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TSR 100EP
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Soon after the release in 2022 of a triple album dedicated to electronic language, Principles of Geometry continues their orbiting journey that began exactly 20 years ago with Penta, a Maxi composed of five electro-geometric vignettes that confirms the discreet French duo pilots one of the most underestimated projects in European IDM. By returning just one year after a massive fifth album (26 tracks), Principles of Geometry makes a clear artistic move: shifting from electronic language unfolded on ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ to gesture, as one would associate intellect with manual, actions with words. On Penta, to be visualized as the five fingers of a hand sketching the immediate and spontaneous pleasure of a hand pressing a chord, Guillaume Grosso and Jeremy Duval thus combine two essential concepts of their electronic music: the need to make the listener dance with their brains, and to touch with their mental images. With nods to the godfathers of the genre (Autechre and Boards of Canada) or crossing paths with Aphex Twin in a Michael Mann film, Penta is therefore a beauty of gesture first conceived with the fingers, and without the need for words to evoke either the romance or the violence of a chord on a Roland Juno 60. Mastered by the legend Noel Summerville (Boards of Canada, Kraftwerk, My Bloody Valentine) and designed by Ian Anderson of The Designers Republic (responsible for the graphics of the cult WipEout and many collaborations with the Warp label), this Maxi is therefore listened to as much as a recreational return to the future of the '90s as it is a concise summary of the equilateral career of Principles of Geometry; equally distant between pure emotion and the need to ponder the notes played in this very special ship.
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TSR 045LP
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Cult French duo Principles of Geometry is back after an eight years hiatus with a 26 tracks love letter to IDM and electronica, ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. A construct on the language which composes their musical lexicon, a sonic grammar which has been their common thread through five albums now. This album is inspired by classic albums such as Artificial Intelligence on Warp Records, Braindance on Rephlex and was teased online this summer with singles "Cmd Ctrl" and "Hummerican". The last side of the third LP is an etching design by The Designers Republic.
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TSR 068EP
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"Connie" is a long-lost cousin of "Lonnie." He's the mean incarnation of Principles Of Geometry, fierce and twisted. For the first time in history, "Connie" is a track built to destroy the clubs and has been thoroughly tested by Joakim in his sets around the world. On the flip-side there are some top underestimated remixers: Tobacco (Ghostly) and VHS Head (Skam) deliver super-dark and weird versions of "Videostore" and "Polysex" in a very Aphex Twinian tradition while Oceanic brings "Suntunnel" back on the dancefloor with his drum-centric rework.
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TSR 027LP
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LP version. Principles Of Geometry is the duo of J & G, the cosmic twins, based somewhere in the North of France. They met in a major studio in Paris where they worked as sound-engineers and started to share their love of IDM, obscure soundtracks, ambient and analog synthesis. Their common passion quickly led them into a dark room where they recorded their first demos. In 2005, they sent a CD of those demos to Tigersushi. This demo CD became their eponymous debut album and the first chapter of what they call an "omniscient trilogy." POG's second album, Lazare (TSR 015CD), an ode to Resurrection, was released in 2008 and featured Sebastien Tellier and Vast Aire from Cannibal Ox. Press reviews were outstanding and with the addition of their first world live tour, the impressive "Stereoscopic show" -- a 3D live experience conceived with AntiVJ, they earned a well-deserved special spot on the French electronic music map. Finally the apocalyptic Burn the Land and Boil the Oceans was the conclusion to that trilogy in 2012, the return to the ground, a non-dramatic expression of extinction, the idea that everything goes back to where it comes from to be born again. The Meanstream appeared before their eyes. An inner glow, a vivid childhood fantasy they had to accomplish. These ten tracks are their most humble and honest expression of emotions, their own genre. Meanstream is a child's word, a bullet to your soul. On this album they also found their perfect symmetrical Gemini -- the cult Alessi Brothers -- an influential band from the '70s, authors of "Seabird," "Oh Lori," etc), Bobbi and Billy. The connection between POG and the Alessi Brothers was true and cosmic, a real artistic exchange. There's also the first song performed by POG themselves, the deep and hypnotic "Runner." It's time to surrender to the Meanstream.
