Credit: Jérémie Perin
Flairs, or Lionel Flairs, is one of my favorite type of geezers—talented & good humored. He reps the Staines & Soho London ‘hoods as well as neighboring dance music epicenter gay Paris (he’s a born Frenchman). He makes smooth indie-dance tunes that delight the blog world (Ohh Crapp & 20Jazzfunkgreats a.k.a. your favorite blog’s favorite blog) & find their way onto mixes of tastemaking DJs like Soulwax, who championed Flairs, dropped the little ditty ‘Trucker’s Delight’ into their Essential Mix for Pete Tong’s BBC Radio1 program just after its release last year (See the tracklisting and grab the mix), and also on last Decembers end-of-year Mixmag compilation (Aptly titled ‘Part of NYE Never Dies’).
Boom; a year later. Our buddy TADT linked us to the cute little video you see above, just moments after French label Third Side plopped it on their YouTube channel (good things travel fast). Now about 24 hours later, we’ve watched it what probably totals 24 times, and total views are surely the better part of a 100k. If you watch, you’ll know why: Sprite tits, stellar colonic flight and 18-wheelers! Trucker’s delight indeed! It’s the inspired work of Jérémie Perin under the wing of design agency Premiere Heure. This even surpasses Flairs last video, ‘Better Than Prince’, which enlisted the creative help of Jonas & Francios to produce a unique animation of whole ‘nother variety (watch ‘Better Than Prince’ on YouTube).
Flairs released a promotional ‘Better Than Price’ in 2008 with ‘Trucker’s Delight’ as the B-side. A winning pair.
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MP3: Flairs – Trucker’s Delight (2009)
[ 5mb | 202kbps vbr | 3:09 | Genre: Electronic ]
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MP3: Flairs – Better Than Prince (2009)
[ 4mb | 209kbps vbr | 2:50 | Genre: Electronic ]
Additionally, some good remix have come from singles of tunes culled from his recent LP effort ‘Sweat Symphony’ (pun intended). Mixed down by Alex Gopher, who is also a the remix producer of the mix below (Flairs has recently remixed Gopher’s ‘The Game’ in trade). More solid remixes of singles include work from: Benjamin Theves, Patrick Alavi / roXour, Bitchee YaYaYa, WZRDS, Be-Noizy, 25 Hours A Day; And these, from Lithuania electro badman Metal on Metal & Ontario’s disco-funksters Alixander III.
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MP3: Flairs – Truckers Delight (Alex Gopher Remix) (2009)
[ 8mb | 320kbps cbr | 3:35 | Genre: Electronic | BPM: 126 ]
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MP3: Flairs – Truckers Delight (Alixander III Remix) (2009)
[ 12mb | 320kbps cbr | 5:16 | Genre: Electronic ]
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MP3: Flairs – Whamma Gonna Do? (Metal On Metal Remake) (2009)
[ 14mb | 320kbps cbr | 6:04 | Genre: Electo | BPM: 125 ]
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