“I Hear You”, Peggy Gou

Based in Berlin, Korean composer and DJ Peggy Gou is causing a sensation on the dance floor thanks to her flavors of the 1990s with which she perfumes the mix of house and techno offered to dancers. She plays this card to the fullest on her first album, announced last year by its heady success (It Goes Like) Nanana. Nine of the album’s eleven songs are dripping with those electric piano sounds and firm bass that characterize the Eurodance sound of Black Box, Technotronic, Ace of Base and other (slightly adulterated) memories of the era when music house and dance were happeningunderground on the radio charts. Small garage touch on Back to One in opening, pop-dance on I Believe in Love Again (with the voice of Lenny Kravitz!). The composer, however, remains a little too close to these retro references (Purple Horizon, among others). However, it is when she injects a modern impulse into her grooves (the breakbeat of Seoulsi Peggygoutech-house energy 1+1 = 11) that the work rises above simple homage.

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