Jack Etienne

The White Heat mailout has just informed me that Mr Etienne Jaumet will be making a London stop-off at their Madame Jojo’s night on June 8th (tickets on sale now via Ticketweb), which gives me the perfect excuse to share with you this live video we recently uncovered amongst the archives of the ambitious Grandcrew live concert filming site, captured at a Versatile Records party back in 2008:

Etienne Jaumet may just be the cutest nerd you are ever likely to see. One half of the also-awesome Zombie-Zombie synth-and-drum duo (which I suppose makes him a plain old Zombie), Etienne can also count himself amongst just a handful of current purveyors of dance music that our own ever-particular James Holden actually likes. And contrary to what you might have assumed from the Night Music recordings, we are not dealing with cheap saxophone samples here: a minute into opening track and Holden-favourite ‘Repeat Again After Me’ Etienne wheels out his own extraordinary live sax skills to complement his synth-love to jaw-dropping effect. Wow.