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What we say
 This record left our Brian feeling ecstatic.
Breaking up the slew of indie stuff is one of those wonderful
little releases that always serve us well. I.E. the forward thinking electronic
hip hop album. There's been plenty to scoff about in the French music biz over
the years (remember Les Thugs??) but their current hip hop scene sounds a
hell of a lot more spanking fresh than our own stale & rather confused
"underground". Depth Affect have produced an album of
absorbing, rhythmically astute, wondrously atmospheric & gorgeously layered
music. Sparkling, inventive gear that is as much in debt to prime ambient works
era-Aphex as it is Prefuse's multi-tracked kaleidosc-hop odysseys.
It's also one of those albums that has the underground & the mainstream
comfortably juxtaposed as whilst the flowing melodies shine brightly &
would appeal to the casual music listener as "background" music, the
production qualities & "depth" of ermm....."effects"
scream the future. Thoroughly absolutely recommended.
What the label says:
Paris, May13th, 2004 : Depth Affect opens the show for Alias (from the collective & label Anticon). The musician from Oakland is under the spell of their music and asks the Parisian audience to applaud this band - which he depicts as « one of the best bands he’s played with » - warmly.
This anecdote highlights all the work achieved by Depth Affect since their beginnings a couple of years ago and later their first opus ("Mesquin EP", Autres Directions In Music, January 2004). Now a quartet, including a DJ and a VJ, the band has played live in many different festivals such as Astropolis, Les Siestes Electroniques or Les Trois Elephants, working at the same time on the writing of "Arche-Lymb", a first album capable of synthesizing their manifold talents and aspirations.
September 2004 : Depth Affect meet up in Lorient, a town on the French West Coast. Quickly, they put together the track "Honey Folky". Striking, wobbly, messy, exulting : the cornerstone of "Arche-Lymb" was laid.
From then on, the quartet continuously worked on this first album, a strange and energetic one, which deceives its listener. Hip Hop beats set on dislocated springs, magnetic keyboards, cut up vocals, bits of acoustic guitars, miscellaneous noises... "Arche-Lymb" draws the outline of a world which is in turns contemplative, melancholy or angry. A place where we meet Alias again on "Wyoming Highway", where both the universes of the band and the American MC blend in a magnificent way. On another track ("One Day Or So"), they associate with CYNE (Botanica Del Jibaro, City Centre Offices). Describing a personal world, full of chiaroscuros, "Arche-Lymb" is nevertheless a coherent and rich album, multiplying sound and rhythmic strokes of inspiration. It wouldn’t disgrace the productions of major labels such as Ninja Tune, Warp or Mego.
On stage, Depth Affect is even more impressive when the videos come in symbiosis with the music and compels the audience to a frenzied desire to dance.
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