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- Summary: The third full release from French DJ Garnier consists of original compositions mixing techno and jazz.
- Record Label: Mute
- Genre(s): Electronic, Techno
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The secret to Garnier's accessibility lies in his ability to locate fresh specific sounds and organize them sparsely atop the existing framework of electronic dance music.
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Unreasonable Behaviour is far from an easy listen. While Garnier is usually highly accessible, here he deviates in favor of a record much more tempestuous, menacing and genre-pushing -- all of which, though foreboding, is wholly more gratifying.
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An artist this gifted uses his skills to make music, not cling to style. While the familiar 808s and 909s of techno are rife on Unreasonable Behaviour, the music covers breakbeat, jazz, techno, beat noir, and even hints at Brazilian rhythms.
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More complex and idiosyncratic than his previous full-length works (and much less danceable as a consequence), Unreasonable Behaviour focuses on midtempo jams in the verge between evocative techno, electro-jazz, and even melancholy synth-pop. If 1997's 30 was his Chicago album, this one is definitely the Detroit installment...
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The Parisian has lost his cool, let rip, taken his metaphorical shirt off, and it sounds liberating.
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Entertainment WeeklyHis sound has grown, and his latest unleashes acoustic bass, free-jazzy horns, and assorted birds in a rugged electro-soundscape. [10/20/2000, p.79]
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An album of gloomy, almost gothic techno splendour. Beneath its typically sleek, urbane deep house grooves, it beats nervously with foreboding, fear and loathing for humanity as a whole.
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mikepDec 21, 2003absolutely fabulous!!!
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May 12, 2011
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PaulA.Nov 29, 2001Top album; takes a few listens but gradually tracks like communications from the lab grow on you. More accessible than last album 30.
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