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Jessica Vale, a multimedia artist based in New York city, is proving that at least in the music world, sex sells.

Vale shocked the music world when she turned hot sex into hardcore electronica with her debut CD, The Sex Album.

The CD features eleven tracks made from the sounds of recorded sex, manipulated into melodies, beats and ambience.

The Sex Album’s first single, Disco Libido, has climbed to #18 on the Billboard dance play charts.

“Every sound you hear that is not a vocal, was once live sex,” explains Vale. “We did not use a ‘traditional’ instrument on any piece.”

Vale and Ivan Evangelista collaborated with fellow musician Jean-Luc Cohen to electronically transform the sounds into a usable sonic palette. Vale notes, “The reaction to the music is affected by one’s voyeuristic tendencies, and a subconscious recognition of the carnal. It’s as if the listener is laying next to me.”

In a recent interview with Synthtopia, Sex, Mics and Music, Vale talks about why she wanted to make an album from sex sounds, using vibrators to get bass lines, and her unusual recording sessions.

“The trend in music today is to look at sexuality on a safe, superficial level, when what most people experience is anything but that,” says Vale. “I wanted to make an album that dug a little deeper than most pop music. We composed the music from processed sex recordings to punctuate the subject matter and to create a unique, lush sound-scape.”

Vale has assembled a five piece group to take Sex on the road. The live show features material from The Sex Album, reworked into a new format incorporating both live instruments and sounds originating from the initial sex recordings.