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Your support makes all the difference.Veteran synthesiser pioneer Jean Jacques Perrey is best known for his duo work with Gershon Kingsley, their mid-1960s electronic pop experiments described in a press release as "atoms of pop music exploded into fresh patterns... the electronic 'au go-go' that might be heard soon from the jukeboxes at interplanetary way-stations". It would take Kraftwerk to bring that vision into focus, but Perrey returns here in another duo with post-rave samplist Luke Vibert. Moog Acid is entertaining in parts, but too much of it sounds like 1970s library music. There's a charm to "Schwing", and "White Knight" and the aptly titled "Analogue Generique" display a naive retro-futurism; but Perrey and Vibert's perspectives collide to no great advantage on the meandering muzak of "Ye Olde Beatbox" and the clash of kitsch and bricolage that makes up "JJPLVDNB". Rather better is "Dream 106", in which burbling bass and waspish lead synth are teased with wisps of sitar over a rhythm programme incorporating sequenced grunts, like a tennis pro serving aces.
Download this: 'Dream 106', 'Schwing', 'White Knight'
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