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Music Review: Fuller French x mksmth – Champagne Rendezvous (Saint Tropez remix)


    The latest from Fuller French and Mksmth is a deep, adventurous, and upbeat tune. It becomes a joy to discover a nostalgic daydream paradise that makes for a surprise hit. They come up with a relatively simple proposition for their single “Champagne Rendezvous (Saint Tropez remix)”: create a comfortably gorgeous piece of work, a catch-all style with acoustic jazz undertones which are then transplanted onto fast-paced drums and subtle electronic elements to enhance the mix, which gives it the needed jolt of energy to get your ears pulsing and your body moving.

    Fuller French tells a romantic story on his own terms. It’s fun, exciting, and feels good. He creates savoring love-induced moments with a French lifestyle attached to it. You can’t help yourself but get to imagine romantic escapades with your significant other to the French Riviera in typical French fashion. Strolling along the streets of Boulevard de le Croisettes in Cannes on a summer day, or sipping champagne on a warm breezy night out on the L’Horizon Deck in Fairmont Monte Carlo and if you want to take a step back from all the glitz and glamour of Monaco or Saint Tropez, you take a drive up to the village of Peillon for a picnic.

    There’s a complex  range of intricacy and improvisation, a monument to the skills of both artists, Fuller French providing his vocals and acoustic variations and Mksmth flipping it into a danceable EDM tune. The  intensity and purpose is obvious, moment to moment. They push the boundaries of music, releasing the remix in a more tasteful packaging but otherwise untouched, a marvelously trippy journey through the spacier, smokier corners of jazz psychedelia, but with an added twist to the thought experiment.

    It makes for a provocative new dimension to the song’s sound. It’s rare to find such bold uses of electronic elements with acoustic jazz flourishes but Fuller French and Mksmth give the song a thunderous effect. Throughout the record it continues to surge in and out, sending the listener swimming in ethereal waves. You can sense the comfort and ease between certain sections. You always know where you are in the music; its development is natural and the connecting threads are easy to follow. Blending passages of subtle beauty with aggressive processing from the electronics makes the song a worthy addition to any danceable Spotify playlist.

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