- Pépé Bradock tends to assemble his productions as collages, in the cut-and-paste tradition of '90s hip-hop producers. The silhouettes of his tracks are mostly house, but when you listen closely you can hear how he's ripped up pages from different, incongruous sources and glued the scraps together—somehow they fit, but a combination of imagination and coercion is often required. Where the Frenchman's Imbroglios series sometimes felt like fevered experimentation, Bradock's latest EP, a free-to-download three-tracker via Red Bull Studios Paris, leans on more established formulas.
"Abbul Abas" is a humid excursion that echoes Bradock's straighter deep house tracks. Its jazz timbres and quirky flourishes perspire as though baking in a sauna. The song has a warmth that, while slightly sluggish, also feels refreshing. The squeaking ambient passage of "Choses Irreparables" prefaces "Homo Sandwichus," which returns us to Bradock's laboratory. He sketches a squeaky synth—much like the one on "Choses Irréparables"—and marries its wayward trajectories with disembodied voices and choppy hi-hats. On Red Bull Studios Paris Session, Bradock finds a happy medium between the role of producer and mad scientist.
Tracklist01. Abul Abbas
02. Choses Irréparables
03. Homo Sandwichus