I never expected to be so taken with Continent, the full-length debut LP by Montreal DJ maestro CFCF (born Michael Silver).  I’ve been moving away from electronic music lately, but CFCF’s laid back sound and effortless style has drawn me back in.  Besides this album, his excellent cover of OMC’s “How Bizarre” on the Paper Bag Records Seven Year Itch compilation I write about  a few weeks back has been on heavy rotation ’round these parts lately.

CFCF’s career began to take off a few years back with his contest winning remix of Crystal Castles “Air War”.  He followed that up with a run of official remixes for label mate Sally Shapiro, The Presets, HEALTH, The Teenagers and Hearts Revolution, and along the way he found time to release his own material on Panesian Nights, his first EP release for Paper Bag Records.  Of his first full album, Silver’s describes how the songs take shape: “…I usually started with an idea in mind of a specific atmosphere I wanted to convey,… whether it was something hazy, nostalgic, otherworldly or unsettling…”.. No surprise that Silver goes on to say that the films of Werner Herzog, Michael Mann, David Lynch, and David Cronenberg were influences; numbers like the brooding “Come Closer” and first single “Monolith” seem custom-made for cinema.

MP3: CFCF “Monolith”
Myspace: CFCF