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Behind this astonishing name lies one of the leading producers and platinists of the current French scene. Label manager of the very good Moonrise Hill Material and FHUO Records, he's a producer with various aliases and a DJ who has already played on the most beautiful scenes in France and beyond. He already has a lot of releases on Church and his second album, Umami, on Moonrise Hill Material after a series of releases on quality labels as Fauxpas Musik, All City Records and Sleazy Beats Recordings. It is certain that we must pay attention to him closely. Discover his new EP on Cracki Records.

This album is the result of a long personal journey and is conceived as a series of small tales.On stage or on CD, the dreamlike world of Renart will take you away. Between solitary experimentation and acclaimed electronic performances, he keeps surprising us.Renart weaves melodic and melancholic atmospheres through tales which give free rein to our interior wanderings. At the crossroads of repetitive musics, 70’s psychedelic rock and modern techno, Renart creates powerful nagging rhythms and sharpens his future tracks in his misty castle of Malpertuis.

Excellent retro House and Electro with a quirky vibe!

After having spent most of his time with "House To The People", Voiron decided to dedicate himself to his solo project. Being a fan of the "braindance" scene and the Reflex & Warp records of the early years, Voiron tries to follow the footprints of his idols (AFX, Dopplerefekt, LFO, Global Com). All these influences lead him to produce an electronic music uninhibited from zero to one milliard BPM.This is with the support of artists like Photonz (One eyed Jacks) and meetings with his cyber friends - Minimum syndicat, Le Matin, Daxyl, Glass Figure - that Voiron was encouraged to produce music 2 years ago. Releasing his last EP on Concrete Music and the following one on Cracki Records in April, you will have difficulty avoiding him and his TB clone in a near future.

Following their first EP Cardan with 20 000 000 streaming, the 25 years old art students duo will release their first LP The Dog And The Future, a synthetic travel infused with 80’s electro-sound, synth-wave touch and a bunch of talent.

For her first single, the sublime title ‘Loverboy’ comes out as a big urban spleen, released in a space made of asphalt and artificial paradises. Groups like Hooverphonic or even Portishead play around this throbbing softness that is Loverboy, splashing about in the electronic lounge of the 90s.

With their new Horizon EP, Lucien & The Kimono Orchestra open a music box which transports you in a blue and dawnish atmosphere, a morning spent on walking in an old cinematic Paris. First step in the eighties, Connection starts as a film opening. Then arrives the single, Fresh Start, full of indelible voices and gimmicks. Horizon, sung in French, is a delicate reference to the French songwriting tradition inherited from Michel Berger, Alain Chamfort or Alain Souchon. To get some breath back between two songs, Georges, offers a strong instrumental interlude. Almost at the end, the English-spoken Shell extends the panel of influences with it’s downtempo emotion. With its spontaneous declamations and slick guitar riff, Asile closes the journey, as the splendid climax of the foursome’s second EP.

Ian Tocor is a smiling ambiance man, into ambient ,deep, dub and techno, half of Outlander Wax Theory and Drnchd bands, he signed his first vinyl on the American label Love What You Feel in 2014. Played by Fred P, this Ep oscillates between a dub House in lace and a deep and colorful deep house. It has been found on the first compilation of Simple Music Experience with a dreamlike journey called "Blue" or on Label Vastechoses, the latest project built with his friends Sevyce and Lostsoundbytes, adventurous music, intrepid grooves and editions of all kinds are on This platform with evocative name.In short, music is for Ian an outlet, deeply anxious to provoke in various forms links between moving bodies, his dj sets are as rough and strong as they are surrounded by sensitivity.

After two EPs with Australia Part 2 & Part 2, this spring Menage A Trois released their first album : Australia Part 3.

After two years of silence and two tracks surreptitiously posed on the canvas, it is with the four captivating titles of the Ep 'Bleu Nuit' that the group finally confirms its talent to the general public. Sure of the direction to borrow, they take the time it takes to carry these four pieces to maturity. Recorded in more than a year between Paris and Normandy, this ep poses its singular and vaporous borrowing, floating somewhere between the spirit of the Pink Floyd and Brian Eno.

Hot on the heels of the first installment, Ménage à Trois return to Cracki with the second leg of their Australian odyssey, heading inland this time with beats from about the bush. Fully embracing the kitsch, "Byron Bay" opens the set with the rumble of didgeridoo before relaxing into a semi-spiritual new age number. "Monument" explores the outer reaches of vapourwave as reversed loops explode into an expansive chillwave anthem, topped as ever with Jonathan's cut glass vocals. Heads up R&B fans, "Bobby's Prism" sees the boys Menage drop the best space-age slo jam Drake never wrote. Tropical synths class with intergalactic melodies and super smooth vocals on the best pop-not-pop song I've heard in ages. On the flipside, "Overseas" reprises the digital island funk of "Conditional Love" but with bigger beats and more pan pipe! We get another slice of pop perfection before the night is out, don't be surprised if you see me screaming like a schoolgirl to the sounds of "Be Right Back". Cleaner than their last single, but still retaining that naive charm, this is another essential release from Manchester's best boyband.

After a stunning appearance on Aficionado Recordings' unofficial RSD release last year, Ménage à Trois are back on wax, ready to break hearts all over again. The Mancunian ensemble, boasting a member of fellow Yacht groovers Los Porcos and Dream Lovers, tow their own line between new age, Balearic, R&B and yacht rock and this five track EP on French imprint Cracki sees them taking their sound further than ever before. Wandering through the surf, "Ocean Boy" finds Ryan, Craig and Joe laying tropical keys over airy pads and tumbling toms while Jonathan's emotive vocals float off into the sunset. The sultry vibe continues on "The Same Deep Water As Us" as pastoral chords, acoustic guitar and dextrous bass bend in the heat haze, locking us into a warm embrace before the brilliantly kitsch synth solo works its magic. Over on the flip, "Bad Boy At Sunset" distils 'Nebraska' era Springsteen through mid 90s R&B balladry and teen movie heartache, "Conditional Love" reappears in extended, expanded and improved form and the totes emosh "Message In A Bottle" closes the set in a Lewis meets Lynch clinch. Lay back and drift away.

Menage a Trois, Isaac Delusion, Babe, Los Porcos, Schultz and Forever, Agar Agar, Caandides, Waldo & Marsha, Apes & Horses, L'Imperatrice, Lucien & The Kimono Orchestra, Lomboy, Voiron, Eliott Litrowski, Renart. The singles run on 33 1/3 rpm. This retrospective compilation highlights five years of existence for the french label Cracki Records, featuring Renart, Voiron, Agar Agar, Caandides and more.

This opus was recorded in a room transformed into a studio, where countless hours of work happened on an old computer, with trips back and forth to the grocery to buy liters of soda. In between soundtrack, jazz-funk and house, the beginnings of this EP find their roots in the encounter between Lucien and DJ Gregory (Point G), spiritual guide, who pushed into an introspective work, where the feelings were ultimately revealed sincerely. This EP is also the meeting of 4 musicians who’ve known each other for a long time and, together, form Lucien & The Kimono Orchestra.

Larcier , Renart , L'Impératrice & Isaac Delusion. To celebrate their second anniversary, Cracki Records released the compilation 'Mémoires d'Eléphant # 01' including unreleased or hidden tracks of Cracki artists with exclusive tracks from Renart, Larcier and l'Impératrice.