Listen To Vitalic’s New Single – Waiting For The Stars

Techno legend Vitalic offers a taster from his much anticipated fourth studio album Voyager with new single ‘Waiting For The Stars’. 

Vitalic’s New Album

It’s been a good fifteen years now since Vitalic (A.K.A Pascal Arbez-Nicolas) took it upon himself to redefine techno using his native French sensibility; mixing energy and melody to forge his own recognisable style. Many of those tunes, like “Poney”, “La Rock 01”, “My Friend Dario” and “You Prefer Cocaine” went on to become legendary club classics, blurring the boundaries between techno, disco, rock and pop, and profoundly inspiring and stimulating a scene that had been struggling since the end of the ‘French touch’ to find something a little more refreshing than filtered disco house.

It could be said that Vitalic ushered in the French Touch 2.0, masterfully bringing bangers back into fashion and putting France back on the dance floor map. Since his first album, “OK Cowboy” in 2005 which mixed galloping techno, brass bands, 100,000 volt electric guitars and languorous pop songs so sad they could make a stone weep, Vitalic has constantly tried to reinvent himself, pushing his idea and vision of disco to the extreme. This constant renewal is no doubt where the producer finds his strength, exploring every facet (like a disco ball), the myriad possibilities of what he calls metal disco, or more prosaically “disco-poilue” – fuzzy disco.

Vitalic – Waiting For The Stars

For “Voyager”, his fourth studio album composed over the course of two years and the one he considers his most ‘disco’ ever, Vitalic remembers initially wanting to make something that could barely be danced to, inspired by the electronic music of the 1970s. However, that angle of attack was rapidly diverted.

“I changed my mind during production and added beats,” he explains. “Voyager” thus became a record that has forgotten nothing of the cosmic disco heritage of the 1980s, dominated by deeply energetic, orgasmic synthesisers with influences from pioneers of the genre like Moroder, Cerrone, Patrick Cowley, Lime, Spacer, Carpenter and Gino Soccio.

While we will have to wait until next year for the rest of this record to reach us, this tasty snippet in the shape of first single “Waiting For The Stars” (featuring David Shaw) will keep us moving, with its disco pop sensibilities that affectionately tips its hat to the likes of Lipps Inc’s “Funky Town”. If this is anything to go by, this upcoming release could be set to become one of his best yet! Roll on January.

“Voyager” comes out on the 20th January 2017 via Clivage Music and Caroline International.

By Sandy Dhaliwal