Loebeat's dirty disco

A review I did for NG Magazine... Check them out on Facebook and Myspace... CLICK

There are few times when one gets a band to review when they literally get inside your heart.

This one gets inside it and sets up camp, planting too catchy songs and images and re-programming it to fall for them, completely.

Ladies and gentleman, I give you Loebeat, oozingly sexy electro pop for the mind...and the new band rocking my ticker!

Loebeat is multi-talented vocalists and musicians Dicey, Lula & techno boffin Ramdaq.

The band is less of a pop trio and more of a self-sufficient cottage industry for the internet age.

LB write, produce, record and even photograph themselves and have recently been taken under the wing of Alan Erasmus - co-founder of Factory Records- who rarely backs losers!

With offbeat videos (you HAVE to find these on YouTube) - check out foxy Dicey being dragged behind a truck and playing acoustic guitar by a lake - they really have mastered the 'art' of noise.
This is not the throwaway camp pop one sometimes assumes of music with computers.

I guarantee they will blow your dome as their musical Prozac beats away the blues of beat based mediocrity with an epic EP dripping with attitude and chunky beats - like wot we heard in the 80s.

Dicey/Lulu's vocals are sexy and sassy, perfectly complemented with the technical boffinry helping them delivers their oral ecstasy with tunes Lady Ga Ga would...well go ga ga for.

For 30-somethings like me Loebeat transport me back to the electronic bands that used to play The Hacienda and dark student clubs in Manchester the early 90s, with their sequencers and back beats.

Opener Come and Get It - is dripping with neon attitude like Grace Jones on an 80s talk show.
I could also hear Girls Aloud doing it - hey, not a bad thing ok - Sadly I spent a few moments with a friend and an iPod trying to work out which bits the ginger one would sing

But of the tracks here Fire is my favourite as it is very much in the mould of Yazoo - it could be Alison Moyet and the tune is very Vince Clark. Soul from syths.

Dirty Disco is one of those tunes you find yourself humming through the day and thinking. 'What the f**k was that' only to remember (at 3am when it is still in your head) it was from that Loebeat demo.

I am reliably informed they have at least two songs that are even better than these but have not yet made the final demo.

I got into Loebeat through a friend - do your friend a favour and pass on the good news. You may well make their day and give their heart a new beat!

STOP PRESS: Loebeat have just been selected for the BBC6 music podcast. Check them out on Facebook to gigs and forthcoming news.