Montreal's Minimal Techno veteran Pheek offers up a milestone vinyl release for the onset of this Spring Season. Lumo EP offers four vibrant dance-floor compositions, each delving into its own labyrinthine mindscape, leaving no stones unturned in an ethereal garden of listening. Lumo invites us into exotic, sprawling atmospheres- crafted with excessive care and the unmistakable studio-finesse that Pheek has become known for. Lovers of drums will be assured troves of bass-heavy, broken-beats and skittering, jazz-infused patterns which delicately tease and tantalize as they appear and flicker out. Seasoned prowess in sound-design allows Pheek to convey eerie, forgotten landscapes with periodic, lushly rising elements to bath the listener in unexpected lightness and thrilling serenity. Lumo will surely tantalize even seasoned listeners as it melts heavily saturated layers of depth over unexpected arrangements. The result is a stunning interaction at the crossroads of Minimal House and Techno, nudging the listener toward sturdy grooves while simultaneously introducing new pathways on the way to ever-increasing depth. More

The fifth release of The Untold Stories Protagonist series sees Archipel boss Pheek offer up an EP of three original works. The Aside begins with Lonely Wolf, an awesome work of rousing energy set amidst a very spiritual calm, this dextrous combination, makes for a superb track perfect for enlivening spirits. The second track, Father, continues with a similar momentum, the vibe this time beginning primal and developing into the celestial. The Bside is with filled with a 16 minute extended work filled with distinct and timely percussion, a more contemplative work, filled with warmth and cosmic consideration. A stellar EP by Pheek, whose releases in 2016 have been particularly impressive, this perhaps the pinnacle.
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The phrase “feux follets” from which Archipel 105 draws its title, comes from the Latin ignis fatuus, and translates as will-o’-the-wisp. The etymology reaches back to old folktales in which ill-intentioned spirits would cast an atmospheric glow at night, in order to lead weary travellers astray. Today, the term refers to ghost-lights - artificial light reflections caused by decomposing organic emissions. Anyway you choose to understand it; this music contains the mysterious and unattainable. Feux Follets are meant to depict an elusive (and perhaps also illusive) ambition. A tense equilibrium colours the constant, foundational sounds with aleatory movements. The compositions are detail-oriented, and boldly explore their tangential elements.
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With the dawn of the new year, label boss Pheek wakes things up with a new slice of very cozy house with his trademark liquified rhythms, "Slaughter House EP". Without further ado, grab a hot cup of cocoa with honey and start massaging your neural-net with "Right On" which is filled to the lip with Pheek's heady, cuddly and mesmerizing warmth dotted with buried essences of jazz precisely strewn about. More

With it's eleventh 12" release, Archipel brings you "En Légère Suspension Vol. 2" the second group of remixes of label head Pheek's full length En Légère Suspension, this time featuring Franklin De costa, Lee Curtiss and Marc Neyen. De Costa's remix of "Rien Ne Va" is a husky blend of tensely wound mountainous and rolling low end tendrillar rhythms which are tied up tightly in bright and fizzing deteriorated electric twine. Curtiss employs his trademark elasticity with his take on "Dans le Ventre de L'Ordi" which bubbles up into a rolling molten boil of cochlear space which is pregnant with deep churning cadence. With a stimulating and heady perspective of "Tew Tew", Marc Neyen fabricates an intricate mesh made of quivering slices of the original which is filled to the brim with constantly unfolding mesmeric motion.

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With Labelboss Pheek's album "En Légère Suspension" being loved by many for its eloquent detailing and organic, electronic psychedelia, we are happy to bring you a collection of remixes of select tracks from the album. For the remixing purposes, Archipel called two favorites to compile a colourful mix between warm afterhours and peak time music. "Aye Aya Ashawa" gets treated by Mathias Kaden and molded into an exotic, humid cloud of hypnotic, densely layered quasi-tribal percussion with the original vocal presenting itself in a very visual hypnagogic manner. The excellently driving and hypnotic "Orage Solaire" gets put through the wringer by Tim Xavier who highlights the hypnotic nature of the original and darkens the tone a little more into a jittering, pulsing aural storm. More

Jean-Patrice Remillard aka Pheek hatches a new album making it his sixth, appearing on his own imprint Archipel Musique. Pheek reinterpreted his concept of electronic music by utilizing flavourful blends of techno embedded with funky undertones, minimal, IDM, and tech house. Specially blended rhythms enriched with bottomless emotion, entices the senses to explore the unknown, but in a playful manner. While his last albums gave him a name for ambient and delicate music, “En Légère Suspension” will take everyone by surprise demonstrating subtle techniques of dance floor music. More