Paul Cut – Memorize Your Face EP

Paul Cut receives a warm welcome to the Automatic Writing family with ‘Memorize Your Face’, a tongue-in-cheek gadfly of a minimal techno EP as they come. Building on a staunch reputation as one of the key figures of the French house scene – an accolade kept close to the chest for just over a decade – Cut here flaunts his production savvy with three light-hearted but still hypnotic house numbers, the likes of which are well-chiseled to fit even chinstrokiest dancefloor. All three tracks are glided over by whispery female vocals from an unknown source, tempering the transonic Chi-UK dialogue with interjections and adjoins such as, yes, «memorise your face» and «feel, real, dreams, dance». As spoken-word insistences sampled in club tracks go, these are comparatively laid back, though the B3’s ‘Can’t Get Enough’ is of course the most ravenous for more.