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Thursday, August 31, 2006

ah bon c des raisinets?


photo: Bastien Lattanzio

half anglo stuff for the frenchies
half french dope for the others,
download all and get your skates one.

1) from the klaxons' galaxy

a) CRYSTAL CASTLES
a v. young super hot girl, a boy, toronto, a 7eleven, an atari computer, electrocutions and children. on super hyped up label MEROK, the NME said this shit is like "a Gameboy having a nervous breakdown", et c'est pas faux. et c'est pas mal, non plus.

Crystal Castles - No Skin
Crystal Castles - xxzxczxme


b) DEAD KIDS
the dead kids are amazing, i advice you place your bets on them. they're kind of our cousins d'angleterre. people tell me they litteraly kill it live, i trust, i wish. FLUORIDE FEVER.

Dead Kids - Fear And Fluoride
Dead Kids - The Dead Wife Pills


ces enculés d'anglo ne sont pas les seuls a faire de la musique vener check and see.

2) il y a pas que ed banger dans la vie

a) YUKSEK
oh god. if i wasn't only an intern i'd sign him right away, you hear me benoit. his live shows are freaky, his music is candy for the ears, and he is himself beautiful. how fortunate! there's so many things that are going to be out soon that i won't list any, find it for yourself. come to paris on sept 14th as well to check him out alongside other project KLANGAGE and friend TACTEEL.

Yuksek - Break Ya

b) GENTLEMEN DRIVERS
let's get to the point : the GD are my new favorite-people-ever. Pharrell posted the cutest-remix-ever a while ago, that they did for their friend CRAIZ (WHOSE, incidentally, FUCKIN GOOD STREET TAPE is now available on the internet, buy it). Born 6 months ago, the GENTLEMEN DRIVERS know what's right. classy cars, tight attitude, a bit of mistery, banging tunes. this one in particular has been destroying my ears for the past few days. watch out for future live stuff, i can't bear to wait, my panties neither.

Gentlemen Drivers - Mass Damper

et sinon...
-TRIPLE ZUT's J 'ai Envie makes me melt and all kinds of other things too, go listen.
-if you haven't done so already, download the Third Eye Mafia Re-fit of Atlantis to Interzone on 20 Jazz Funk Greats, it's jaw dropping.
- also go to Palms Out and get an okay remix of ADAM KESHER's new single, Modern Times.

un bon plan en deux parties deux sous-parties, a meaty conclusion, how neat, c'est visiblement la rentrée, chez fluokids aussi.

Sunday, August 27, 2006

mais ce soir en rentrant chez toi,tu seras seul devant ton mac


photo : guillame berg.


UPDATE: the interview is now translated,
go ahead and read.


Questions by Pharrell
Answers by Yelle

ENGLISH:


Yelle’s EP as droped yesterday then. Let’s hope it gets successful so that she can give us more. go buy it, baby. By popular demand, here’s the interview, translated.

Q: how do you live the transformation from “myspace star” to cultural product for the masses?
A: I’m really happy, the cover is pretty, Disco D’s remix is perfect… I’m just glad to finally be able to propose an object, not only virtual stuff. Concretization, it’s called.

Q: The EP is only a beginning, what are the next steps in the Yelle takeover?
A: Live stuff. With GrandMarnier, we’re working on a set which should be ready by the autumn. I’m really excited. And then, surely, another EP, maybe an album. All this still needs to be decided with my label Source etc. But we’ll try not to be too slow now.

Q: How do you create the music with GM, do you write the texts first or does GM make the music beforehand?
A: GM produces a lot of stuff, he always has got some crazy tunes. We chose together what fits and we go. Sometimes texts are written in advance, sometimes it’s the melody that defines the rest. Really there’s no rules. Although in the final phase there’s a lot of going back and forth between the voice and the prod.

Q: are you going to be making stuff with other producers?
A: cuties like DatA or TEPR make really good stuff. For the moment though, it’s with GM’s beats that I’m more at ease. GM is more than a producer, he is a song writer as well. But it will happen, for sure, working with other producers.

Q: In the same way, would you like to invite people to sing with you?
A: Booba. Currently I’ve got an obsession with his new album, but I’m afraid he’s going to “deny the request”. Other than that, I’ve got a nice feeling with Alain Chamfort, I’d love him to compose a love song and sing with me… I’m going to meet him soon.

Q: the lyrics from your songs are often very lively, are you going to make some videos or do you want your public to imagine the situations by themselves?
A: Video, for sure. Whatever we do, it’ll be very detailed stuff, which won’t betray what people can imagine. It’ll only be full of tiny “add-ons” details.

