J’aime: “les forets, le canton de Sarreguemines (locals only), La totobad et le quartier residentiel autour, la piscine de walseim, le Saarland, les saucisses, claquer des doigts, le gin, le bushmills, les krautlikkors, dépenser mon argent dans les stations services suisses, faire du ski, m’habiller en noir.” qui suis-je?

Et ma chambre se transforment en discothèque, ma tête cette discoball, ça fait un bail qu’on les suit, et on aime toujours, la rave hippie, les pierres de quartz et les tattoos de MEGA, steed lord c’est clinquant. Quand tu connais un peu l’Islande, tu sais qu’on compte les jours là bas, alors on monte des projets pour oublier: http://www.dontbenaked.com/.
Tiens j’y pense, j’avais envie de parler de l’Iceland Airwaves, mais pas maintenant.
Là je cherche des fringues, http://www.ctrlclothing.com/
Allez, on se calme

http://thelemurblog.com/mp3/Empire%20Of%20The%20Sun%20-%20We%20Are%20The%20People%20(Button%20Masher%20Remix).mp3

pour awel et parce qu’on aime. On aime les filles et l’impression que l’enceinte est encore tombée à l’eau bain, c’est pas grave c’est la voix qui compte tant qu’il reste du coteaux du layon, je te resserre?
(pharrellogisme : ) )

1. The Presets

2. Lykke Li – Little Bit (Villains Mix)

Yes Yes Yes!!!!!!!

3. Mr Oizo – Making Lambs Anger

4. Phoenix – 1901

im Fabian Remix und im Nightwaves Remix

5. Mix von Fluokids

Phoenix – Armistice
Tahiti Boy & The Palmtree Family – Brooklyn (Xavier de Rosnay rework)
Young Governor – English Tim
The Strange Boys – This Girls Thaught Me A Dance
Tame Impala – Desire Be, Desire Go
The Craftmen Club – I Can’t Get Around
The Mallrats – 7th Heaven (freestyle)
Doom – Gazzillion Ear
Stunts – Nemesis (Tekitek verse)
Metronomy – Radio Ladio (Radioclit swedish remix)
Top Billin – Money To Burn
Whitest Boy Alive – Golden Cage (Fred Falke remix)
Little Boots – Earthquake (Clap Mike remix)
Top Billin – Playboy
Heavyfeet – We Gettin Crunk (A1 Bassline remix)
Simian Mobile Disco – 10000 Horses Can’t Be Wrong
Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone
Doom – That’s That

Jess & Crabbe – Demolition Tape 5

Die MySpace Seiten von Jess und Crabbe machen sich auch bereit…ich freue mich!

Gesehen und Quelle und alles bei Fluokids

So, those blogging DJ’s from France (like Brodinski of Fluokids fame) and the UK (Skull Juice, Slutty Fringe) are getting bigger and bigger each day. Even Belgium follows suit (I’m looking at The Dukes, Sound of Stereo, some Club Noord residents).

Below is the setlist of a fine live recording of 2,5 hours DJ set by Casper C from Fluokids and Matt Walsh at Wax:On in Leeds, UK. To download the set, I forward you to Matt Walsh’s blogpost. Expect some nice mnml progressive and nu-rave like music!

1. Photonz – Glass Onion
2. Alter Ego – Jolly Joker (Supermayer remix)
3. Discodeine – Joystick (Tomboy remix)
4. Eamon Harkin – Innit
5. Glimmers – I just wanna go out with the boys
6. Retor grade – Coda
7. Motorcity Drum Ensemble – Get Slapped Up
8. Monty Luke – Paranoid
9. Cbass – Superpussy (Milton Jackson Remix)
10. Martin Brothers – Dum (Hookerz and Blow mix)
11. The Chap – Ethnic Instrument (Joakim Mix)
12. Juan Maclean – Give me Every Little Thing (Cajmere remix)
13. Inflagranti – Business Accumen
14. ZZT –The Worm
15. Proxy – Raven
16. Proxy – Raven (Marseille Remix)
17. J Phlip – Rumble Rumble
18. Style of Eye – Ona
19. Brodinski – Oblivion (Clouded Vision’s Vertical Drop)
20. Frankie – Brize
21. Radioclit – Secousse (mumdance remix)
22. Mixheil – Highly Explicit (Brodinski Remix)
23. Tonka – Freeze
24. John Starlight – Road Rage (Popof Remix)
25. James Braun – The Shakers (Tartelet)
26. Chloe – Take Care
27. Alter Ego – Baby Kraut
28. Kid Kudi – Day n’ nite (Jori Hulkonnen Remix)
29. Mystery Jets – Two Doors Down (Duke Remix)
30. A Trak & Laidback Luke – Shake it down
31. DJ Mehdi – Pocket Piano (Brodinski Remix)
32. Maurice – This is Acid (Boys Noize Edit)
33. Alex Gopher – Auroura
34. MGMT – Kids (Soulwax Mix)
35. Daft Punk – Rock n’ Roll
36. Stealer’s Wheel – Stuck in The Middle with You (Todd Terje edit)
37. Patrick Cowley/Sylvester – Do You Wanna Funk
38. Feist – My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix)

