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artist · i cube
release · remixes part 1
year · 2000
genre · lo-fi
label · versatile
catalogue · ver019
website · www.versatilerecords.com
date · 26-jun-2004
quality · 190kbps/44,1khz
source · vinyl
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a1 adore (ptaah remix) 7:04
b1 zouq 6:01
playtime · 00h 13m 05s
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french techno/house producer i:cube (aka nicholas chaix), along
with such artists as air, motorbass, and daft punk, was one of the
most hyped underground acts on paris' resurging dance scene during
1996-97 (with the difference that, instead of the industry, it was
those artists doing the hyping). similar in some respects to his
colleagues, i:cube's near-comprehensive fusion of the range of
minimal electronic dance musics -- a molten concoction of funk,
soul, electro, trance, chicago house, and detroit techno -- first
surfaced through the "disco cubism" single (on popular parisian dj
gilb-r's versatile label) in 1996. made all the more amazing by
the discovery that it was the work of a teenage schoolboy, the
single's popularity was upped considerably by the full-length
debut, picnic attack, which appeared the following year. informed
by a heavy dose of driving, minimal, trance-oriented techno, the
album helped distinguish i:cube's style from that of his more
press-hounded countrymates (and attracted a fair amount of
hounding on its own). a surprising and consistently inventive
release, the album (along with daft punk's homework and the
sourcelab label compilations) gave considerable weight to the
notion that paris' dance underground is among the least
stylistically segregated around, producing innovative,
compositionally accomplished music both clear in focus and broad
in scope.
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