It's pretty impossible for me to pick out particular producers for special attention, especially as - unlike guitar bands and suchlike - I have less scope for explaining and referencing how they craft their music. It's something I always attempt to correct every year but it feels impossible to keep on top of the amount of amazing electronically-designed music out there.
Anyway, Debruit - or Xavier Thomas to his friends and family - caught my attention with his Spatioin Temporel EP. It's a blustery cluster of disparate rhythms, slinky spring sounds and cutting samples that all bring to mind a clash between exotic street parties and underground club ambience. Generally the filtering of ideas ends up sputtering unforseen and unimaginable cultural splicing, down to the finest warped bass register and vocoder voice patch.
Certainly the most refreshing thing I've heard from France for a long time, the exciting thing is just how he's tamed about 50 ideas, lashed them into four tracks and still it feels like he's bursting with incredible energy. All this energy is destined to burst onto a second full-length platter soon.
Here have this youtube feed of Nigeria What? from this very EP. It's ace.
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