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Lucien-N-Luciano - La Ondita (feat. Cassy Britton) (14.7MB)
Lucien-N-Luciano - Coquillage (16.9MB)
Lucien-N-Luciano - Blind Behaviour (19.1MB)
I was going to say that I bought another Luciano album for the summer since it's too hot and muggy out to play the German/Scandinavian/Canadian sad-girl-in-snow schtuff, except I listen to the latter anyway. And it's gotten chilly again after the thunderstorm last night. ^^; That was the intent, though: I missed and tried to replicate what Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi 2 did for me last summer. Even if Blind Behaviour turned out to be 50x more "accessible". It has synths and melodies, not just clicks 'n' cuts! It has singing! By a girl! ...Who is another techno DJ. BUT WELL.
Joking aside I obsessed over "La Ondita" for about a week, it gave me an even more wacko original fiction idea than the one I derived from listening to "Lovefood" on repeat. "Coquillage" and the title track meanwhile are just gorgeous tunes. I can't sum up the sound of this album very well, actually: the tonalities are rather cool and artificial, not organic - no recognizable bongos or marimbas - but it's not IDM, and not really techno either. The overall effect is a sort of langourous, dubbed-out Latin disco, or maybe a computer recreation of a Bebel Gilberto extended remix. It makes me think of tropical beaches at night, white frangipani, Pirates of the Caribbean.
Possibly the pithiest description of this is as a release from Peacefrog, which used to be an underground dance label repping for artists like Theo Parrish and Moodymann - until they released someone's so-called Nouvelle Vague experiment. XD
Montag - Alice (feat. Ghislain Poirier)
Montag - 322 Water (feat. Ida Nilsen)
Montag - Safe In Sound (feat. Amy Millan)
I'd playlisted the odd Montag song from time to time but somehow missed the fact that dude is from Montreal? Then the new album turned up with guest spots by Amy Millan of Stars etc., not to mention actual ditties in Quebec French (I hope that's Ghislain Poirier singing!), so the connection became impossible to ignore. Apparently dude put out an open call for collaborators from the Canadian indie scene and incorporated the choice cuts that landed in his mailbox.
It is indiepop indiepop indiepop; though there are electronic elements to all the songs. What it sounds most like to me is Stereolab (and quite strikingly at that).
Lucien-N-Luciano - Coquillage (16.9MB)
Lucien-N-Luciano - Blind Behaviour (19.1MB)
I was going to say that I bought another Luciano album for the summer since it's too hot and muggy out to play the German/Scandinavian/Canadian sad-girl-in-snow schtuff, except I listen to the latter anyway. And it's gotten chilly again after the thunderstorm last night. ^^; That was the intent, though: I missed and tried to replicate what Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi 2 did for me last summer. Even if Blind Behaviour turned out to be 50x more "accessible". It has synths and melodies, not just clicks 'n' cuts! It has singing! By a girl! ...Who is another techno DJ. BUT WELL.
Joking aside I obsessed over "La Ondita" for about a week, it gave me an even more wacko original fiction idea than the one I derived from listening to "Lovefood" on repeat. "Coquillage" and the title track meanwhile are just gorgeous tunes. I can't sum up the sound of this album very well, actually: the tonalities are rather cool and artificial, not organic - no recognizable bongos or marimbas - but it's not IDM, and not really techno either. The overall effect is a sort of langourous, dubbed-out Latin disco, or maybe a computer recreation of a Bebel Gilberto extended remix. It makes me think of tropical beaches at night, white frangipani, Pirates of the Caribbean.
Possibly the pithiest description of this is as a release from Peacefrog, which used to be an underground dance label repping for artists like Theo Parrish and Moodymann - until they released someone's so-called Nouvelle Vague experiment. XD
Montag - Alice (feat. Ghislain Poirier)
Montag - 322 Water (feat. Ida Nilsen)
Montag - Safe In Sound (feat. Amy Millan)
I'd playlisted the odd Montag song from time to time but somehow missed the fact that dude is from Montreal? Then the new album turned up with guest spots by Amy Millan of Stars etc., not to mention actual ditties in Quebec French (I hope that's Ghislain Poirier singing!), so the connection became impossible to ignore. Apparently dude put out an open call for collaborators from the Canadian indie scene and incorporated the choice cuts that landed in his mailbox.
It is indiepop indiepop indiepop; though there are electronic elements to all the songs. What it sounds most like to me is Stereolab (and quite strikingly at that).
