Teasing

Full Week End

Like a bee

Played @ La Ruche last week end and really had a good time in this little underground club located in Lausanne Switzerland. One of the best welcome I ever had thx to Ramon Lorenzo & Nicolas Duvoisin, fantastic crowd, amazing line ups, ... all I love

If you go to Lausanne one day, just go there !

http://www.myspace.com/laruche & http://www.la-ruche.ch

Signaletik Records 3rd EP

3rd EP on Signaletik available since mid-may, go & get it on vinyl/digital in all the usual stores

Warren Fellow & Michel Steinbach - Cosmic - Original

Warren Fellow & Michel Steinbach - Cosmic – (Mark Broom remix)

Warren Fellow & Michel Steinbach – Atmos

SUPPORTED BY :JORIS VOORN // DEETRON // KEN ISHI// XPANSUL // FABRICE LIG// EDWIN OOSTERVAL // BENNY RODRIGUES // MICHEL DE HEY // DARKO ESSER // RENE AMESZ // TRISH VAN EYNDE // ELECTRIC RESCUE // PAUL LORAINE // ASCON // DJ 3000 // OKIN AKANIKO // DEREK HOWELL // ELECTRIC INDIGO // JUAN SANCHEZ // DJ CAMIEL // DIMITRI ANDREAS// STEVE RACHMAD // MIHALIS SAFRAS // PETER (BORDER COMMUNITY) // ...

http://www.myspace.com/signaletik / http://www.signaletik-records.com/

Down On The Floor May Playlist

01. Monoblok & PussySelektor - Straighthead - Notorious Elektro
02. Andre Winter - Trauma - Ideal Audio
03. Plastic FM - Twin Machine - Ostwind Records
04. Anja Schneider & Lee van Dowski - La roulette - Mobilee
05. Jamie Jones - Summertime Dub Mix - Crosstown Rebels
06. Oliver Dahl - Limno EP - Noir Music
07. Paul Ritch - Solarium EP - Drumcode
08. Slang Bang - Thank You Ma Am EP - Sender Records
09. Sweet n Candy - Dangerous EP - Dumb Unit
10. Warren Fellow & Michel Steinbach - Cosmic (Mark Broom remix) - Signaletik

We made it !

Finally we made it ! Monoblok & PussySelektor 1st EP out on Notorious Elektro, a great label from Grenoble which already welcomed artists like Gino's and Snake, Manic Mind, Oxia, The Hacker, Popof, Andreas Henneberg, Lady K and Luca D, The lesbian theory, Botox, Human body, Kiko

The tracks signed are "Straighthead" & "Last Man Standing", available in streaming on http://www.myspace.com/monoblokpussyselektor, out in the upcoming 2 months !

http://www.notorious-elektro.com/
http://www.myspace.com/notoriouselektro

Family affair

Great news from our friends from Fluctuat, the best cultural website on earth : Haven't heard of them since 2007 & the stunning rmx of Radio Slave of "Hold My Hand" but it seems that some new stuff from Unkle will soon be released. Still James lavelle at the head of it accompanied with Pablo Clements (The Psychonauts), James Griffith, Matt Pierce, Mike Lowry (from Lake Trout), Joel Cadbury (South) & Gavin Clark (Clayhill). 9 tracks already ok, can't wait for it !

Hereupper the video of "Heaven" by the phenomenal Spike Jonze

http://unkleofficial.blogspot.com/

Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

The return of one of my favorite band and one of the few I agree on with my girlfriend (awesome thing !), Phoenix, never understood in France but hey who cares ? Their 2 first LPs were definitely fabulous, the 3rd a bit weird we'll say ...

The soundtracks of many of my summers and certainely the one which is comin' !

Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix will be out on May 25

Blog is the new fashion

A great blog I discovered thanx to a friend from Lyon, in french (sorry, buddies from abroad), really clever, with reflexion angles I'm really into, check for example the post concerning the fucking ladies who wear rock tshirt without knowing who is the band mentioned on it, hilarious !

http://www.newwavehooker.com/

Extra Balls from the Crypt

APRIL PLAYLIST
Monoblok & Pussyselektor : Last Man Standing (Unsigned)
Audiojack : Jack The Keys EP (2020 Vision)
Jonas Kopp : Chloe EP (Traut)
Nicole Moudaber : Bad Boy (Yellow Tail)
Paul Ritch : Evil Laff EP (Wagon Repair)
Pherox : Atletico EP (Slash)
Steve Mac & Nic Fianculli : Smack Dance EP (Smack)
Tom Dazing : Flabbergasted EP (Toys For Boys Records)
Marc DePulse : P.S You Rock(Blu Fin)
Mihalis Safras & Kimono : Cable (Trapez LTD)

BACK IN BLACK ...

Yaka danser

Here's a party which promised to be really hot, an after of after in the city of Montpellier, which is without any doubt one of the craziest place for the everlasting parties. Will make the trip with Czesky, more known as boss of Kiosk Club and with whom I have lots of bookings scheduled abroad in the upcoming months. See u there we'll spin on sunday night.

Yaka Route de Palavas Sortie Menestrelle 34000 Montpellier

Feel like home

In my young dj days I made a promise to myself : not to play in the bars ! To be a bar-dj is something I can't understand because you can't really play the music you want, the sound is not really loud and the people are here to have a drink or to chat and not for dancing, so there's no real pleasure to play.

The only exception I make is for the AtHome Café in Lille, it's in the city where I lived so it's easy and it's a great way to please my pals from here. I can share the turntable with a friend of my choice which is a great thing and most of all it's a bar dedicated to the electronic sounds with a great team and a boss I like to party with !

So see u there this friday, I'll play with my dear friend Pix from Alt_R from 7pm till 2

You'd better ... stay

Here we are, the 4th track with Monoblok is now in the box. Entitled "Last Man Standing" and available in streaming on our Myspace Page : http://www.myspace.com/monoblokpussyselektor. We went deep but always mental for this one, hope u'll like it freakheadz !

My dear ...

Each month one track offered by Matthew dear under his pseudonym Audion, certainly the best electronic producer of these days, for free friends. The djs will not be forgotten as tracks will be out periodically on 3 trackers vinyls. At the end it will constitute a complete album so we'll all follow the construction of his upcoming LP, wonderfull idea for a wonderfull producer on a wonderfull label, Ghostly International !

All u hav' to do is registered on his website and give your email, each month the gift will be noticed by email : http://www.audion.me/

Kill the dj night @ Rex Club Paris 12/03/09

As seen on the blog of my dear friend Tao, http://restlessway.wordpress.com/, u'll find there the link to download the complete last kill the dj nite @ Rex Club

3 good reasons to go to Restlessway :

- The blog itself, really instructive and dedicated to minimal techno and hey he's one of my dearest friend

- Georges Issakidis from Republic of Desire label and ex half part of The Miconauts (remember the excellent Jag & Bleep to bleep EPs !), a fuckin' warm up at really low BPM as he do each time he played for KTDJ

- Ivan Smagghe , yes u know if you're a fervent reader of my thoughts that he's my hero, huge closing set, no more to add, he's the one

Hit you hard

Apr 10 2009
PussySelektor @ At Home Lille w/ Pix (Alt_R)
Apr 19 2009
PussySelektor @ Yaka Montpellier w/ Czeski
Apr 24 2009
PussySelektor @ Kiosk Lille w/ Rachdingue Residents
May 8 2009
PussySelektor @ Kiosk Lille w/ Chloé (Kill The Dj)
May 30 2009
PussySelektor @ La Ruche Lausanne CH w/ Czeski
Jun 5 2009
PussySelektor @ Kiosk BDay Lille
Jun 6 2009
PussySelektor @ 4 Sans Bordeaux w/ John Thomas (Logistic Rec)
Jun 13 2009
PussySelektor @ Rachdingue Vilajuiga ES w/ Czeski
Jun 27 2009
PussySelektor @ Signaletik Rec. Label Night @ Kiosk Lille

