19 year-old Nottingham born Lillica Libertine aka Laurence Matthew Blake may not be the most conventional of filthy house artists out at the moment, but having just left school, he's quite rightly one of the hottest new electro acts in the country right now. His ability to resurrect fossilised dinosaurs buried several hundered miles beneath the earths surface with his pounding bass licks and cheeky synth bliss is only one of the reasons why he's been tearing up clubs up and down the country with his balls out electro/house anthems. A confessed UK and French House scene extrodinare, we may have just found the Daft Punk/Justice UK equivalent, and the best part is that he is only 19.
Libertine was recommended to me by fellow blogger SiD aka the Music Liberation genius and recently turned Radio One star.
Since then his tunes have been on constant repeat on my computer and recently I graced my student union during a DJ set of my own with his simply insane demo BritneySpears. Quite rightly SiD pointed out that it really doesn't sound anything like Miss Spears "unless you listen to it whilst pummelling her face in."
I'm assuming in a sexual kind of way, but that's just me.
He also seems to be quite an approchable character, and I can easily see a bigger indie label snapping him up from Place Blanche's grasp within the next year. However what's most important for Libertine at the moment is to try and score some late summer festival slots, he recently played at Brighton's Great Escape, but he's not on the bill for any of the major summer festivals. Although he is embarking on a short Australian Tour early-middle september that will hopefully branch out his listeners rather than fragment them too far. Most importantly he's got a live session with Radio One sorted that will surely finally give him the exposure he truely deserves!
What was exciting about Justice when they started out, was their exposure remained rather underground, until D.A.N.C.E ripped through the mainstream like David Cameron through red lights.
I'm hopefully going to be scoring a ticket for his support slot with Partyshank at the Camden Barfly in a couple of weeks, but for now really do check out his tunes!
SiD has posted up a few tunes (Drug Control, Diamonds and his recent first single Manhunt) that you should be able to download until this weekend so head over there.
Also head over to his MySpace; it's so well set out that the first time I visited the site, I felt a wet patch in my pants!
Here's his best work to date: BritneySpears
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