Larsovitch and Dramachine met at a festival organized by their label Stanze Fredde. Both share the same taste for urgency, which translates into minimalist synth assaults and feverish energy at all times, despite the cold atmosphere. In the wake of this first meeting, the Montpellier artist and the Athens band toured Europe together, and from this experience came Désir Excès, a collaborative EP.
This type of exercise is not always easy: there is a real risk that the sound aesthetic of one of the two projects will overwhelm the other. Fortunately, the two worlds are both complementary and coherent. The encounter between the two gives rise to beautiful contrasts, with Dramachine bringing a touch of lightness to Larsovitch's radicalism, a hint of pop that gives the tracks a new effectiveness... but their shared ideas also give rise to unexpected surprises, such as the conclusion of Vios / Mania, with its hallucinatory dreamlike quality following the intense protest of the first part.
Désir Excès is bursting with energy and the unexpected. The dizzying, frenzied dances of Depression 401 take on a cathartic and liberating dimension against a backdrop of mourning. Once again, it is intense and poetic... but it is perhaps when Désir Excès leaves more room for melancholy that it seduces us most. With Σοβιέτ and Object a, the alchemy between the two projects seems more relevant than ever. The guitar and the bass give the electronics an extra organic touch, while the nostalgic post-punk touches soften the fervor of the raging flame... These bittersweet encounters, both raw and resolute, exude a singular beauty. Larsovitch gives Dramachine extra bite, while Dramachine brings a subtle sense of perspective.
It is ultimately the title track, judiciously placed at the end, that best embodies the essence of the Désir Excès experience. Starting out as a furious, vitriolic charge, the punk frenzy of the song gradually gives way to gray shadows. The words hit like an icy downpour, but a few lulls allow us to observe the rain-soaked ruins. Désir Excès is an EP full of anger, sadness, and desperate dancing, both a refuge from a ruthless reality and an accusatory protest. The EP took shape in the middle of a tour and, in its passion and spontaneity, in its rebelliousness and melancholy, is filled with an irresistible life force. It leaves us feeling both depressed and invigorated. In short, everything we love. We are now curious to see if this one-off experience will have an impact on Larsovitch and Dramachine's future work.