Licensed to kill the dancefloor

You may have noticed that it's rare on this blog to get djset to download, weird for a dj as I am but it could be explained easily by the fact that I listened a lot of livesets but really few blow my mind. Lookin' into the previous posts I only find a Pan Pot one and a Mindphone one. Once again, this guy I do consider as my belgian alter ego drop a real bomb and honored me by selected our latest track with Monoblok : "Straighthead". U're the one dude !

"I THOUGHT I WAS OVER" available here to download : http://www.mindphone.be

01 == Ben Klock = Subzero
02 == Ben Klock = Steady Plus
03 == Monoblok & Pussy Selektor = Straighthead
04 == Ben Klock = Pulse
05 == Ruede Hagelstein = Scissor Mouse
06 == Ruede Hagelstein = Fieser Mopp
07 == Paul Loraine = Pins And Needles - Matt Tolfrey & Marcashken T.A.S.H Remix
08 == Jonas Kopp = Flora
09 == Paul Ritch = Evil Laff - Konrad Black Remix
10 == Danton Eeprom = Legacy
11 == Audio Soul Project = Reality Check - Vincenzo Remix
12 == Julian Jeweil = Saint Mitre - Danton Eeprom's Futurama Rework
13 == Jenn = Black
14 == Ben Klock = Before One
15 == Circlesquare = Music For Satellites

Travelling ... again

Oh yeah ! After a wicked party in Strasbourg this last friday (thx to all of u crazy eastmen/women), I'm back in Liege, definitely the craziest city of Belgium. I promised to make you sweat as you never did before ! I'll play from 1 till 2, really short in time I know ...

Travelling

First time in the east of France, can't wait to be there, i'm playin' from 2 to 4 so be sure to be there if you're around. The start of the party will be provided by rock band and then at 00' let's have some elctronic beats

Atelier BAOBAB
91 route des Romains (Koenigshoffen)
Strasbourg, France

MALA SUERTE
(Rock-Ska-Punk festif survitaminé)
JARVIS
(Funk Soul Broken - Da Badassfunkstarz)
PUSSYSELEKTOR
(Techouse Minimal Tech - Signaletik Rec - Dviason - Kiosk - Name Festival)
JULIANO
(Techouse Minimal Tech - Art Rhythm's)
CROKO VARGAS
(Techouse Minimal Tech)

Happening by DAN 23
Vj :OSCILLOSCOPE

From 22 to 6, 6€

DM are back !

Depeche Mode - Wrong Video Clip
envoyé par Mightybaut

On the road again

Mar 6 : @ Baobab Strasbourg FR
Mar 14 : @ Pulsion Liége BE
Apr 10 : @ At Home Lille FR
Apr 19 : @ Yaka Montpellier FR
Apr 24 : @ Kiosk Lille FR
May 16 : @ Kiosk 5th Bday FR
May 30 : @ La Ruche Lausanne CH
Jun 13 : @ Rachdingue Vilajuiga ES

Date TBA in Bordeaux "4 Sans" famous club

For info i'll make a dj break from 14th of June till' End of September, yeah i'll be daddy ! Expect me naked & crazy @ Rachdingue ...

Too many dicks !

February Chart

1 Terence Fixmer : Hypnose Radioslave's Nose to the floor remix (Planete Rouge)
2 Hugo : Strobo Revenge EP (Claque)
3 Julian Jeweil : Bubbles EP (Skryptom)
4 Nico Purman : Euphrasia EP (Vakant)
5 Warren Fellow & Michel Steinbach : Cosmic EP (Signaletik Records)
6 Ruede Hagelstein : Dog vs Dog IV (Lebensfreude Records)
7 Monoblok & PussySelektor : Straighthead
8 Chateau Flight : La roquette (Versatile Records)
9 Fritz & Paul Kalkbrenner : Sky and Sand (BPitch Control)
10 Danton Eeprom : La mort au large (Fondation Records)

Rock & The City

Great short movies about New York, Paris & Berlin made by Arte

New York City

Berlin

Paris

Transgender lover

BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST !
BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! BLAST ! ...

