Thanks to the incessant rambling of Seth Coen, Quentin Tarantino and famous geeks in general, comic books are now, in fact, cool. Trendy. It seems to revolve around 80 and early 90s nostalgia. This is bizzarre. Last time I checked, comic-book-geeks were routinely wedgied round the back of the school car park. Now comics and geekery alike is hip and trendy. Cool kids all around the world are sporting stylish Transformers tshirts without the foggiest of who Optimus Prime is. But I for one welcome these retro influences. In Electronica it’s brought back the use of old-school Synths. Daft Punk themselves use equipment hailing back to the 80′s in that giant pyramid of theirs.
The 80′s are back with a vengeance. Does It Offend You, Yeah? name all their songs after 80s & 90s movies (Weird Science, Se7en, Battle Royale, etc), Digikid-84 love the transformers, Danger is a comic book hero, Kavinsky; a Testerossa-driving cartoon and Calvin Harris, apparently, has hugs for us all if we were born in the 80′s….
And now Stereoheroes, too, are following in the vein of artists enthused by all things retro. They’re french electro – but at last, something to get really excited about. Their tracks are named after obscure comic-book characters, and sound like old-school rave anthems blended with upbeat chirpyness and cooler than cool vocal samples. All four of their tracks are pure gold. Boom Slang is arguably their best, with a round and round beat, featuring some catchy chopped up vocal snippets:
Stereoheroes – Boom Slang [pelski highly recommends]
My other favourite, Moon Knight, is particularly fun, undertaking some genius sampling from the original 1960′s Batman tv series. 
The track starts with that iconic voice booming: “As the dynamic duo speeds back to the Bat-cave…”. Then more simple chopping and looping of the two words, ‘Bat Cave’. Yes, it sounds ludicrous and ridiculous, but its genius. Backed by a bouncy medley of bass and synths, the dropping of this ‘Bat Cave’ sample is synced wonderfully with drops of bass:
Stereoheroes – Moon Knight [pelski highly recommends]
Fing Fang Foom (this time named after some big green monstrosity) centres around some timely synced vocals: a deep voice bellows “motherfucking heroes” and “get up and dance” alongside more retro grindy sounds, that pick up tempo as the track progresses:
Washout contains elements of fidget house, with its choppy momentum and focus heavily on the bassline. Original and bizarre. An assertive and thunderous track:
Suprisingly, however, Stereoheroes are unsigned. They offer a breath of fresh air in the increasingly banal parisian-electro genre. Smacking of both originality and innovation, I’m looking forward to many more retro samples on the horizon from Stereoheroes.
