My Favorite 100 LPS since I was born. My Top 100 LPs since I was born! 1. American Music Club – California 2. New Order – Low Life 3. The National – Alligator 4. Momus – Tender Pervert 5. Tricky – Maxinquaye 6. Pixies – Surfer Rosa 7. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures 8. Burial – Untrue 9. Portishead – Dummy 10. PJ Harvey – Rid of Me 11. The Human League – Dare 12. My Bloody Valentine – Isn't Anything 13. Band of Holy Joy – Manic, Magic, Majestic 14. [...]
The sound of Falter Bramnk sounds similar to other French acts like Momus and Gong; there is an eclectic push on "Minimal Romance" that meshes well with a very spastic set of arrangements. There seems to be a raw type of sound that really is prevalent from the opening of the disc; there is a [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. I've been massively quiet with my posts on BPB lately for 2 reason: 1. I released this iPhone app called Star6 ( www.star6app.com ) and 2. My wife and I had a baby boy about a month ago. BUT! Now things are clearing up- or rather- I'm spending less time sleeping - so I want to hit yall with a bunch of stuff real quick. Here's a video by Palais Schaumberg . Odds are that you're pretty young if you're perusing our site, so [...]
It's the most wonderful time of the year! And since you've all been such good ghouls and boys, I'm handing out my biggest bag of treats yet. I've added to last year's Halloween mix, and it is now a lurching monster of 66 tracks. You can download the entire mix as a zip file at the bottom of the list. I will be attending my fair share of Halloweeny events this year (I already went to a book launch dressed as Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas, but that's a surreal story for another time), including a Neil [...]
Another year of (mostly) daily tunes here at Doklands, and I have to say I'm still having fun with this. I considered winding this up after hitting 1,000 tracks because really, how much is there left to say? Glad I didn't, though. Nik Bärtsch's Ronin - Modul 38-17 Miriam Makeba - Jol'inkomo Bishop Allen - Psycho Killer Oysterband - Road To Nowhere MGMT - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) Geoffrey Oryema - Listening Wind The Staple Singers - Life During Wartime The Staple Singers - Slippery [...]
In 1994, Nick Currie alias Momus placed an ad in French Nova magazine: „Girl singer wanted for an album of songs in the style of 1970s Italian soft porn films." The final babe of his choice was half French, half Thai art student Laila France whose role model was clear right from the start. She was going to be Momus's European clone of Kahimi Karie – Her Majesty of the Irresistibly Whispered Japanese Ultra Babypop who had recorded a good dozen of knockout smash hits with the Scottish artist –, while Momus sticked to his usual [...]
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On Saturday night, I went to see the Pet Shop Boys perform at The Centre . Back when tickets went on sale, I was hemming and hawing whether I should even go or not. I mean, I pretty much began and stopped listening to the Pet Shop Boys with their 1991 release Discography , essentially a greatest hits up-to-that-point collection, but I remember this being one of my family's earliest CDs (no doubt bought by my mom) and I consider it a seminal album in my music listening experiences. I was probably 8 when we [...]
A really nice piece on Momus (his ace ClickOpera blog is in my links on the left of this page), from Saturday's Guardian, here .
As if the paper has been stalking my coming-of-age years, yesterday's Review featured a loving history of Momus : In a sense, the persona Currie contrived on his early records was born out of exactly the milieu pictured in that 1980 photograph: a self-conscious amalgam of a very British pop-lust, dreams of the continental avant-garde and the new, grey dawn of post-punk. If his records sometimes sounded like the Pet Shop Boys trying to describe Leonard Cohen, the Momus character (as also the fact of Currie's self-invention) was curiously indebted to the bruised and sly romantics of [...]
It's been an extremely long week (so long, in fact, that it became two weeks), and I'm still feeling a little crabby because I came down with a cold last weekend in the midst of a heatwave in a house with no air conditioning. A few days later, I ended up with some extremely vomitous backpain (if this is me at 26, I may as well call it quits at 30). I'm also just feeling bogged down with work, so I'm going to do a cheer up mix. Frankly, I despise people who tell me to cheer up or smile [...]
I realize I've missed yet another weekly mix last week; as usual, work has been hectic, and I had to go out of town for a work meeting - really out of town, meaning the rock-and-tree landscape of northwestern Ontario, not really my comfort zone. For this week's mix, I'm going to return to a theme I did last year: songs inspired by literature/books/authors. If you're interested in what I chose last time, or want to check before you point out that I missed some obvious song, click here . One of my favourites in this [...]
Due to a well-informed FS reader (see comments here ), we now know that Japanese uber-poupée Kahimi Karie married tap-dancer Kazunori Kumagai two months ago. Congratulations, Kahimi! For more info, also see the web journal of Kahimi collaborator Momus, and don't forget to check out the free-minded and funny discussion at the end of the page. Kahimi Karie - Ma langue au chat Sonoko - Wedding with God (à Nijinski)
Some people might have lost track of her, but you - well, I, see here - can't praise Kahimi Karie highly enough. Serge wasn't around anymore to take advantage of her, so Cornelius/ Keigo Oyamada and Nick Currie/ Momus took over to produce the most sincere, dishonest, tender, over-the-top and still unsurpassed bébé pop, an amalgam of Birkin-esque whispers, Claudine style, Vanessa tongue-play, and a fairy-tale fetish innocence that's gone in a split second - grab it while you're there. Kahimi Karie - Dis-Moi Quelque Chose Avant De Dormir
It seems so long ago now, but here's what we played last month (can you spot the space-themed songs?) – one abiding memory: a guy came up and requested Sarah play a Miss Pain song. Presumably he new… The next L'Amour Electronique is this Saturday, so come and treat your ears to a late night cocktail of French Bubblegum Pop, Synthesized Sounds and Electronic Music: from Serge Gainsbourg to Stereo Total, The Human League to The Knife, via yé-yé girls, early-electronic pioneers and glacial synth-pop classics. [see info in the right column, or the flyer at the [...]
Japanese fille Kumi Okamoto was part of The Konki Duet (posted about them here ) and Crazy Curl, but now she's Kumisolo . Her album My love for you is a cheap popsong is out now, and features one French song (best song on the album, imho), on which she gets help from Momus . Another nice song is the Waitresses -cover I know what boys like. If you're into odd electronic Japense pop, this is for you. Kumi makes fun videos too, see here . Speaking of Momus, on his blog [...]
Here's the setlist from last month. We were joined by our friend and Socialist Leisure Party member Andy who treated us to some sweet and noisy music... See below for mp3 tasters. Sarah The Knife – Girl's Night Out B-52's – Hero Worship Quix*O*tic – Anonymous Face Fad Gadget – Love Parasite John Foxx – He's A Liquid Momus – The Cabriolet Serge Gainsbourg – Intoxicated Man Verity Vanessa Paradis – Joe Le Taxi Goldfrapp – Crystalline Green France Gall [...]
A second and final post about Frazier Chorus, to pick up some of the remixes done for the single releases from the album "Ray" (1991). Ned Raggett All Music Guide "By the time of Ray's release, Frazier Chorus had gone from relatively edgier work on 4AD to a crisper, cleaner sound via Virgin, something emphasized further by Ian Broudie's typically to-the-point production on the album (it's not hard to imagine Broudie immediately doing this on the heels of the first Lightning Seeds effort). Reducing the group to a trio meant [...]
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