Minimatic / "Spaggiari revient EP"

Music:

Member Since: 19/01/2008
Band Members: all instruments by Minimatic.

Influences: WHAT THEY'VE SAID....

Wegofunkcom (France)
May 19, 2008.

"(...)une musique inspirée des grands musiciens français qui peuplaient la France des années 60 et 70 : de Janko Nilovic à Jean-Claude Vannier, en passant par Claude Denjean ou Daniel Janin."
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Mondo Ez.com / Online Magazine (Italy)
May 12, 2008.

Record of the week !
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Losing Today.com / The Music Indie Magazine (UK)
April 27, 2008.

"absolutely gorgeous. (...)
Issued on the celebrated Vadim Music imprint (...), Minimatic time travels back to the hazy summer of 1977 to craft out a sumptuous soundtrack for a film never made and in the process carves out a highly authentic sound-scape rich and laden with the groove laden retro vibes of that era. Stunning doesn’t even come into it, what Houpert has done here has ingeniously blended an amorphous aural landscape that blends and bends elements of hypnotically woven slices of lounge / down tempo / chill pop nuances (check the bliss out hazed boogie of the bachelor pad moog motifs of ‘fin de bal au’ with its Barry Gray intones) with subtle library music accents all longingly dusted with sophisticated servings of deeply exotic funk strewn grooves. The sounds veer to the subtle extractions of early 70’s styled blaxploitation grilled on a low heat to the sublime folds of Edwin Moses like classicism though ostensibly smoked with an inspired persona of Morricone as though paired and collaborating with a spy schooled Komeda. From the lazily spun nocturnal moves of the early 70’s American TV cop show like backdrops of ’Spaggiari Revient’ with its smoked key decorated laid back easy pop amour freckled, framed and sublimely saturated in swathes of lunar-esque electronic swathes to the milky way montages of the baroque styled ’une moto dans le nuit’ which unless my ears do deceive sounds like early career Jean Michel Jarre recalibrating the lush spectral folds found on the more cosmically alluring moments of Stereolab’s ’cobra phases’ set - Houpert exacts an unworldly and deeply affecting collage of mood mellowing moments. Elements of Stereolab or rather more precisely Broadcast (albeit overseen by both Mancini and Norman) are toyed with on the delectably Harpsichord washed spacey cocktail shimmer pop of ’la piccola traccia’ while our favourite of the set is the demonstrably edgier psyche funk braided ’French Visa’.
Recommended without question."
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Record Label: Vadim Music
Type of Label: Indie