One of the most underground club in the world, one of my favorite dj, what can I say more ... BLAST ! What else ?

Will be spinnin' records with Chloé @ Kiosk on 6th of June 2009, get ready to slow, sensual & dark moves

01. Gudrun Gut - Rock Bottom Riser
02. DJ Koze - Mariposa
03. Kalabrese - Makelovedisco
04. SIS - Orgsa
05. Shinedoe - Phunk (Steve Angello re-edit)
06. Partial Arts - Cruising
07. Samim & Michal - Circles
08. Vincenzo - The Phantom Image
09. Daso & Pawas - Ice
10. Heiko Mso feat. Malte - Reach
11. Plein Soleil - Casus Belli
12. Larry Heard - Spinal Tap
13. Trulz & Robin feat. Baseman - Turn My Head
14. Homebase - Centrino
15. Seventeen Evergreen - Music Is the Wine (Joakim remix)

Something 'bout thos little pills

THEY called it the second summer of love. Twenty years ago, young people all over the world donned T-shirts emblazoned with smiley faces and danced all night, fuelled by a molecule called MDMA. Most of these clubbers have since given up ecstasy and are sliding into middle age. The question is, has ecstasy given up on them?

Enough time has finally elapsed to start asking if ecstasy damages health in the long term. According to the biggest review ever undertaken, it causes slight memory difficulties and mild depression, but these rarely translate into problems in the real world. While smaller studies show that some individuals have bigger problems, including weakened immunity and larger memory deficits, so far, for most people, ecstasy seems to be nowhere near as harmful over time as you may have been led to believe.

Read the rest of the article taken from http://www.newscientist.com/

Diet ... wanna cry !

Wanna know why we're all fat :
http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/, ok let's go for a salad, water and apple today !

When we were young

Definitely one of the best shows i've ever watched. Kids from Bristol in UK, their lives, their doubts & their relationships. All the mainthemes of the teenagers are treated as they should have always been, religion, drugs, death, homosexuality, love, ... All the actors play so just that's incredible, we're really really far of bullshits like "Save by the bell" !!!

New track on line

Finally on line on our My Space Page, our 3rd track untitled "Straighthead" with my pal Monoblok, go & check it ! Ready to blow the insane dancefloor !

Fuse was huge !

Thanks to all of the freaks who turned up @ Fuse Bruxelles on 30/01. An incredible party directly in my top 3 of all times !

Ready to eat pasta all year long ?

Yesterday in France we had a massive strike (u know we're really well known for that and proud of it) which get together in the streets more than 2 millions people. Times are hard, really hard so let's hav' a bit of fun with this sensitive subject ! Go on this excellent french website : http://www.aldentelacrise.com !

LA CRISE DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH !

U rocked !

Thanx to all the people who turned up at DV1 in Lyon and Kiosk in lille this WE, was a blast, had a great time with my pal Czeski and our hosts from Lyon, Hervé AK & Inch. For sure see u soon as we're gonna be back ...

