The incredible story of “the marching band that plays the techno classics” started with a video shared on social media. On a square in Madrid in front of an exhilarated crowd, Meute covered The Man With the Red Face, the iconic track by Laurent Garnier, who then invited them straight away to his festival, Yeah! in the Luberon. Their popularity caught on quickly and all of a sudden the eleven musicians from Hamburg are doing the rounds of festivals, with a hundred dates a year in the most prestigious locations, where they play their “smash hits”, like Rej, the minor success from German duo Âme, or Flume’s remix of You & Me by Disclosure.
And everyone loves it! Flume leaves comments on their Facebook videos, and Garnier himself went so far as recording a reworked version of The Man With the Red Face with the red jackets (their uniform) for their 2017 album Tumult. “We simply brought two styles of music together which don’t initially seem to be match, but which actually work really well together”, explains founder Thomas Burhorn. With Live in Paris – which notably includes covers of Acamar by Franky & Sandrino, here enhanced as a Spanish version, Wixn by Surismo and Deadmau5’s Gula, as well as the aforementioned tracks – the group demonstrates that beyond the surprise of seeing a marching band cover electro music, they are able to perfectly capture the atmospheric drama of this genre of music with tremendously effective arrangements on stage. Which are just as effective listening at home as well… © Smaël Bouaici/Qobuz