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Breakbot and Irfane bring southern sunrays
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THE French geniuses Breakbot and Irfane are coming to Shanghai’s Le Baron on April 27.
The story of Breakbot begins at the heart of the aughts in front of a computer with hands dancing over a keyboard. Thibaut Berland had just graduated from art school. In his spare time, on his own, young Berland made a few remixes with the help of some handy software. His remix of “Let There Be Light” by Justice landed on one of the duo’s LPs produced by Ed Banger and its captain Pedro Winter. Following the first release, carried by the echo of MySpace, Breakbot earned himself a small reputation and published his first single the following year, the sugary retro track “Baby I’m Yours.”
Breakbot and Irfane met in the late 2000s at a release party for Ed Banger colleague Krazy Baldhead and haven’t left each other’s side since. After the “Baby I’m Yours” EP and a few other similar projects, Breakbot released his debut album in 2012. In “By Your Side,” a sun-filled soundtrack with cheeky writing, a bass line and a guitar answer each other in a rhythmic lovefest. Five of the thirteen album tracks were carried by Irfane’s “boogie voice.”
Together, Breakbot and Irfane have presented “By Your Side” in the world’s top cities on a tour that has lasted almost two years. This long meandering resulted in the two friends becoming a duo. Today, Breakbot is Breakbot and Irfane. “I am Thibaut’s break,” Irfane says.
In 2016, the new Breakbot version “one plus one” will release a second album, “Still Waters,” a new assortment of southern sunrays, with swinging images of dancefloors filled with guys in fowing trousers and bare-shouldered young girls. For this occasion, Breakbot and Irfane followed a well-oiled formula. They each cook-up outlines of rhythms and melodies that the two boys then modify, complete and prolong to reach a final draft. For “Still Waters,” which also contains 13 tracks, Breakbot and Irfane have nonetheless tried out a few new moves: unlike the previous album, this one is more of a matrix with intricate workmanship, carved out with the help of old analogue machines rather than software.
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