I have a feeling that track number 32 is from the hands of Praga Khan honcho Maurice Engelen. Yup, Belgians are famous abroad too

The French electro scene has been spitting out amazing new artist for an incredible amount of time by now. It seems a bit unlikely that they’ll keep on being great as they have been in the past, but apparently there’s still plenty of fresh talent left in France. The latest thing to get some creds around the blogosphere is Mondkopf, a young guy making some really extreme electro tunes in the classic French style, but still with a new twist. Mondkopf has just been signed to fluokids’ new label Fool House, and has an EP coming out on October 4th featuring the absolutely banging track Sainte. Oh, and if you check out his Myspace you’ll notice that the guy namedrops some pretty cool sources of inspiration in his Top Friends.

Mondkopf – Sainte

This is the beginning of a new feature that will capture the great battle of our time: Analog vs. Digital. Okay, a little too much drama, but you know where I’m going with this. This post will be about one of the true goodies of the analog age, but also one that is hopelessly connected to unfulfilled romances and cassette tapes.

Analog and digital may seem to be the exact opposites, but this new project from the British company Mixa seems to use the strengths of both medias. The idea of usb mixtapes has of course been seen before, but I must admit, that until now they have failed to amaze me. This on the other hand looks like a great mixture; an old fashioned cassette tape with a build-in sub plug that let’s you transfer all you digital goodness. And hey, you can put your own snazzy design on the tape!

Check it out!

And if you need any inspiration for what you might want to fill your usb mixtape with, here’s the Too Cool For School vol. 2 mixtape that Fluokids turned me on to a while ago

Too Cool For School Mixtape Vol. 2 (hosted by Fluokids until I get a proper link up)

And a neat little tracklist too

Queen of Japan – Fat Bottom Baby
Kelley Polar – Entropy Reigns (In the celestial city)
Nathalie Portman’s Shaved Head – Iceage Babeland
Out Hud – It’s For You
Nina Bobsing – Big Pressure
Los Super Elegantes – Dance
586 – We Got Bored
Cristal Palace – The Game
Signal Électrique – Fier de ne Rien Faire

South by So tired!

I attended the SxSw three ring circus, which has expanded to an 8 ring cirque de soleil of hyped hyphy drunk proportions. I took part in the Eastsport media lounge where Vlaze teamed up with Urb magazine, Girlie Action pr, VH-1 Classics and several sponsors. The bands would come in and get some food drink and swag, and then do a sit down interview with yours truly.

Big ups to Jessica and the lovely people at Girlie Action, Josh G. my media mafia partner from Urb Magazine, and Skull Candy who graced my golden head with new pink headphones. I already had a pair of white Skull Candy cans that I use on air at Little Radio, so don’t get all bent out of shape because I have girlish Barbie colored ones now. I can spin vinyl in any color headphones…I’m just that damn talented.

I was so busy working and doing interviews this year, that I unfortunately didn’t get to catch many shows. I have to say, though, that the Body Of War show was amazing. It was the only ’showcase’ that wasn’t about self promotion, but about a cause. Check out more about the film here.

So I don’t have as many pictures this year, but the ones I do are behind the scenes, side stage or right up front. Quality over quantity, I say.

Hope it helps paint the crazy picture, if you couldn’t go – or remind you of how tired you STILL are, if you did. Thanks to Totally Like Duh and Shadowscene and to all of you who made me laugh.

Interviewing the Von Bondies at the Urb/Vlaze/Eastsport Media Lounge:

Matt Goldman, of Danceright, visits the lounge for some sips and swag

My trusty shooter, Nick, takes a break from filming

The Black Ghosts spin at dusk:

Matt and me at the I Heart Comix party where I interviewed Cut Copy:

The Fluokids from France:

Body Of War show:

American Bang watching at Body Of War:

The guest of honor, Iraq war veteran Tomas Young:

Mason Jennings:

BOW producer Phil Donahue rocking out:

Serj Tankian elects the dead:

I’m now a Ben Harper fan – he was amazing:

Ben is joined by one of my favorite people, Tom Morello:

Scott Igoe from Kimmel & Shirley Halperin at the BOW show:

Billy Bragg stumps for peace:

The Nightwatchman in action. Tom Morello gave me goosebumps:

The flirty UK boys of South at their Bluhammock showcase:

I actually looked forward to time NOT being on camera:

Mingering Mike, Dori Hadar and me at the Ubiquity Records Showcase:

Dori helps Mike set up merch. If you don’t know the amazing story of Mingering Mike, you should!

