Stereo Action Unlimited

 

Besides The Boyz From Brazil and Gotan Project, Philippe Cohen Solal and Christoph H. Müller multiplied tracks by signing remixes and titles under various pseudonyms… They are often ephemeral but rarely lack a dose of humor and some necessary distance. Among them, Stereo Action Unlimited makes sense immediately: between the lines of this mock trademark, one can see a touch of irony about major lobbies…. The duo at the nuclear core of the Ya Basta Crew have always made a matter principle of preserving their independence of spirit, as craftsmen patiently designing their tracks rather than industrialists chain-producing hits. This way, they come up with gems like the EPs “Hi-Fi Trumpet” and “Lovelight”, with a false air of easy-listening tinged with bossa-nova elegance that turns out to be genuinely loaded with a deliciously quaint sensuality, in the right line of references in the genre like Burt Bacharach or Herp Alpert – easy to listen to, but more difficult to produce.