Muzak Pour Ascenseurs En Panne CD

If you've not previously heard of Brigitte Barbu, don't worry - it's a brand-new alias from one of electronic music's true originals, eccentric French producer Julien Auger AKA mutant house maestro Pepe Bradock. This first album from the project is undeniably thrilling, and not just because Auger rarely bothers with full-length excursions. Packed with strange electro-acoustic noises, off-kilter instrumentation and trippy, brain-melting sounds, it combines occasional abstract, off-kilter hip-hop beats with spaced-out and unusual aural textures, out-of-this-world ambient movements, and a wide palette of bizarre-but-brilliant samples that reference everything from dusty jazz and surging neo-classical movements, to Hawaiian pedal steel music and the modular experiments of the BBC's Radiophonic Workship. In a word: inspired.