Yuksek - Pierre-Alexandre Busso - has released his second album, and it is getting some front-page promotion on MySpace ( or My___ as it is these days).
Hopefully it will give the release a higher profile than it might normally have in the UK, but given the fact that that MySpace seems to be becoming is increasingly redundant, its probably not the career break it might have been a few years ago.
But that being said, it certainly deserves some attention, it's a premium slice of French electro that is both uplifting and clever.
Yuksek, from Reims, released his first album on 2007 having begun to perform under that name the previous year. He had been studying piano until then
His debut Away from the Sea came out in 2009, attracting some attention in France, and putting his career as a Dj and producer into high gear. He has worked with acts like the Klaxons and Peaches and remixed acts like Gorillaz, Gossip and Gaga, to list only those that start with a G.
His second album - Living on the Edge of Time - came out last month. While more pop orientated than its predecessor, it's a great indication of where modern electronic music is at, clever and experimental as well as playful and fun.
The album also features all the vocals by Yuksek himself - previously he had used guest vocalists such as Chromeo and Amanda Blank to provide the voices for his music.
He says that the album is an artistic departure from his first album, in that it is less aimed at just a club audience and a more personal work.
He said: ""I admit; mentally, I needed to get away from the new just-for-the-sake-of-being-new trappings of dancefloor culture"
"The saturated synth noises, the crunching beats or distorted mayhem; these songs asked for different things. Like melody, for instance!"
"The synths are still there, but now they are serving the song, and much less the Dj"
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