Release date: 3/3/23
Order the lp here:
https://icube.bandcamp.com/album/i-cube-eye-cube-verlp45
We wanted to leave you the surprise of the full lengh tracks for the day of the release, however,we know it’s annoying not to be able to listen the music before eventually order a record.
So we decided to make an auto zapping of the records you can check it out.
Hope you’ll enjoy and understand our way to do it

Eye Cube - album snippet preview mini mix

I-Cube/Eye Cube/album snippet preview mini mix.

I:CUBE special mix for the "get a room" show on Radio Nova, Paris, 19/2/2023.
Some upcoming unreleased tracks, some classics and rarities, for your listening pleasure.

i:cube special mix for the "get a room" show on radio nova, Paris, 2023

I:CUBE special mix for the "get a room" show on radio nova, Paris, 2023.

Ondées Cosmiques

I:CUBE special mix for Radio Couleur 3 (i:cube’s release party).
Part 2 of 2.
For your listening pleasure !
The album « Eye cube » is out now on Versatile records.
https://soundcloud.com/i-cube

I:Cube mix for radio Couleur 3 (2023/03/07)

More info & buy the EP : http://versatilerecords.com/release/vidal-benjamin-presente-disco-sympathie-edith-sampler/

Full Track : New Paradise – I Love Video (Gilbert Cohen & Vidal Benjamin Edit)

More info & buy the EP : http://versatilerecords.com/release/vidal-benjamin-presente-disco-sympathie-7-limited-edith-sampler/

Full Track : Marc Chantereau - Gibraltar (Jeff Gets A Single Room ! Edit)

I:Cube live au Forum des Halles, Paris, 18 Mai 2019.

A few words by I:Cube. 
I've always been collecting records—for the pure essence of music, of course, as a sound source for sampling, for my DJ sets in various clubs, and, not to forget, for the weird and captivating album covers.
During my teenage years, I had a unique Saturday tradition. I would explore Parisian public libraries in search of unknown records to feed my sampler. 
Records were expensive, and without the internet, apart from the radio, this was my way of discovering new music and refining my musical taste.

Fast forward more than three decades, a serendipitous encounter took place with Damien Poncet, a cultural mediator who works at the Médiathèque Musicale de Paris. This remarkable institution boasts an impressive collection of over 100,000 records. 
Following an extensive conversation, a captivating idea emerged: to craft a musical composition using samples from this vast vinyl archive. 
The grand stage selected for this daring concert? None other than the iconic Forum des Halles, located in the heart of a historic Parisian district. Once renowned as Paris' largest food market, bearing the moniker "le ventre de Paris," the Forum des Halles underwent a transformation into a massive shopping center in the early 1980s. 

Performing this diverse and otherworldly musical blend live at the very core of this consumer paradise was also an immense source of enjoyment and highly surreal.
The concert was open to all, inviting anyone passing by to join in and listen.
This project was a golden opportunity to pay tribute to Paris's public libraries in a place rich with history and full of personal memories.

Many thanks to Damien Poncet and the entire team at the Médiathèque Musicale de Paris. Additionally, I want to express my gratitude to Géraldine Hervé-Dannhauer, Mehdi Herzberg, Stéphane Laporte, Patrick Santos, and all the students from the Ecole Estienne in Paris, who contributed to the visual performance inspired by a selection of record covers during the show.
Music written, produced and performed by Nicolas Chaix.

Versatile records.

I:Cube Live Au Forum Des Halles, Paris, 18 Mai 2019

Gilb'r - Hexo

Free download.
For his first éponymous album to be released the 5/2/2024.
Versatile is happy to present you his new signing:Le Mystérieux Orchestre Électronique de Paris.
Somewhere between Ambient, New Age, perhaps Krautrock, the first album by Le Mystérieux Orchestre Électronique de Paris is made up of musical pieces which are often about ten minutes long, in order for the listener to curl up into its pads and repetitive melodies

Le Mystérieux Orchestre Électronique de Paris.Apologie Des Apogées Au Sommet De La Montagne

All these tracks have been 100% composed by AI, and the lyrics are mostly by ChatGPT. Most of them sound to me like obscure holy grails. We are entering a new era that I personally find very exciting.

