Black Devil, or Black Devil Disco Club, is an electronic disco music project by Bernard Fevre, a French musician who also released synthesizer compositions on library music albums under his own name and under the alias Milpatte.
''Disco Club''
The first Black Devil release was the relatively obscure Disco Club six-track EP in 1978. The actual artist name and album title are ambiguous; releases, reviews, and even the official artist and label websites use "Black Devil" and "Black Devil Disco Club" interchangeably. Songwriting credits on the EP named Junior Claristidge and Joachim Sherylee, aliases for Bernard Fevre and Jacky Giordano, respectively. In a 2007 interview, Fevre explained that Giordano's role was not musical, he just financed the recordings, and the co-writing credit was a way of recouping that investment. The 1978 EP was reissued in 2004 on the Rephlex label. Collectors unaware of the original LP release initially speculated that the reissue was a hoax by Rephlex founders. The reissue press release read as follows: The album is similar to From Here to Eternity by Giorgio Moroder, an electronica album produced one year earlier at Musicland Studios, in Munich, Germany.
Track listings
; Disco Club ;France:RCA Victor PL 37164 ;Italy: OUT OUT-ST 25006 ; 2004 "Disco Club" reissue The 2004 reissue had four editions, some of which featured a new "128 bpm" remix by Luke Vibert under his Kerrier District alias: ;;UK: Rephlex CAT 146 EP ;;UK: Rephlex CAT 146 R ;;UK: Rephlex CAT 146 T ;;UK: Rephlex CAT 146 CD
New releases
After the success of the reissue, Fevre started to produce music again, performing live and relaunching the Black Devil Disco Club project. He released several new albums via the Lo Recordings label: 28 After, Black Devil in Dub, and Eight Oh Eight. A new record, Circus, was scheduled to be released April 11, 2011, and features Nancy Sinatra, Afrika Bambaataa, Faris Badwanthe Horrors, YACHT, Jon Spencer, Aja Emma, CocknBullKid, Nancy Fortune, and Nicolas Ker. A single from the record, "My Screen", featuring Nicolas Ker, was released on 11October 2010.
