Mr Moonstache by Berlin’s Chow Chow Disco brought a livewire rampage of hedonistic satire to electro house

Chow Chow Disco delivered a subversively surreal deep cut of electro house with their latest odyssey of satire, synaesthesia and style, Mr Moonstache. It’s a cosmos of electrifying eccentricity that sparks to the beat of the Berlin-based duo’s drum machine, a cheeky anthem that amplifies devil-may-care energy to the nth degree. What begins as a retro-futurist groove soon spirals into a sideways disco fable that swerves away from the conventions of electronica. If you walked into a club and this was slamming through the sound system, you’d feel like you’d stepped into the underbelly of Studio 54 on acid. It’s swanky, seductive, and self-aware without leaning too far into smug parody. Instead, Chow Chow Disco launches listeners into a fantasy where the moon belonged to no one until cameras and corporate ownership came to rewrite history. Mr Moonstache tells the tale of the real first man on the moon—not a speech-giving hero, but a moustachioed dancer who chose rhythm over rhetoric, solitude over spectacle. It’s part absurdist folklore, part clubland rebellion. With Skyline Sun’s slick production and Mío Ma’s sultry, narrative-charged vocal performance, Chow Chow Disco are pressing hard on the fabric of pop culture and asking listeners to dance […]

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