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“It’s been on my wishlist for a while that the incredibly talented Julienne Dessagne
does a techno EP for us,” Michael Mayer says. You can hear why, straight up, on
Speicher 139, as Dessagne’s project Fantastic Twins is finally let loose on
Kompakt’s storied series. The key words: psychedelic acid trax. “False Index” is
peeled back to core: a fearsome rhythm, with an endlessly helixing synth pattern
twisting around your skull, crinkling like cellophane and warping like burnt plastic,
while Dessagne’s Sprechstimme floats above everything – detached but effortlessly
perceptive.
“New Systems” is a new kind of Europe Endless – hypnotic and lush, its deep drones
pinpricked by sonar bleep. “Uninhibited” is catchy in a way that only Dessagne can
make possible, its vocal tattoo burnt into your mind as it echoes through massive
architectures, tones dropping from scaffold and splashing at your feet as glitch-work
burrows its way up through the floor, directly into your earholes. Uninhibited?
Everything here’s simultaneously under control, all under the watchful, guiding eye of
Dessagne, and playfully, wildly out of control, little arrangements of phenomena let
loose to build new worlds. Organised chaos, and chaotic organisation.
