Quenum Face To Face

Quenum is an extraordinary individual. A professional breakdancer that was raised in Africa, he found love in London in the 80s through mastering the art of DJing to early electronic music and broke into the spotlight as Acess58 in the 90s before forming the Cadenza label with Luciano in 2003. His debut album ‘Face To Face’ is deliriously deep and melancholic, rhythmically complex and gives a fragile new voice to techno. Across the eleven original tracks, Phillippe Quenum exudes a graceful temperance creating tracks that flutter and take flight (indulge in the soothing hi-hats of ‘Escales’ and synth voices of ‘Children Of The Sun’) as well as rattle the bass bins (sample the raw energy of ‘Basic Solution’ and delicate power of ‘Ritual’) Both sparse and insightful (‘My People’) as well as intricate and anthemic (Never Loose My Soul’) Quenum’s delivery is always quirky and slightly surprising and ‘Face To Face’ is a curious analysis into this honest musical soul. In addition to the CD and vinyl version, ‘Face to Face’ comes as a limited CD/DVD package with a beautiful artwork and a bonus DVD on top. The DVD contains an interview with the master himself, Quenum, in which he let us take part in the journey of creating his debut album and gives interesting insides in his inspirations and influences. Besides the official music videos of the album tracks ‘5am’, 'Basic solution’, 'Face to Face (Cassy Remix)' and 'Ritual’ the bonus DVD is topped off with the videos of ‘Just for Fun’ - a collaboration with Cesare Vs Disorder taken from the ‘Wide Close Up EP’(ser021) and ‘Everyday People’ from the ‘Another Day EP’ (ser016). This package completes the idea behind 'Face to Face' in a perfect way and let us look behind the scenes.