Launched in 2003 by former Daft Punk manager Pedro Winter, aka Busy P, France's Ed Banger Records has always been synonymous with forward-thinking, often slightly gonzo electronic music. Artists on their roster throughout the last decade include the likes of Justice, Sebastian, Cassius, Feadz and the proto-Ke$ha, Uffie. To celebrate their anniversary, the label are releasing their first compilation since 2008 in the shape of Ed Rec X, a fourteen-track album featuring exclusive tracks from most of the acts listed above as well the delirious Secam (premiered here) by producer and director Quentin Dupieux, aka Mr Oizo. Anyone with a penchant for puppets and/or Levis jeans will remember Mr Oizo as the creator of Flat Beat (and the puppet Flat Eric), which soundtracked a series of Levis adverts back in 1999. While that song reached number 1 in the UK, it's follow-up, Last Night a DJ Killed My Dog, mysteriously failed to set the charts alight and Dupieux went back to making squelchy electronic music seemingly for his own amusement. Thankfully Secam continues his love of the ridiculous; all chunky stop-start synths, incessant filtered loops that work their way into your head and, at around the two and a half minute mark, the presence of a cut up female vocal that sends the song stratospheric.



Ed Rec Xis released on June 10 and can be pre-ordered here