{"product_id":"frank-tony-ethos-2lp-scissor-thread","title":"Frank \u0026 Tony - Ethos (2LP) [Scissor \u0026 Thread]","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 400px; height: 439px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2696008848\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/frankandtony.bandcamp.com\/album\/ethos\"\u003eEthos by Frank \u0026amp; Tony\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore things have changed in the world than not in the decade since dance production duo Frank \u0026amp; Tony released their last full-length album, 2014’s “You Go Girl.” Despite, or perhaps because of, this shifting landscape, house music has managed to remain fundamentally reliable (whether that’s a flaw or its greatest characteristic, depending on who you ask). Previously, Frank \u0026amp; Tony were celebrated for their contemplative and studious approach to the genre; with 2024’s “Ethos,” the Brooklyn\/Biarritz-based duo return amidst metastatic cultural upheaval to prove those academic credentials, with an album that serves to remind listeners why dancefloors and liberatory politics consistently share the language of movements and revolutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"House music has always been an expression of political desire, in that it was often the only safe space for communities to gather in ways that broader society didn’t allow,\" enthuses Harris. \"The same energy in the '90s could be found in parts of the punk hardcore scene. Countercultures exist to create temporary autonomous zones of desire outside of dominant narratives that are roadblocks to creation. We have always been inspired by these countercultural movements and the Frank \u0026amp; Tony project is deeply influenced by it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough the project originates from the relationship between house legends Francis Harris and Anthony Collins, the titular Frank \u0026amp; Tony were born from a fictional and casual encounter inspired by Harris’ experiences in the more liminal and amorphous late ‘90s and early 2000s dance and punk scenes (as exemplified in the early works of photographer Anouk Schneider, whose photographs are featured on the duo's early releases). In a world beyond dialectics, where bodies are simultaneously revered and decentralized, Frank \u0026amp; Tony connect for one night on an imaginary dance floor, pledging to work together in the future; however, by failing to exchange information, and with classic club kid clothing obscuring any common identifiable features, they take to the Internet in hopes of reconnecting for a collaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis origin myth centers on the crucial history of the dancefloor as a stage where individuals, regardless of background, perform political and socioeconomic desire at large, highlighting these venues as the tertiary factor present in intimate relationships of all kinds, which arises when two individuals come together and produce that mysterious thing that was never truly possible without blurring identity lines so that collaborative creation can happen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn practice, it sounds like the record fans of the genre needed, full of lightness and space in rooms full of revelatory peers. \"We are only able to make house music because of the vast legacy of producers from New York, Detroit and Chicago who laid the groundwork for what we do today,\" reveals Collins. \"In many ways, it can never live up to that legacy, as our art is born out of privilege rather than the necessity of creating spaces of political desire in the face of marginalization. So what does this mean? We take that legacy very seriously and want our footprint in this history to resonate with current and future generations as a bridge to the true story behind it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is these tracks that belie the concerns of electronic music critics; they are filled with fingerprints and other hallmarks of human touch, the result of exultant reconnections after long nights searching parties for the perfect collaborator you met just once, or the joy of reuniting after a decade of relative discretion and quietude. \"Here discretion does not consist in the simple refusal to share confidences,\" writes French philosopher Maurice Blanchot in the fragment included in the album notes for “Ethos,” \"but in the interval, the pure interval which, from me to this other who is a friend, measures all that is between us, [...] which, far from preventing all communication, links us in difference and sometimes in the silence of speech.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Tenampa Record Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44858278772899,"sku":"","price":700.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0583\/1239\/2867\/files\/image_b2d8f810-4166-4f0b-88a4-27635e9f1523.jpg?v=1721347255","url":"https:\/\/tenampa.mx\/en\/products\/frank-tony-ethos-2lp-scissor-thread","provider":"Tenampa","version":"1.0","type":"link"}