Good for the health ... or the eyes

Ok friends here we talk mainly about culture but hey there are also impressive things in sports. So for one time let's highlight one of the most impressive exhibition in the US : the dunk contest at the All Star Game. Just watch this it's pure art and superman himself came for a visit !

There was a time ... No Future

There was a time when punk was at its top, 1977, the year of my birth. Never thought that it was an interesting time concerning music but what happened just after was definitely ! “Rip It Up And Start Again” explains brilliantly these post punk times. Written by an ex Melody Maker journalist, Simon Reynolds, here’s the perfect description of what succeeded to the punk storm from 1978 to 1984. The beginnings of John Lydon alone with PIL, the US industrials Devo & Pere Ubu, the changes in the british music industry with Mute & Do It Yourself, the arty scene with Talking Heads & Wire, all the bands from Sheffield & Manchester, Throbbing Gristle, the No Wave NY scene, New Pop, Synthpop … everything you always wanted to know about this period is filled in this great book which will make you go back into your discography and also discovered things you’ll never supposed to exist ! One advice : Go & buy it ... or steal it ! That would sticks perfectly with the suject !

"Ils se droguent ? bon bah c'est du rock !"

Nowadays in France we live a strange situation, you may hav' noticed if u're abroad, we have a president, Nicolas Sarkozy who is qualified of "bling bling". Never thought we'll be in this situation. The worst is that the press is getting completely mad about him and more precisely of his private life. Today an interview of his new bling bling wife was published in "L'express", I read it one minute ago and i thought that France is really turning wrong. Hopefully there's one man who understands everything ... our savior, enjoy !

New promo set : Death Of A Party

It's been a while I haven't drop a new promo mix and these days of rest permit me to correct this error by locking me in my music room, you know the one with all the posters in it where even your girlfriend doesn't want to go. I made a selection of fresh sounds and not so old stuff I really wanted to be on this mix like the Jonas Kopp trax which blows the crowds everytime I spin it. Play it Loud !

Fuckpony : Lady Judy - Matt Styles & Jamie Jones rmx (BPitch)
Louderbach : Magda Reflected - Liquid Acid rmx (Underline)
Style of Eye : Hide (Dirtybird)
The Hacker And Eric Borgo : Zone It's A Fine Line rmx (Tsuba)
Efdemin : Acid bells (Curel)
Ruede Hagelstein : Der Kammblaser (Lebensfreude)
Marc Antona : Brain Raid (Sender)
Bigger Than Jesus : Baby Hawkins (TFE)
Fabrikat : Null Eins Tigerskin rmx (Fabrikat)
Alex Under : Trapezones Erectos And Extrapezlo Alexi Delano And Xpansul rmx (Trapez)
Plastikman : Spastik Dubfire Rework (M_nus)
Plan Tec : Espias Psiquicos Jonas Kopp Psiquic rmx (Spectral)
Discodeine : Tema Di Gamma (D-I-R-T-Y)
Blur : Death of a Party (EMI)

Go to : http://www.dviason.com/file/pussyselektordeathofaparty0208.mp3, enjoy, spread it all over you and don’t hesitate to give some feedbacks !

Credit : Larry Clarke

Pale blue eyes ... full of tears

Sad sad sad news, just after the fantastic story of Jerome Kerviel here's another great one from the financial area. I do think it's even worst than the Societe Generale scandal cos' it touched one of my teenage idol, just read this ... and cry on the gool old rock n' roll

For once this article is not in english as it was written by Nathalie Leruch

21h00 devant le Théâtre des Champs Elysées, une foule en costard cravate se presse devant la porte. Tous portent un autocollant bleu et blanc au revers de la veste, on se croirait à une convention pour une mutuelle. BINGO, tous ici font partie de la société Carmignac, une boite qui gère des actions, des actifs, des investissements, des fonds de pensions. Ces gens dont on parle tous les jours dans la rubrique bourse, ceux là mêmes qui vendent les actions Arcelor lorsqu’elles viennent de monter après l’annonce de centaines de licenciements , ou celles de Bouygues quand Nicolas Sarkozy annonce la suppression de la publicité sur la télé publique.

Ma copine et moi entrons par une porte discrète et nous voilà dans le hall du théâtre au beau milieu d’un cocktail richement présenté, champagne, petits fours, grands bouquets d’arômes blancs sur les tables. Les convives sont souriants et s’apostrophent joyeusement dans une ambiance feutrée et chic.
Les invités entrent alors dans la salle, alors que les ouvreuses déverrouillent les loges du balcon avec leurs clés aux VIP de la soirée, afin qu’ils profitent encore mieux du concert.
Nous voilà assises avec ma copine dans une loge aux côtés de deux messieurs bedonnants en chemise blanche et veston noir.

