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Tour-Maubourg - Paradis Artificiels LP

2026 Repress.


There is with Tour-Maubourg an eternal desire to translate the feeling of love into music. Sometimes cheerful, sometimes melancholy, always exhilarating, the producer, native of Brussels and expatriate in Paris, has continued for 3 years to attract the praise of his peers and the support of a growing audience. The man who was described by Trax Magazine upon the release of his 1st EP as ‘‘one of the most promising producers of the French house scene’’ has revealed himself in this hyperactive new scene to become one of its best standards.

After several EPs released in France on Pont Neuf, FHUO (ie. Folamour’s label), as well as Happiness Therapy or in England and Germany on FINA and Salin, Tour-Maubourg unveils his first album, Paradis Artificiels. The Parisian producer refers to Charles Baudelaire’s poem, to which he links his melancholy music, who wrote:

‘‘common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist very little, and that the true reality is only in the dreams’’.

If the producer’s first EPs were mainly focused on club music, Paradis Artificiels oscillates between the atmospheres that made the success of these previous releases and those of a studio album. Composed of both house songs and downtempo sound researches, always flirting with the jazz sounds that have made the fame of the producer, this first album invites us on a journey in the lineage of St Germain, Massive Attack or Nicolas Jaar.

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Tour-Maubourg - Spaces Of Silence LP 2x12"

2026 Repress

From spearheading France’s jazz-house and electronica scenes, to amassing millions of streams for lauded tracks such as Ode To Love, Manhattan To Brooklyn and Artifice, Tour-Maubourg is a flag bearer…

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POND - TERRESTRIALS

POND

TERRESTRIALS

12inchMVLPC21
MANGOVISION
26.06.2026

Die beliebte australische fünfköpfige Band POND schenkt mit ihrem neuen Album - ihrem elften - ,Terrestrials" einen Funken Hoffnung in einer feindseligen Welt. Als Wirbelsturm aus drängendem, verbranntem Rock'n'Roll ist ,Terrestrials" eine Hommage an die Klänge von damals, während es sich gleichzeitig unverblümt dem Hier und Jetzt stellt. Entstanden aus der Ehrfurcht vor einer besonders kraftvollen Epoche des australischen Rock, schöpft ,Terrestrials" aus dem Klang der Melancholie unter freiem Himmel, dem brutzelnden Hitzeschleier über den Ebenen und den klirrenden Hinterzimmern von Pubs, der einen ewig ergreifenden Nerv bei jedem trifft, der mit dem Klang, der Zeit und dem Ort vertraut ist. Wie ein Großteil des Pond-Katalogs ist Terrestrials ein Album über Menschen und Orte, über die Erforschung der Identität jedes Einzelnen sowie darüber, wo und wie sie sich überschneiden und aufeinanderwirken. Terrestrials zittert vor der Verzweiflung von Menschen und Planet am Abgrund, setzt aber letztendlich darauf, dass die Schönheit beider die Oberhand gewinnt.

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ELDRITCH ANISETTE - COMPLETE FAIRYTALES
  • 1: Suckerpunch
  • 2: Pessimism Goes To Work
  • 3: Dissection Of Silence
  • 4: Untitled
  • 5: Secondhanded
  • 6: Japan

Femo der ersten Stunde für den Tanzboden - ohne Kompromisse. Kaum ein Jahr lang aktiv und nie über das Delaware Valley hinausgekommen, brachten Eldritch Anisette eine 7"-Single heraus und spielten zwei Dutzend Konzerte, bevor sie aus dem Bandalter herauswuchsen und sechs Momente herzlicher Jugendlichkeit hinterließen, die die Welt neu entdecken kann. 30 Jahre nach ihrem seelenvollen Album ,Complete Fairytales" versammelt die Band ihre fast vergessenen Nick Rotundo Sessions auf einer einzigen LP mit beiliegendem Textblatt, damit man mit den Kids entspannt mitschreien kann.

