Monsieur Adi’s ‘Fire Fire Fire’ EP

Monsieur Adi

As you’re probably aware, the full length version of French Disco renaissance man Monsieur Adi’s ‘Fire Fire Fire’ EP was released this week. It’s been eagerly anticipated, and well worth the wait.

We got the single version of ‘Fire Fire Fire’ last year, but that was only a taste of the awesomeness contained in this package. Adi is the master if orchestration, the man can score an orchestra like no one else making dance music today, maybe even ever, so it’s fitting that the EP’s intro, ‘Praeludium’ is a swelling, string ensemble, peice with a hint of sadness and a hint of anticipation that lease into the siren signifier of ‘Fire Fire Fire’, French Touch at it’s finest and a track we rated in our top 20 of 2011, kickin’ beats and soaring lead synths dominate your brain when this track is on. ‘Blood’ is up next, another track we raved about last year, from it’s harpsichord led baroque introduction to it’s full-on challenge to Daft Punk at their best. ‘Last Stand’ is next, a track that back in May last year when we first wrote about we everyone thought would be the EP’s lead. Gary Go lends a layer of vocal ElectroPop to Adi’s slick Nu-Disco a creating a nice Poppy mid-point to the EP before the ride sends you toward the deep, emotional, retro Funk of ‘Requiem’, a powerful track that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. The EP plays out with ‘In Caelis’, a final orchestral movement which is both rousing and a slightly bitter end to the EP. Monsieur Adi is, above all, a musician and composer before producer, and that’s what makes him stand head and shoulders above his peers. and y’know what, if Daft Punk never release anything else, I think I’d be happy for Adi to take up their torch.