Golden Bug - We Love Tokio/Horses

Golden Bug's latest 12" sees the experimental Parisian producer again serving up some nopn-traditional electro disco. We Love Tokio is a disjointed, eerie dance floor number with the vocals coming from Japanese rap, spliced and chopped until it resembles something from the dreams of a Twin Peaks character. The beats are fresh and fast and the track does make an impression, though in a way you might not expect from a traditional electro. Horses is a sexy, more bass heavy tune than We Love...; the song rolls, building and falling as the Prince-like vocal style, continued references to working girls and Bug's trademark vocal tampering combine to make the track jar in your mind. [Franck Martin]