At Fluokids we mostly like tops, and we wanna know if we’re right to love you…

Q: What are you 5 favorite recipes?
A: -Kouign aman (a full-on butter and sugar desert from Brittany)
-three chocolates muffins
-Port Goret mussels and fries (tomatoes, basil, and thyme)
-apricot and almond Tajine
-and all that’s composed of duck and potatoes

Q: your five favorite tracks atm?
A: -Booba/92 izi
-Justin Timberlake/My love
-Nelly Furtado/Maneater
-The Divine Comedy/Diva lady
-Sebastian/Ross ross ross

Q: the 5 insignificant things that you love?
A: -brushing my teeth (I always go beyond the advised 3 minutes)
-I love to cook but it’s not insignificant at all.
-smelling the behind of my French bulldog’s ears, it smells like “doudou” you see?
-verifying stuff in the dictionary
-deleting spam

Tender kisses to all the fluokids

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FRENCH:

Yelle passe la seconde, son premier maxi sera demain dans les bacs, certes il s'agit d'une chanson que vous aviez trouvé chez nous il y a presque un an maintenant, mais "la route est longue elle est sinueuse, la route est pleine d'embûches", et Yelle peut se vanter de s'être joliment ouvert des kilomètres vers ce qu'on espère pour elle, une carrière de jeune fille modèle qui parle comme nous.

Q: Comment tu envisages le passage de star myspace à produit culturel pour le plus grand nombre?
A: Je suis hyper contente, la pochette est belle, le remix de Disco D est parfait… je suis heureuse de pouvoir enfin proposer un objet, pas juste des trucs virtuels. La concrétisation quoi.

Q: La sortie de maxi n'est qu'un début, c'est quoi les prochaines étapes du phénomène Yelle?
A: Du live. Avec GrandMarnier, on bosse sur un set qui devrait être prêt pour l’automne. J’ai hâte. Et puis sûrement un autre maxi, assez vite, voire un album. Tout ça reste à définir avec Source. On va tenter de ne pas trop traîner désormais.

Q: Comment vous créez les morceaux avec GM, tu écris d'abord tes textes puis GM compose?
A: GM compose beaucoup, il a des tonnes de trucs mortels. On choisit ensemble ce qui colle le plus et go. Parfois les textes sont écrits à l’avance, parfois c’est la mélodie du chant qui est là avant tout le reste. Il n’y a vraiment pas de règle pour ça. Par contre, en phase finale, il y a toujours un travail de ping pong entre la voix et la prod.

Q: Tu envisages de travailler avec d'autres producteurs?
A: Des beaux gosses comme DatA ou TEPR proposent aussi des trucs cools. Pour le moment, c’est vraiment avec les prods de GM que je suis la plus à l’aise. GM est plus qu’un producteur, il fait des chansons, pas simplement des prods. Mais ça va venir je pense, la collaboration avec d’autres producteurs.

Q: Dans la même veine, tu aimerais inviter qui à chanter avec toi?
A: Booba. J’écoute son album en boucle en ce moment mais j’aurais peur de me prendre un « garde la pêche ». Autrement, j’ai un bon feeling avec Alain Chamfort, j’aimerais vraiment qu’il me compose une chanson d’amour et qu’il fasse les chœurs sur le refrain. Je le rencontre bientôt.

Q: Les textes de tes chansons sont souvent assez imagés, tu envisages de faire des clips où tu veux laisser tes auditeurs s'imaginer eux mêmes les situations?
A: Des clips, oui ce serait mortel. De toute façon je pense à des clips super imagés, je ne trahirais pas vraiment l’imaginaire de l’auditeur, j’apporterais juste des détails, mais qui changent tout.

Chez Fluokids on aime surtout les tops, pour savoir si on a raison de t'aimer...

