Anyone who's in Brighton this weekend and has even a passing interest in any kind of French music is in for some treats. Saturday is, of course, L'Amour Electronique! [...]
Motown celebrates its 5oth anniversary this year. I've been rooting around for some French versions of the Motown hits. Here's what I dug up: Two Supremes covers, and a Martha and The Vandellas hit. All of which appear on the super-hard-to-find bootleg compilation Girl Group Power- Histoires De Filles: Quebec 60's Go-Go Music First here's Les Beatlettes with a gutsy stab at The Supremes' ' You Can't Hurry Love [...]
Overdid it at Christmas? Time to start that exercise regime. Here's Professeur Dutronc with a quick aerobics lesson: [...]
****Happy Christmas / Joyeux Noël**** We're a bit too busy dealing with Christmas to give you a post about Christmas . But we will be providing some support over the festive period for those who choose to remain in Brighton... We know we'll all be bored of our new toys, and sick of arguing with relatives come the end of Boxing Day, so here's a chance to escape for a few hours: SATURDAY 27th DECEMBER L'AMOUR ELECTRONIQUE The [...]
Polly is a girl, and Polly has a horse. The horse suffers from depression and is troubled by the voices in its head. The horse is called Blue Monday. Blue Monday lopes around a windswept paddock to an internal soundtrack of early 80's Factory Records , as played in 2008 by a bunch Parisian kids on glacial synths, lowwwwww-slung bass and strict, metronomic drums. It's Koko Von Napoo . [...]
Only 1 day to go... [...]
Hold tight! Here comes a shameless plug. Today sees the release of Miss Pain's latest record Shelf-Location ROM / Kiss Cuddle Torture. It's released by Nylon! Friction! and it's quite good, you know. [...]
A few days ago we received notification from blogger that someone has served a Cease and Desist notice against our humble little blog. The objection was to our post "SETLIST + PODCAST - 26 APRIL 2008", which has now been removed by blogger. At first we thought it was a joke, but it would appear not. We have not been able to obtain information as to what part of the content is in question, but we can only assume that someone out there objects to having their music included within our hour-long mix, and they're [...]
Yes we have a lovely new poster to show-off our lovely new night in a lovely new venue. Here it is:
There were technical issues with the recording equipment and so there is no podcast this time. Instead, we've picked one mp3 each - they're at the end of the post... Sarah The Chap – Baby I'm Hurtin' Visage – Damned Don't Cry Baxendale – Battery Acid Japan – Quiet Life Human League – Almost Medieval Serge Gainsbourg – Chez Les Yé-Yé Christie Laume - L'Adorable Femmes Des Neiges Fad Gadget – Love Parasite Dominic LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends Boy from Brazil – Pocket Rocket Queen Serge Gainsbourg – Ford Mustang [...]
Miss Black glides down the street to an internal Hammer Horror soundtrack , she stops to check her hair and make-up in the vast windows of Top Shop – a blood-curdling scream… there is no reflection… just a vacant day-glo mannequin gazing back… the Hammer Horror organ music spills out into the high street, and Miss Black takes flight… [...]
Everyone out there's ranting on about James Bond double-o seven… Now we have no idea what a Quantum of Solace is, and we couldn't really give a flying Nick Nack . Let's go back to a time when Bond themes were good, and when CGI wasn't relied upon as a valid plot-replacement device: It's 1969, Jean-Jacques Perrey unleashes The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean-Jacques Perrey . Track 7 is his very own Moog-ed up homage to Her Majesty's number 7 spy - a poignant, understated little ditty, [...]
There will be no L'Amour Electronique this Saturday. Instead look at this:
Warning! There is a big fat shameless name-drop in this post. Last weekend John Cale presented a tribute concert to Nico at the Royal Festival Hall, 20 years after her tragic death. We couldn't go, but here's our own little L'Amour Electronique tribute to the teutonic femme fatale… The first time Verity and I saw Stereo Total in London, we snuck backstage (we had a big box of 120 Miss Pain Heartbreaker seven-inches that we'd picked up on the way to the venue – so it wasn't particularly easy to sneak anywhere). We [...]
L'Amour Electronique is FIVE this month! Come and celebrate with us this weekend… SATURDAY 27th SEPTEMBER L'Amour Electronique The Penthouse, above The Freebutt, Phoenix Place, Brighton 8pm until 1am FREE ENTRY all night (and cheap-o drinks too) We will be playing our finest selection of French bubblegum pop, synthesized ditties and electronic goodness, including some new gems picked up in Paris this week. And we will have a special guest DJ and Polnareff fanatic to join us in our quest. As well as [...]
Zut Alors! It would appear that we have racked up 5 whole years of French and electronic pop goodness under the tricolore banner of L'Amour Electronique. Here's a little poster artwork retrospective...
In case you didn't join us for our krautrock psychosis tour of Deutschland over the weekend, and you're feeling a bit left out, we have just the ticket - A trip to Negativland. Nurse! The pNEUmatic drill... [...]
Here's some claustrophobic kraut-disko to set you up for a Friday night. First up, Parisian duo Zombie Zombie , paying homage to one of Iggy 's darkest, most oppressive moments [...]
Look, here comes Michèle, she's been hanging out with that peculiarly monikered gang Ses Wouaps. [...]
You are cordially invited to join us for a soirée of pop music spanning the following genres/styles: French Pop (Ye-Ye, Gainsbourg, Dutronc, chanson, Quebecoises, Space disco, Polnareff, Pop a Paris, etc) Synthesized Pop (Post-punk, kraut, new romantic, 8-bit, Moog pop, synthcore, casio-core, nu-rave, etc) Electronic Pop (electronic pioneers, musique concrete, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, theremin sounds, electronica, electroclashing, etc) see earlier posts for setlists and podcasts from previosu nights In case you haven't realised, the night is called L'AMOUR ELECTRONIQUE it takes place [...]
L'Amour Electronique
No Church In The Wild
Nas - Daughters
The Rains of Castamere by The National
CHROMATICS "THESE STREETS WILL NEVER LOOK THE SAME"
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Princesse - Tell Me | MP3
Beck - 'I Just Started Hating Some People Today' [Listen]
[LISTEN] Gotye (Passion Pit Remix)
New Remix: Jonquil - Run (RxGibbs Remix)
