COSMIC MACHINE - Cosmic Machine: A Voyage Across French Cosmic & Electron...

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Article name: Cosmic Machine: A Voyage Across French Cosmic & Electronic Avant-Garde 1970-1980
Genre: Disco / Dance Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: BECAUSE MUSIC Number of tracks: 40

Tracklist LP - 1

1. Patrick Juvet - Reve 2. Didier Marouani - Temps X 3. Droids - Shanti Dance, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2 4. François de Roubaix - Survol 5. Space - Magic Fly 6. Universal Energy - Disco Energy (I) 7. Pierre Bachelet - Motel Show 8. Space Art - Love Machine 9. The Atomic Crocus - Ombilic Contact 10. Jean Michel Jarre - Blackbird

Tracklist LP - 2

11. Bernard Fevre - That is To Be 12. Cerrone - Generique (Debut) 13. Frederic Mercier - Spirit 14. Quartz - Chaos 15. Rene Roussel - Caramel 16. Serge Gainsbourg - Physique Et Le Figure 17. DVWB - Acqua 18. Alain Goraguer - Bracelet 19. Jean-Jacques Perrey - E.V.A. 20. The Rockets - Rocket Man [Instrumental]

Tracklist CD - 3

21. Patrick Juvet - Reve 22. Didier Marouani - Temps X 23. Droids - Shanti Dance, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2 24. François de Roubaix - Survol 25. Space - Magic Fly 26. Universal Energy - Disco Energy (I) 27. Pierre Bachelet - Motel Show 28. Space Art - Love Machine 29. The Atomic Crocus - Ombilic Contact 30. Jean Michel Jarre - Blackbird 31. Bernard Fevre - That is To Be 32. Cerrone - Generique (Debut) 33. Frederic Mercier - Spirit 34. Quartz - Chaos 35. Rene Roussel - Caramel 36. Serge Gainsbourg - Physique Et Le Figure 37. DVWB - Acqua 38. Alain Goraguer - Bracelet 39. Jean-Jacques Perrey - E.V.A. 40. The Rockets - Rocket Man [Instrumental]

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This overview of French electronic music during the 1970s is a useful, entertaining compilation of artists and sounds, both obscure and well-known. Its context is especially welcome due to the plethora of music from other cultures --the many comps and reissues from Africa, German electronic music, and works by American and British electronic composers from the same period that have been reissued and/or unearthed -- and made widely available in the 21st century. Cosmic Machine is striking for the sheer range of its tracks. It makes no attempt to portray the building of a particular scene. This is the place where the cheesy electro-disco of Pierre Bachelet's "Motel Show" and Serge Gainsbourg's "Le Physique et La Figure" are juxtaposed with the atmospheric sound-library jazz of Alain Goraguer's "Le Bracelet" and the fragmented experimentation of Bernard Fevre's "This Is to Be" (an exclusive that is one of the set's finest moments). Some of the best-known names in French electronic music -- like Cerrone and Jean Michel Jarre -- are given to minor fancies in this setting. That said, more marginal talents, such as Jean-Jacques Perrey, with his beautifully seductive "E.V.A.," and Rene Roussel, with his proto-techno "Caramel," offer the other side, where accessibility and real adventure are balanced and offer surprise. ~ Thom Jurek

Thom Jurek