The Vinyl Word

The Vinyl Word One fateful night in a London club sometime in 2008, a DJ dropped Mama Used to Say by Junior and everyone cleared the dance floor, everyone except for a boy and a girl from Paris. The band is scheduled to play a live show at The Wall next Thursday, where they are inviting a third musician to the stage to tackle electronics. They went on to make a handful of remixes for Two Door Cinema Club, Metronomy and Anoraak, before all this music production finally landed them on the renowned French label, Kitsune. "The story is 100 percent disco: a girl meets a fantastic dancer in a club with whom she's going to live a truly romantic story. They consider remixing essential to their inspiration and an interesting departure from what they usually produce. The two connected again and worked on Starlighter, the first song the pair released together, which went viral on the underground music blogosphere. "With Juicy Lucy we attempted to show the many sides of Jupiter, beyond the disco-pop flavor of songs like Starlighter," they said of the album. Like Sister Sledge's He's The Greatest Dancer in a way. Then on June 4, Jupiter released its debut album, Juicy Lucy, which shot to number two on the French iTunes chart the day after it was released. "The live aspect is extremely important to us as we consider ourselves more as pop musicians than an electro act: we did not want to play live hidden behind a laptop," they said of their live show. "Pop culture in general, but music in particular," they said, explaining their influences. "It's very rewarding work because you build a new track around vocals or a riff; this is the way we usually start writing songs, but with remixes you work around someone else's idea, it's truly refreshing," said the twosome. "We are Quarles and Amelie, a boy and a girl both living in beautiful Paris. But as for their current trajectory, they say Jupiter's sound is difficult to describe because they try and mix as many influences as they're able to in their music. It's like a vintage piece of equipment, it might be obsolete in certain ways, but for certain uses it can't be matched. The Vinyl Word Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 08/06/2012