Le Mans (3)

Le Mans' millennium falcon production, synthetic instrumentation, and bitingly witty lyrics hit a sweetspot with the early Myspace-era music crowd. Jamisin (aka JMSN), sole constant member, performed and dj'd boutiques, galleries, festivals and clubs under countless pseudonyms and bands. 2004's Coldlife in the Fastlane, envisioning the forgotten neon-lit landscapes of cybertronic night drives, nostalgic videogame arcades, VHS and Betamax cassette machines, bodyrocking robots (and zombies!), overheating DeLoreans, fingerless gloves, and magenta sunrises narrates the aesthetic moodboard of what was later dubbed retrowave and provides one of its earliest tracks ("Citi de Frag"). With Disco Related Injury (2005), mixed to emulate vintage cassette playback, Le Mans surprised the now-international fan base with a darker texture while showcasing more firsts in edm, coldwave, and hip-hop. The album provides cameos from scene contemporaries, and even Beyonce's star guitarist. Shortly after the release, Jamisin was invited to appear on My Chemical Romance's Life On The Murderscene as the real life demolition groom. Swirling guitars, goth meets r&b vocals, and industrial-pop flourishes mark the musically influential Third Date (2006). Still gritty, certain tracks were even re-tracked with scrappy synths replacing some of the originally recorded expert humans. No Long Tale to Tell (2008) features previously unavailable dj-only remixes and 2007 demos. Le Mans side projects include the darkwave-retro-rave duo, God Punished Me (I Think God Punished Me, 2007) and Disco Related Injury (English Rose, 2006). DRI samples its name from the second Le Mans album.