Laurent Boudic – Abstrakt Vol.1 (Album – GenComProdukts International)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro, Ambient.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Laurent Boudic has been involved with numerous projects, mainly dealing with Techno, EBM and related genres. He now strikes back under his own name, unleashing a first album of a series recorded between 2017 and 2021.
Content: Laurent Boudic invites us to join an Electronic universe, which is mainly mixing Experimental- and ambient music. It feels like a sonic trip constructed with vintage sound treatments. The experience has something evasive, but still pretty cold and rough. All tracks are instrumentals and without rhythm, accentuating the Ambient/Cinematographic effect.
+ + + : This Works sounds like emerging from a true sound laboratory. Analogue sound treatments will always have a different ‘sound color’ than when composed with digital synths. There’s a natural power and magic emerging, but you still need an experienced and talented operator who knows how to create sounds and noises. This album reminds me a bit of pioneers like Jean-Michel Jarre, but with a very different production; this album sounds raw, cold and even unpolished. It’s a kind of Industrial interpretation of early electro-Ambient music.
– – – : This kind of production is definitely not the artist’s most accessible work; it’s not music for dancing, but for listening.
Conclusion: Laurent Boudic clearly seems like an artist who doesn’t like repeating himself. I’m wondering what the next album will sound like.
Best songs: “D/ubnium”, “B/eryllium”, “I/ndium”.
Rate: (7½).
Artist & Label: www.facebook.com/laurent.boudic
Listen to “Abstrakt Vol.1”:
About Laurent Boudic
Laurent Boudic is a French electronic musician active since the early 1980s, known for the Electro/EBM project Növö, the Intelligent Techno outlet Genetik System, the synthpop project CrashVox and the ambient/space electronica project x2Proton. As Növö, Boudic released the albums “The Shortwaves” and “Zeitgeist” on Alfa Matrix in 2014, preceded by the “I Flee” EP in 2013 and followed by the “The Shortwaves/Parallel” digital EP in 2016.
“Abstrakt Vol.1” is the first album Boudic released under his own name, recorded between 2017 and 2021 and issued through his own imprint, GenComProdukts International.
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