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Arnaud Rebotini live
Magasins Generaux in Pantin, France for Cercle
Of course it's a Cercle event. We're all here pretending to admire the Pantin skyline while secretly waiting for the first kick drum to cut through the artfully lit industrial silence. The Magasins Generaux space is all concrete and cool blue light, a perfect sterile petri dish for Arnaud Rebotini's live synth experiments.
Locked at a hypnotic 125 BPM, the journey is defined by the melancholic, minor-key pull of 5A, with Rebotini layering live modular squelches over a deep, percussive bedrock. The energy is a slow, cerebral build rather than a peak-time explosion, each transition feeling organic and hardware-driven. For crate diggers, the curveball is the sublime 'Green Aqua - Summer Funk (Adam Oland Remix)', a moment of pure, sun-drenched house joy amidst the noirish textures.
Rebotini's own 'What You Want Me to Do' provides a gritty, personal anchor to the proceedings. It opens with the deconstructed, instrumental bones of Sebastian Ingrosso & Tommy Trash's 'Reload', peaks with the atmospheric tension of 'Neutron - Poly', and finally retreats into the 13-minute ambient wash of Lil'Wakaka's 'Priorities'.