Hope not to see u again

January Playlist

Shonky : Coco Feel And Love Shonk (Contexterrior)
Paul Loraine : Pins & Needles (Fondation Records)
Catz 'N Dogz : SF (Mothership)
Jens Bond : Hypochonder (Highgrade Records)
Electric Rescue : Rave Toy EP (Signaletik Records)
SVD : SVD (Ibadan Records)
TP Heckmann : City of Sin (Afu Ltd)
Ruede Hagelstein : Semikolon EP (Souvenir Music)
Joey Beltram : Shaking Trees (Harthouse)
Joey Beltram : The Scorpion EP (Drumcode)

Signaletik is in da place

So happy, after the digital release 15 days ago our 1st EP is now available on the vinyl format in all good shops ! Still strong supports from the techno scene, it seems that our release is hammered by some of the best djs !
Another good news, the 2nd EP is now available in streaming on our myspace page : http://www.myspace.com/signaletik.
Electric Rescue, boss of french label Skryptom delivered us 2 killer tracks, and as a cherry on the cake Julian Jeweil blew our mind with a remix which will certainely be played everywhere. Go to our myspace to listen to it, we hope to be in stores in February, stay tuned. Hereunder the release sheet :

After Darko Esser, the french label Signaletik Records persevere in a rude and dynamic techno sound by welcoming one of the proudest representant of the french electronic scene : Electric Rescue.
Boss of the infamous Parisian label, Skryptom, he offered us a definitely different and massive sound than usual with 2 exclusive tracks : « Rave Toy » & « Skull of the pirate ».
“Rave Toy” is a flashback in the 90’s illegal warehouse parties which ER attempted to and which forged his vision of electronic music. It’s definitely this culture which is reactualized here and remember on these days the smile(y) was the norm. A heavy and powerful kick, a snoring bass line, trippy synths and hedonistic breaks, at Signaletik Records office we all went up on our speakers and we sent our trainee in search of whistles.
Julian Jeweil, another real hope of France dance scene, signed a nervous and federator remix, a toy which is not to be put in innocent hands.
“Skull of the pirate”, just the time to sponge your forehead and change of T-shirt, Electric Rescue & Signaletik Records will hit with damages the dancefloors attracted by the dark and saturated ambience. In the same vein than “Rave Toy” this track under acid and full of synths will start the hostilities without any doubt, tented face, black glance and aggressiveness ready to destroy everything on its way. There will be no prisoners in the techno freaks community.

DV1 weekend !

A week end dedicated to DV1, one of the leading underground club of France. We'll be in Lyon with Czeski this friday and the day after we bring Herve AK, well known for his releases on Kompakt, and Unchi from the Requiem 45 crew @ Kiosk. It's gonna be a hell of a week end ! Be there !

No Fun

What a sad day, Ron Asheton, guitarist of The Stooges was found dead yesterday at home. This 60 years old genius was voted by Rolling Stones magazine 29th best guitarist of all times, true as he wrote some of the greatest riffs of rock n'roll in songs like "No Fun", "I Wanna Be Your Dog" & "TV Eye". Founded in 1967 in Detroit, The Stooges splitted in 1974 to reformed in 2003 for a new album which hitted the stores in 2007

The other bad news is about Florian Schneider, cofounder of Kraftwerk who announced last monday that he left the band. No reason given, Ralf will be alone now on stage.

Let's hope Paul Mc Cartney & Ringo Starr are doing fine ...

Year of reason ?

I was lookin' for a special thing for the start of the year to put on the blog, I could say that 2008 was good for me, lots of good things, gigs, crazy parties, nice encounters, launching of a label, some tracks on their way, a trip in NYC and ... a baby which is comin'. With all of that why not being positive ? Because it's simply not in my nature, as u know for me dark & weird are the keys.
So i decided to take the same comment as last year, it was the 1st one as I start this blog 1 year ago, 112 messages after i'm still there so just follow these nice advices from Thom & its crew

fitter / happier / more productive /comfortable / not drinking too much / regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week) / getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries / at ease /eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats) / a patient better driver / a safer car (baby smiling in back seat) / sleeping well (no bad dreams) / no paranoia / careful to all animals (never washing spiders down the plughole) / keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now and then) / will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in wall) / favours for favours / fond but not in love / charity standing orders / on sundays ring road supermarket / (no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants) / car wash (also on sundays) / no longer afraid of the darkor midday shadows / nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate / nothing so childish /at a better pace / slower and more calculated / no chance of escape / now self-employed / concerned (but powerless) /an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism) / will not cry in public / less chance of illness / tires that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat) /a good memory / still cries at a good film / still kisses with saliva / no longer empty and frantic / like a cattied to a stick that's driven into / frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness) / calm / fitter, healthier and more productive / a pig / in a cage / on antibiotics


