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GRVTS 014LP
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After scrawling his name on releases with close affiliates the Mannequin (Laugh Tool, MNQ 080LP, 2016) and Unknown Precept (A-Tranquility, PRECEPT 003EP, 2014), new Brussels transplant Maoupa Mazzocchetti finds good company among the oddballs on Editions Gravats for Gag Flag's blend of avant-dance music and absurdist experimental pop. For Gag Flag, Mazzocchetti adopts the persona of "Snippet Boy", a fictional avatar who first came to life in his live shows, and now on the album sleeve. Lurking behind this persona, Mazzocchetti becomes an art-dance-pop puppeteer who yanks the listener's strings and takes popshots at industry overproduction, deflating egotism and hackneyed convention in a way that echoes the subversive approach of his heroes such as Devo and The Residents. Using a blend of plugged-in and acoustic instruments, Mazzocchetti conjures nine psychedelically misshapen and inexorably funked-up grooves, splashing from the lysergic swagger of "Looking For Cheese" to the Arabian electro-acid styles of "How To Hate You Without H?" via the lap-steel dancehall slosh of "Ron's Roof", demented yacht-boogie in "Fonk Left The Ytown", and what sounds like Depeche Mode doing knackered EBM on "Sultan 1997". This is the sound of an artist unafraid to pursue their own sound and really coming into their own, albeit channeled thru a deflated, winking rubber avatar. Edition of 300.
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MNQ 080LP
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Brussels-based French producer Maoupa Mazzocchetti follows acclaimed productions on Unknown Precept, PRR! PRR!, and Mannequin Records with his full-length debut, Laugh Tool. Mazzocchetti resurrects the earlier days of electro-industrial in a mixture that recalls the late-'70s/early-'80s period of Fad Gadget, Throbbing Gristle, Portion Control, Cabaret Voltaire, and Front 242 crossed with the more fresh and innovative deep electronic experiments of Beau Wanzer and Charles Manier. Driven by a DIY ethic and a punk ideology, Mazzocchetti records his work in his bedroom without any professional equipment, using analog synths and sequencers, modified drum machines, tape loops, and lots of effects pedals. Florent Mazzocchetti (aka Maoupa Mazzocchetti) began experimenting with rhythm at an early age. He developed a passion for the drums at the age of ten but soon got into rock records and switched to guitar, which became his main instrument and shaped his perception of music. To an audience of contemporary electronic music consumers who have only closely followed techno, house, electro, and disco, the sounds of Laugh Tool will appear unearthly and entirely unexpected. It's an album of ten tracks ready to change minds. Artwork by Florent Mazzocchetti. Mastered by Rude 66. Limited edition of 500.
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MNQ 078EP
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Hailing from Brussels, Maoupa Mazzocchetti debuts on Mannequin Records with three killer tracks of industrial electro, released in advance of his 2016 full-length debut. Deep, dark, and stripped-down, Mazzocchetti's tracks regurgitate the lessons of the '80s Belgian EBM/minimal synth legends with a fresh, nervous musical urgency. Limited edition of 300 copies.
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PRECEPT 003EP
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Maoupa Mazzocchetti's industrial-esque debut for Unknown Precept questions the primary inconstancy of music through five slices of proto-techno experiments; ranging from pile-driving kicks to rumbling bass, Maoupa's boiling mental activity vibrating and twitching in a very specific manner resulted in the live recording of "A-Tranquility," an EBM-styled extended-play browsing random directions while exploring muscular, deconstructed grooves as well as metallic, stodgy rhythms and noisy-atmospheric synth lines. Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering, London.
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