Laurent Garnier - Unreasonable Behaviour

maroko, May 21, 2008

With "Unreasonable behaviour", Laurent Garnier reached the peak of his highly prolific recording career. Despite the fact that by Y2K he had already produced an envious amount of all time classics, in my book he will go down in history with the best of them for delivering this magnum opus.
Be it one of his greatest calling cards, the jazzy and soulful The Man With The Red Face, the moody, melancholic, deeply emotional City Sphere and Communications From The Lab, with its heart tearing piano stabs, or maybe the stuff dance floor material is made up of, with Dangerous Drive and The Sound Of The Big Babou, or perhaps my favorite track here, Greed, haunted by a deep and menacing vocal sample and an entire series of crispy sounds and musical elements!
To make things even better, he ends the album with a track called Last Tribute From The 20th Century, which is a direct and honest tribute to the heroes and forefathers of the techno movement. Humble, magnificent, diverse, experimental, yet true to the form while refusing to stay confined within any apparent limits determined by genres or styles, "Unreasonable behaviour" is a work of a man who has been around the block quite a few times. Garnier knows the game, and he shows that hes a true architect of electronic music, not a follower. Timeless material.

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