SayCet is from Paris, but as far as I’m concerned, he’s from the same alien world that Sigur Ros is from. A world full of emotion, heartbreak, and icy mountains surrounding you at all times. Strangely, SayCet has slid under the radar of many of our ‘producer loving’ friends in the blog world. This is most likely due to the fact that you could never dance to a SayCet production, but what they’re missing is some of the most heartbreaking, beautiful electronic music being made at the moment. He’s just released a full length record, which we’ll cover later in the post, but I’d like to explain how we found him and how he’s progressed since.

We first heard SayCet sometime in early 2009 when he remixed Anoraak’s Nightdrive With You, a song that we already we’re holding with some reverence. He took the song and turned it into a journey through the death throws of a tumultuous relationship. Like a bad dream come to life, the spooky melodies and reversed vocals do wonders to extract the melancholic emotions from the original. Wrap yourselves in a blanket and fix yourself some tea before you listen to this one.

Anoraak – Nightdrive With You (SayCet Remix)

“You drive us down to the sunset.”

Just listening to this song brings me back to feelings of intense heartbreak. I don’t have any specific memories tied to the remix, but it just makes me remember walking aimlessly around, not knowing how to handle losing someone. Sometimes things in your life happen that cripple you so totally that your body pretty much shuts down… The sadness swells and swells until you just can’t take it anymore… Listen to the buildup of this song, it sounds exactly like that feels.

It’s not a fun thing to think about or feel, but to be honest, those kind of emotions are what being human is all about. The fact that this song can extract those kind of emotions is exactly what makes it so successful.

SayCet – Easy

Over a year later, and SayCet has come out with a release of his own. Staying true to his style, but adding breathy, gorgeous vocals to the mix, SayCet’s record embraces the icy sadness of the Anoraak remix, but takes it to another entire level.

There’s something about hearing what sounds like an innocent, broken girl singing. I can’t even be sure of what she’s signing about, but to me, its none the less heartbreaking. In some ways, only being able to catch brief glimpses of the lyrics makes it all the more emotive. “I heard ‘say goodbye’ twice,” in particular just calls out to me.

The slow buildups that SayCet delivers in his productions are the kind that can make you forget about what you’re doing and take you to places that you rarely think about. As I’m listening to this song, its making me remember this one particular day in elementary school. I was very much in love (as much as you can be at that age), with a girl named Johanna. She was tall, had long brown hair, and was quiet, which even at that age made me very intrigued. I wrote this girl a note, explaining how I felt about her… obviously had a friend deliver it to her… and then waited. When the end of school came around, her friend came over to me to explain that she just didn’t ‘like me like me’ the way I did. This was devastating. Completely and utterly devastating. So I walked home, the longest way I could think of. I think it took me like 2 hours to walk half a mile. And even though I was only 10 years old, I think that this song could have easily been the soundtrack to that walk. Moral of the story? Whether you’re 10 or 90, you can fall in love, and it can be just as exhilarating and heartbreaking as it can when you’re 15 or 25. Life is wonderful and awful. SayCet, more than most musicians around today seems to understand this fact, and he capitalizes on it beautifully.

If you like this song… Please go buy the record! Its really fantastic.

Lastly… Enjoy SayCet’s video for Easy, which given how beautiful it is, fits quite nicely here.

sayCet – Easy from sayCet on Vimeo.

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