Seraphina Lotkhamnga on January 4th, 2012

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Disco is not dead, as Blake Robin, aka Baron von Luxxury, reminds us with his shimmering and witty synth-pop. As the newest addition to the Manimal Vinyl family, (a label that is home to bands with a darker edge – Warpaint, Sister Crayon, Bat For Lashes), Robin’s persona as Baron von Luxxury blissfully bumps into different territory. A songwriter-for-hire by day who has written hits for artists like Little Boots, but a colorful musician by night who first garnered attention for his kaleidoscopic remixes for Glass Candy, HEALTH and Marianne Faithful, Robin is only a month and half from giving birth to his own take on dance music. Straddling the space in between bedroom and mainstream pop while also flirting with chillwave for a lo-fi luster on his forthcoming debut, Baron von Luxxury indeed works from a luxurious sound palette. Not without some natural deflection, his bright spastic tunes such as “The Lovely Theresa” also ricochet and bounce back with darker grooves like “Rosebud Was the Name of His Sled.” “The Last Seduction” is available Feb. 14 for all the lovers on the dance floor.

||| Download: “The Lovely Theresa”

||| Also: Grab his remix of Austra’s “Spellwork.”

||| Live: Baron von Luxxury plays Thursday at the Echo with Summer Darling, Birds & Batteries, Vice Cooler and the Hunting Accident.

||| More:  Check out the video for the title track of “The Last Seduction.”