Track info
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- A1: Slave Of My Mind
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- A2: Plaisir D'ete
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- B1: Preludia
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- B2: 7 Minutes
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- C1: So Time
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- C2: Sunburn
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- D1: Ph-1
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- D2: World End Rock Up
Price & Stock
- € 19.66
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Comments
• After the singles “Alone In The Dark” and “Slave Of My Mind”, French dance star Kiko marks his comeback in April with one almighty, and superbly crafted bang - his second album “Slave Of My Mind”.
•The record marks a fresh start, and the sound vividly reflects this positivity. On this second album, he went much further in terms of composition blending rave euphoria with an elegant, almost minimal approach, one that's markedly different from the disco clatter that characterized his earlier work.
•Now singed to Different Recordings, Kiko made his name crafting slick, melodic techno for local labels like Goodlife and Ozone in the late 1990s. At the time, his contemporaries included The Hacker, Oxia, Miss Kittin and Vitalic and they formed a kind of informal Gallic Techno Alliance that operated outside chi-chi Paris, and Grenoble became affectionately known as the “Detroit of France”.
•Title track Slave Of My Mind is a late night Gothic epic with melancholic chords and strings mixed with the Dave Gahan-esque voice of Benoit Bollini. Elsewhere, on tracks such as "Alone In The Dark" and the blissful "Preludia", the melodies are sinuous and graceful, the highs hazy and intoxicating. The pretty interludes, "Shanel 78" and "Sciences Naturelles", too, are delightfully cosmic. Into the mix on tougher tracks such as "World End Rock Up" and "So Time" Kiko introduces elements of Belgian new beat.
•This is the sound of a producer at the top of his game, who happens to be mapping out the zone somewhere between James Holden, Vitalic and Rekid.
•“Slave of My Mind” comes with an enigmatic and fascinating video made by François Barbier.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x47qlt_kiko-slave-of-my-mind_music
•The record marks a fresh start, and the sound vividly reflects this positivity. On this second album, he went much further in terms of composition blending rave euphoria with an elegant, almost minimal approach, one that's markedly different from the disco clatter that characterized his earlier work.
•Now singed to Different Recordings, Kiko made his name crafting slick, melodic techno for local labels like Goodlife and Ozone in the late 1990s. At the time, his contemporaries included The Hacker, Oxia, Miss Kittin and Vitalic and they formed a kind of informal Gallic Techno Alliance that operated outside chi-chi Paris, and Grenoble became affectionately known as the “Detroit of France”.
•Title track Slave Of My Mind is a late night Gothic epic with melancholic chords and strings mixed with the Dave Gahan-esque voice of Benoit Bollini. Elsewhere, on tracks such as "Alone In The Dark" and the blissful "Preludia", the melodies are sinuous and graceful, the highs hazy and intoxicating. The pretty interludes, "Shanel 78" and "Sciences Naturelles", too, are delightfully cosmic. Into the mix on tougher tracks such as "World End Rock Up" and "So Time" Kiko introduces elements of Belgian new beat.
•This is the sound of a producer at the top of his game, who happens to be mapping out the zone somewhere between James Holden, Vitalic and Rekid.
•“Slave of My Mind” comes with an enigmatic and fascinating video made by François Barbier.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x47qlt_kiko-slave-of-my-mind_music
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