Pitchfork: Gooom Disques Secures U.S. Distribution

Gooom Disques Secures U.S. Distribution
GOOOM SQUAD!

As reported last month in these very pages, French IDM golden children M83 have reissued their delightful album, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, in the U.S. (with bonus tracks, natch). Now, massed together like a digital rugby scrum, the rest of their labelmates on the Gooom label have busted out of the Euro-zone to exchange their wares directly for your crumpled, coke-stained American greenbacks. The Gooom mob encompass plenty of the purty ambient gleam you've come to expect, but also the Funkstorung/Prefuse-style click-hop crossover of Abstrackt Keal Agram, and a growing number of collaborations with Anglophone artists like Alias and Isan. And now they're all yours-- at domestic prices!

Independent Illinois distro powerhouse Parasol has announced plans to distribute Gooom products to retail stores-- with the exception of the two bands (M83, Cyann & Ben) who have already secured North American distribution. Parasol's mail-order service will also carry the label's complete catalog, and is presently hyping up Purple Confusion's The Sound of the Splitting Atom, a 2002 release which features M83's Anthony Gonzales and Nicolas Fromageau as core members, as well as members of Mils, Moughqual, and Bertuf, and label founder Jean-Philippe Talaga.