Bandcamp pick of the week: Philippe Laurent - Cassettes

Bandcamp pick of the week: Philippe Laurent - Cassettes

August 17, 2015

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August 17, 2015

This week's bandcamp pick comes from Paris, from our friends at Serendip Lab, a record label and music festival. This is a reissue from the french electronic wizard Philippe Laurent alias Hot Bip.

Media artist Philippe Laurent is a pioneer of electronic music, a French Kraftwerk who recently stepped into the limelight thanks to Minimal Wave’s re-issue of his music. As indicated in the title, the tracks on this album were gathered from rare tapes released between 1980 and 1985. You will find here all that makes the charm of his music: ethereal synthetic tunes, syncopated rhythm boxes, minimal but lively TB303 basslines that sound poetically futuristic and herald techno music, acid and IDM.

Also, check out Serendip Lab's mix for The Attic, made by Sinead OConnick.