FYI.

This story is over 5 years old.

Music

Listen to Principles of Geometry's New "Meanstream" LP

The soundtrack to your wildest cyberpunk fantasies.

Photo by Marco Dos Santos

The Kawasaki 850cc purrs beneath your liquid crystal mecha-suit. Neon-buttressed superstructures and twinkling content-clouds loom over the endless horizontal skyline of Shibuya 2.0 before you. Solar sails refract sunlight into prismatic coriola in the upper reaches of the thin Martian atmosphere. Behind you, jagged matte black hunter drones burst from the tunnel network beneath the planets terraformed surface, tires leaving clouds of vaporized polyrubber in their screeching wake. They're closing in. You glimpse at the smiling holo-data snapshot on your dashboard. She sold you out; you'll never see her again. You have nothing to lose and nowhere to go. Turn up the volume on your Beats By Dre spinal insertion module and gas the bike. You're gone.

Advertisement

Principles of Geometry are a French duo, known only as J and G—their pounding, romantic 'Meanstream EP' will soundtrack your wildest cyberpunk dreams. You can pre-order the album on Bandcamp while you listen to our exclusive stream, , courtesy of Joakim's Tigersushi Records, below. Oh, and don't forget to peep our Q+A for a look into the guys' views on Aphex Twin, Gilgamesh, and the universality of love.

Noisey: How did you guys first encounter electronic music?

J: Definitely through movies when we were kiddos, and specially John Carpenter ones. It gaves us a specific POV of electronic music : its cinematic power.

G: Running music through images & emotions. A clear deal.

What did you each listen to in high school?

J: I was kind of a mainstream MTV kid,Ii would listen to a lot a things but in no special music territory. I fell in love with electronic music round about '98 with Aphex, Boards of Canada and Autechre.

G: Everything. It was the begining of my musicaholic life.

What song is perfect to you?

Both: Windowlicker, Aphex Twin.

When did you meet each other? How did your creative partnership start?

J: In a big studio in Paris, we shared interests and music we liked. We stayed in the night trying synths and instruments, made some tracks, found the result cool so we carried on.

Your new record's title is the name of a personal philosophy you espouse. Can you elaborate on the concept of the Meanstream?

Advertisement

J: Forget your self, let uniqueness find Universality.

G: Honesty reaches the heart. It's all about love, you know.

What famous duo from history or media do you most identify with?

J: Simon and Garfunkel physically, Eames & Saarinen for creativity.

G: Gilgamesh & Enkidu, when under the influence.

If you could issue one unbreakable dancefloor law, what would it be?

J: "If they're all fucked up, it's time to play LFO's "Freak."

What's one song you can play out that's guaranteed to set it off?

We'd probably use your question as an answer: Strafe's "Set It Off", for sure.

Ezra Marcus is an Enkidu looking for his Gilgamesh on Twitter—@ezra_marc