Artist: La Machine
Title: W454 E.P.
Format: CD EP
Label: BOREDOMproduct
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La Machine, the duo formed by Eric U0 and Pierre Pi, is really good at picking up a song from the past and turning it into something new. If the track is a French hit from the past, the result is even more interesting, because of the electronic arrangement and because they are just good at giving to their covers a fresh touch. For this new EP “W454″, they picked up a song sung by Michel Sardou in 1976. The original one had a rich orchestration and sounded like a mix of rock opera, confidential and disco: now it sounds like a mix of e.b.m. and synthpop but it didn’t lose its original pathos and this is just remarkable. This is a particular release because it shouldn’t exist: don’t get me wrong, this isn’t what I was wishing for but this MCD/10” shouldn’t have existed because La Machine was about to release their first album but because of manufacturing delays they decided to give birth to this nice EP. Along with “W454” and a new track “Invasion Humanoide” (a new really nice track that will be included along with the title track on the incoming album) and their remixes, we have another surprise: a cover of “Psyche Rock”, a single that Pierre Henry, one of the fathers of French electronic music, released back in 1970. If you love Matt Groening work you already know this tune, because a version of it is the main title of the Futurama cartoon.
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