Carte Blanche, the collaboration of DJ Mehdi and Riton, have recently released their debut EP, Black Billionaires. The duo have been sweeping the world on tour of late, spreading the classic house style they are eager to reignite. I managed to catch them on their visit to the UK when they stopped at fabric and they were predictably excellent. Their set was melange of hands-in-the-air house, such as Dan Black's Symphonies, the twitchy techno of Simian Mobile Disco's Hustler and the brilliant, dark electronica of The Knife's Like A Pen.

Their production style is a sleek fusion of house, techno and disco and Black Billionaires superbly demonstrates the pair's creative originality. Gare Du Nord, the EP's pièce de résistance, has a lively, catchy house beat and sharp synth stabs and will inevitably be in many a DJ set this summer.

Carte Blanche - Gare Du Nord


Carte Blanche Black Billionaires EP is out now on Beatport