Au Reve

Cassius | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Astralwerks
• ASIN: B00006AKPY
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,745 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The French are many things--superb chefs, extraordinary winemakers, great lovers--but they are not funky. That's not a musical slight. Think of Air, Serge Gainsbourg, and Edith Piaf--all artists of uncommon vision and voice. But funky? Mais non. Clearly, the members of Parisian electronica-hip-hop-house combo Cassius didn't get the memo. Combining trucked-in vocals, choppy breakbeats, random bloops and gurgles, jazzy hip-hop, and staccato synth, Cassius producers Philippe Zdar and Hubert Blanc-Francart create sparkly, boombastic disco nuggets that are at once rave-worthy and, yes, funky. Suggestions of Kraftwerk emerge in cuts like the robotic, vocoder-boosted "Telephone Love," while guests such as Ghostface Killah and Jocelyn Brown--who croons diva-style on the rocking, Saturday Night Fever-damaged "I'm A Woman"--add sizzle. But the steak is the unrelentingly butt-wiggling, studio-enhanced throwdowns stitched together by Cassius. Très groovy. --Kim Hughes

Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Major record here!!!, October 18, 2002

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Frankydelic (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Au Reve (Audio CD)

The Cassius team brought here one of the best electro record ever. This is both groovy and deep, touching and dancing, pop and hype. The sound is perfect, the music incredible, all the songs excellent from loungy down tempo to house rockin' beats. Now we know that producers can take the best of themselves (and the best of their friends: Jocelyn Brown, Ghostface Killa from da Wu-Tang Clan, Leroy Burgess...) without spoiling every melody.
Surely one of the records of the year, hope it would be recognized so!!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars cassius rocks out atari style, October 2, 2002

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"bryanjb" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Au Reve (Audio CD)

cassius new album "au reve" is a more tech heavy pursuit than its predecessor "1999". atari bleeps and bloops swirl in and out but never take away from the sophisticated melodies and taught rhythyms.

the whole album has a messy, underground sound to it, which i love considering how sterile and devoid the majority of dance music has become.

like the landmark "discovery" from daft punk, cassius has persued more rock sounds on this album...the electric guitar stands very prominent on many tracks...time will tell if this was a wise road to follow, but for now especially on the lovely "nothing" it adds a pink-floyd vibe to the album, which i enjoyed.

overall, if you a fan of AIR, DAFT PUNK, and CASSIUS last release...you will be pleased with this purchase.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I'm under influence!, May 3, 2003

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Josephll "Reformed Music Addict" (CET) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Au Reve (Audio CD)

The second album from french group Cassius is even better then the first one, once again this electro dance group proves they are among the best groups of their kind out there. A mix of Electro/Synth and Funk/Soul, lots of guest artists this time but most of them are doing it well. Hi-Water and Sound of Violence are both funky with cool beats, Room tone and Telephone Love also goes in the same spirit of fresh original electro music. Jocelyn Brown appears on "Im a woman" a more soulish song and rapper Ghostface Killa on "Thrilla", interesting to mix rap and dance, a good result from my point of view. "Protection" is a relax song, like Royksopp, it's slow but good. In the end of the day this album is a hit a good mix of diffrent styles and one of the best elctro albums of last year! let's hope for more.