In the 90's synthpop was trying to evolve from the Depeche Mode/Erasure sound and while some decided to include in their music a bit of e.b.m. and others were turning themselves into pop wannabe, bands like Thee Hyphen, decided to push the pedal on the icy/robotic side and produced from 1994 to 2004 four albums. Since 2021 BOREDOMproduct started a reissue campaign and in December the third one, titled "Organique", saw the light. Solo project of Celluloide's keyboardist aka Member U-0176, Thee Hyphen with "Organique" brought to electronic music fans an interesting album where he didn't care to offer classic verse/refrain songs and on some of them, see the eight minutes long "Operating System" and "External", experimented with rhythms and sounds. While the rhythmic parts could remember the e.b.m.'s energetic approach, vocals and the general atmosphere don't: bleeps, drum beats and detached vocals create a sort of isolationist synthpop which is less immediate but worth discovering. This reissue, along the nine original remastered songs, contains also four remodeled songs ("Internal", "Seeing Blind", "Dual Compound" and "Signal") which Member U-0176 recorded in 2002, when he thought to record an updated version of the album using different sounds. Personally I prefer the original takes, because I think that the "sharper" sounds used on the old version more helping creating the cold amosphere which charatcterize the album. That's a nice bonus which makes this reissue an even nicer release!