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Synapson - 15 ans à l'Olympia LP 2x12"
  • A1: Intro + Colors (Feat. Nic Hanson) (Live À L'olympia)
  • A2: Love On Me (Feat. Later.) (Live À L'olympia)
  • A3: Tiger Teeth (Feat. Nic Hanson) (Live À L'olympia)
  • B1: Djon Maya Maï (Feat. Victor Démé) + Bensema (Feat. Lass) (Live À L'olympia)
  • B2: Danse (Feat. Sirius Trema) (Live À L'olympia)
  • B3: Nuit Blanche (Feat. Clou) (Live À L'olympia)
  • B4: Les Hommes C'est Pas Des Mecs Bien (Feat. Clou) (Live À L'olympia)
  • C1: Intemporel (Live À L'olympia)
  • C2: Manyé (Avec David Walters)(Synapson Remix)(Live À L'olympia)
  • C3: Toujours (Feat. Tim Dup & Lass) (Live À L'olympia)
  • C4: Breathe (Feat. Thaïs Lona) (Live À L'olympia)
  • C5: Guess What (Feat. Nic Hanson) (Live À L'olympia)
  • D1: All In You (Feat. Anna Kova) (Live À L'olympia) + Going Back To My Roots (Feat. Tessa B) (Live À L'olympia)
  • D2: Between The Lines (Dub Version) (Live À L'olympia)
  • D3: Together (Feat. Beat Assailant) + Superfinal (Feat. Tbow, Thaïs Lona, Sirius Trema, Pierre Mirabeau) (Live À L'olympia)

On October 16, 2025, Synapson took over the Olympia for a sold-out anniversary concert, celebrating 15 years of their career. A symbolic night in an iconic venue, in front of a crowd that came to relive the tracks that shaped their journey.

Today, the duo unveils “15 ans à l’Olympia”, a live album recorded during this unique show, a vibrant testament to their stage energy and the evolution of their project.

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EMPEROR X - UNIFIED FIELD
  • 1: Unified Field
  • 2: Feeling Nothing
  • 3: Praise Jesus! Hail Reagan!
  • 4: Superbus
  • 5: Cybertruck A Mouthful Of
  • 6: Increasingly-Dangerous Substances
  • 7: Line Go Up Line Go Down
  • 8: Ostrich Toss
  • 9: I Am A Beached Whale
  • 10: Pissing With The Flashlight On
  • 11: Also Unified Field

Chad R. Matheny veröffentlicht seit 1998 exzentrische, textlich dichte Underground-Popmusik, oft unter dem Namen Emperor X. Nach seinem Studium der Physik, Philosophie und Musikkomposition legte Matheny eine Pause von der akademischen Arbeit ein und verbrachte einen Großteil der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte damit, die Welt mit Bussen und Hochgeschwindigkeitszügen zu durchqueren, um an Orten Musik zu machen, die von einem kleinen, aber vollbesetzten Konzertsaal in Portugal über eine leere Messehalle im Norden des Libanon bis hin zu buchstäblich unterirdischen Metal-Bars in der ganzen Ukraine reichten. Er tourt oft allein mit Gitarre und Synthesizer, teilt sich aber manchmal die Bühne mit Weggefährten wie Ratboys, The Hotelier, The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Foxing, AJJ, The Front Bottoms und Xiu Xiu. Er produzierte das neue Brian-Sella-Album ,Well I Mean", war Co-Produzent des Sub-Pop-Albums ,Bits" der Jangle-Punk-Legenden Oxford Collapse zusammen mit Eric Topalski von Don Caballero und Storm & Stress und komponierte Videoundermusik für gemeinnützige Organisationen wie Planned Parenthood und SEIU. In den Jahren 2011 und 2012 wurde Mathenys Ambient-Werk ,Keeling Curve" in einer Multimedia-Installation des Fotografen Joel Sternfeld verwendet, die im Rahmen einer Retrospektive im Museum Folkwang zu sehen war.

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Duran Duran - Duran Duran LP 2x12"

Duran Duran

Duran Duran LP 2x12"

2x12inch5054197915512
PLG Uk
15.04.2026

“Duran Duran” aka “The Wedding Album” released in 1993 was a return to form for the band, charting in the top10 on both the UK and US album charts and spawning the world-wide hit’s ‘Ordinary World’ and ‘Come Undone’

Following in 1995, “Thank You” was an album of covers featuring songs written by Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, The Doors, Lou Reed and Elvis Costello. The album charted in the top20 of both UK and US charts.

Originally squeezed onto 1LP, both albums are highly sought after as neither have been re-pressed on vinyl since their original release. They are now spread across 140g 2LPs for the best sound. CDs will now be in paper sleeves as opposed to jewel cases.