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TSR 027CD
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Principles Of Geometry is the duo of J & G, the cosmic twins, based somewhere in the North of France. They met in a major studio in Paris where they worked as sound-engineers and started to share their love of IDM, obscure soundtracks, ambient and analog synthesis. Their common passion quickly led them into a dark room where they recorded their first demos. In 2005, they sent a CD of those demos to Tigersushi. This demo CD became their eponymous debut album and the first chapter of what they call an "omniscient trilogy." POG's second album, Lazare (TSR 015CD), an ode to Resurrection, was released in 2008 and featured Sebastien Tellier and Vast Aire from Cannibal Ox. Press reviews were outstanding and with the addition of their first world live tour, the impressive "Stereoscopic show" -- a 3D live experience conceived with AntiVJ, they earned a well-deserved special spot on the French electronic music map. Finally the apocalyptic Burn the Land and Boil the Oceans was the conclusion to that trilogy in 2012, the return to the ground, a non-dramatic expression of extinction, the idea that everything goes back to where it comes from to be born again. The Meanstream appeared before their eyes. An inner glow, a vivid childhood fantasy they had to accomplish. These ten tracks are their most humble and honest expression of emotions, their own genre. Meanstream is a child's word, a bullet to your soul. On this album they also found their perfect symmetrical Gemini -- the cult Alessi Brothers -- an influential band from the '70s, authors of "Seabird," "Oh Lori," etc), Bobbi and Billy. The connection between POG and the Alessi Brothers was true and cosmic, a real artistic exchange. There's also the first song performed by POG themselves, the deep and hypnotic "Runner." It's time to surrender to the Meanstream.
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TSR 066EP
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Here comes the first installment from Principles Of Geometry's upcoming album Meanstream. Lush synths set your mind on a Michael Mann movie scene -- amazing beats somewhere between hip-hop, electronica and Peter Gabriel, and the voice of the Alessi Brothers, the legendary twins from the '70s/'80s. Remixes come courtesy of Tanner Ross, one of the members of the Wolf+Lamb & Soul Clap crews + Night Slugs head-honcho (and ghetto house producer as Dance System) L-Vis 1990.
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PMR 002EP
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Part one of Principles Of Geometry's EP series released on vinyl only with a skull drawing on the B-side. It's a limited edition of 200 copies. Featuring the Beastie Boys!! Played by: Yuksek, DJ Morpheus, Shit Robot, Laurent Garnier, Miss Kittin, Kaos, etc.
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TSR 027EP
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Weirdo beardos Principles of Geometry return with a new version of "Interstate Highway System" custom-made for cruising fast on South Dakota driveways. Then, Poni Hoax deliver their first official remix, putting their hands on the fierce and epic "Prophet." But the most epic of all tracks on this EP is certainly EAT's remix of "Golem," a 13-minute odyssey of epic analog synths, deep beats, space melodies, sudden changes and long intros/outros. Think Goblin meets Lindstrøm meets Carl Craig.
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TSR 015CD
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Principles Of Geometry are the French duo of Guillaume Grosso and Jeremy Duval, two bearded cosmic hippie-nerd twins who are obsessed with vintage analog synths, moustaches, NASA videos and the woods. This should already give you an idea of what you're about to listen to. Their second record Lazare is an ambitious album that synthesizes decades of electronic music: incorporating John Carpenter's dramatic minimalism, Terry Riley's smoky loops, Wendy Carlos' synthetic melodies, hip-hop urbanism and Aphex Twin-esque avant-garde electronic tweaking. Nevertheless, there's no nostalgia here -- instead, you are propelled into a future where Sebastien Tellier sings Italo luv music (a new kind of slow-motion Italo disco,) MCs like Cannibal Ox and Hangar18 ride wild beats towards Wagner's Walkyrie, and Jackson meets Boards of Canada on a boat. Here, songs are like pictures -- detailed encephalograms of Principles Of Geometry's moods -- complex and beautiful geometric patterns, a poetry of the infinite. But for them, the most essential aspect of music is emotion, it is the core of everything. Be it layers of melodies or beat avalanches, the goal is always to trigger an emotion, to talk to the mind more than the body. And they do so with such talent that you can always find something new within their songs, some hidden subliminal details. The artwork was supervised by POG with a beautiful cover photograph by American artist Justine Kurland.
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TSR 025EP
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Here comes the first extract from Principles Of Geometry's album Lazare. "A Mountain For President" is a space hymn with Martians on Juno synths, Jupiterians at the mixing desk and cosmic prophet Sebastien Tellier on vocals. Next comes a remix by Speakerine, with a true love for the dark side. Finally, Joakim remixes the title track adding some fat and a huge break in the middle of an already sweet meal.
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TSR 007CD
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"The duo of Guillaume Grosso and Jeremy Duval is one of the most seminal ever to have graced French electronica for a long time. While most of their contemporaries are ensconced in absurdly sophisticated clicks and cuts and dementedly chiselled drills, Principles take the emotional route and develop an accurate and refined cocoon of vintage synthesizers, spanners, majestic basslines and, as jacked as it may sound, Wagner-like harmonies. Self confessed music geeks in their own rights, the duo has developed its own core-values and attitudes to living the right way whilst toiling in the least glamorous section of the advertising industry, in the northern city of Lille. For Principles of Geometry, the lifestyle can never be hairy enuff and their musical educations through complete back-catalogues of stellar imprints such as Benbecula, Warp, Rephlex, Gooom, Def Jux or Sonig was one punctuated with 'tenderness instant', 'open-fly merriment' and total 'Moustache' satisfaction."
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