Dop LIVE

If you liked NOZE LIVE this is gonna let you breathless! A 3 person electronic band from Paris is coming for one show in Cyprus.

Yet again, there's something brewing in France. This time, though, it doesn't involve robot rock, Nazarene waters or flat beats. In fact, this uprising doesn't have much to do with the usual tools of electronic music at all. Instead the trio of dOP—and their close friends Nôze—are busy trying to reenergize house music with horns, roses, vodka and a whole lot of vocals.

That's the feeling you get, at least, if you've been following the rise of both over the past few years. Unlike their now-veteran colleagues Nôze, dOP (Clement Zemstov, Damien Vandesande, Jonathan "JoJo" Illel) have only recently appeared on the scene with a stunning string of 12-inches for Circus Company, Milnormodern, Eklo and Orac that have garnered the trio increasingly more attention as the year has gone on.

They've been around for far longer than that, though. Zemstov, Vandesande and Illel are childhood friends. And it's that history that perhaps explains why the group's productions sound so organic, their intuitive tracks borne of a trust that has only grown in the time since their former guitarist, Ramon, tragically died. But while you'll never hear a guitar in a dOP track as a tribute to their lost friend, there's not much else that you won't hear. The trio almost seem to revel in bringing new sounds to their productions, taking cues from their past work in jazz, reggae, hip-hop and rock & roll bands, as well as their time in Mali, in which they helped record a number of native musicians for Ali Farka Touré's Mali K7 label.

DoP - Circus Company (Paris)