“The Wedding Album” has a newly embossed sleeve and includes a 12” art card, and “Thank You” features a gatefold sleeve with a fold out poster replicating the original release.

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808 State vs. Humanoid - In Place Of Language

808 State vs. Humanoid

In Place Of Language

12inchASGDE056C
De:Tuned
15.04.2026
 
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Black Vinyl[10,88 €]


British electronic music pioneers Graham Massey (founding member of Manchester legends 808 State) and Brian Dougans (the mind behind acid house milestone Humanoid and one half of The Future Sound Of London) join forces for their debut collaboration In Place Of Language, released on Belgian label De:tuned.

Both 808 State and Humanoid helped shape the UK's early rave and acid house movement. Here, Massey and Dougans channel that legacy into a beautifully balanced four-track EP that radiates warmth and energy, drawing on more than three decades of experience in electronic music. Inspired by key elements of the '89-91 era while embracing a contemporary edge, the duo merge their distinct sonic identities into a sound that feels both timeless and forward-looking.

In Place Of Language is not a nostalgia trip, but a natural evolution: a meeting point between foundation and future, and a blueprint for a new wave of electronic experimentation!

Kevin Foakes (Openmind, DJ Food, Ninja Tune) created all the graphic work. Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis. A separate digital release will also be available at the usual digital shops. Stay tuned!

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Imagination - Night Dubbing LP 2x12"

WRWTFWW Records unleashes the first ever release of legendary post-disco, funk, soul and electronic UK trio Imagination's cult album Night Dubbing in (well deserved) double LP format. The limited edition full-length comes with pristine audiophile treatment and luxurious packaging : a 45rpm and Half Speed Mastered DLP housed in heavyweight silver cardboard sleeve.
Imagination's singular 1983 album Night Dubbing is a refined deconstruction of black British soul and club pop, filtered through the deep studio and mixing techniques of dub music. Elegant, restrained, and, in its very own subtle way, radical, the record reshapes choice selections from the group's stellar catalogue into an immersive and out-of-this-world listening experience.

The special mixes on Night Dubbing are built on time and space. Basslines elongate and dissolve. Vocals appear, vanish, and reappear like ghosts. Drums fall away into vast silences, while echoes, tape edits, and precise engineering manoeuvres smoothly slide across the stereo field, revealing themselves like magic over repeated listens. Far from simple extensions or 12" versions, Night Dubbing treats the studio itself as an instrument, opening new dimensions of sound.

Often cited as a foundational record in the genesis of the house genre, the album also features the historic Larry Levan remix of "Changes", a Paradise Garage anthem that helped shape the direction of club music for decades to come.

More than 40 years on, Night Dubbing remains a seminal work. Its influence continues to echo through contemporary dance music, offering a blueprint for how pop could be transformed into something darker, stranger, more physical - a timeless sound that drifts effortlessly from the dancefloor into space.

Important note : it sounds amazing played on 33rpm too !

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Sonya Belousova & Giona Ostinelli - One Piece: Into the Grand Line (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series) (2x12")
  • A1: Pray To The Sun Feat. Declan De Barra & The Hu
  • A2: Am I Enough (Tony Tony Chopper) Feat. Au/Ra
  • A3: Whisky Peak Saloon Feat. Leo P
  • A4: Miss All Sunday
  • A5: Dr. Kureha
  • A6: Cherry Blossom Miracle
  • A7: Welcome Aboard Doctor
  • A8: Dorry & Brogy
  • B1: Smoker
  • B2: Igaram's Sacrifice
  • B3: In Elbaf We Have A Ritual
  • B4: Miss Wednesday
  • B5: Drum Kingdom
  • B6: What's An Army Of Monsters To The Hero Of Little Garden
  • B7: My Sails Are Set (Loguetown Opera Version)
  • C1: Tony Tony Chopper (Instrumental Suite)
  • C2: Humans Are Not The Only Ones Who Can Be Cruel
  • C3: Pirate Is Someone Who Has Adventures And Dreams
  • C4: Potion To Cure All Diseases Of The Heart
  • C5: Peace Offering
  • C6: Hoist This Flag And Fight Like A Pirate
  • C7: Doctor Hiriluk Won't Be Back
  • C8: When Does A Man Die? When He Is Forgotten
  • D1: Reverse Mountain
  • D2: Who Wants To Make A Snowman
  • D3: The Sedative Is Losing Its Effectiveness
  • D4: Zoro - 1 Vs 100 Part Iii
  • D5: In Alabasta We Ride Ducks
  • D6: Miss Goldenweek
  • D7: Drum Kingdom Is Saved
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Capturing the full scope of the Straw Hat Crew’s journey into the Grand Line, this collection brings together the massive, high energy score by award winning composers Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli. From the shores of Loguetown to the snowy peaks of Drum Island, every moment of the voyage is brought to life through soaring orchestral arrangements and unforgettable pirate anthems.

