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In 2004 Aphex Twin's Rephlex label released an album by Black Devil called Disco Club, a re-issue of a long lost supposedly "Italo disco" classic from 1978. Given its absurdly modern sound many doubted its authenticity, some even suggesting that it was a collaboration between Richard James and Luke Vibert.

The real story is stranger still. Although credited to Joachim Sherylee and Junior Claristidge and executive producery Jacky Giordano, the album is actually the work of obscure French producer Bernard Fevre, until now known soley for two incredibly rare tracks, the electronic masterpiece "The Strange World of Bernard Fevre" and the even rarer "Earthmessage" (as sampled by The Chemical Brothers on "Got Glint?" from the Surrender album).

Now comes a "new album," so similar in sound and structure to the original album that it's impossible to know if it was created near the time of its predecessor or in the last few years. Mr. Fevre's not divulging when or where it was recorded. One thing's for sure, you won't hear a more unusual or beguiling electronic dance record this year. Who knows the secret of the Black Devil disco club?