Q: quels sont tes 5 plats/recettes préférés?
A: -le kouign aman
-le muffin aux trois chocolats
-les moules frites Port Goret (tomates, basilic, thym)
-le tajine abricots amandes
-et tout ce qui est à base de canard et de pommes de terre

Q: tes 5 morceaux du moment?
A: -Booba/92 izi
-Justin Timberlake/My love
-Nelly Furtado/Maneater
-The Divine Comedy/Diva lady
-Sebastian/Ross ross ross

Q: les 5 trucs insignifiants que tu aimes?
A: -me brosser les dents (je dépasse largement les 3 minutes obligatoires de Docteur Quenotte)
-j’adore faire la cuisine, mais c’est pas insignifiant
-sentir derrière les oreilles de mon bouledogue français, ça sent le doudou, tu vois ?
-vérifier des trucs dans le dictionnaire
-supprimer mes spams

tendres bisous à tous les fluokids

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Le maxi "Je veux te voir" en CD/12"/mp3 dans les bacs et sur les plateformes dès demain.
Tracklisting:
1. Je veux te voir
2. Je veux te voir (Disco D remix)
3. Je veux te voir (club-club version)
4. Jogging

En attendant, exclusive limited edition Fluokids track,
grab it while it lasts:

l'édition limitée est partie se promener, trop tard les enfants

le temps passe-passe


http://www.bastardgraphics.com/neonlights/

Je me souviens de dimanches après-midi ternes en banlieue parisienne, ma grand-mère partait promener sa Clio bic dans la zone commerciale, les papiers des Kinder Surprise se coinçaient dans le canapé sale, MTV comme seul remède à l'ennui.

Space Cowboy - That's what dreams are made of (MTV) (Alan Braxe mix)

Saturday, August 26, 2006

white Ts for the wedding



Between all american big releases of this days, you musn't miss Outkast's new project. In an interview with Charlie Braxton for the Breakin-Records website, André 3000 talks about screenwriting, blues music, the Idlewild album of course, snap music and also club culture...

"We at a period right now where kids….girls and dudes in high school do everything for the club. We’re in a club culture where niggas wanna ride to the club looking good in their nice car. They want they rims looking good. And when they get to the club they wanna look fresh with their clothes and when they leave the club they wanna leave with a nice girl and they wanna drink Petrone and smoke and do all kinds of other stuff in the club."

...and the place of Atlanta in the game :

"(...) Ah man it’s funny how we just be talking about one thing that lead me into other song. We got a song on there called “Hollywood Divorce.” And it talks about exactly what you’re saying. I mean you gotta think back twelve years ago the South was laughed at. Now if you go to New York or you go to LA that’s all you hear on the radio. That’s all you hear. I mean it’s either snapping or clapping or trapping. It’s one of them.

Q: But it’s not just the music look at the culture. You see kid’s from New York dressing like us, dancin’ like us, hell they’re even using our slang, they’re ridin on 22s.

Andre: Yeah, it’s crazy. What I’m saying is usually whenever a Black thing started in the hood and it gets so big where Hollywood makes movies about it usually the Black people who made it they flip it and do something else because then it’s not their no more.

On Hollywood Divorce the chorus says it starts off like a small town marriage, Lovely wife, a life and a baby carriage. Now all the stars have care, success of course but it ends up in Hollywood divorce. And that what this is it all started off as some shit we used to do in high school –this southern shit, we didn’t know that it was gonna take off like it did. I mean TI he used to come by the studio. He used to come by Stankonia. He used to be rappin’. This was before he was even on, ya know. And it was all just some neighborhood shit. But now they’re making movies about our city man. Even though it missed the mark a lot, it really didn’t say what Atlanta was, but just for somebody to dish out money to make a movie about our city is good in and of itself. They made movies about New York….Beat Street and Wyldstyle and all of that. Now they making movies about this small place called Atlanta where the highest building was the Peachtree Plaza at one point (...)"

Read more of André 3000 interview

MP3 : Outkast - Hollywood Divorce

Friday, August 25, 2006

screwwww her!


photo: aude

Singui' est toujours sur la corde raide, entre deux filles, mais c'est sa nature, on va quand même pas lui en vouloir, car il aimerait bien changer, si si. On a tous un côté Steeve Maniac en nous, ce côté qui nous pousse à faire n'importe quoi avec n'importe qui le tout n'importe quand, tu sais cette image de toi et moi au fond du club, ne fait plus un bruit s'il te plait, en fait tu es l'autre de "il y'en a une autre", pas l'inverse. Voilà Singui' c'est aussi ce genre de phrases à tiroir qui veulent tout dire sans pourtant être adapté au manuel de grammaire "la balle au mot" cm1 cm2.

Singuila - Le Miserable

elle veut un astronaute



I'd like you to call me because when they will see the telephone bills, my parents will kill me, and it's all my fault, not yours, i'm the stupid teenager needing your voice and i like talking to you, and even with a phone and even if i can't hear you. But i don't know what i will say, maybe we could talk in english, it'll make you practice. And dream about tv shows. And say jokes.

Squarepusher - Planetarium