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Quickly skimming over most of the pages of this forum's history, I saw that he's mentioned (as Tikiman) with his collaborations with Rhythm & Sound, but just wondering if anybody else loves his two solo CDs: "Unspecified" and "A Divine State Of Mind (ADSOM)".
Both released on the False Tuned label in 2003 and 2006, respectively.

I know that it doesn't fall within the scope of this forum's time frame of interest, but...

Paul St. Hilaire is boss! I love Divine State of Mind; haven't gotten around to tracking down his earlier work as Tikiman.

If you love ADSOM, I'd highly recommend checking out his previous full length CD "Unspecified" (as Paul St. Hilaire), too.

It's strange because i'm a TIKIMAN / PAUL St HILAIRE fan since i discovered his albums with RHYTHM & SOUND, 'Showcase' (1998) or 'Main Street compilation' (2000) but i don't like his own LPs on False Tuned label...
The 'Showcase' album was a revolution in my life because it's the perfect moods between reggae & electronica, the two music i love. I have a great respect for others songs he made with STEREOTYP, MARCUS KIENZL, TARWATER, MIND OVER MIDI or PRE FADE LISTENNING and he became the first reggae singer in electronica music with these artists.
Unfortunately, i don't like the 2 albums he made for himself, because of his singing style and the riddims too sweet. I prefer when he sings with a mix of reggae and ragga style or with a minimalist house dub.

Yeah, that's interesting, italdub.

Agreed about the meshing of reggae and electronic dub, though.

Are you, by any chance, a fan of Pole?
His first three records (Pole 1, Pole 2, Pole 3) are amazing, IMO.

Those big, deep and dubby basslines, with his malfunctioning Waldorf peppering cracks, pops, and hisses on top.
Lovely stuff.

YEEEEEESSS STEPPER, you see the truth, i'm a POLE fan and i love the nordic minimal dub electronic, a musical cousin from Jamaican music.
In 2000-2001 i had discovered Rhythm & Sound, Pole, Donnacha Costello, Kit Clayton, Mikael Stavostrand and Fluxion. My favourites labels were Force Inc, Burial Mix, Scape.
With Tikiman i saw the marriage between electronica and reggae in continental Europe. It was an alternative of the UK Stepper dub or artists from the intelligent dance music influenced by dub like LEFTFIELD (i'm a Leftfield fan in the end 90s.
For that reason i can listenning roots and electronic without contradiction. I'm writing a book about Jacob Miller & Inner Circle and i was in Circle house in Miami in March. It was great make listenning UK dubstep (Skream, Burial, Benga) to Roger & Ian Lewis, the original members of Inner Circle since 1968, because their reggae music is the originator of dub electronica.

Ah!
OK, so you're hip to Burnt Friedman, Jan Jelinek/Farben, etc.
Great stuff.

I saw a live Scape showcase in Los Angeles several years ago, where Pole & Jan Jelinek performed.
Deep stuff.

I've got some of Mikael Stavostrand's early records, and it's good, but it touches pretty closely on what SND brought to the table in 1998... and nobody does that better than SND!

Anyway.
Yeah, I knew it'd come full circle once Sugar Minott did vocals for the Rhythm & Sound track on the See Mi Yah 7" set.