C’est alors que l’incroyable se produit. Lou Reed, lui même, arrive sur scène, entouré de 5 musiciens.
Lou Reed, 66 ans, vêtu d’un jean et d’un tee shirt noir décolleté , ses éternelles Ray ban sur le nez, les cheveux bouclés et bruns comme avant. Lou Reed, le survivant, l’homme de Transformer, de Berlin de Coney Island baby, de Rock’n’roll animal.

Lou Reed, la figure même du rock dans ce qu’il exprime de plus sauvage, de plus rebelle, de plus révolutionnaire. C’est bien lui, je ne rêve pas, lui , l’icône de ma jeunesse, celui qui est revenu de tout et même de l’Heroïne. Lou Reed chante en concert privé devant un public de banquiers.
Et Vlan, il entame justement son concert avec Sweet Jane ! Je n’en crois ni mes yeux ni mes oreilles, Lou Reed chante Sweet Jane devant les rois de la finance, ceux qui font la Une des Echos, de « gestion de fortune « de « mieux vivre votre argent ». Et les voilà qui commencent à onduler au son de « Dirty Boulevard », puis de « Glory of love » et de « Perfect Day » son chef d’œuvre absolu. Lou Reed, lui, est quasi impassible, il chante de sa belle voix profonde et grave, de cette voix qui a transpercé notre adolescence. Il chante mais il ne manifeste aucune émotion. Il est raide comme la justice, il ne prononce aucun mot, aucune phrase entre les morceaux, à part un « I love Paris » du bout des lèvres. Mes deux voisins bedonnants ont tombé la veste, mais ils commencent à trouver le temps long. Alors ils font des commentaires à haute voix : « Allez envoie les gaz !, vas-y lâche tout ! il est mou ! allez vas-y mon gars ». Mais rien à faire, Lou Reed chante des balades, calmement sans ostentation, sans un mouvement de hanche. Rien ne se passe entre lui et ces spectateurs d’un soir, comme des gosses auxquels on aurait offert le gros tracteur dont ils rêvaient, mais qui finalement les déçoit car il ne va pas assez vite à leur goût.
Et puis vient le rappel, un seul faut pas exagérer. Et le vieux Lou se lance dans le « Walk on the wild side » que la salle lui réclamait. Mais qui ce soir, du vieux Lou revenu de tout ou de ces jeunes loups est le plus wild ? Qui marche du côté sauvage de la rue ?..

D’un côté un vieux rocker qui se loue sans vergogne pour un soir à ce public qui incarne à lui seul toute la sauvagerie de l’ultra-liberalisme, de l’autre ces commerciaux satisfaits et fiers d’accélérer chaque matin la marchandisation du monde, d’encombrer le Dirty Boulevard des déchets que produit de l’économie libérale, sans se retourner. Ce soir, lundi 21 janvier, les bourses mondiales ont clôturé avec une baisse historique due à la contamination de la crise américaine des subprimes.

Alors que Lou Reed et ses musiciens viennent de terminer leur dernière chanson, leur tube interplanétaire, et que la salle résonne encore des vibrations des guitares et de la voix sensuelle du chanteur, voilà que se lève un homme de derrière la console de son. Un homme grand aux cheveux gris et mi-longs, élégant dans son costume noir.

Cet homme s’adresse à la salle à haute voix. Tous alors se retournent vers lui arborant un grand sourire de reconnaissance. Je comprends que c’est le patron, Monsieur Edouard Carmignac himself, président Directeur général et fondateur de Carmignac Gestion (http://www.carmignac-gestion.fr/index.asp#). Et il prononce ces mots : « je voulais vous dire à tous, ce soir, que vous ne devez jamais oublier qu’il faut parfois Walk on the wild side !

Merci du conseil Monsieur Carmignac , on y pensera.

Nathalie Leruch

Taste the snails !

One of the main reason which made me want to throw parties was to share a good dinner with some of my heroes. Havin' the time to exchange about music & life and sometimes discoverin' really touching guys. One of the man I had a very special time with is Billy Nasty. He came to visit us on December 1st 07 for a Dviason night and blow our headz with a crazy set and a crazy "coup de fourchette" as we said here. Being in France makes it easier as we've definitely the best food in the world and as real frenchies we're always proud to offer a great meal to our guests and believe me it's fun to make taste some snails to a brit pal ! Billy we want u back !

Here are recordings of this Dviason night, Billy played from 3 to 5'30 and then we played back to back with Lutezo till the end (expect dark minimal from us at this kind of hour ...)

http://www.dviason.com/file/billynasty011207.mp3

http://www.dviason.com/file/PussyselektorvsLutezo011207.mp3

Ready to rumble ?

It's going to be a wild night @ my 2nd home Kiosk Club in Lille with 2 of the best newcomers on the electro scene : Brodinski & Yuksek. Will be closing the party so attempt a dark & trippy set, actually working on it to blast your headz !

