The album Deco by Gelainheim sounds as if it were pulled straight out of the late nights of early-90s European clubs. Yet it is not an attempt to reconstruct the past. Instead, it feels like a genre of its own, shaped by a deep affection for New Beat, Electronic Body Music, Electroclash, and Acid House. These influences are not quoted directly; they are broken apart and reassembled into a cohesive club form. The title Deco can be read as a reference to decoration or stage design. In Gelainheim’s interpretation, club music stops being just sound. It becomes a central element of the interior, part of the architecture of the space itself. The kick drum and synthesizers shape the atmosphere in the same way as lighting, concrete walls, or the bar. From this perspective, a club does not exist because of its physical design, but because of how it sounds. When the music changes, the character of the place changes with it. Deco recalls a time when the sound itself defined what a club would be: cold, industrial, decadent, or hypnotic.
Tracklist:
1. Electrostatique (5:37) 2. Deco (6:17) 3. Energy Conduction (4:27) 4. Close Together (4:33) 5. Bodysthetique (6:08) 6. Acid!Acid! (5:00) 7. Lyrics & Acids (5:37) 8. Paragon Lost (5:48) 9. Sequence Transcendent (3:04)
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