French electronic artist Vitalic has unveiled a 20th anniversary edition of his breakthrough album OK Cowboy, which was originally released in 2005.
The special edition of the album was released by Citizen Records, on double vinyl, CD and digital on 14 November, with a box set version set to follow on 5 December.
Having gained widespread recognition with the Poney EP in 2001, which featured the seminal La Rock 01, Vitalic’s first album helped define the shift from French Touch and electroclash to the rawer electro wave led by artists such as Justice.
Vitalic, aka Pascal Arbez-Nicolas, who also released under the name Dima in the mid 1990s, was once hailed as “the most credible successor to Daft Punk, in terms of efficiency and unifying power”, by French newspaper Le Monde, while fellow French publication Trax once wrote: “If electronic music were a question, Vitalic would be the answer. […] Merging on the dance floors of clubs in a hysterical and volcanic fervor of fans of feverish pogos as well as adepts of the psychedelic loop, Vitalic has elevated the dancefloor to unsuspected heights, multiplying the energy of headbangers with the madness of techno freaks”.
Elsewhere, Resident Advisor included OK Cowboy as one of its Top 100 albums of the 2000s, saying “Very few French producers can claim to have had a first album as primitively raw as Vitalic. The power of early, heavily compressed tracks like Poney Pt. 1 and La Rock 01 were so stunning it blew electroclash’s self-absorbed mind and even turned James Murphy [of LCD Soundsystem] from punk to techno.”
Vitalic – OK Cowboy 20Y is out now on Citizen Records – check it out here.
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