Dviason présente MEDOOZA @ Kiosk Lille FR 16/02

There was a time, not so far away, me & my friends from Dviason were really into dark electro stuff. Fond of productions from IF, Dopplerefekt, Octagon Man, Anthony Rother, Drexcyia and labels such as Clone, Satamile or Touchin' Bass. Since that time we opened our hearts & minds to others styles. To celebrate our roots we invite to our party, the famous "Dviason présente", one of the most respected dj in the electro scene, Medooza. This fantastic girl from Switzerland is running the Global Funk Webradio where Luteo also plays. Hope u'll come to check her, put your black boots and coats, hav' some eyeliner and enter Dviason Batcave ! We are the robots, ill-ektro !

http://www.myspace.com/medoozamuzik
http://www.globalfunkradio.com

February selection to make u dance

Here are some of the tracks you might hear me play in the next gigs. Special mentions to Dyno & Discodeine tracks, exactly the sound I want to hear nowadays !

Efdemin - Tampopo : Acid Bells - Helicopters Got Cameras (CURLE)
Dyno : Alpharias (MANTRA VIBES)
Discodeine : Discodeine Ep (D-I-R-T-Y)
Alex Under - Remixes By Alexi Delano And Xpansul - Mihalis Safras : Trapezones Erectos And Extrapezlo Remixes (TRAPEZ)
Dubfire Remix Audion - Booka Shade : I Feel Speed (NO LABEL)
Bigger Than Jesus : Witch Kraft Ep (TFE)
Gavin Herlihy : Opium Haze (KINDISCH)
The Hacker And Eric Borgo It's a Fine Line remix : Zone (TSUBA)
Marc Antona : Blind Tested Ep (SENDER)
Michal Ho - Remixes By Adam Beyer - Inxec : Screw The Coffeemaker (TUNINGS SPORK)
Donk Boys : Doozer Ep (FRANKIE)
Swat Squad And Sentinel : Combustible Ep (PLOT)
Le K : Freaky Fry (FLOPPY FUNK)
King Unique - Remixes By Luke Dzierzek And James Talk : Yoh-koh Remixes (CURFEW)
Style Of Eye : The Big Kazoo Ep (DIRTYBIRD)

Please disturb ... open to party hard

Yeah, at least on holidays. No need to wake up, no need to smile to people you're trapped with all day long, having a lebowski life, drinking white russians, getting on a proper rythm, nightlife/daysleep ! Time to blast again, visit my brothers and party hard. Back on the decks during my work break, @ Kiosk on friday 8 with french uprising electro stars Yuksek & Brodinski, playing at the end of the party, yeahhh my favorite time + @ Kiosk again on saturday 16 for a Dviason party with Medooza. Before that, time to have my smagghe lesson at "It's a fine line" party at Rex Club. Let's dance !

I choosed my way, so I think ...

"L'underground c'est ce que le politiquement correct saccage. Savoir faire un pas de côté, se risquer à faire ce que l'époque ne prend pas en compte." Jean François Bizot. RIP

A very special mix from Ivan Smagghe and Tim Paris, now based in London with another great french producer Danton Eeprom. They fomed together the "bancale bancale" studio, let's hope some genius stuff. They will be at rex Club on 2nd of february, so do I !

http://www.zshare.net/audio/6601413d524482

Batcave Groove

Gorgeous footage by Lidia Terki of Chloe "Be Kind To Me", from her debut LP "The Waiting Room".
Electronic music on album format is most of the time boring, only few tracks to really get mad on, no coherency, no story to tell but Chloé definitely did it brillantly !
You can only fall in love with this bancal electronic folk, right from Kill The Dj, 2 steps ahead in the mental and deviant groove !

God Only Knows

It's well known that all alone you're nothing except a selfish cunt. Nobody to tell you when you're wrong, nobody to rest your head on its loving shoulder, nobody to share your joy and desilusions with, nobody, ...

Next tuesday it will makes 9 years I'm with the girl I love. We spent our 20's together and now we're entering the 30's, the love affair goes on !

No better way to describe my feelings that the best love song ever : "God Only Knows" from Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album, still makes my heart bleeds at every listening

"I may not always love you
But long as there are stars above you
You never need to doubt it
Ill make you so sure about it

God only knows what I'd be without you

If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me

God only knows what I'd be without you"

Credit : Magritte

I need a freak

Freaks, for those who where there and those who still follow us, here's the original of our loving lady by Roy Lichtenstein.

Spleen from The Hague

Hard time for the vynil junks, winter break for the distributors, perfect time to look back into your cherished collection. On your marks, get set, go !