Credits : Larry Clark / Radiohead

Ivan ready for 2009

Our 1st & cherished release with Signaletik Rec

Here we are, our 1st Signaletik EP is in digital stores since December 19th and available in vinyl on the 10th of January. As we all know launchin' a label is more than difficult and we experienced lots of troubles. Dudes, the crisis in the musical industry and mainly in electronics is for real ... Concerning the release from dutch artist Darko Esser we have strong supports from Laurent Garnier, Deetron, Chloé, Raudive, DJ Hell, ... U can go & listen to the 2 tracks from darko & the rmx from Scan X on our myspace : http://www.myspace.com/signaletik
The next one will hit the stores in february with Electric rescue, boss of Skryptom, agremented with a stuning rmx by Julian Jeweil, stay tuned

Everybody's got something to hide (except for me & my monkey)

Few shows get better & better each year, "Dexter" is part of these ones, just finished the 3rd season yesterday and OMFG that was a hell of a one. Can't wait the 4th ... some months of waiting now. Another great show of this year "True Blood" by the creator of "Six Feet Under", check it out !

Dexter Showtime Website
True blood HBO Website

Knew I'll be there one day

2008 soon dead

End of year, time to hav' a look on the passing year and who best than the Resident Advisor crew to realize it ? Always at the top of the intelligent dance music they dropped their poll results few days ago, hav' a look cos' that's what 2008 was all about.

Top 30 Tracks
Top 20 LPs
Top 100 Djs
Top 20 Compilations
Top 15 Remixes
Top 10 Live Acts
Top 20 Labels

And finally we did it

So proud to present at least 2 tracks we made with my buddy Monoblok from http://www.rodoid.org, which was selected in the last Trax magazine as 1 of the most promising netlabel of 2009. U can listen to our tracks on our brand new myspace : http://www.myspace.com/monoblokpussyselektor.
Visit, become friend and leave a comment if our tunes make ur body shake !!!

You always get what you deserve

R.I.P Betty Page (1923-2008)

Bettie Page, gay icon & queen of the US pin ups died last thursday in LA from a pneumonia. Suffering from a heart attack she had more than a week ago, she never woke up. A legend is gone, every teenager had one day fantasmed on this 50's pin up which largely contributed to the 60's sexual revolution. Now we have porn stars or empty brains Paris Hilton lookalike, nothing in comparaison to this queen of hearts.

http://www.bettiepage.com/

U have to know

Blur are back .. but not my 20's

And so, with considerable fanfare, the mighty Blur have finally reformed. If you've kissed goodbye to your 20s, as I have, and were once partial to ringer T-shirts and hairslides, as I was, you no doubt felt delighted to see the return of a quartet whose clever pop soundtracked your first teenage fumblings, and whose simple existence turned your youth technicolour.

But here's a thing: why on earth have they reformed? The simple answer, of course, is the rumoured multimillion pound cheque from Live Nation, quite a nice little earner in these cash-strapped times.

But while many bands reform to top up their pensions, surely Blur don't need to. Damon Albarn definitely doesn't. He's been raking in the simian-shaped bills thanks to Gorillaz and Monkey: Journey To The West. Alex James has been making a mint as a Classic FM DJ and a peddler of cheese. Next to them, Graham Coxon has had a decent solo career, and Dave Rowntree, ever the oddball, has been running for parliament. All those royalties for Parklife and Song 2 will have kept the four of them afloat anyway, so perhaps, as Albarn himself says in this week's NME, there really is something for them to do again.

