The two members of UTO, Emile and Neysa, share the same music studio and bed. This Parisian duo, that we discovered with “The Beast” and “That Itch“, will release their sophomore EP in a few weeks. Taken from this new project, their song “Synthesise” sums up pretty well their trippy vision of indie pop.

Unlike their tempestuous previous singles, “Synthesise” explores a smoother side of psychedelia. Driven by the soft tinkling of crystal-clear vocal chops, this eerie new offering soaks up the fresh and light fragrance of spring rain. Listen below.

French musician Miel De Montagne, who started as a house music producer, was tired of touring European clubs. At 23, he left Paris to relocate in the country side at his parent’s place. With his guitar, he is now crating indie pop tunes which interweave electronic arrangements, nostalgia and humour, as proven in his new offering. Quirky and funky, “Permis B Bébé” comes with a testosterone-loaded video directed by Pierre Edelman. Watch below and stay tuned for his debut album due out this Spring.

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French composer, producer and engineer Petit Prince, who co-founded the multidisciplinary label Pain Surprises alongside Jacques and some other childhood friends, is announcing the release of his new EP by sharing a video for the first single “Le jour du départ”. In the playful Florine Hill-directed visuals, the Alsacian artist is showing us some souvenirs from his last holidays, from tender footages with cute dogs and marmots to naturist bathing. The smoothly psychedelic instrumental, where guitar, synths and bass are replacing the car engine noise, is bringing us on the holiday route and makes us impatiently wait both for the whole EP and for our next summer break.

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French producer Miel De Montagne, who used to live in the same household with Jacques and Oklou, follows up on “Pourquoi Pas” with new single and video “Slow Pour Mon Chien”. French speakers will notice that the track is dedicated to his lovely dog who might die soon according to the press release. Nature seems to be very important for this artist who recently invited us to live naked. The burning and languorous slow comes with quirky INSOMNI CLUB-directed visuals.

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Here’s the debut psyche-pop track of Miel de Montagne, “Pourquoi Pas”, which is a real invitation to naturism. While listening to the track, it’s clear that the idea of being naked on a beach crosses our mind indeed. If you don’t have a Hawaiian t-shirt yet, maybe it’s not useful to buy one. The track, which is brought to your ears by Pain Surprises and Délicieuse Records, is the continuation of this thrilling wave of new releases coming from France. If you like Myd or Agar Agar, you should definitely dig this one. Be ready cause this French Touch revival seems to only begin.

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Miel De Montagne is on Facebook and Instagram.

UTO is the French duo comprised of Émile & Neysa May who were recently signed to PAIN SURPRISES RECORDS, music home of Jacques. They already caught our attention some months ago with the release of “The Beast” which was opening their freshly released “Shelter For The Broken” EP. They have now shared new self-directed visuals for another track: “That Itch”. For this one, they compiled astonishing images of storms and the result is just as intense as you can imagine. The video perfectly depicts the darkness and the electric atmospheres that UTO are able to create with their music.

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“That Itch” is taken from UTO‘s “Shelter For The Broken” EP out now via PAIN SURPRISES

UTO are also going to tour through France in 2018:

02/02 Stereolux, Nantes

02/22 : 824H, Paris

04/05 : Gaité Lyrique, Paris (w/ Kazy Lambist)

04/23 : Casino de Paris (w/ Isaac Delusion)

06/30 : Hello Birds Festival

More dates TBA

Stay connected to UTO via Facebook.

Before explaining how the live experience was, you need to detail a bit more about this atypic character. You don’t need a lot of research about Jacques Auberger to realize that this young guy is eccentric, in a good way. First, he decided to shave the center of his head because everybody was doing the opposite (trimming the sides). The result, as you can see, looks like a very early baldness. The idea was to face the glance of others and to eventually develop a stronger self-confidence. At 22, while you were reading books at the college’s library (It’s the official version. Everybody knows you were actually drunk in shady parties), Jacques was already giving TEDx Talks‘ conferences on what he learnt by living in some squats near Paris instead of going to school [Check his French talks here and there].

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His approach, that one can judge as a failure, is actually well-thought and his different speeches demonstrate that he has lived his program at the school of life with a desire to learn in a different way. His most outlandish discoveries are probably the ones he made as part of his studies about the vortex. In a documentary available on YouTube, Jacques Auberger and Alexandre Gain document with scientific rigour their conclusions on experiments like painting a brush, cleaning up a vacuum, or hydrating some water.

Jacques, or most likely Jacque(s) (the plural -s of French, as if several “Jacque” were living inside himself), and some of his fellas, started an artistic collective named Pain Surprises. It’s through this organization, which is notably a music label, that the producer released his first beautifully noisist EP “Tout Est Magnifique” back in 2014. His transversal techno was a surprising success for the artist himself and it was a turning point in his career. It’s at that time that the artist decided to focus on his music career.

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His latest track, “Dans La Radio” [In The Radio], was made in the studios of Radio France, with noises from the radio, and in order to be broadcasted on the radio… (Do you follow?). Here is the style of Jacques on stage: he records, samples, and turns into technoid loops, all the noises that you can produce with daily life items. Scissors, paper, boiler, and other handyman’s tool kits are part of his orchestra. In two shakes of a lamb’s tail, the producer and DJ turned some sounds of spoons, forks, and knives into a rave anthem that had nothing to envy of Daft Punk‘s “Rollin’ and Scratchin'”. Obviously, the crowd was very receptive to it! While the French robots were hidden, Jacques‘ funny face was projected on a screen thanks to a photo booth. The charisma of the artist and his impressive ease to manage synthesizers, samplers, guitars, and mixing desk at the same time were both amusing and shocking. Jacques, who is now actively touring to share his offbeat universe, is like a crazy and innovative troubadour of the modern times.

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During a non-stop wild and unbridled set, the artist highlighted all the sub-genres of electronic music, including deep house, tribal house, techno, trance, and French touch. His improvisation was really impressive and also proved that you don’t need to follow the established path to make music! At the opposite of The Chainsmokers, who are just releasing canned and radio-formated tracks, the artist is adopting an original, organic, and authentic approach to bring back the public to the original roots of club music. Fuck being number one or on the cover of the magazines! The artist was not on stage to sound like all the artists that we hear on the radio!

The audience was invaded by a justified madness to the extent that my concert-hall neighbor, a young girl probably high on MDMA, was dancing while executing all the Kamasutra position at the same time. The transversal and diagonal techno of Jacques offered her an eargasmic miracle and while watching the people all around me, she was probably not the only one.

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If you wonder what a Jacques‘ gig looks/sounds like, you should definetly watch the video below!

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