Much of what divides music from mere unchained and unkempt noise is a sense of space. The German philosopher Georg Hegel noted that music triumphs over the noise of the street via an “architectonic character”. Musicians paint this structure with terms like meter, rhythm and texture. Though high art music means something very different than in Hegel’s day. Primarily, the public is continually domesticating noise. Putting it simply, yesterday’s noise is tomorrow’s music. The horse and carriage racket of the Enlightenment now translates into the din of fax machines, cars and electronic beeps. Even inside your home you can’t escape noise so it is quite ironic that the genre of music Parisian electronic artists Mlle Caro and Franck Garcia is slyly called “house”. The co-opted ‘80s Chicago genre is flourishing in France with the advent of propulsive artists like Daft Punk and gritty punk experimenters like Justice. Mlle Caro and Franck Garcia bounce somewhere in between those notable two poles of French dance music. It’s a strange place to be but they made the best of it with wind-up percussion and a sexy bassline for their 'Far Away' single. Their video for that song is the perfect drop of sweaty sex music ripe for DJ pillaging (watch the sensual video for the song here). This makes perfect sense since both of artists cut their teeth as the hottest DJs you can hear on the Parisian club circuit. Since 1996, Mlle Caro (Caroline Laher) has been spinning records in Paris and is currently the resident DJ at the Rex club and Requiem45 parties. After her team-up with fellow Parisian Franck Garcia (a producer and composer, as well as fellow DJ) on the Crosstown Rebels label for 'Far Away' they’ve decided to collaborate for a full album. Enjoy the Silence is definitely about the tiny spaces in between all the whiplash electronics and delay-enhanced vocals that come packaged with this velvety taste of the after-party. Like 'Far Away' many of the songs would almost sound like an ambient piece without Garcia’s chamber vocals.'Always You' bookends the album with sedated fanfare. Ewan Pearson remixes the sleepy keyboard dance song by stretching it into an 11-minute free-jazz flute solo jam replete with laser blast ricochets and funky electronic becomes tiresome at around the mid-point.'Apologies' sounds like the Knight Rider theme song fed through a trip-hop version of Vangelis’ Blade Runner soundtrack. Its sleek propulsive beats are a highlight on an album that doesn’t want to reach too far from the safe sphere of the dance club. Elsewhere the duo’s appreciation of the rock canon is apparent. 'Dead Soul' has bass and guitar riffs which almost suppress a line of creepy synthesizers warbling through the ether. Immediately after 'Hold Me' is a lullaby for the dance set with plinking strings and a forlorn string section rising like the sun after a night of romance. The duo lightly sings over a piano the plaintive lover’s request: “All I ever wanted inside of me was you in my life and in my dreams.” In the end it’s a love song with a lot of heaviness and not much lucidity.'I Don’t Want' is the duo copping LCD Soundsystem to an extent. Many have probably heard this contagious song squiggling out of speakers the dance floor. It’s a serviceable song but the vocals come across as too off-put and bored. 'Mon Ange' is one of the songs where we finally hear Laher’s voice more than Garcia’s bored delivery. The song is a string heavy chamber song that plods along. 'No Name' has a great whipping clockwork groove that slinks along well though. For the most part this is a sleepy late night album that aims to make you dance more than anything else. Pain Disappears sometimes grabs you by the collar and makes you dance but for the most part its too stuck in its own musical catharsis to become anything but clicks, beeps and whirs. Mlle Caro and Franck Garcia make beautiful noise for sure but not always grand dance music. 67%Links Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia [myspace]