The French Machine at Full Throttle

Vitalic—Pascal Arbez-Nicolas, working out of Lyon—makes electronic music that sounds like a warehouse at 4 a.m. when the lights are coming up and nobody wants to leave. Stamina fits its name: relentless, rhythmically disciplined, built for endurance rather than casual listening. His productions have always carried a certain cold elegance, as if the machine knows it’s more competent than the humans operating it. This one just pushes harder than most.