Our good friends at Italians Do It Better, those purveyors of impossibly chic twilight disco beats forever cruising the moonlit skies in a silver chariot pulled by mirrorball plated steeds and steered by a statuesque androidical replicant of the mythic Selene, committed to infusing the nighttime mists with their otherworldly brand of vampiric studio 54 vibes were recently awesome enough to bestow upon us a couple of shiny, shiny gems which we’d like to share with you faithful.

Hailing from France and soon to be releasing a 12″ on IDIB, Premier Rang have got that hypnotic melancholy/menace thing well and truly locked down, effortlessly cranking out slow flashing synth lines for survivors to drift motionless through gravity-free corridors, high above the Earth in a lonely space station where things have gone horribly wrong, just two tragic Leiji Matsumoto heroes, star blazers thrown into an existential Tarkovskian crisis silently listening to the mechanics of the ship, the analog gauges and dials creating an agitated electronic ambience that creeps into every corner of their floating tomb.

Premier Rang – Les Corps Humides

Mike Simonetti, the man himself, the one who oversees so much goodness, has crafted a rather unsurprisingly excellent B-52s edit, taking the already classic David Byrne collaboration and adding a downtown LCD Soundsystem skank to the hypnotic shrill harmonies of the bouffant ones, spilling a big bucket of disco worms over their dancing feet to wriggle between their toes, as they try to maintain an uncharacteristically edgy, fidget funk prowl while the bugs under their skin beg for them to zane out in their inimitable style.

The B-52s – Mess of A Tanian (Mike Simonetti Edit)

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In two weekends time (July 4th to be precise) one of your 20 Jazz Funk Great friends will be assuming their diamond encrusted, battle armoured So Bones guise to play an array of metal machine jams, autotune fantasias and ENCOM valley robo-pop bangers for the 17th International Amalgamation of Champions, which as ever is being hosted by the Real Gold guys. No doubt headliners Zomby and MJ Cole(!!!) will have dancers breaking limbs with ecstatic, sweaty enthusiasm. You can buy tickets in advance here. This one is going to be rammed.