Ou Sommes Nous?, by Vini Vidi Vici

Ou Sommes Nous?

by Vini Vidi Vici

supported by

rrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeddddddddddaaaaaaaa thumbnail

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

£4 GBP or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
12" vinyl housed in specially redesigned Reverse Card Board outer and black paper inner.

Includes unlimited streaming of Ou Sommes Nous? via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 14 days

Purchasable with gift card

£5 GBP or more
Full Digital Discography

20

releases

Get all 20 Platform 23 releases available on Bandcamp and save 60%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Ethniques Psychedelics, Half Dead Ganja Music, Music For Hippies, It Was, Tilt, Fari 116, Myscitismes, Preparing For Power, and 12 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

£54 GBP (60% OFF)

1.	Club Stuff 04:14	buy track
2.	Vini Vidi Vici 03:43	buy track
3.	Ou Sommes Nous? 03:34	buy track
4.	AA HHH 03:45	buy track
5.	DIGITAL BONUS : Club Stuff (Sneaker's 2019 Birthday Mix) 04:48	buy track

about

Platform 23 returns with the reissue of songs from Canadian project, Vini Vidi Vici. With just one privately pressed mini-album in 1989 that bridged the gap between the later years of New Wave and the early vestiges of House, the music included in this edited EP highlights a thriving Montreal scene in its heyday.

Vini Vidi Vici was created out of two different music backgrounds. Paul Klopstock was a classical pianist, while Mario Langlois was a DJ, self-taught musician and radio producer, who came together when both worked at the underground arts / club Le Lézard. Starting in 1986 the space mixed painting, drag shows and bands alongside the latest alternative sounds, from Rap to New Beat, Electro to Acid Jazz.

As House and Techno started to filter through, Mario (aka Avé Mario) and the other resident DJs laid the ground of what was to come. From this Paul and Mario collaborated from late 1987 through in to 1988 and created the mini-album, however this EP concentrates on the duo’s self penned work.

Recorded at Oliver Sudden Production studio, the A side is made up the raw House of ‘Club Stuff” and Native American meets avant percussion of ‘Vini Vidi Vici’. Showing a confidence and experimentation beyond their years, the two tracks production and all round hypnotic danceability, highlight why original copies are so prized (and expensive).

The B side follows with two tracks recorded in Mario’s home closet studio. Lo-fi to the max and improvised, the no wave / world beat experience of title cut, ‘Ou Sommes Nous?’ and the proto-electro-wave of ‘AA HHH’ are like something again, a mesmerising fusion and quite unique.

Self pressed, the project ventured to live performance and (sadly unreleased) remix work, before the partners went their separate ways, however this archival document can be seen as their own special conquest.

Included is a special remix by Berlin's Sneaker DJ and his take on Club Stuff. When digging through the tapes a later, tougher demo of the track was unearthed and who better than to send to Sneaker for examination.

credits

released April 1, 2019

license

about

Platform 23 London, UK

contact / help

Contact Platform 23

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Ou Sommes Nous?, you may also like:

Bamboo Shows Tapes 001
by Bamboo Shows

supported by 9 fans who also own “Ou Sommes Nous?”

The rest of the album is fine but i really love Forgotten Realms, just because its so progressive. Never heard anything quite like it before. 00002435
go to album
VA "shelTer"
by Müstesna Records

supported by 9 fans who also own “Ou Sommes Nous?”
go to album
Weeshuis Der Verloren Zielen
by Identified Patient

supported by 8 fans who also own “Ou Sommes Nous?”

3 0 3 t w e e t Josephh
go to album
Photon
by Takayuki Shiraishi

Camisole Records reissues a gorgeously euphoric experimental techno underground classic from producer Takayuki Shiraishi. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 29, 2022
go to album
TIE-EE-YIE-EE-YIE-EE-YIME
by Female Wizard

The debut full length album from Melbourne electronic producer Female Wizard is full of trancelike keys and rapturous rhythms. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 4, 2021
go to album
Rebellion
by Maŕa, LDY OSC, S. English

The latest single from NY artist Maŕa is swathed in shadowy atmospherics and powered by jittery rhythms, ghostly & magnificent. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 2, 2021
go to album
BAH045
by Alexis Le-Fan

supported by 8 fans who also own “Ou Sommes Nous?”
go to album