di Hugo Wilcken (The Wire #314, April 2010, p.14)
Logobi is a new sound brewing in the Paris suburbs. Its chopped-up beats, tinny electronics and wobbly sonics might put British ears in mind of Grime and UK Funky, but Logobi started off as the latest iteration of Coupé Décalé, a dance music style developed in Paris in the early noughties by Cote d’Ivoire immigrants. Early Coupé Décalé was minimalist with a bling ethic, celebrating the West African immigrants who’d ‘made it’ in France. Logobi speeds up and confuses the beats. It’s a harsher, hugely energetic sound that takes in a range of influences, from Euro House and hiphop to the Angolan-originated kuduro.


