Our French buddies Adam Kesher (that’s a band not a dude) are coming out with a new album on Disque Primeur, the label that released some of my mix CDs a few years back like Oh No You Didn’t! and Sunglasses Is A Must LIVE.

This album is a family affair, I actually mixed 2 songs myself and my brother did some work on it too. The song they’re offering here, “Hour of the Wolf”, was mixed by the great Philippe Zdar (whom I spoke about in this post).

Download it HERE.

Philippe Zdar on the Yamaha CS80 from will seelig on Vimeo.

I’ve wanted to post something about Zdar for a while, so when I stumbled upon this video it seemed like the perfect pretext.

Philippe Zdar is 1/2 of Cassius (who in the 90s were known as La Funk Mob and used to produce hip hop tracks for MC Solaar) and he’s also my favorite mixing engineer. One of the true wizards of sound. He mixed down Chromeo’s Fancy Footwork album, which is how I came to hearing endless stories about the man and the myth, through my brother. Sometimes I mix Chromeo’s live backing tracks and I try to match Zdar’s work. It’s impossible. His tracks sound like they’re straight from the late 70’s, they’ve got more warmth and attitude than anything else out there today. He’s done a good part of Phoenix’s music as well.

In this particular clip however, he shows the good folks at Future Music his CS-80 synth and it’s just fun to listen to his accent.