Valerie Collective could be the definition incarnate for Dreamwave - my current favourite genre of music. Initially formed by College and Anoraak, two producers from Nantes, France, it’s since grown to include various like-minded musicians, all obsessed with soft electro-pop from the 80s.
The music is brilliantly tongue-in-cheek parody of the 80s, replicating the period’s essence perfectly, while adding in some modern touches too. The artwork is created in collaboration with a German artistic collective called the Zonders and is period-perfect. Their original productions (like the Keenhouse LP or Anoraak’s EP) are just so damn smooth - perfect for cruising with their upbeat poppiness.
And every post is in French. That’s just too rad in itself.
For a list of releases, click here and check out each record’s cover.
And for my track, I’m going to some classic College.
-Willbur
COLLEGE - “She never came back” from Frantz Lasorne on Vimeo.
