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Au Reve
The French are many things--superb chefs, extraordinary winemakers, great lovers--but they are not funky. That's not a musical slight. Think of Air, Serge Gainsbourg, and Edith Piaf--all artists of uncommon vision and voice. But funky? Mais non. Clearly, the members of Parisian electronica-hip-hop-house combo Cassius didn't get the memo. Combining trucked-in vocals, choppy breakbeats, random bloops and gurgles, jazzy hip-hop, and staccato synth, Cassius producers Philippe Zdar and Hubert Blanc-Francart create sparkly, boombastic disco nuggets that are at once rave-worthy and, yes, funky. Suggestions of Kraftwerk emerge in cuts like the robotic, vocoder-boosted "Telephone Love," while guests such as Ghostface Killah and Jocelyn Brown--who croons diva-style on the rocking, Saturday Night Fever-damaged "I'm A Woman"--add sizzle. But the steak is the unrelentingly butt-wiggling, studio-enhanced throwdowns stitched together by Cassius. Très groovy. --Kim Hughes
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Tracks| 1 | Hi Water | | 2 | The Sound Of Violence | | 3 | Under Influence | | 4 | Room Tone | | 5 | Thrilla | | 6 | Telephone Love | | 7 | I'm A Woman | | 8 | Protection | | 9 | Till We Got You And Me | | 10 | 20 Years (How Do You See Me Now) | | 11 | Nothing | | 12 | Barocco | | 13 | On | | 14 | Au Reve |
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