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If you look at Pepe Bradock’s career, you will see that has been very determined in making increasingly undanceable music. The days of “Life” and “Deep Burnt” are in the past, the recent records like “Rhapsody In Pain” or “Sakura Incident” make you wonder if Mr Julien Auger is using his credit to play practical jokes on the deep house peeps. However, be it a joke or not, I’m definitely falling for it.

This time it’s “Intriguing Feathered Creature”. Yes, that’s the name. No, really. This somehow illustrates the Pepe Bradock way of thinking, since it could have just as easily and randomly been called “An Interesting Bird”. But that wouldn’t be freaky, or rather, not freaky enough. Or we are just missing a very simple everyday background story on this.

“Creature’s” bizarre chord progression reminds me of “4” from 2003 on Atavisme, which was kind of a lullaby sounding tune that I liked for that quality. It’s definitely out of the ordinary and has the effect of growing on you, along with the steel drum melody. Somehow, it still seems like a caricature of deep house exploring the jazzy chord progressions to sound more sophisticated. The chords are overlaid with strange seagull-like noises that obviously give the track its name. The dub is essentially the main mix played from inside a big tunnel – like you would expect from the guy. And then you have the AK-Pella that allows you to get a bit deeper into the chirping sound of the seagulls. Which is nice.

While Pepe might be lost to our world of mortals, I do appreciate his messages from the other reality.

A: Intriguing Feathered Creature
B1: Intriguing Feathered Creature (Dub)
B2: Intriguing Feathered Creature (AK-Pella)

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