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THURSDAY NIGHT IN PARIS
MY HOUSE IS YOUR HOUSE: Since discovering the DJs Aurélien Haaas and Jeff Lasson aka Get A Room! at our opening parties at W Paris - Opéra we try to catch them when we can. Their cosmic mix of electronic house, deep house, electro, disco and Balearic has put this pair right on the map for us as DJs for summer 2012. We’re told the pair will be hosting Sunday sunsets at Wanderlust, the forthcoming and brand new night-club and events space that opens next week in Paris (more details to follow in the coming week) - Balearic Sundays ahoy? We’ll soon find out….
MATCH POINT: Romain Gavras, enfant terrible of international music video directors, has released another video rife with conflict and anger for Jay Z and Kanye West’s track ‘No Church In The Wild’. Essentially it’s just a load of blokes rucking with the police, the lyrics contain more depth but perhaps the artists wanted to keep the video simple. There’s no wry social comment hidden amongst all the pow! zap! pof! like there was with the MIA ‘Bad Girls’ video but hey, it’s unquestionably a beautifully shot and precisely acted piece of work that will now join the higher annals of pop history. Look out for the performances by the elephants and horses, an animal oscar to them all.
VINYL: JUST SOLD OUT
INTERVIEW: Cover artwork for the vinyl version of the new EP by Mathieu Lescop that’s still available in digital form. Need to know track: La Foret (vimeo). We interviewed Mathieu just minutes before he played a live gig inside the Armani store in Saint-Germain at the beginning of the month where he talks about his forthcoming LP, the story behind the making of the video to La Foret and the attention he puts into writing lyrics….
You re going to play for Armani tonight, how many tracks are you planning to play? Sixteen tracks and it will last a bit longer than half an hour
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THIS WEEK-END IN PARIS: FRANÇOIS KEVORKIAN
D IS FOR DISCO: When talking about François Kevorkian superlatives start tumbling from the sky. A French DJ who emigrated to New York in the 70s, François K is a direct link to the birth of house music; he’s the DJs DJ. Before drum machines had been invented he was the session drummer on many disco tracks and DJed at the legendary Paradise Garage with Larry Levan plus Studio 54 and the Zanzibar club. Moving forward nearly thirty years and Kevorkian was part of Body & Soul the Sunday day-to-night New York club that’s one of a few key nights attributed with honing and polishing the sound of deep and soulful house music. Musically Kevorkian is a jack of all trades, there’s no sonic genre that he can’t explore and mould into a DJ set where one of his signature elements can be long, cosmic mixes between tracks that take the dance-floor on a journey or up, up and up into a frenzy. Kervorkian is known to relish playing twelve hour mixes where he really takes the floor off into outer-space but for Paris, though he’s appearing for much shorter periods of time, he is appearing twice, lucky us. First for a RedBull Masterclass Q&A with Didier Lastrade (free entry) and then again for a DJ set. For details follow the Facebook links….
The third single from the debut album ‘I Thought I Was An Alien’ by Stéphanie Sokolinski who used to be a regular at the Pop In bar that was the hub for the nu-folk scene in Paris partly due to the fact that David-Ivar, lead singer from Herman Dune, DJed and hosted the Sunday night open mic sessions there….
Le troisième single de son premier album ‘I thought I was Alien’ de Stéphanie Sokolinski ancienne régulière du bar le Pop In qui a accueilli toute la scène nu-folk à Paris en partie grâce à David-Ivar, le chanteur de Herman Dune, qui y organisait des soirées le dimanche soir.
La Villette Sonique, the urban music festival held annually in the north-east of Paris opens this Friday so we’re previewing a few of the artists from the line-up of experimental artists, known and unknown. First up a podcast by a new producer from Marseille named 123Mrk who’s been marked as ‘post dubstep and UK garage’ and essentially zips and pings around the the musical pinball machine known as electronica. 123Mrk DJs alongside alongside Funkineven, Redhinho, Canblaster and Sonotown on Friday May 25 at Le Trabendo club that’s hosting the opening and after parties of the festival.
