Binokular...you'll probably like this...!!! "Following Fischerspoooner’s foray into the delectable sounds and sights of New York, French tech-house connoisseurs Black Strobe give us their take on gay ole Paris. Courtesy of Time Out, once again we get a double-sided disc with the DVD offering an insightful if a tad pointless tour around the eateries, clubs and cultural landmarks of the capital courtesy of our turntable hosts. We’d better stick to the music then… Contrasting to the eclectic and disparate New York album, Black Strobe have given us a no nonsense, pummelling club behemoth. Cutting straight to the chase, it’s punishing beats and wired sounds from the offset with their own intro. Driving and direct it’s a pulverising mash of tough electronic grooves, ranging from the jacking (Solid Groove’s ‘This Is Sick’) to the atmospheric (DS’s ‘Like This, Like That’), to the evil and twisted (Hell’s ‘Jack Your Body’). Increasing in urgency and sonic depth, the duo reel out some panic-attack inducing bleepy techno via Basteroid’s ‘Schicking Data Per Post’ and the furious ‘Wheel of Passion’ by Bastards of Love, before showcasing the cutting edge, avant-garde sounds of the likes of Andreas Trentmoller. Seemingly saving their wrath until the very end, it’s all capped off with two defining moments by Black Strobe themselves – the visceral, unrelenting white noise of ‘Abwehr Disco’ and the ultimate ‘Deceive/Play’ –a track we’re offered teasing snapshots of elsewhere in the mix. Sheer aural ecstasy. With one disc at their helm, while many self-important DJs would journey into obscure experimentation, over eclecticism or banal minimalism and only pepper their mix with zeniths, it’s refreshing to see an act who ditch the s**t and deliver a pummelling mix. If this is a fair representation of the sounds adorning the clubs of Paris, then we’re on the next flight out there. "