"Confronted with the idea of only using 3 samples from the samplepack and then picking one extra, a bunch of Archipel artists went beyond their usual creative routine to deliever a massive effort. Eight tracks that introduce you to an exercise which will be repeated regularly, as Archipel is a label about challenges and new ideas. Only reprocessing and effects were permitted, as Archipel believes that creative limits are actually a door that leads beyond our personal limits.
This release opens up with Navarro, who goes on an ambient excursion and sets a tone for the whole release. If minimalism is the operative word, Bern follows with a very cold and heady track, a perfect tool for DJs and also a door opener to personnal introspection. Tpolar is next with a moment of glitchy punches, followed by Le_Cantin who takes it deep. Then, we introduce a new artist to our label, Plaster, who makes his first appearance with a bit of the dark side, very deep and serious. Next is Gyges with an intensly minimal track, reminiscent of Richie Hawtin's Concept series. Finally, Jesse Somfay and Pheek close this first Assignement with 4/4 tracks, as they love to do.
Should you have any idea of challenges for future Assignement Compilations, please share them with us at info@archipel.cc" (From the Archipel's release page)

"Patrice Cantin of Montreal has mainly focused on IDM since early 2000. His taste and passion for both melody and percussion comes from an early love of music and his percussion background in a garage rock band.
For his first net-release on Archipel, Patrice works with a good mixture of beats and warm ambience. Throughout Secrets We All Share, warped beats and percussion peppered with breezy noises and swirling pads are perfectly refreshing in any room. With 'Fancy Stairs', Patrice drops sounds into a pool of warm and bubbly delay. Distant stabs shudder and bring a certain humidity to the shimmering delay laden track. Patrice then dives even further down into the pool with 'Fluke' using frothy humid stabs dipped in reverb and delay while occasional bright reverbed stabs light up the depths. He then chills the entire space with 'Locust' which bumps and flickers about in the darkness of some unknown space in the ocean. And then where it is least expected, a huge bubble of warmth foaming with shuddering sweeps and jittery waterlogged sounds driping with filters.
A soothing release for this long winter." (From the Archipel's release page)