2LP Audiophile Black Vinyl: Two 12 inch records pressed on high quality black vinyl for a classic look and superior sound fidelity, delivering every orchestral swell with crystal clear precision.

Double CD Set: Two discs featuring the complete original score and songs, presented in a premium compact format.

Premium Packaging: A double gatefold jacket for the vinyl edition and a three fold digipack for the CD, both showcasing vibrant cinematic artwork of Luffy and the Straw Hat Crew.

Complete Soundtrack: Over 40 tracks spanning the entire second season, including character themes, emotional moments and epic battle motifs.

Whether at home or on your own journey, this release is the perfect way to keep the spirit of adventure alive, immersing you fully in the world of One Piece.

Netflix’s epic high seas pirate adventure, ONE PIECE, returns for Season 2, unleashing fiercer adversaries and the most perilous quests yet. Luffy and the Straw Hats set sail for the extraordinary Grand Line, a legendary stretch of sea where danger and wonder await at every turn. As they journey through this unpredictable realm in search of the world’s greatest treasure, they will encounter bizarre islands and a host of formidable new enemies

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Cécile McLorin Salvant, Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley - With Every Breath I Take (2x12")
  • 1: With Every Breath I Take (Cy Coleman And David Zippel)
  • 2: Sophisticated Lady (Music By Duke Ellington, Lyrics By Mitchell Parish And Irving Mills)
  • 3: Send In The Clowns (Stephen Sondheim)
  • 4: Barbara Song (Music By Kurt Weill, Lyrics By Bertold Brecht)
  • 5: Left Over (Cécile Mclorin Salvant)
  • 6: Ever Since The One I Love’s Been Gone (Buddy Johnson)
  • 7: Les Parapluies De Cherbourg (Music By Michel Legrand, Lyrics By Jacques Demy)
  • 8: I’ll See You Again (Noël Coward)
  • 9: Being Alive (Stephen Sondheim)
  • 10: Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn)

‘Cécile McLorin Salvant ... sings standards, show tunes and old novelties in a taut, flinty, elusively beautiful voice, erring toward material with difficult lyrics and tough places in history. Salvant wins over her audiences by tweaking them slightly: daring them to go there with her—not just into the archive, but toward the darkness of the past.’ – New York Times

‘Although Salvant is known as a jazz musician, her approach to music is defined by her instinct for experimentation ... Her music is beloved for ... embracing theatre and subverting classics with playful renditions.’ – Guardian

Salvant, who has performed with orchestras regularly over the last decade-and-a-half and intended to make an album with one sooner in her career, but logistics and her abundant creative ideas led to other new projects intervening. Having finally found time to make this album, With Every Breath I Take is a different sort of record than it might have been even ten years ago.

“It is a rare opportunity to be able to make an album at this scale, which has been a dream of mine for many years,” Salvant says. “Darcy James Argue wrote stunning arrangements and the Metropole Orkest, conducted by the extraordinary Jules Buckley, gave these stories a cinematic dimension. We overcame quite a few obstacles to even get into the recording studio for this project; it took almost four years for us to do so, and I am so incredibly proud to share it.

“I did not choose these songs because they are beautiful, but because they are crucial to me,” she adds.

Cécile McLorin Salvant, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and three-time Grammy Award winner, is a singer and composer bringing historical perspective, a renewed sense of drama, and an enlightened musical understanding to both jazz standards and her own original compositions. Classically trained, steeped in jazz, blues, and folk, and drawing from musical theater and vaudeville, Salvant embraces a wide-ranging repertoire that broadens the possibilities for live performance.