1st step : Weep the dust, throw the empty botlles of biers, clear the numerous ashtrays, reals and improvised ones.
2nd step : fill the right plates in the right covers, possibility of freaking out on that point realising you lost some of your treasures but don't worry at the end of the cleaning you'll find them back.
3rd step : Yeah ! Listening time ! Fuck the neighbourhood !

Here's my rediscover, "Holographic Voice", a fabulous track made by dutch producer based in The Hague I-F, with Nancy Fortune on the vocals

http://www.djdownload.com/mp3-detail/I-F+ft+Nancy+Fortune/Holographic+Voice/Ghostly+International/300515

Released in 2002 on the Tangent : Disco Nouveau compilation of excellent US label Ghostly International, another track touched by the grace of darkism, full of aridity and only danceable suggestively in slow motion.

Impossible to mention I-F without speaking of one of the best webradio of the world, fans of the dutch electro sound, IDM & Italo Disco here's a pepit for you :

http://www.cybernetic-broadcasting.net

Photo Credit : DAVID S. DITZEL

Turn SM with the VU

"Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather, Whiplash girlchild in the dark"

The Velvet Underground, my all time favorite band, the soundtrack of my teenage wet dreams.
Here's a famous remark, often attributed to british genius Brian Eno : "while only a few thousand people bought the first Velvet Underground record upon its release, almost every single one of them was inspired to start a band".

1 good reason to become a dj

There are lots of reasons for becoming a dj, as we're on my personal blog and as I want it to be honest & personal i'll give you one of mine (hopefully i have others) : revenge on guitar players !
Maybe you already experienced this situation : bein' around a fire camp, cruisin' a girl to spend the night with, findin' one, talkin' & laughin' with her about things you're not interested in but hey that's the game. Hour after hour your masterplan is set up, you get closer to her, you see in her moves and her eyes that something's happenin' and then ... this motherfuckin' guitar player starts to play !!! Always the same crap songs from Nirvana, Led Zep, Telephone, ... Everybody's singin' except you as you noticed the changes in the attitude of your "supposed to be" nightlove which is now hooked to the pale copy of Kurt Cobain. Crazy how a guitar makes people look beautifull ... so it's the same thing with turntables ! Time for a revenge !

NB : look at the TREX cover from his awesome album "Electric Warrior", does it remind you something ? Yes the Justice album, hmmmm copycat !

Fear & Loathing in club backstages

There was a time I used to do interviews & vynil reviews for the famous belgian website http://www.theclubbing.com/. Reading it 3-4 years after they were realised was really fun to me so let's bring them from the crypt.

I sometimes feel in the skin of the regretted Hunter S. Thompson, creator of the gonzo journalism especially one time. Arriving at a crazy night with my pals, drinkin' champagne & vodka, partyin' and OH NO takin' an E as the itw was scheduled at the end of the party, but it was not ... 15 minutes after I was in a full light room with Laurent Garnier ... still laughing at it !

To check all the interviews go to :

http://www.dviason.com/index.php?file=Page&name=Interviews

http://www.dviason.com/index.php?file=Faqs

Featuring : Luciano, Anthony Rother, Basti from Tiefschwarz, The Hacker & Oxia, Darren Price, Electric Indigo, Scan X, Spacid, Miss Kittin, Spacid, The Penelopes, Angel Molina, Terence Fixmer, Rolando, Miss Kittin, ... & Laurent Garnier.

Track of the decade

Few songs make you feel like home, "Fool of the new city" by Hamburg producers Ego Express is one of those.
Listening to a tune which was made for you, describing perfectly what you got inside of you, and how you want the music to be is a great but strange feeling. Younger i had the gooseflesh on songs like "Sunday morning" from The Velvet Underground or "Strawberry Fields Forever" from the Fab Four and since 3 years i have my personal electronic anthem. First heard on a fabulous dj mix by Ivan Smagghe & Chloé called "The dysfunctional family", bought instantly on ebay as it was already hard to find, Ladomat label never repressed it, that's the vinyl which never quits my flightcase & my thoughts.

You don't want to be like everybody else ? Warning, could be addictive : http://www.mbeat.de/catalog/egoexpress-everybody-p-8587.html

http://www.myspace.com/egoexpress

Wanna see u scream !

It's been a while my partner in crime Lutezo & I wanted to spin records together for a long long long session. Sharing our love for dark atmosphere and shooting to the other "hey you don't have this one, shaaaame".

Our insane vj, Blindoff, will also be there semi naked and protected him from our radioactive beats with its bloody mask. He's back from Pixel Festival & Rachdingue in Spain, full of new visuals, get prepared.

So the party promised to be wild in your head, ears & eyes.

If you never came to the freshly opened new club in Lille, Le Sonic, here's a good reason, great place to discover and which fits perfectly with cheek to cheek dancing and I know lots of you like that !

Sonic 46 rue d'Arras, Fri. 18/01, 3€, 23 to 7

http://www.myspace.com/soniclille