But when he says "we've got a reason to exist", what does he mean? I've got a few theories. Firstly, today's British indie bands, with the exception of the grand Arctic Monkeys, are a rum old lot. Kaiser Chiefs' football-chant indie has lost its match fitness, Bloc Party's post-punk has gone properly po-faced, and Razorlight are so far up their behinds they're kissing their colons. None of these bands possess a smidgeon of the creativity that Blur had, so perhaps Albarn feels that it's time to lay down the gauntlet.

Secondly, maybe Blur want us to remember how different they were to Oasis and the Verve, the only massive Britpop bands still trading their goods. While the Gallaghers regurgitate Beatles references for the trillionth time, and Richard Ashcroft confuses epic sentiment for an embarrassing whine, Blur had a career that was rich in variety. I'm not saying they're faultless – an opening chord of Stereotypes or Country House, for example, can still make my bile rise. But consider the very different pleasures of She's So High, Beetlebum and Crazy Beat, and you realise, instantly, how rich their wares were.

Finally, Blur's influence is still apparent in contemporary pop. From Lily Allen's forthcoming single, The Fear, to the Wombats' daft Christmas single, I still hear the bright, sprightly Englishness that they helped make so modern. Put all this together with the band's unassailable egos – the one feature of Blur that still blots their copy book – and is it such a surprise that they're back with us? They want to return next July in Hyde Park, like the founding fathers of the music they spawned. And after all, this is how reunion etiquette works. As Blur would put it themselves, there's no other way.

Taken from

http://www.guardian.co.uk

Beautiful looser part 3

After Kevin Dillon & Will Ferrel, the story goes on for the beautifull loosers. Here's one really hard to beat, Mister Maurice Moss from the british tv show on Channel 4 "The IT Crowd".

Moss is the nerdiest person you will ever meet. He has all the classic symptoms: trousers too short but worn too high, bad hair, clip-on ties, very bad hair, socially inept, an interesting variety of maths teacher check shirts, and really really bad hair. He can use more TLAs than an RFC on ICT so conversation can really make you glaze over. Moss' sense of absolute logic is unendingly funny.

Moss also possesses the incredible yet useless skill of jabbing a screwdriver into the desk between his fingers at incredible speed. One miss and he'll ruin his typing speed!

The life of an IT dpt in Reynholm Industries. Hilarious & so brit' !

Dark groove is my cup of tea

Huge set by Mobilee artist Pan Pot, I don't post a lot of djsets but this one is really a blast !

ZShare link

"It contains a lot of tracks we love to play at the moment in the clubs Quite techno but still groovy"

Butane - Wanderer
Matt Nordstrom - Lucky drawis
Alexi Delano - What is Control (Adultnapper Remix)
Sharam - Get Wild (Steve Angelo Remix)
Gabe - Amnesia
Minilogue - It’s a mice way to give feedback (Heinrichs & Hirtenfeller Remix)
Luca & Paul - Dinamicro (Karotte Remix)
Minilogue - Jamaica (Dubfire Remix)
Danny Tenaglia - The Space Dance (Radio Slave Remix)
Mark Broom - Black Russian
Pan-Pot - Shibuya
Syncom Data - Beyond the Stars (Speedy J Remix)

The jarv' is still the jarv'

“You make it, and you're bathing in champagne and you can snort as much cocaine as you want and fuck as many beautiful women as you want. Then you find you can do those things, but they don't actually make you very happy.” (Guardian)

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker claims rock stardom’s not all it’s cracked up to be.

So young, so gone

Amazing 1st LP, inventive video, Friendly Fires could be the band of 2008 without any doubt, it's fresh, uncomplexed, as the music should always be !

