Your basket is empty

Categories:
Results 1 to 20 out of a total of 36
From
HI-RES$15.56
CD$12.45

Fishing For Accidents

Wax Tailor

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released February 10, 2023 | Lab'oratoire

Hi-Res
French hip-hop producer and cinephile Wax Tailor conceptualised his sixth album with a phrase by Orson Welles. The Citizen Kane director regularly stated that his role was to ‘preside over’ the accidents that occurred during the making of a film. For Wax Tailor, it’s also a question of ‘knowing how to capture them in order to make the accident an artistic intention. I decided not to follow a well-established concept but this more instinctive guideline and to go fishing for accidents’. The result is this series of happy accidents, punctuated by samples that always cut to the chase. While rap has undergone major evolutions both stylistically and in terms of its audience, Wax Tailor hasn’t budged an inch, sticking to the abstract hip-hop style originally conceived by DJ Shadow, DJ Krush and DJ Cam. He continues to create cinematic art, making music videos with a retro charm for both his solo tracks and those made with collaborators from diverse stylistic backgrounds. The album is bursting with great songs, such as the beautiful ‘Shaman in Your Arms’, featuring Jennifer Charles (from Elysian Fields), ‘Freaky Circus’ and its golden age boom bap (featuring Mr Lif and Napoleon da Legend), and the incredible ‘Come With Me’, which features his inspiring new muse, Victoria Bigelow © Smaël Bouaici/Qobuz
From
HI-RES$15.56
CD$12.45

Tales of the Forgotten Melodies

Wax Tailor

Trip Hop - Released February 22, 2005 | Lab'oratoire

Hi-Res
From
HI-RES$15.56
CD$12.45

Hope & Sorrow

Wax Tailor

Dance - Released April 2, 2007 | Lab'oratoire

Hi-Res
French DJ JC la Saout, who records under the nom de club Wax Tailor, has the wide-ranging musical erudition of DJ Spooky without the latter's insufferable pretentiousness, and the Technicolor stylistic range of DJ Shadow without the latter's tendency towards unwieldy sonic sprawl. He is also -- and this is interesting -- not obviously concerned with showcasing his Frenchness in any noticeable way. No Johnny Hallyday or Indochine samples, no accordions, no French-language found sound. Some of his guests are French, but they all sing in English and contribute to an album that could almost be called an exercise in musical Esperanto -- a mishmash of stylistic elements that draws from a wide variety of sources and adds up to something familiar-sounding but new. Not everything is spectacular, and like many of his colleagues, Wax Tailor has a maddening weakness for between-song filler. But there's more than enough spectacular content here to justify the four-star rating. Highlights include the edgily funky "Once Upon a Past," the turntablist-goes-to-the-movies brilliance of "The Tune," and "That Case," with its jazzy flute multiphonics and Mission Impossible bongo drums. Feel free to skip over "Alien in My Belly," which ends the album on a creepy and rhythmically disjointed note. Highly recommended overall. © Rick Anderson /TiVo
From
HI-RES$15.56
CD$12.45

By Any Beats Necessary

Wax Tailor

Dance - Released October 14, 2016 | Lab'oratoire

Hi-Res
From
HI-RES$15.56
CD$12.45

The Shadow of Their Suns

Wax Tailor

Chill-out - Released January 8, 2021 | Lab'oratoire

Hi-Res
Five years after his road trip into the Great American West on By Any Beats Necessary, we now see the return Wax Tailor, France's richest tailor when it comes to cinematic references. Because as always, this fifth studio album is an audio movie, a "sonic feature film", as the artist puts it. And Jean-Christophe Le Saût remains within his musical spectrum, running from trip hop to abstract hip-hop, with samples from all eras. The cast isn't bad either, with the raucous timbre of the most famous freelance vocalist in America Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Queens of the Stone Age...) on Just a Candle, for a rather folky trip that would sound good in a Nevada desert, or the Californian rapper Del The Funky Homosapien, who makes light work of a very 60s American rhythm. It is clear that Wax Tailor is not done with the United States, as evidenced by the Trumpian dystopia of the music video for the single Misery, with a contribution from Rosemary Standley of French band Moriarty, or this nod to Gil Scott-Heron on the interlude Paint It Black. Also worth noting on this album, which should be played all the way through in a single sitting, the remarkable appearance of the South African rapper Yugen Blakrok, who was previously spotted in 2019 on the soundtrack of Black Panther led by Kendrick Lamar. © Smaël Bouaici/Qobuz
From
HI-RES$15.56
CD$12.45

Dusty Rainbow from the Dark

Wax Tailor

Dance - Released September 10, 2012 | Lab'oratoire

Hi-Res
From
CD$12.45

Fishing For Accidents

Wax Tailor

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released October 13, 2023 | Lab'oratoire

From
HI-RES$15.56
CD$12.45

In the Mood for Life

Wax Tailor

Dance - Released September 21, 2009 | Lab'oratoire

Hi-Res
In the Mood for Life is the follow-up album to Wax Tailor's 2007 release Hope & Sorrow. Tailor (aka Jean-Christophe Le Saoût) is recognizable by his signature mix of hip-hop and electronic sounds, drawing, as always, on hip-hop influences, a healthy dose of samples, and lounge sounds. Tailor also brings several other artists along for the ride on this album, most notably for the single "I Own You," featuring Charlie Winston. © Celeste Rhoads /TiVo
From
HI-RES$1.22
CD$0.98

Seize The Day

Wax Tailor

Dance - Released September 27, 2016 | Lab'oratoire

Hi-Res
From
HI-RES$15.56
CD$12.45

Dusty Rainbow from the Dark (Instrumental Version)

Wax Tailor

Dance - Released June 17, 2016 | Lab'oratoire

Hi-Res
From
HI-RES$15.56
CD$12.45

In the Mood for Life (Instrumental Version)

Wax Tailor

Dance - Released September 21, 2009 | Lab'oratoire

Hi-Res
In the Mood for Life is the follow-up album to Wax Tailor's 2007 release Hope & Sorrow. Tailor (aka Jean-Christophe Le Saoût) is recognizable by his signature mix of hip-hop and electronic sounds, drawing, as always, on hip-hop influences, a healthy dose of samples, and lounge sounds. Tailor also brings several other artists along for the ride on this album, most notably for the single "I Own You," featuring Charlie Winston. © Celeste Rhoads /TiVo
From
CD$19.76

Phonovisions Symphonic Orchestra

Wax Tailor

Dance - Released November 3, 2014 | Lab'oratoire

From
CD$12.45

B-Sides & Remixes

Wax Tailor

Dance - Released June 30, 2017 | Lab'oratoire

From
CD$19.76

Live 2010 à l'Olympia

Wax Tailor

Trip Hop - Released November 2, 2010 | Lab'oratoire

From
CD$12.45

By Any Remixes Necessary

Wax Tailor

Dance - Released November 10, 2017 | Lab'oratoire

Like This

Wax Tailor

Trip Hop - Released December 10, 2021 | Lab'oratoire

Download not available
From
HI-RES$15.56
CD$12.45

The Shadow of Their Suns

Wax Tailor

Chill-out - Released January 1, 2021 | Lab'oratoire

Hi-Res
From
HI-RES$15.56
CD$12.45

By Any Beats Necessary (Instrumental Version)

Wax Tailor

Dance - Released November 18, 2016 | Lab'oratoire

Hi-Res

Come With Me

Wax Tailor

Pop - Released June 30, 2023 | Lab'oratoire

Download not available
From
CD$10.07

Lost the Way

Wax Tailor

Dance - Released February 12, 2004 | Lab'oratoire