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Cassius is a French electronic music duo. Under its various incarnations, the duo is considered one of the emblematic figures of the French touch, due to their international success in the second half of the 1990s. "Each record is a revolution", says Hubert Boombass and the late Phillipe Zdar who make up France’s edgiest, most ambitious duo in house music. After dropping the monsterously huuuge 1999, "Cassius", named after Mohammed Ali before he got all holy, took a hiatus and let the rest of the 4/4 fraternity try and catch up in their three year absence. Together they have recorded as Boombass and La Funk Mob, releasing singles on the ultra-hip French label, Source. If your less cool friends haven't heard of 'em yet, you could name-drop these lot: Neneh Cherry, Björk, Daft Punk, Air and Depeche Mode; as they've done remixes for all of them. So the French invasion continues.

Their cuspate millennial smash Cassius 1999 marked out well the fervour of the time, fizzing against our ears with its liminal "don't" vox, creep-in bass, brushup rides and stinger Morricone chords, which all build to a laggard but crucial French house wahher. A full-length album followed, exploring the same themes: and now the duo share a new "tool" version of the record, which pares the each of said debut LP's tracks to their barest bones. An "homage to our early experiments with endless loops", 1999 DJ Tool celebrates the long-form, live set cutup approach necessitated by their many European tour dates during the early noughts. — via Label / Juno

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Label: Love Supreme
Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Reissue, Stereo
Reissued: 2025 / Original Release: 1999
Genre: Electronic
Style: House

File under: House / Electro / Techno
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