The French label Atelier Ciseaux has released an awesome new split 12″ that brings together Montreal’s Police Des Moeurs, with the duet Essaie Pas, and fans of early European electronic music, cold wave, post-punk, etc., will find much to love here! Police Des Moeurs was formed in 2010 by Francis Dugas, and what began as a “studio only” solo project quickly expanded when he added his friend Anouk to help with vocals. Since then, Police Des Moeurs has gone on to become a four-piece, releasing EP’s and split 7″‘s on labels like Visage Musique and Atelier Ciseaux, before putting out a self-titled debut LP in 2013 via Mannequin. For their tracks, “Corps Invisible“, “Je Te Montrerai“, and “Ombre“, the group essentializes the new wave of sounds that came from Europe’s electronic scene in the late 70’s and early 80’s, along the way referencing artists like Alexander Robotnick, Absolute Body Control, and Jean-Michel Jarre, to create an intoxicating nostalgia; and while often ultra-cool, sparse, and minimal, these tracks still pulse with sci-fi sensuality, as well as evocative, future-forward melodies!
Essaie Pas also hail from Montreal, and the duo, formed in 2011, includes Marie Davidson and Pierre Guerineau. While they mine similar sonic territory as their album-mates, on tracks like “De Menthe Liqueur Part ll“, “Retox“, and “CCAARRCCAAJJOOUU“, Essaie Pas move in a more minimal techno direction, creating vintage club rhythms, itchy, paranoid melodic elements, and dryly delivered spoken vocals, for a music that bristles with dark, urban atmospheres, and late-night abandon!
Vinyl copies of this record are limited to only 300, and it sounds like they are disappearing fast, so be sure to grab one while you still can!
