Parisian Bernard Fevre released some exceptionally cool electronic music in the 1970’s under his own name and as Black Devil. His sound was way ahead of its time and is echoed in the music of Aphex Twin, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk and LCD Sound System. Hard to believe this was recorded over 35 years ago. Visionary. Fevre composed these sonic bits of loveliness using synths and occasional tape loops and a drummer, but no computers.

“We were in our own world,” writes Fevre of Black Devil’s original incarnation. “There was no electronic disco scene in Paris at that time and strangely we somehow invented the Italo sound.”

Fevre’s Black Devil recordings are out of print, but his earlier tunes are available on the CD ‘The Strange New World Of Bernard Fevre’.