Para One

One artist I regret not posting before now is Para One. I know a lot of you who read bigstereo already know Jean-Baptiste de Laubier — as you should. If not, Fat Planet has an excellent introduction.

Para One’s Epiphanie has left a fingerprint on my speakers.

Few albums successfully achieve the sound of the future… Para One creates the way music should will sound in the next decade. Using the structure of the past, Para One has built an album on classic techno and acid house, but has shaped it into something new. For an album so rooted, Epiphanie never sounds retro or dated. It never seems tired. It is about as Now as you can get.

Fat Planet sums Epiphanie up beautifully:

“there”™s so much to enjoy here – it looks back over its shoulder to an age where electronic music was finally liberated and yet strides purposefully forward into uncharted territory. it”™s both familiar and terrifying at the same time.”

“Turtle Trouble” is not the best track on the album, but it is the one that is totally approachable.  Plus, it makes me think of Super Mario Brothers in a hard way.

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Para One – “Turtle Trouble” (mp3)

Much of the music coming out of France is so hard (ie Justice). It’s nice to hear something that is still edgy but on the softer end of the spectrum.

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