Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience): between acid libido and club ecstasy :: Ondarock reviews

Electro-Disco, Electro-House, Acid-House. These are the territories trampled by the British collective led by the voice of Lias Saudi, formerly the soul of the Fat White Family, whose alchemical sum with the three producer It flows into a hedonist and shameless sound cutting dough: a visceral dance in the balance between the moan, the ecstasy and the ritual of seduction. “Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience)” is the second chapter of a path that started in 2022 within the rough walls of Berghain and other temples LGBTQ-friendlyfrom which this night idiom draws the sap and vocation. Impossible not to perceive the ghosts of Frankie Knuckles and the first seasons of Chicago-House, but also the dizziness disc evoked by Giorgio Moroder: a sound Legivo and discotecaro that seems to have re -examined by an eighties altar, if it were not for the care of the sound spaces and for rhythmic architecture that exploit the potential of digital with cleverness.

We think of the Crazy P under acid and we get “ghent” and “Ibrahim”, where the voice is viscous, and the tide of the low pumpy drags into an endless libido. That of the decius is an orgy under hangover, the voluptuous excess that multiplies among the liquid lights of a dancefloor who does not know the dawn. But several gray areas also emerge. More than defects, they are empty. A missing is missing songwriting memorable: the use of tools vintagealthough animated by an almost pop air, it is not enough to build an unequivocal identity. The Mugolii of Saudi amuse, tickle, but remain mostly tinsel.

The desire to seduce everyone is felt, and this inclusive push risks tanning the shocks. The feeling is that everything aims more to generate a humus saturated with alcohol, synthetic caresses and promiscuity, that to sculpt something in the stone. The alterations electro-tech They let themselves be crossed, they make the lips grow in a smile, the body in a hint of motorcycles, and then slide to the bottom, as memories from after that perhaps they will never tell each other. Unless the intent is just that: create the distracted habitat for a party.

21/04/2025