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JUNIOR BOYS OWN: Just released onto the internet and on the day when his latest EP stood at no.1 in the iTunes download chart, Woodkid’s new video for the title song Run Boy Run is another journey into the creative mind of its creator Yoann Lemoine. A music video director (Drake feat Rihanna, Lana Del Rey, The Shoes…) and musician, Lemoine’s visual play between gothic mystery, fairy-tale wonder and epic imagery continues….
Tout juste sorti sur internet, le même jour que son dernier EP arrive en tête des téléchargements iTunes, voici la nouvelle vidéo de Woodkid intitulée Run Boy Run.
Buy from iTunes HERE
Waveforms, the last single by Django Django is a perfect cut of pulsating indie pop with Beach Boys-esque harmonies layered over awkward beats and psychedelic keyboards. Hello Django Django! Buy on iTunes here
Waveforms, le dernier single de Django Django est la rencontre parfaite entre la pop indie dynamique et les harmonies Beach Boys-esque sur des beats étranges et des claviers psychédéliques.
MUSIC A GO-GO: As Cannes film festival begins in the south of France there are also plenty of Parisian live music festivals just around the corner starting with a week of concerts by independent record label Because Music which is home to Mademoiselle Gainsbourg and Django Django who we’re looking forward to seeing as there’s a lot of buzz about this new band in Paris right now.
Tandis que le festival du Film commence à Cannes, de nombreux concerts parisiens au coin de la rue avec le label Because Music, où l’on retrouve notamment mademoiselle Gainsbourg et Django Django.
May 21// Charlotte Gainsbourg, La Cigale
May 22// Electric Guest, La Maroquinerie
May 23 & 24// Justice, Zénith
May 25// Django Django, La Maroquinerie
Django Django image by Joss McKinley
W TRACKS #5 BY TETE D’AFFICHE
Every Monday a DJ from Parisian agency Tête D’Affiche chooses five tracks for your week. This week LeAm, a DJ, remixer and music fanatic has been a resident at Le Baron and played in clubs in Singapore, Miami, New York, Belgium, the UK. In 2007 he made a compilation album ‘Your Fucking Melting Pote’, a mix of French pop, dance, boogie woogie and house that was warmly received in the US.
What’s new ? LeAm will be in Turkey at the beginning of the week then directly go on to Cannes for the film festival. After this Tunisia then back to France for two music festivals in june. What he says: “never stop, sensual & wild mix, feverish contamination of the dance-floor for a healthy sweat…”
Chaque lundi, un dj de l’agence parisienne Tête d’Affiche choisit 5 morceaux. Cette semaine, LeAm DJ, remixer et fan inconditionnel de musique qui a été résident au Baron et s’est produit à Singapour, Miami, New York, Belgique et Royaume-Uni. En 2007, il sort une complitation “Your Fucking Melting Pote”, un savoureux mélange de pop française, de dance, de boogie woogie et de house qui a reçu un accueil chaleureux aux Etats-Unis.
1// Outlines - Been through it
I rediscovered this track from Outlines’ EP a few weeks ago, an insane song, a lot of my musical influences put together in a very catchy tune. Play on Deezer HERE
2// The Whitest Boy Alive - Fireworks
Some songs you can listen to 10000 times in a row and never be bored with them. This is in my opinion the perfect example. A straight production, effective, simple and really clever, a gem! Play on Youtube HERE
3// Herr Styler - Zero Ghosts Out The Door
When I first discovered this song, it really blew my mind. So many influences united in a track impossible to describe, just pure genius. Play on Youtube HERE
4// Stuck in the sound - Brother (Yuksek remix)
I’ve been playing this remix whenever I do a set for the last month. An instrumental sounding like Cindy Lauper mixed with the impeccable chorus that drives the dancefloor crazy. I predict this song will be one of the electro hits this summer, and I’m working on it! Play on Youtube HERE
5// Sébastien Tellier - My Poseidon
A gorgeous woman climbs out of the ocean on a sundeck, salt water slowing streaming down her skin, the sun piercing through the clouds in a magenta end of the world kind of feel…Visual, epic and sexual, the best track on Tellier’s latest album. Play on Deezer HERE
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