7 Peanuts EP (w/ Skylark & Shenoda remixes)
Hype009 / 2008 / 12” & DigitalHypercolour unearth another hotly-tipped talent for their latest release, this time in the form of Philippe Autuori. Philippe may only have a handful of releases to his name (notably on Poker Flat’s Vol. 5 compilation, as well as contributions to French labels Battle and Dialect), but he’s been spinning in his native South Montpellier district, and more recently his adopted Berlin home, for over 16 years.
‘7 Peanuts’, featuring the vocals of Autuori’s friend Thomas Myers, is a woozy, darkly-tinged lurcher, with stripped back beats and disorientating bass slurs providing a sinister backdrop for Myers’ oddball lyrics. It’s remixed by Nic Fanciulli and Andy Chatterley in their Skylark guise, where the pair beef up the kicks and inject a few sweet melodic flutters between the grooves. In a slight departuer from their previous work, the pair’s mix offers stylish techno thrills alongside that all important dancefloor pulse.
Meanwhile, ‘Redemption’ returns to Autuori’s lop-sided minimalism, this time working a propulsive, hi-hat pattern over scraping atonal organs and snatches of weird vox. Like ‘7 Peanuts’, it’s engineered for the foggiest corners of the dancefloor, and is ideally experienced at a time when you know you probably should have gone home…
Rounding off the package, Shenoda (previously seen on Hypercolour03) turns out a deeper, heavier rework of ‘Redemption’. Taking his cue from the digital tribalism of n-housers like Andomat 3000, Shenoda tweaks the freak factor on the sharply-pickled vocal, transforming Philippe’s moribund original into a straight-up club winner.
About Philippe Autuori
He started playing music as a Rock guitarist, but quickly he went on playing different kinds of music in various bands. In 92, he discovered House music when he was travelling in NYC. When he came back, he bought turntables and started spinning in clubs, bars and private parties. He became the resident DJ for two seasons at the Plage du Souleil in Palavas (The Gravity Festival and The Plagesss) before moving to Paris.