pardon encore un fois pour la francaisse terrible)
[alex skiatala] non je veux dire qu'il a fait d'autre morceau sur dancefloorkiller

WHY HAS NO-ONE POSTED ABOUT THIS?

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

let the nail-biting begin

from vitalic.org:

VITALIC
next record to be released in september

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Could somebody please translate Gregory's post please?

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM the only one who bought his remix of 'Cish Cash', aren't I?

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Snrub: basically I just found put from this Swiss dude on soulseek that there are two Dima eps out! Yay yay yay wow.

Barima: !!! Are there any lists of what he's done, anywhere? All this pseudonym stuff totally throws me.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

www.discogs.com

He remixed Basement Jaxx under the Vitalic moniker.

― Barima Chk-Chk-Chk (Barima), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i got that too Barima. surprisingly restrained i thought!

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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vitalic was scheduled to play don hill's but he canceled!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

i think he might've canceled all his US dates.

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

he's playing the big day out, this sunday!!!

...at 1:45 pm in the afternoon, in a tent?!

― controversial buffalo stance (haitch), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

i think he might've canceled all his US dates.

SAD FACE x A MILLION

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

that was PUNISHING. it was so hot in the tent, his laptop crashed after two minutes! I thought he looked very non-plussed about it at first, but it turned out that is just his regular facial expression. once the problem was sorted (solution: a big fan placed on the stage) he dropped straight back in where it had left off. best bit #1: cutting "la rock 01" off really suddenly, then fading up this weird pingy alternate version, it was like a 2-step remix! then CRUNCH back into the original. best bit #2: end of set = "dario" > "no fun" > "fanfares". oof.

― controversial buffalo stance (haitch), Sunday, 29 January 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm. He was supposed to be playing around here in March, and it was enough for me to think about going to an overpriced dance club for, like, the first time in ages... I wonder if that's still on...

― js (honestengine), Sunday, 29 January 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Vitalic really needs to lose the laptop and find some other way of playing live.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Please to try and identify song from Vitalic set based on stupidly vague description:

He opened with it when I saw him at Warwick Uni. Built up to this 4 chord progression over yer 4/4 kick beat, with big epic synth strings and wailing, incomprehensible vocals. Felt almost uncomfortably overwhelming at the time. Didn't recognise at as being a Vitalic original, it wasn't as detuned and bleepy as most of his stuff, but I dunno.

The chord progression may have been a bit like the breakdown in "Take You On A Cruise" by Interpol. If you made that into a house record and got Enya to sing on it then made it all fucked up, it might sound like what I'm thinking of. It's uh, been a few months though.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

I think his US dates might still be on in March, at least it looks like he's playing in Detroit...

http://www.dethlab.net/

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

xpost...

That sounds like the Discomix of Repair Machines from the b-side of the No Fun 12. There's a sample here.

― jng (jng), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, it could be 'Juliet India' too. Both sound pretty similar.

― jng (jng), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Aaron! (Detroit is where I'd be seeing him).

― js (honestengine), Sunday, 29 January 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty sure it is Juliet India actually, thanks.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Sunday, 29 January 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Vitalic really needs to lose the laptop

he did that once :(

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 30 January 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

haha, at cargo? it was supposedly nicked wasn't it...I really didn't believe him.

― barbarian cities (jaybob3005), Monday, 30 January 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Vitalic hasn't always played with a laptop - At Sonar a few years back it were pure analogue and totally rocked. I haven't caughty this new laptop vibe, can anyone comment on the difference between the styles now and then?

― meep, Monday, 30 January 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Bells EP: any good?
http://www.emusic.com/album/10949/10949479.html

― a.b. (alanbanana), Thursday, 7 September 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

I am no longer sure that thing four posts up is Juliet India, it sounds like it but has a less distorted vocal line and a slightly different progression. He usually plays it near the start of a set. Help?

― Fraggle O Rly (Ferg), Thursday, 7 September 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, it's Bells. Arf.

