Strictly analogue, pre MIDI music from Paris. 
 There’s something about the synthesizer-driven compositions of Michel Dupay and his popular project, MAINE. It’s not just the Paris-based auteur’s minimalist and radically organic-sounding recordings — it’s not simply his and album producer Secondson's use of real drums and analogue synths. 
 It’s the sparse but intricate compositions that concurrently sound extremely tight and on the cusp of unraveling. As a listener, you’re caught up in the tension of being utterly engaged in this: the often beautiful, sometimes dark, always melodic and delicate interplay of instruments defy your typical experience with electronic music in 2017. There’s no cavalcade of a hundred instruments marching in lockstep with a computer program’s impeccable sense of order. 
 MAINE is the fusion of humanity and synthetic expression. 
 Vehlinggo, 2017