Le Cœur De Gilbert

While clearing out a barn in Gauchant, I stumbled upon a peculiar suitcase filled with cassette tapes. It belonged to the former owner, an eccentric Englishman named Mark Doll, who hosted a radio show in the late 1980s on Radio Echo, a community station in the region. I didn’t recognize any of these incredible tracks he played, some true gem I decided to share them with you. 
Happy New Year and best wishes for the holiday season!
Of course too cool to be real. Let’s keep it unreal, I’ve been experimenting with AI lately and wanted to share with you the best and craziest moments

Radio Echo lost tape

Rinse France Podcast

Gilb'R special 100% AI

RÊVE 107

Recorded live during this party.
Special thanks Felix for the recording

Gilb'r 100% Jungle 7/3/25 @Trabendo

RÊVE ISABELLE

Download the track & more info : http://versatilerecords.com/news/free-download-acid-arab-amal-argy-these-days-mix/

Free Download : Acid Arab - Amal (Argy 'These Days' Mix)

VERCLASSIC004 : Various Artists – Disco Cubizm / Venus EP

Tracklisting
01 – I:Cube – Disco Cubizm (Daft Punk Remix)
02 – Cheek – Venus Sunshine People (Dj Gregory Unreleased Pass)

Out on vinyl March 18h 2016

First in a series of Versatile Records 20th Anniversary re-mastered vinyl repress is this double sided classic offering with the Daft Punk remix of I:Cube “Disco Cubizm” on side A and an unreleased pass of Dj Gregory remix of Venus “Cheek” on side B.

Buy Digital and Vinyl

Cheek - Venus (Sunshine People) - (Dj Gregory Unreleased Pass)

I:Cube - Disco Cubizm (Daft Punk Remix)

VERSATILE 20 YEARS : 1996 / 2016
a double cd selected by I:Cube & Gilb'r

Release Party in Paris - Samedi 28 Mai à Villette Sonique
for Versatile 20 Years
https://www.facebook.com/events/1738967623048408/
 
Between the time when we were hand-stickering our first release (I:Cube - Disco cubizm) in the living room of my former apartment at Rue de la Goutte d'Or and today, 20 years have passed. Twenty years in which I have tried to show inventiveness, perseverance, and... surprise. The surprise comes primarily from the artists, who’ve been my main motivation as well as my source of energy during all this time. I want to thank them all here, first and foremost I:Cube, who was the first to be signed and with whom I now share this selection on this double CD.

new related event :  
Release Party in Paris 
for Versatile 20 Years
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Exclusive Pre-order Digital and/or CD
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King Ghazi - Shamaleh (Gilb'R Main Mix)

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John Cravache - Le Désir De Rester Petit (Cubo Remix)

I:Cube - Mingus In My Pocket

VERSATILE 20 YEARS : 1996 / 2016
a double cd selected by I:Cube & Gilb'r
 
Between the time when we were hand-stickering our first release (I:Cube - Disco cubizm) in the living room of my former apartment at Rue de la Goutte d'Or and today, 20 years have passed. Twenty years in which I have tried to show inventiveness, perseverance, and... surprise. The surprise comes primarily from the artists, who’ve been my main motivation as well as my source of energy during all this time. I want to thank them all here, first and foremost I:Cube, who was the first to be signed and with whom I now share this selection on this double CD.

new related event :  
Release Party in Paris 
for Versatile 20 Years
https://www.facebook.com/events/1738967623048408/

Exclusive Pre-order Digital and/or CD
http://shop.versatilerecords.com/album/1996-2016-versatile-records-20-years

Pre-order / Buy

Gilb'R + Bradock - Versatile

The Versatile Shop

King Ghazi presents Abu Sayah - SHAMALEH(GILB-R MAIN MIX)

I:Cube 
" Chansons du siècle dernier (1990-1996) "
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a mini mix of old tracks from the cassette archives.


