Pulsion
Des hommes au service des hommes

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As a coda and final cap tip to “Pulsion,” the joint was already so powerful and electrifying, long before these Em and Dre days, that during its radio and phonograph zenith, Electricité de France had copped it as background music for a late-seventies national televised energy campaign: “Des Hommes au Service des Hommes”. True, he was known to score library music for television and movies, but this version is a circuit-breaker on the night the lights went out in Paris. The motif and tempo are kept rock-steady, although flowing to a softer, alternate charge now as clouds gather above an amply rebuilt powerhouse of “Pulsion.” Drums and piano equally more robust, richer and ruggedly strengthened to weather any electrical storm.

But the true climax of the joint is when Loussier brings that ruckus with a volt-surging, fuse-blowing symphony of break-worthy proportions. Strings billow and horns torrent inclemently while a sick threnody of intonations ride the orchestrals out until the song fades to Fin. EDF also pressed up these 45 “Spécials” for promo giveaway and retail, then authorized by Lousier of course. This “Pulsion” was lastly released on seven-inch and even cassettes; all featuring slightly different but complimentary versions of varied lengths on each and every flip: Piano Batterie / Piano Orchestral. And these are the breaks.

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