― Fraggle O Rly (Ferg), Thursday, 7 September 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

'You Are My Sun' I really like a lot.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 8 September 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

Vitalic LIVE @ Rock Werchter Festival, Belgien (30.06.2006)

Vitalic test-driving some new material - the track six minutes in sounds promising!!

― Python... No Bite :B (flezaffe), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Here he is at that show if you need a cover picture:

http://www.proximusgoformusic.be/images/Werchter2006/Pyramid/Vitalic/Vitalic_01.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Good god. I know I'll be hated for saying this but he really does look like Moby's evil twin. Fresh off a week-long bender of red meat and coke.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

a lot of people hate you now

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

come now. no one has an appetite on a coke bender.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

How did Chris Farley get that big then?

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

new myth and rumour:

vitalic based "suicide commando" on the urinals' "last days of man on earth"

... having just heard it again for first time in a while.

― andrew m., Wednesday, 22 August 2007 02:43 (eighteen years ago)

my knee has never been the same after that set in the tent.

― haitch, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/vitalicvlive

new (great) live album, out on Sept 24th, recorded in the Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Oct 2006!

― StanM, Monday, 3 September 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Were you there?

Logo seems inspired by Weezer's.

― willem, Monday, 3 September 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

No, I wasn't - I had seen that live set only a short time before that show. Wish I'd gone though, this wasn't a festival appearance and he had a video screen with him and there was a stage invasion that night.

― StanM, Monday, 3 September 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

I was there! It was ok. There were lots of teenagers there.

― barnaby, Monday, 3 September 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Logo seems inspired by Weezer's.

http://www.vanhalenstore.com/shop/graphics/00000001/CD02B.jpg

― dmr, Monday, 3 September 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

ok this is great

― ☪, Monday, 3 September 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Vitalic makes the nastiest, dark/saddest, most clumsy and tedious music I know of- it sure works like a charm on crusty drunken french teen crowds.

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

He also rocks the neo-fascist fashion & style rather well.

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

yeah hes known to wear keffiyehs and bomber jackets but i wouldnt hold that against him

― ☪, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

I don't quite know how or why, but my male intuition (or something) tells me that you're not a big fan, blunt. Is that correct?

― StanM, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

He's more of a sleek grey minimalist suits & motorcyle boots kinda mensch.
Yeah I was astounded at a live set of his about 4 months ago over here. It was metal techno for caners. Kids gobbled it up (and god knows what else).

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Just about the most manipulative and least subtle music I've had the opportunity to hear out, bar trance & related.

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

what the hell is 'manipulative' supposed to mean, in the context of banging dance music? that it manipulates kids into jumping up and down? ok then, job done!

― jabba hands, Monday, 3 September 2007 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

predictably and heavy-handedly

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

le hamfist dans le clunkyglove

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

new album 4.5 / 5 on RA.

can it really be all that?

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 26 September 2009 02:08 (sixteen years ago)

That's what I thought too. I read the review until the words Crystal Castles-style appeared, and I closed the browser and forgot about it instantly.

Listening to him now (as opposed to 2005, or whenever) a lot of it seems to sound really flat and macho in its aggressiveness, although the latter quality is also what gives it its charm.

― EDB, Saturday, 26 September 2009 02:55 (sixteen years ago)

that review is horrible

― jabba hands, Saturday, 26 September 2009 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

If it's even half as good as OK Cowboy I think we've pretty much got the album of the year locked up.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 26 September 2009 03:04 (sixteen years ago)

it's not a horrible album, it's just...diminishing returns on the same old. "inessential" rather than awful.

― lex pretend, Saturday, 26 September 2009 09:22 (sixteen years ago)

naw it's good

― cutty, Saturday, 26 September 2009 21:44 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

ok. "no more sleep" got shared somewhere. from new album, Rave Age. um. first time i listened i hated. it's about as hamfisted as the album title, which is like Disco Very's stupid brother. almost softened on it after 2nd listen, but i really just think he's a lost cause. wish he'd prove me wrong. or do i even care? nah.

― andrew m., Monday, 24 September 2012 22:02 (thirteen years ago)

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