Three years after the success of 1988, featuring the hit tracks Liquid Sunshine and My Face, it’s full steam ahead for Biga* Ranx with this fifth album, Sunset Cassette. For several months he has been giving us teasers, releasing the singles My Driver (a dub stepper track produced by the Franco-Swiss OBF Crew, Solid (with Lil Slow, a colleague from Brigante Records) and Hot Water (featuring the Guyanese star Blakkamoore), but Sunset Cassette still has many more hidden gems. The musician from the French city Tours shows off his skills on the OP-1 portable synthesizer, giving his music that characteristic texture.
With the help of French producer Blundetto (for the mellotron, flute, organ, brass, and some of the arrangements), it’s clear that Biga* Ranx is feeling confident on this album, even trying his hand at French lyrics (on Vieille Branche, Regarde-moi, Les Poches) and doing so successfully, with perhaps even more emotion than in English. Fans can also enjoy the collaboration with another French reggae star, Pupajim, the singer from Stand High Patrol, on Aubépines. The duo already worked together in 2019 on Atili’s Subterranean Exodus, but Biga only sang a short verse. The collaboration is more balanced this time in terms of the vocals and the orchestration and opens up Biga* Ranx’s horizons even further. © Smaël Bouaici/Qobuz