I have very little tolerance for gleefully trashy aesthetics, so Jean-Pierre Massiera, french king of musical exploitation and one-off artistic aliases (this being one of them), has no real hold on me. Still, I will admit that his counterfeit sound profile should be understood and discussed as a bona fide aesthetic option, and not simply as an artistic cop-out by someone who can't do any better; if nothing else, because the title track here is much better than the rest of this proto-Z-movie soundtrack, filled with 'futuristic' sounds, 'alien' voices, and ghoulish choirs chewing the cardboard sci-fi scenery. On the other hand, and as you can surely surmise from that description, for those times when eliciting condescending derision is one of the main sources of enjoyment you can get out of a work of 'art', this might be right up your alley. Who knows, it may even sync up nicely with that copy of Plan Nine From Outer Space.
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