Close To The Giants - CD
French 79

Close To The Giants - CD

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Optimal Media today counts among its members one of the best quality control manager in the world and offers the most competitive and reliable deadlines on the market.

-> Thorsten Megow - Making Vinyl

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With more than 5 million records pressed, Squeezer is also a reference on the French market for Independents of all sizes with vinyl pressings such as FKJ, Lomepal, The Dø, Sébastien Tellier, Flavier Berger, PNL, Wax Tailor, Vitalic, Jacques , Dabeul, etc.

In 2017, Squeezer won the Alex Award for best overall packaging in Detroit (US) for the vinyl project Black Rck, produced in collaboration with the Akatre studio.

 

 Electronic Experimental, Electro

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Audio CD SKU : AK143
    Release date
  • December 4, 2026
    Conditions
  • New
Description

Heir to French Touch, French 79 opens a radical new chapter with his fourth album, Close to the Giants. For this project, French 79 relocated his studio deep into the wilderness, standing alone against the elements from high alpine peaks to the open sea. Armed with a portable modular synthesizer, he composed the entire album in the very heart of nature.

Fueled by the raw adrenaline of the elements, French 79 translates the intensity of his emotional journeys into a raw, moving electronic language—navigating from electronica to dance and tech-house, by way of electropop and French Touch. Far more than an album, it is an intuitive, intense, and compelling logbook of a quest for solitude and human experience, honoring the legacy of French electro pioneers through signature analog arpeggios, hazy synths, and spellbinding melodies.
Tracklist
1. Love Among The Sailors
2. Waypoints
3. Keep Me Closer
4. Atlas
5. The Adventurer
6. Above The Clouds
7. Colors Collide
8. Out of Breathe
9. Joyride
10. No Room For Mistakes
11. White Canopy
12. X-Alps
13. Close To The Giants
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Close To The Giants - CD
  • Close To The Giants - CD
  • Close To The Giants - CD
  • Close To The Giants - CD
  • Close To The Giants - CD

French 79

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Close To The Giants

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Made by Squeezer

Squeezer is our pressing branch. This means that we accompany labels and artists at every stage of the process of making a record. Behind the Made by Squeezer tag are important values :

For more than 10 years, all our records (vinyls, CDs) have been pressed at Optimal Media in Germany, a company with a strong ecological commitment that has earned a reputation as a leading service provider for the Media Industry. (recycled vinyl and paper, plant-based ink, FSC paper).

Optimal Media today counts among its members one of the best quality control manager in the world and offers the most competitive and reliable deadlines on the market.

-> Thorsten Megow - Making Vinyl

Optimal Media most notable projects, the essential Limited 14-LP Boxed Edition by The Beatles reissued for the original master tapes.

With more than 5 million records pressed, Squeezer is also a reference on the French market for Independents of all sizes with vinyl pressings such as FKJ, Lomepal, The Dø, Sébastien Tellier, Flavier Berger, PNL, Wax Tailor, Vitalic, Jacques , Dabeul, etc.

In 2017, Squeezer won the Alex Award for best overall packaging in Detroit (US) for the vinyl project Black Rck, produced in collaboration with the Akatre studio.

 
French 79

Close To The Giants

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Made by Squeezer

Squeezer is our pressing branch. This means that we accompany labels and artists at every stage of the process of making a record. Behind the Made by Squeezer tag are important values :

For more than 10 years, all our records (vinyls, CDs) have been pressed at Optimal Media in Germany, a company with a strong ecological commitment that has earned a reputation as a leading service provider for the Media Industry. (recycled vinyl and paper, plant-based ink, FSC paper).

Optimal Media today counts among its members one of the best quality control manager in the world and offers the most competitive and reliable deadlines on the market.

-> Thorsten Megow - Making Vinyl

Optimal Media most notable projects, the essential Limited 14-LP Boxed Edition by The Beatles reissued for the original master tapes.

With more than 5 million records pressed, Squeezer is also a reference on the French market for Independents of all sizes with vinyl pressings such as FKJ, Lomepal, The Dø, Sébastien Tellier, Flavier Berger, PNL, Wax Tailor, Vitalic, Jacques , Dabeul, etc.

In 2017, Squeezer won the Alex Award for best overall packaging in Detroit (US) for the vinyl project Black Rck, produced in collaboration with the Akatre studio.

 
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