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Mark Barrott - Baby Come Home (Sketches from an Island Album)

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And now for something completely different. Following on from the supercharged and slightly madcap techno stylings of last weeks stellar Donald Trump featuring podcast from the inimitable Remute we have now decided to paddle across the Channel to secure the talents of Nicolas Godin to deliver this weeks exclusive mix. Best known as one half of iconic French electronic outfit Air, we’ve been fans of Nicolas since, well forever and with his hotly anticipated debut album Contrepoint arriving this week via Because Music we thought there’d be no better time than now to welcome the Gallic maestro into the Data Transmission fold.

Inspired by the late Canadian pianist Glenn Gould's reinterpretation of Bach's most celebrated works, Contrepoint sees Godin similarly reshape the legendary composer's music with each track using a Bach piece as as its source, before jumping off to all manner of new places.

 "A musician friend had told me about the two documentaries Bruno Monsaingeon had made about Gould, Hereafter and The Alchemist." the producer explains before adding: "I watched Gould, who is one of the greatest musicians of all time, playing the most beautiful music of all time, Bach. I think the extremely personal way that Gould interpreted Bach goes against all the normal rules of performance, which for me created a new art form. I was immediately attracted to this mysterious and inaccessible universe, which I wanted to explore when I got home to Paris.”

Working in tandem with co-songwriter, arranger, keyboardist and Bach specialist Vincent Taurelle  and a starry international cast of guests, such as French vocalist Gordon Tracks, Brazilian singer Marcelo Camelo, Italian author Alessandro Barrico, New Zealand guitarist Connan Mockasin and the choir from Macedonia’s F.A.M.E.'S. Project, Godin ended up with eight varied and individual pieces.  “Sometimes only thirty seconds of Bach’s original music was left behind." he recalls "But I want people to listen to Contrepoint without noticing that it’s Bach as it’s as much a tribute to all the great composers that have inspired me. Making a record about Bach leads to all composers who have listened to Bach."

Sounds good to us Nicolas!


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A Different Ball Game

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C.Y.M. is the collaboration between British producer and DJ Mike Greene (otherwise known as Fort Romeau) and LA-based American musician Chris Baio, who releases music as Baio in addition to playing bass in the acclaimed band Vampire Weekend. Their debut, self-titled EP arrives on Phantasy as an elegant pean to the infinite possibilities of kosmische music, driven by a motorik strain of psychedelia. The foundations of a wider project, C.Y.M. speaks not for analogue nostalgia, but a subtle and modern update on imagined futures that are still open to interpretation.

‘Capra’ immediately establishes the duo’s masterful if unsurprising grip on rhythm, a man-machine stomp that persists as the track takes myriad turns, from post-punk guitar licks and processed vocals, through bubbling modular synthesis and culminating in a soaring, cathartic melody.

On ‘Far Gone’ C.Y.M. turn their studio inward for a more brooding and intimate interpretation of their sound, a balearic amalgam of intriguing vocals, feedback soaked riffs and no-wave inspired movement.

The bliss beneath the waves of noise that crash across C.Y.M’s music emerges fully on the driving conclusion, ‘Super-Cannes’. A hypnotic tempo and blistering drums intertwine with whirling organs, and shimmering keys, providing a wistful and warm finale.

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