Salvant’s performances range from spare duets for voice and piano to instrumental trios to orchestral ensembles. Her unreleased work Ogresse is an ambitious long-form musical fairy tale that is being made into a feature length animated film. She has performed at national and international venues and festivals such as the Newport Jazz Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Village Vanguard, and the North Sea Jazz Festival. Her previous Nonesuch albums, Ghost Song (2022) Mélusine (2023), and Oh Snap (2025) received critical accolades; the former two were both nominated for Grammy Awards. Salvant is also a visual artist, and Oh Snap was named a best album of 2025 by the Guardian, Jazzwise, JazzTimes, and the Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll.

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Various - MR BONGO RECORD CLUB VOL 8 (2x12")
  • 1: As Ganhadeiras De Itapuã – Maré Mansa
  • 2: Ubunto – O Vento Part. As Ganhadeiras De Itapuã
  • 3: Castanheiro – Este Samba É Meu
  • 4: Eduardo Araújo – Madrugada
  • 5: Tyaraju & Dutra – Pé De Foguete
  • 6: Tema Iv – Tema Iv
  • 7: Orquesta El Sabor De Nacho – Bim Bim Bom Bom “Que Se Sepa”
  • 8: The Trinikas – Remember Me
  • 9: Tommy Mcgee – Now That I Have You
  • 10: Trevor Dandy – Is There Any Love
  • 11: Wilfred Luckie – My Thing
  • 12: The Sylvers – Wish That I Could Talk To You (Kenny Dope Edit)
  • 13: K.l. Hamilton – I'm Trying
  • 14: ?Wil Collins & Willpower – Anything I Can Do
  • 15: Powerline – Watching You (Brand New Remix)
  • 16: Mac Mathunjwa – Give Us More Love (Edit)
  • 17: Tapper Zukie – Visions Of Love
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Pitbull - Greatest Hits LP

Pitbull

Greatest Hits LP

12inch19958442581
CMG
26.06.2026
  • A1: Give Me Everything (Feat. Nayer)
  • A2: Timber (Feat. Kesha)
  • A3: I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)
  • A4: Don't Stop The Party (Feat. Tjr)
  • A5: Hotel Room Service
  • A6: Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor) (Feat. T-Pain)
  • B1: Rain Over Me (Feat. Marc Anthony)
  • B2: Time Of Our Lives (Feat.ne-Yo)
  • B3: International Love (Feat. Chris Brown)
  • B4: Feel This Moment (Feat. Christina Aguilera)
  • B5: Fireball (Feat. John Ryan)
  • B6: Jungle (Feat. Stereotypes, E-40, Abraham Mate)
  • B7: Locas (Feat. Lil’ John)

International superstar Pitbull presents his 'Greatest Hits' album. The compilation features his chart-topping singles from 2009 to 2014, alongside electrifying tracks like 'Jungle' (feat. E-40 and Abraham Mateo) and 'Locas' (feat. Lil Jon). 'Greatest Hits' serves as a powerful testament to Pitbull's prowess in crafting infectious, energetic, and celebratory anthems. The album features monumental hits such as 'Give Me Everything' (feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer), 'Timber' (feat. Kesha), 'Time of Our Lives' (feat. Ne-Yo), 'Fireball' (feat. John Ryan), and many more.

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Shawescape Renegade - Exoframe

Shawescape Renegade

Exoframe

12inchTRESOR382
Tresor
26.06.2026

Detroit producer, Shawescape Renegade, comes to Tresor Records with Exoframe, a five-track EP of pure techno and electro, including a remix by Arpanet.
As with so many forerunners and peers in the Detroit techno world, Shawescape Renegade, is a deep thinking and a world-building story teller and Exoframe uses the traditional sci-fi narrative to explore recent thought Shaw has had on the potential hidden costs of technological
evolution: what happens when overspecialisation leads to a dead end; when inflexibility means a return to the old forms becomes difficult.
The EP opens with 78 Light Years From Earth, an effects-laden slab of electro that pulls the percussion into other dimensions. Mechanus 9 brings a techno edge before Terraformers Warning unleashes a bass-driven beast.
A fast-paced remodel of Terraformer’s Warning from Gerald Donald’s Arpanet project follows, before the EP is closed out with another bassline-forward track, Ignition One, an updated version of the Shawescape cut that soundtracked the section of the Black To Techno
documentary focussed on the Detroit’s Jit dance scene. The strong symbiosis between Jit and Techno is a foundational part of Detroit’s culture and a community tie and suggests that while technology may lead to stagnation, the cultural muscle memory offers a path back to
authenticity.
In a thoughtful nod to the praxis of the DJ, the vinyl versions of A1 & B1 are five BPM slower than the digital, moving the music to between 128BPM and 151BPM on a standard Technics turntable and opening it up for play in a greater range of club environs.
It’s this deep respect for the artistry and traditions of Detroit’s longstanding music and dance scenes that mark Shawescape Renegade out as one of the true inheritors of the city’s heritage.

