My return to Paris at the end of 2012, after more than 4 years in Barcelona, resonated like a need for refuge, a desire to decelerate. A big hangover that invited a major reality check. The end of something, the beginning of something else. At the time, let’s remember, the end of the world was looming.

A Mind Forever Voyaging grew out of a sorting process—a selection of tracks begun in Catalonia. It was my final recording attempt of that era, born from the ambitious goal of creating an EP that blended the warmth of various electro-funk influences, all wrapped in the signature of my productions: a surge of modulations that makes linearity feel as alive as it is unstable, talkative, and turbulent. Perhaps it was also a message in a bottle.

The listening invitation was presented as follows back then:

« Based on electro tracks written like songs, this record attempts to associate every possible 'cliché' of Funk, Disco, Hip-hop, Punk, and Synthpop, all wrapped in a 'glitch' sauce. These 5 titles revolve around a concept of travel, mixed in a way that creates an effect suggesting the music travels like the mind—here, through tubes, filters, spaces, and different states of auditory consciousness... An unstable, malleable sound matter, as mutant as life itself. »

Released on Bandcamp in the spring of 2013, this attempt would ultimately remain very anonymous, although it fit with its time with reminiscences of a successful style now called 'Boghouse' with a vaporous tendencies. I wasn't indifferent to this genre which seams almost innate when you are French and you love synths. The title was borrowed from a legendary video game that played out much like a 'choose your own adventure' book.

In fact, I was like trapped in this game: playing at turning the pages, using my free will, but without really having a notion of where it leads... Perhaps that is the whole concept of this record: that of not knowing where to set foot. A work that navigates between influences of the past and very present impulses that tend to provoke chaos and observe what comes out of it.

Yet, it makes sense today to re-share it in an extended version, augmented by three additional tracks that I was probably wrong to exclude initially. I thought, at the time, that they didn't have their place for questions of coherence, while they perfectly completed the puzzle. Like all the catalog available on eclo.re, it had to come out, no matter if the message is received or not. Nothing more than one vibration sent to the universe... a trace of the past which, after all, should always have remained presented like this: a few WAV files on a personal archive page.