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Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: FOLLO Returns with Euphoric and Cinematic “Oxygen”

Lucas Dubiez is a 20-something French-born video director and self-taught, rising electronic musician and producer, best known as FOLLO. Dubiez can trace the origins of his music career to meeting French electronic music producer Jeremey Vieielle, a.k.a. Zerolex, who encouraged Dubiez to write and record what would become his debut EP, 2021’s Lumen. 

Dubiez’s sophomore EP, 2022’s the five-song Écume featured material influenced by French 79, Rone, The Blaze, and the films of Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino and Hayao Miyazaki,incuding “Divine,” a cinematic yet dance floor friendly track that nodded at post apocalyptic sci-fi soundtracks. 

The French producer’s third EP, Sense, which featured the sleek and meditative “Nôma” was released through Odeva Publishing. Building upon a growing profile, Dubiez will be released a three track effort that included “Crescendo,” a melodic techno track built with around glistening synth arpeggios, skittering beats and a hypnotic motorik groove that recalls Tour de France-era Kraftwerk and 45:33-era LCD Soundsystem. 

The final track of the trilogy, “Oxygen” continues a run of melodic house but anchored around euphoric, glistening and cascading synth arpeggios and a relentless motorik groove. While channeling M83, Kraftwerk and the like, “Oxygen,” according to Dubiez “invites us to discover majestic spaces, unexplored landscapes and distant lands. On great flights of arpeggios and numerous cinematographic chords, the traveler escapes. questions his relationship with others, as if to find himself better. What if the most beautiful journey was an inner journey?”

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: FOLLO Shares Driving “Crescendo”

Lucas Dubiez is a 20-something French-born video director and self-taught, rising electronic musician and producer, best known as FOLLO. Dubiez can trace the origins of his music career to meeting French electronic music producer Jeremey Vieielle, a.k.a. Zerolex, who encouraged Dubiez to write and record what would become his debut EP, 2021’s Lumen.

Dubiez’s sophomore EP, 2022’s the five-song Écume featured material influenced by French 79, Rone, The Blaze, and the films of Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino and Hayao Miyazaki,incuding “Divine,” a cinematic yet dance floor friendly track that nodded at post apocalyptic sci-fi soundtracks. 

The French producer’s third EP, Sense, which featured the sleek and meditative “Nôma” was released through Odeva Publishing. Building upon a growing profile, Dubiez will be releasing a three track effort that will include his latest single, “Crescendo,” a melodic techno track built with around glistening synth arpeggios, skittering beats and a hypnotic motorik groove that recalls Tour de France-era Kraftwerk and 45:33-era LCD Soundsystem.

As the rising French producer says the track is perfect for jobbing, working with music or daydreaming.

Video by William Ruben Helms

New VIdeo: FOLLO Shares Meditative “Nôma”

FOLLO (born Lucas Dubiez) is a 20-something video director and self-taught, emerging, electronic music producer, who can trace the origins of his music career to meeting fellow French electronic music producer Zerolex (born Jeremey Vieille). As the story goes, Vieille encouraged Dubiez to write and record his debut EP, 2021’s Lumen. 

Dubiez’s sophomore EP, last year’s Écume features five instrumental tracks inspired by French 79, Rone, The Blaze, and the films of Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino and Hayao Miyazaki, including “Divine,” a cinematic yet dance floor friendly track that nodded at post apocalyptic sci-fi soundtracks.

The French producer will be releasing his third EP Sense through Odeva Publishing next year. The EP’s first single “Nôma” is a sleek and meditative composition built around a glistening, reverb-soaked, synth arpeggio-driven melody, and a relentless motorik groove paired with skittering beats. The result is a trance-induing song that manages to be simultaneously lounge and club friendly with an escapist quality.

Dubiez explains that “Nôma” “is an ode to nature, travel and escape. Its progressive melody and layers of synthesizers drowned in brilliant echoes offer a glimpse of vast landscapes and infinite expanse. There is then no limit to what the imagination can create on this soft and airy rhythm.”

Directed by the French producer, the breathtakingly beautiful, accompanying video for “Nôma” features some gorgeous natural scenes shot in lingering and longing takes before we see a hoodie wearing person looking at the expansive scenery around them.

Video by William Ruben Helms

New Video: FOLLO Shares Cinematic Yet Club Friendly “Divine”

FOLLO (born Lucas Dubiez) is a 25-year-old video director and self-taught, emerging, electronic music producer, who can trace the origins of his music career to meeting fellow French electronic music producer Zerolex (born Jeremey Vieille). As the story goes, Vieille encouraged Dubiez to write and record his debut EP, last year’s Lumen.

Dubiez’s sophomore EP, the recently released Écume features five instrumental tracks inspired by French 79, Rone, The Blaze, and the films of Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino and Hayao Miyazaki. “Divine,” Écume EP‘s first single is centered around glistening synth oscillations, skittering beats, a relentless motorik groove and an enormous hook. And while sonically drawing from French touch and house music, “Divine” manages to be simultaneously dance floor friendly and cinematic — as though nodding at post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie soundtracks.

Directed by Dubiez, the accompanying video follows a young man as he’s being walked to a weird, virtual reality-like experiment that puts the man in touch with a supernatural — and perhaps divine — force that transforms him.