Hypo & EDH - The Correct Use of Pets

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5...according to our Ant on Sat 18 Nov, 2006.

The sleeve for 'The Correct Use Of Pets' by Hypo & EDH is bizarre. There's a scary looking woman staring menacingly with a toy panda and the worlds smallest pumpkin next to her on a table. What does it all mean??? I wonder what the correct use of pets is? Maybe you could get your Cat to wash the dishes for you or get your goldfish to do the hoovering. Imagine hamsters doing plumbing and rabbits fitting carpets. The world would be a better place. Anyway back to the music. Hypo have had stuff out on Spymania which is a good reference point for their sound. The lads are saying this is a lot like Solex. Lots of really interesting unidentifiable sounds and quality electronics on here. Great fun on Active Suspention.

Introduced by Brighton-based Spymania (Squarepusher, Jamie Lidell) with Kotva, in 2001, Hypo has now become an icon-like figure of Active Suspension, for which he achieved three LPS of atypical and stubbornly original electronic pop. Grinningly ironic and deadly serious at the same time, Hypo wanders in the soapy world of pop music, mistreating clichés, mishandling with one gesture new wave, mainstream and experimental music. Asserting the sampled/recycling nature of his music, Hypo still seduces with the totally pop inclination of his songs, labouring for the composition of potential pocket hit tracks, crossbeamed with brillant gestures of experimentation.

Emmanuelle de Héricourt is a musician and a singer, playing in various musical projects (her own solo EDH, Les Chanteurs Américains, iià. After the release of her debut album Morgen on Japanese label Intik, Emmanuelle largely contributed to Hypo’s fourth album Random Veneziano, most notably the explosive « Free Days ». Working principally with analogue synthesisers, Emmanuelle composes a unique kind of synthetic pop, light and somber at the same time, where ghostly crooning voices intertwine with references to the 1980s, and vocals that can both be fragile and disincarnated.

" The Correct Use of Pets " is Hypo and EDH’s first LP collaboration. One can find the eminently recognizable pop alchemy of their respective works, but also the unheard exploration of an absurde and strange animal universe, a kind of anti-lounge music that is exotic and somber at the same time. In all, a collection of dancey tracks and persisting pop songs. Emmanuelle’s lyrics, confront the music in all ways, being at times abstract, light or sanguine, underlining the inner duality of this album, which is at the same time a naïve and a disturbed one, a somber and a playful one. Tracklist :

1. PLASTIC BAG
2. NAUGHTY PLACE
3. LA HEIM
4. HOLO HOLO
5. LAMENT
6. REVEX
7. ROUTINE 66
8. GLOW
9. THE STRUCTURE OF REJECT
10. CUSTOM TRUCK
11. JOHNNY
12. ALL MY FINGERS ARE AWAY
13. MANIMAL
14. FRENCH CHANSON
15. TROMPLEX
16. HELMUT HEIT
17. OUBA