Released Sept 18, 2026

House of Slessor, HOS004, exclusive license to Emotional Response

Vinyl + digital + streaming

‘I have always been drawn to those ambiguous territories between beauty and terror, and the Trinity test is their epitome: magnificent, sublime, terrifying, annihilating. A destructive power that, somehow, only love can compare with.’

The prescriptive art and performance of Berlin based, French producer, Julienne Dessagne, has concluded with a starkly beautiful reimagining of Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game.

As Fantastic Twins, her continuing creative manifestation for music and performance, has released an array of electronic art for the body and mind. A sonic exploration of dual characters shaped through experimental pop, cinematic electronics and the outer edges of techno.

Immersive sound design, narrative tension, and emotionally charged atmospheres, the origin of the project – Wicked Game (Trinity Version) – was composed for a live performance at the Beta Biennale Of Architecture Of Timișoara in September 2024 and given a limited digital release soon after.

The impact on the artist and the music was multi-layered:

‘While recording this cover, images of the Trinity nuclear test, as reimagined by David Lynch in Twin Peaks (Season 3 / Episode 8) kept resurfacing, almost on a subliminal level, suggesting another wicked game: humanity’s love affair with science and technology, driven by the same mix of desire fascination and inevitability that animates Chris Isaak’s original song.’

Approached by Emotional Response, this updated “vinyl” edition is re-recorded / remastered and comes with new interpretations by Julienne herself, as well as remixes by Aho Ssan and Optimo (Espacio).

Dessagne offers a spectrum of mixes and moods; the centrifugal ‘Trinity Version’ a sweeping cinematic masterpiece, transmitting the awe of beauty is terror; while ‘Thousand Suns Version’ fuses industrial and techno soundscapes for a beatdown reimagining; the melancholia ‘Atomic Love Version’, where the beautiful vocals are matched with a glitchy, clipping ambience; and the finale, the ‘Core Version’ shines a personal, drifting odyssey.

The accompanying remixes see Aho Ssan (Niamké Désiré), composer and sound artist, his remake merging a love of darkcore drone with moments of uplifting energy, the ‘Core Version Aho Ssan Remix’, a fusion of craft and Dessagne’s vocals.

To close, taking up the Optimo remix mantle, Jonnie Wilkes embraces the propulsion, his ‘Thousand Suns Version Optimo (Espacio) Remix’, offering brooding, electro-driven percussion that overflows with emotion and completes this stunning, evolving, organic and singular remake.

A1. Wicked Game (Trinity Version)
A2. Wicked Game (Thousand Suns Version)
A3. Wicked Game (Atomic Love Version)
A4. Wicked Game (Core Version)
B1. Wicked Game (Core Version Aho Ssan Remix)
B2. Wicked Game (Thousand Suns Version Optimo (Espacio) Remix)

Credits:
All tracks written and composed by Chris Isaak
All tracks performed by Fantastic Twins (Julienne Dessagne)
B1 Remix & additional production by Aho Ssan
B2 Remix & additional production by Optimo (Jonnie Wilkes)

A1 originally recorded in September 2024, as part of Fantastic Twins’ live performance at the Beta Biennial of Architecture of Timisoara.
A2, A3, A4 were recorded in Berlin in 2026

Mastered by Optimum Mastering
Published by Passé Publishing
Cover photo by Jack Aeby (1945)
Design by Stuart Hardie
All videos by Fantastic Twins

℗ & © 2026, House of Slessor, exclusive licence to Emotional Response