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Hail Hail the new generation!I'm not talking about kids fed on beatportee thingees and by the mile club music but about kids grabbing me outside a club, giving me a 10" designed by Trevor Jackson whilst singing how important (read formative I suppose) Le Pulp had been for them.Aurelien and Jeff could be of those young'uns that keep alive what we sometimes fought for, believed in or simply loved. If in their thirties, they're young at heart and they are not alone. It's probably in this (luckily hard to tag) 'reedit-space-nununu-electronic-analog-disco-whatever' scene that, beyond the annoying geeks and mumbly old timers, that thing is still thriving. La Releve...Their label, Smalltime Cuts, a couple of noted 10" (how big was The Dreamer), a heavy dose of good spirit and acquired taste (they're not afraid of cheese-good!), a forthcoming compilation of edits for Colette (La releve I said), Dig Out Your Spade.If I wanted to, I'd feel safe to retire...
GET A ROOM!- I LIKE A CIGARETTEand their few words:your forgotten hero ? Aurel : Maurice Biraud, french actor from the 60's, suscribed to secondary leads like in "Melodie en sous-sol" "Le Cave se rebiffe", " Un taxi pour Tobrouk".Jeff : John Bender , the 80's synth pop producer. what makes you angry? Jeff : Bad timingAurel : My wife what motto is painted on your fighter plane? Aurel : Dance together or die alone.Jeff : Smash your TVyour last words? Aurel : Kick Snare Hi Hat Bass Jeff : Enjoy yourself is later than you think more: http://smalltimecuts.com/
no time no time no time... I hope some of you are still here.but new things are slowing getting into shape. you'll be the first to know.tomorrow, a special post by the Small Time Cuts crew. Joy.But here, not even an edit, just a slight retouch as almost nothing was to do. The song was too good. One of the best of the year for me, especially considering where I heard it. In a better world, it would have been championed. UN PERDANT MAGNIFIQUE (IS RETOUCH)
...or here, Crackboy. or there Plein Soleil with Chloe...K. is a long time family friend, an hyper-productive producer that blows to pieces the rule stating that electronic nerds can't be rock n'roll.His gritty kind of funk has always been a firm fave of mine (listen again to 'Rock in a Hard Place' on KTDJ-it still blows my mind, even more when I remember that he considered it as a 'leftover') and he has recently diversified towards jackier or deeper spheres.Chloe and him have done a fantastic edit of KTDJ's classic 'La Perversita' for the next installment of the Colette cds but in the meantime he delivers a fantastic edit that got more than attention from Jonnie and Keith Optimo when I played it in Glasgow. A proper death disco reworking of a classic obscurity...next stop: Rock n'Roll Station---------------------------------who is your forgotten hero?Jan Toorop Dutch Painter from 19th centurywhat is the motto painted on your fighter plane?Pathfinder To Oblivionwhat makes you really angry?Music Encyclopedias that never buy records, and thinks they are the holy voiceand your final words?OneLe Pénultiéme.-------------------------more: http://www.krikor.fr
I will not dwell on the long silence... My focus always go through phases. You should see very soon here and there the result of work in touching spheres: the Battant album, a remix for Crosstown Rebels, some IAFL stuff, a new Colette CD etc...But then I played with Optimo in Glasgow last weekend and this is always... inspiring, even if in a tangent way. This one was pretty chaotic but as ever, in a good way.This is not an Optimo classic, I'll leave these to them but in my mind, it is the place where it could work.So this one goes to Jonnie, Keith and Teamy...To Chris and all @ Electric FrogTo the gurner who handed me a fiver for a beer whilst I playing and then asked for his twenty quid back (???)...To the lass who wanted her money back because 'a speaker was broken'...To the sound engineer who nearly crushed my laptop about five times jumping in the DJ booth...But not to that big cocky guy who nearly spoiled the last record by thinking so much of himself... He'll know...
UPPERCUT FROM DOWN UNDER (ISE8 REWRAP)
just a bit of love and despair before going to bed... simple things...I DO NOT NEED MUCH BUT YOU (IS LIGHT DUB)
A dear friend of mine reminded me just the other day, through pointing at another possible edit, of a certain serie of Cassette Compilations. I had almost totally forgotten about them but, with a bit of digging, they may well provide quite a few of my next posts.I agree this may sound very cryptic, and only mildly fascinating. But out of respect for this true friend (meaning one who breaks the 'finders keepers' obscure music dogma-if you wanna do the same, feel free) and out of my own selfishness (a very adaptive dogma it is), that is all I can tell you about this dirty oddity
A SHORTIE FOR GABY (ISE8 EXT)
I am not sure the original version was ever released. My minor tweaks are hopefully faithful to the noisy anger of this secret weapon of mine.
The meeting of these two is more of a collision, the closest thing to Kevin Shields in speed disco mode. A daring record, produced by an underrated technical wizard who also happens be a very funny and nice chap.
I HAVE CHECKED WITH THE ORIGINAL SCOUNDRELS AND THEY KINDLY ALLOWED DOWNLOAD ON THIS ONE. YOU CAN BE A FIERCE FIGHTER, A SCHOLAR AND A GENTLEMAN. BUT WE KNEW THAT... THE BEST WAY TO THANK THEM IS POSITIVE FEEDBACK IN THE COMMENTS.
ILS SONT DEUX, BEAUX ET RAPIDES (ISE8 DUB)
