Recorded in 1967, Messe Pour Le Temps Présent was originally scored for a Maurice Bejart ballet, Henry being an ardent admirer of the french choreographers work. Messe Pour Le Temps Présent was one of a handful of collaborations with Bejart and Pierre Henry even travelled the world as sound engineer with Bejart's group.

The first five tracks of this CD are really nice and groovy (with some cool electronics thrown in!) and the rest, as you can expect from one of the original exponents of music concrete, is very experimental. In fact (call us philistines), but after hearing some of the 'creaky sounds' tracks, we can start to understand where the Les Jerks Électroniques title came from. Sounds like a recording of an all-boys school dorm at night! ;-)

SampleWatch
Jericho Jerk was sampled on D'Angelo's Devil's Pie and Fat Joe's Dat Gangsta Shit. Rock Électronique was sampled on Coldcut's Atomic Moog and Buck 65's Slow Drama sampled Prologue.

Packaging & Liner Notes
Fold out digipack with what look like interesting liner notes - all written in French along with some photos of Pierre Henry with his mad equipment.