Disco is such an integral part of club-life these days that it’s easy to forget that there was a time, ten or so years ago, when it had fallen completely out of favour.

Faze Action, AKA brothers Robin and Simon Lee, were instrumental in re-instating the music in the hearts and minds of music fans and ravers, taking the funked-up, souful DNA of the original 70s sound and imbuing it with a crispness, architecture and energy learned from house and techno. Their early singles and debut album Moving Cities heralded nothing less than the birth of nu-disco.

It’s fitting, then, that Faze Action are back. With indie-kids and beat junkies alike going nuts for the sounds of Italians Do It Better, DFA et al, and with italo/disco bootlegging and re-editing at an all time high, their return couldn’t be better timed. Having released a string of rated singles on their own Faze Action imprint over the past couple of years, this month they’re set to release a bright, bracing new album, Stratus Energy.  

The launch party for the album is a hook-up with Go!Zilla, and takes place at London’s Cargo on Saturday 23 May. As well a live performance from Faze Action and their band, there’ll be a live set from psyche-pop wanderers They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them, and DJ sets from Lovebox Allstars, Birmingham sludge-disco don Mark E and Go!Zilla/secretsundaze resident James Priestley. 

You can find more information and tickets at cargo-london.com; to be in with a chance of winning free entry, check out our competition.