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RIZOMAGIC - CUMBIóN PLANETARIO
  • 1: Plutarco
  • 2: Las Esferas
  • 3: Pajarocana
  • 4: Kir
  • 5: Colisionadub
  • 6: Bunbun
  • 7: Cumbia De La Entropia
  • 8: El Sombras

Rizomagic weave Colombian tropical traditions with soundscape textures and electronic processes, drawing on cosmic tuning principles and the pitched down groove of Monterrey"s Cumbia Rebajada. Cumbión Planetario is a journey into Psychotropicolombian Futurism from Bogota"s rich musical underground, recorded at La Becque Artist Residency in the Swiss Alps. Rizomagic are Edgar Marún and Diego Manrique - an electronic music duo from Bogotá, Colombia. Formed while the pair were at University in 2020, the group is influenced as much by contemporary electronic music as by traditional Colombian Rhythms, and have developed a style they call "Psychotropicolombian Futurism", following the path laid by fellow Colombian experimentalists Frente Cumbiero, the Meridian Brothers and las Piranhas but in an altogether more electronic realm. "we weave Colombian tropical traditions with soundscape textures and electronic processes, creating a Pangean-futurist sound where diverse knowledge and cultures coexist without hierarchy"

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FÉLICIA ATKINSON - SANS VISAGE

Atkinson first saw Les yeux sans visage when she was a teenager, around the turn of the century. The film made an impact for its iconic imagery and the way Franju draws on the aesthetics of early filmmaking, from its score that relies on stylistic markers typical of the 1940s or 50s to the decision to shoot in black and white. Even four decades after its first release, it was clear that this was a work that stood outside of the cultural moment that birthed it, speaking through time in ways that were uncanny, but profound.

A quarter-century later, Atkinson was approached by the Belgian cultural center VIERNULVIER to create a new score for Les yeux sans visage for its celebrated Videodroom series, which has seen artists like claire rousay, Mabe Fratti, Lee Renaldo, and many more create new original scores for cult classics and genre cinema. Atkinson's music, with its sublime meditations on space and proximity, its elusive sense of narrative development, mirrors the pacing and mystery at the heart of horror filmmaking. There is a shadow at the heart of her soundtrack to Les yeux sans visage, an ever-shifting wisp and an insinuation of encroaching transfiguration. Echoing a climactic moment in the film, the music obliquely points to "the Beyond," an impossible place of discovery and revelation.

Atkinson envisioned her music as something akin to the air moving throughout and beyond the many cages that appear in the film, unconstrained by the bars and with undefined borders. Those cages hold the victims of a madman surgeon, determined to graft a new face onto his daughter, the protagonist Christiane Génessier, who lost hers in a car accident while he was behind the wheel. Atkinson was reminded of her predecessors at the pioneering French studio the GRM, who approached sound in a less sinister, but similarly surgical manner, and took inspiration from their playful approach to cerebral soundmaking for the electroacoustic topography into which the piano is embedded. As such, Atkinson’s reactions to the larger themes and the minute-by-minute happenings onscreen are both audible simultaneously.

A film about a man who destroys the lives of young women marked by their beauty and similarity to his daughter in a shame-fueled rage has clear, continuous cultural resonance. "Through the music, I decided to bring back their empowerment despite what they endure," says Atkinson. "This is why the record is also dedicated to Gisèle Pelicot, whose trial happened while I was in the process of composing the music and kept thinking of her strength and her decision to share her trial in order to reverse the shame."

This recorded version of the soundtrack is a 34-minute synthesis of the full 90-minute score, presented on LP along with an essay by writer-musician Claire Cronin and drawings by Momo Gordon, together forming a complex reflection on the film's themes. If these sounds move as if the bars of cages are no barrier, they also intimate the freedom and power of those held behind them. Rather than simply mirroring the fear and confinement shown onscreen, Atkinson offers an elusive escape, a beacon for the characters, and the listener, to follow as they reckon with the narrative and move through it.

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