R.I.P Guy Peellaert (1934-2008)

One of the icon of the pop culture died on 17th of November of this year, Guy Peellaert achieved fame as an artist who embraced the attitudes and methods of the Pop Art movement, surrealism and psychedelia. He created iconic images of rock’n’roll stars of the 1960s and 1970s, most famously David Bowie and the Rolling Stones.
His art was exhibited in Paris, New York, London, Tokyo, Cuba, Brazil and Italy.
Peellaert made his name with Rock Dreams (1973), a collaboration with the English rock writer Nik Cohn. The book meditated on the obsessions and mythologies of rock’n’roll.
Peellaert used a mix of photography, paint and drawing manipulated into collages to accompany the surreal text. He placed some of the generation’s biggest icons, from Elvis to Bob Dylan, in fantastical, bizarre, intimate and often scandalous situations : a pink satin-tinged Jim Morrison squatting in his bath, the Rolling Stones dressed in Nazi uniforms surrounded by young girls, the Beatles having tea with the Queen ... Rock Dreams sold more than a million copies worldwide.

Peellaert’s work was in vogue. He was called upon to design album covers for stars across the globe: the Rolling Stones’ It’s Only Rock ’N Roll album and David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs LP, which depicted the musician as a grotesque mix of man and dog with genitalia that were quickly airbrushed when the record was first distributed in 1974. His reputation rapidly flourished in the US as he was commissioned, on the back of his success, to design posters for some of the biggest cult films of the 1970s including Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, starring Robert De Niro, as well as Wim Wenders’s The Wings of Desire (1987) and Robert Altman’s Short Cuts (1993).

http://www.guypeellaert.com

On the road

Ok it's the end of the year, hav' to think about xmas, good resolutions, ... but 2009 will undoubtedly be a rockin' year, some gigs are already confirmed so it'll be easy to catch me on the road. Hope to see u there dudes !

16/01/09 : DV1 @ Lyon
17/01/09 : Kiosk @ Lille
23/01/09 : At Home @ Lille
30/01/09 : FUSE @ Bruxelles BE
06/02/09 : Signaletik présente Back to the Groove w/ Mark Broom @ Zoo Pecq BE
07/02/09 : TBC @ Paris
14/03/09 : Pulsion Liege BE
03/04/09 : Signaletik présente Back to the Groove w/ guest TBA @ Zoo Pecq BE
10/04/09 : At Home @ Lille
05/06/09 : Signaletik présente Back to the Groove w/ guest TBA @ Zoo Pecq BE
Dates TBA in Paris, Cologne (DE), Lausanne (CH) & Bordeaux

Me, myself & I, oversized ego, ...

A new & fresh interview I made for an electronic blog based in west of France, http://www.lesous-marin.org, is now on line, check !

Interview for french web blog "Le sous marin"

Does good RN'R always come from NYC ?

One of the songs which drives me crazy since lot of years, enjoy !

Turnin' 31 playlist

As always late, was hard to recover from my birthday party. 2 newcomers on the top of the selection, don't know them but I think they deserve a great label ... and also the 1st Signaletik EP which will hit the stores in few days !!!

Monoblok & PussySelektor : Flash Forward / Make/Shift
Darko Esser : Persevere (Signaletik Records)
Tim Paris : Likely (Souvenir Music)
Citizen Kain : Joker of the Queen EP (My Best Friend)
Gary Beck : Drifting EP (Perc Trax)
Photonz : Glass Onion / Electric Wonder Girl (Republic of Desire)
Adam Beyer : Simulated Usage (Figure)
Terry : Stop Making Sense (Freak N Chic)
Modeselektor : Happy Birthday Remix #2 (BPitch Ctrl)
Seth Troxler : Love Never Sleeps (Crosstown Rebels)

Exclusive live from Maetrik (Treibstoff/Mothership-USA)

We had a great great night with our US pal Maetrik when he visited us at our party @ Kiosk. So great that Eric allowed us to put his live on line ! Enjoy friends & it's a direct link ! Thanks who ? Thanks Dviason !

Dviason présente Maetrik live @ Kiosk Lille 24/10/08