Let's indulge in a little nostalgia for once. I'm going to talk about a period which goes from 1990 to 1996, with modest beginnings in the production of  house "musique de chambre" in which freedom and enthusiasm were more important than anything else.
Inspired by the discovery of dance music at the end of the eighties in England and through listening to the radio, I tried to reproduce what I heard with a small Casio toy sampler,  and a Mattel Electronics rhythm box played by hand. Gradually more machines were added to this primitive set-up, and by 91 i got a better sound with a Roland sampler. Like all bedroom producers of this period, you did the best you could with the means you had at your disposal, not having much idea of "how it was done". All this air of mystery contributed to the aura of the records which came out during this period.

The role played by FM radio during this time in Paris was of prime importance. For additional information I suggest you should read Etienne Menu's excellent article on this subject : http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/11/french-radio-feature.
I constantly zapped between stations. Radio Nova (Deenastyle with Dee Nasty and Lionel D, Guillaume la Tortue's mental mixes in 1990, Garnier and his "paradise garage" show, the Nova mix with Loik and Gilb'r, as well as numerous different guests). 
Also  Radio FG which played ambient (the "radio mental" mix on monday) as well as hardcore techno and garage, with very good guest DJ's ( Liza N'Eliaz, DJ Deep, Jeff Mills…). Public service radio France Culture offered sound creation (in particular the famous Atelier de Création Radiophonique, Clair de nuit, and radio drama), radio Ici & Maintenant for UFO's and New Age weirdness, radio Libertaire for its "epsylonia" show, Transat FM for rare groove and so on…..
Public record libraries (which are free and well-stocked in Paris), as well as flea markets, were my main source of samples, as well as numerous musical finds.
What was most important for me was not to make a record, but above all to make music. The end product was a multitude of bits of music which I collected on cassettes over the years, recording moments of creation and fun. 
It went in all directions, from dadaist deep house to hazy trance. Freedom and lack of production techniques meant so-called rules of good or bad taste were immaterial and it was all the better for it.
There was an overpowering desire to take pleasure in doing it and experimenting ("how would it sound if I mixed a reversed zouk beat with an acid baseline?").

This minimix, which is a bit difficult to stomach when you listen to it, is interspersed with short radio extracts which take us back to the atmosphere of the period. The absolute roughness and lack of sophistication of it, the naivety and the passion make it all the more charming. 

In 1996, I sent some cassettes out to have a second opinion on them, without much conviction. The only reply came from Gilb'r who was working at Radio Nova and decided at that time to start a record label. Everything happened by trial and error and in an atmosphere of enthusiasm and curiosity. As a result of all this collective energy (big up Isabelle, Didier, Jérôme, Stephane, Ygal) and all those who joined in the adventure at some time or other, the image of Versatile has developed as each record has come out, preferring to be always a little on the sidelines, not wanting to be confined to what sound is fashionable or just restricted to dance music. Because nothing has been pre-determined, instead relying on gut-feeling on the spur of the moment, Gilbert has been able to retain this freedom and enabled his label to stand the test of time.

I:Cube

I:CUBE - CHANSONS DU SIECLE DERNIER (1990 1996)

Those 2 boys are responsible for one of the best record we ever released(in my opinion).A proper introduction to the vast world of modular synth.
This version of Moonish landscapes was recorded at Muziekgebouw,live,for the celebration of the 20 years of the label.
It's the end of the year,it's almost the beginning of the next one.
All of us at Versatile wish you the best.

Moonish Landscapes   Live

ŒIL CUBE-DISK TWO

Lunar Leap

In a time when Jazz music is entering a contemporary renaissance and exciting the ears and minds of new audiences, Zombie Zombie's Étienne Jaumet offers us his unique, idiosyncratic take on the sound with the sprawling “8 Regards Obliques”, his 3rd solo album with the Versatile label.

Jazz requires a certain freedom of technique, interpretation and improvisation that already matches Jaumet’s own production style and sonic aesthetic as well as his playful approach towards music.
The eight pieces that make up the new LP were very quickly recorded; Jaumet let himself be carried away by the atmosphere without focusing too much on fine details or the laborious aspects of the composition process.

The finished article is a spontaneous collection that stands out, a true mirror image of the creative process adopted by the artist. Not surprisingly, spontaneity is one of the characteristics already present in his music, in both his recorded output and his live happenings, where he leaves much room for freedom and improvisation.

