i came across this one recently when i was looking to find if "hypnose" was available on digital download in all of it's full 15 minute glory. "hypnose" was the b-side to bbe (top is the e in bbe) and consisted of a infectious heavy and hypnotic slow technotrance groove.
the best kind of not quite techno and not quite trance music. sadly that thing isn't but the thing with emmanuel top (and bruno sanchioni for that matter) is that they made a boatload of killer tracks in that style. so i looked on discogs and found that he had recently started to put up his backcatalogue and i started digging.
i knew of a few tracks like "lobotomie", "fusion", "static" and others but there was many cuts i've never heard and many that had been missing in my life since forever. naturally i started listening to the really long ones first since that's where top shines.
and then i found "spherique" and it stopped me dead in the tracks. it reminds me "hypnose" a lot and it works that minimalistic approach to hypnotic techno & trance to the fullest. it's one groove that consists of a bassline that alternates key every four bars and on top it's very finely programmed drum hits. the most striking and interesting thing is that the clap hits only on the one and not the two and four as per usual.
the track slowly picks up pacing but then it filters down the beat and it eventually it filters off everything and then when you expect the track to end it kicks right back along. back with a bang and some acid. it's lovely and i think it's well worth reviving some of these tracks considering the versatility they have and how much quality it it is.
thank you mr. top for making the effort of uploading these gems, now try to get "hypnose" up as well and i will be very happy.
buy here (junodownload)
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