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Artist:	PRINCIPLES OF GEOMETRY
Title:	Principles of Geometry
Label:	TIGERSUSHI (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TSR 007CD

"The duo of Guillaume Grosso and Jeremy Duval is one of the most seminal ever to have graced French electronica for a long time. While most of their contemporaries are ensconced in absurdly sophisticated clicks and cuts and dementedly chiselled drills, Principles take the emotional route and develop an accurate and refined cocoon of vintage synthesizers, spanners, majestic basslines and, as jacked as it may sound, Wagner-like harmonies. Self confessed music geeks in their own rights, the duo has developed its own core-values and attitudes to living the right way whilst toiling in the least glamorous section of the advertising industry, in the northern city of Lille. For Principles of Geometry, the lifestyle can never be hairy enuff and their musical educations through complete back-catalogues of stellar imprints such as Benbecula, Warp, Rephlex, Gooom, Def Jux or Sonig was one punctuated with 'tenderness instant', 'open-fly merriment' and total 'Moustache' satisfaction."

Artist:	PRINCIPLES OF GEOMETRY
Title:	Lazare
Label:	TIGERSUSHI (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	TSR 015CD

Principles Of Geometry are the French duo of Guillaume Grosso and Jeremy Duval, two bearded cosmic hippie-nerd twins who are obsessed with vintage analog synths, moustaches, NASA videos and the woods. This should already give you an idea of what you're about to listen to. Their second record Lazare is an ambitious album that synthesizes decades of electronic music: incorporating John Carpenter's dramatic minimalism, Terry Riley's smoky loops, Wendy Carlos' synthetic melodies, hip-hop urbanism and Aphex Twin-esque avant-garde electronic tweaking. Nevertheless, there's no nostalgia here -- instead, you are propelled into a future where Sebastien Tellier sings Italo luv music (a new kind of slow-motion Italo disco,) MCs like Cannibal Ox and Hangar18 ride wild beats towards Wagner's Walkyrie, and Jackson meets Boards of Canada on a boat. Here, songs are like pictures -- detailed encephalograms of Principles Of Geometry's moods -- complex and beautiful geometric patterns, a poetry of the infinite. But for them, the most essential aspect of music is emotion, it is the core of everything. Be it layers of melodies or beat avalanches, the goal is always to trigger an emotion, to talk to the mind more than the body. And they do so with such talent that you can always find something new within their songs, some hidden subliminal details. The artwork was supervised by POG with a beautiful cover photograph by American artist Justine Kurland.

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