“8 Regards Obliques” was recorded at the Versatile studio in less than 3 weeks with quite a basic set up: TR 808, selected synthesizers, vocals and of course the saxophone, which is a constant presence also in his previous albums.
For the mix Etienne has again appealed to the maestro I:Cube, a central figure of the Versatile story and a prodigious engineer and artist in his own right. He immediately understood that it was necessary to keep the spontaneous side alive and to not over-produce the pieces or over-edit them, being constantly mindful to retain the power in the sound and in the frequencies.

From Sun Ra with “Nuclear war”, Miles Davis in “Shhh / Peaceful” or “Theme from a symphony” by Ornette Coleman to “Caravan” (already quoted by many jazzmen), Etienne enjoyed revisiting classic masterpieces and paying tribute to his inspirations. He allowed himself only one personal and original composition, “Ma révélation mystique”.

8 REGARDS OBLIQUES

Nuclear war

French electronic champions I:Cube and Chateau Flight, trendsetting DJ Raphael Top Secret and newcomers Flegon provide us with remixes of the autumn released LP 'Sphere Of Existence ' by Antoine Kogut. Where the LP explored atmospheric and experimental pop, « Remixes » gives us a four tracker that is made for the dancefloor.

On side A, Chateau Flight transforms the title track « Sphere Of Existence » into a 90’s Italo house banger while I:Cube does what he does best in his unexpected dub version.  On the B side, Raphael Top Secret reworks « Current density » into a Hip House track full of deep vibrations and newcomer band/label Flegon fulfilled their goal of working with their all time favorite French Touch pioneer label Versatile giving us a Nu-Disco remix of the song « L ‘oeillet noir ».

SPHERE OF EXISTENCE- CHATEAU FLIGHT MIX

Taken from the forthcoming compilation Pop symapthie,to be released the 21/6/2019
you can pre order here
https://shop.versatilerecords.com/album/vidal-benjamin-presents-pop-sympathie-verlp39
and this is what is it about


Any historians keen on the subject of "French youth in the 1980s" are holding a treasure in their hands. As a true archaeologist of this decade dedicated to disposable culture, digger-in-chief Vidal Benjamin with his newest compilation, 'Pop Sympathie', offers them a unique journey in the heart of the cyclone of emotions that struck all teenagers during the first seven years of François Mitterrand's mandate. Fifteen musical nuggets, exhumed from the dungeons of history, each and every one of them teaching us about what really obsessed the youngsters at that exact moment, i.e. what happens when the city lights come on at dusk, when irrepressible urges that stir them to get lost even more appear until the end of the night.

The artists gathered here did not have the honour of breaking into the local charts, but they all individually reached for the sky. Each song of 'Pop Sympathie' tells more or less the same story: that of a girl who throws herself into the night like one immerses one's self into the void, who rushes into a one-night adventure to become a star. And too bad if in the early morning she finds herself back at square one. In all these miniature odysseys there is neon lights, lasers, smoke machines, broken glass on checkered tiles, strangers on leather benches, celebrities in the bathrooms, stolen kisses, alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, Polaroids, venetian blinds and radioactive tubes.

If the first opus of Vidal Benjamin, 'Disco Sympathie', focused on the funky mood of songs that could have been played at Le Palace, then 'Pop Sympathie' develops itself as the imaginary soundtrack of another nightclub, Les Bains-Douches, the capital’s epicenter of nocturnal drifts. So what do we listen to, blasé, at Bains-Douches? Mainly synthesizers. The child of punk and post punk, French New Wave celebrates the matrimony of machines and lolitas under the auspices of a retro trend that revisits the atomic age. Trying to surf on that wave and hit the charts, a bunch of producers (Stéphane Berlow, Laurent Stopnicki, Bernard "Black Devil" Fèvre, Johny Rech, Jean-Yves Joanny ...) will spot their talents amongst friends, in a travel agency or at the local bar. These virtual stars are called Cecilia, Laurent, Sonia, Janou, Fabienne, Anne, Arielle or Ronan, not even 20 years old, and often leaving just an overexposed photo and their first name on a single as the only memories of their swift passage in this particular musical story. It took all the love and sweet madness of Vidal Benjamin to bring them back in the light of day.

Clovis Goux

Versatile Records

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