- When I recently called Maoupa Mazzocchetti a "descendant" of Beau Wanzer, I wasn't aware this family reunion was in the works. Recorded when Wanzer was visiting Mazzocchetti's Brussels home, the Crepes EP has the sound of long-lost relatives who discover they smoke the same brand of cigarettes and share a distinctive laugh. Sometimes you can tell who did what—the voice that appears on the noxious "Seul Comme Sombre," grizzled and groaning and ravaged with FX, sounds like Mazzocchetti's—but the two mostly work in diabolical harmony. From the deformed faces on the cover to the dance floor perversions within, not to mention the viscous coating of delay and distortion, any of the EP's creative decisions could have come from either of these twisted minds.
Crepes tackles an array of rhythmic forms. The groaning, throbbing "Démissionne En Tuant Ton Patron" is electro, and probably the EP's most vivid moment. "The Mud Man Is Coming" does techno in a sluggish way, while "The Eyebrows Salesgirl" has more bite, with serrated percussion flying furiously over an angry kick drum. The most striking tracks explore extremes of tempo. "Whole Body Irradiator" is fast, locked in strange, jittery stasis at 160 BPM. Then there's the sub-90 BPM of "Francine," whose acrid effects congeal into a hellish down-pitched voice—Mazzocchetti's again, presumably.
TracklistA1 Seul Comme Sombre
A2 Whole Body Irradiator
A3 The Mud Man Is Coming
B1 Francine
B2 The Eyebrows Salesgirl
B3 Démissionne En Tuant Ton Patron