Guillaume and The Coutu Dumonts Artist Bio

Montreal, Qc, Canada

In Groups: Chic Miniature, Egg (2), Luci, The Per Eckbo Orchestra

Name Variations: Guillaume Coutu Dumont
G. Coutu Dumont
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts
Guillaume Coutu-Dumont

Classically trained as a percussionist, Montreal’s Guillaume Coutu Dumont does a predictably good job with his beat programming on this full length for Mutek-related imprint Musique Risquee.

Face À L’Est (2007)
After an odd electroacoustic vocal introduction, the album kicks off properly with ‘Can’t Cheat With Concrete’, a classy ten-minute cut that features rich, textured production bolstering a subtly tuneful impulse and waves of Latin American-influenced drum sequencing.

‘Domdom’ is slightly more overt about its digital pedigree, with glitching electronics weaving a beat and CD-skipping sounds shaping a melody. Far from being an austere exercise in laptop chicanery though, Face À L’Est clearly has roots in far more conventional, classic house music, dabbling with a number of different styles. There are some jazzy sax phrases worked into ‘Les Gans’ which lends the mix a casual, loosened up quality, while ‘Ze Blob’ is more in keeping with the hipster minimal scene. Guillaume proves himself an eminently capable producer across a multitude of different styles and sub genres, but you will find the odd bum note here and there, notably the duff Tom Waits-styled techno spoken word of ‘Fat Cat’, which finishes the album off, possibly in more ways than one.

Musiquee Risquee is fast turning into the one of the best labels around and this album from Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts is further proof of that claim. The album is kicked off in fine style with ‘Can’t Cheat With Concrete’, a heavy deep houser and then continues to explore deep, skippy minimal house in all it’s forms.

Getting a lot of love from Villalobos apparently and its not hard to see why. CD version feature a couple more tracks than the vinyl pack too.
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