My personal grail on every road trip – the floaty pen:

Sam and Ze (aka NASA: DJ Squeak E Clean and DJ Zegon) spin at the Urb showcase:

Wale warming up the crowd for GZA at the Urb showcase:

Wale from sidestage:

Food on the road included Sprite with blue and purple cubes of jello in it – I’m suspicious of that kinda fun:

This place was a post office/taxidermist/feed store/bar – but they had an 8×10 of The Donnas hung up:

Travelin’ Cat at a truck stop:

Hopefully he didn’t end up at this truck stop:

Charlotte Dunckley is a final year journalism degree students who has already launched a fanzine and is in the process of turning it into a commercially viable magazine – Things.

She recently popped in for an ad hoc tutorial and I asked her about her web strategy.

“I don’t have a website,” she replied.

“But you have a blog?”

“Yes.”

“Facebook?”

“Yes. And a MySpace page. With 800 friends.”

“So you do have a web strategy.”

Charlotte had been worried about her technical limitations and the lack of a website. Instead, she quickly realised that this wasn’t important – it wasn’t about building a big solid brick house, but about taking a bunch of caravans on tour, to where her audience lived online.

And crucially, this was backed up by her research – which is worth reading for any news executive or editor who wants to know how consumption of information is changing online.

Here’s what she wrote about her 15-30-year-old audience:

“When asked which four websites they visit most often, a whopping 67% of them included Myspace, with an equally large number – 65% – listing Facebook. The next greatest number was Ebay at just 20%. Other popular answers, surprisingly, but much lower, were Wikipedia, Youtube, Flickr and Dont Stay In. Other websites were mentioned barely twice – the research gathered long lists of obscure websites.

“Evidently my target age group lean heavily towards using websites with some kind of social networking element. Another common trend were blogs (yay) – Trash Menagerie, Perez Hilton and Fluokids, to name but a few.

“So – getting exposure via a good web presence, in Birmingham, to our target age group, is perfectly achievable without a website.

“We have the top three most visited websites for our target audience covered – Myspace, Facebook and E-bay… a Flickr account has been set up and is awaiting content – I’m thinking well tagged page layouts, our original photography (where the photographer lets us use them) and images from our events and associated events. Similarly there will be no problem uploading event content from Youtube. We could even look into recording snippets of face to face interviews in future too. I presume a Wiki would be equally simple to set up? And of course, we have a blog – here. Commenting on other blogs is a way to create networks of readers. Blogs like the award winning Created in Birmingham would be our best bet.”

She demonstrates the concept of a distributed web strategy further by looking at how Fluokids works:

“Fluokids is a collective of young French bloggers who comment on music and events. Dazed and Confused (incidentally the most popular magazine purchased by our target group, according to our research) describes it as:

more than a blog but a youth movement – an internet and musical revolution whereby enthusiasts and DJs alike can download the newest and most wanted music coming out of Europe. By constantly posting remixes, these Gallic laptop maestros are pushing what people will like tomorrow. Teaming up with labels like Edbanger, Kitsune and Modular, the Parisian crew of seven regularly DJ all over Europe, and by their own admission are “nerds with an ultra-developed social life – as much on cyber platforms like MySpace as in real life.”

“Googling Fluokids yields the following first page (in correct order): Fluokids blog, Fluokids Myspace, that Dazed Digital article, Fluokids on Virb.com, Fluokids at Last.fm, Fluokids on Flickr, a couple of old event flyers and finally Fluokids on Technorati.

“The fact that their entire blog is French, and is still reasonably popular with my target audience, says a lot for the ‘cool’ status they have accumulated through placing the right content in the right channels.”

Now, she’s going viral too.

And Charlotte is not alone (although she is very, very good – and if you have a business in Birmingham you should buy some advertising from her). I have other students using the same channels to the same entrepreneurial effect. I notice that students’ first instinct when set a task is to… set up a Facebook group. To connect with people they don’t know. Now how many journalists have the same instinct?

Ils sont 7. Jeunes, branchés et fins connaisseurs d’électro. Depuis quelques mois, les Fluokids nous disent quoi écouter, pourquoi et surtout quand. Au départ l’idée est simple : un petit blog entre amis pour partager la musique qu’ils aiment et que personne ne diffuse. En pratique, des critiques sur des morceaux à écouter en ligne gratuitement et légalement.

Aujourd’hui, on compare leurs billets à Bret Easton Ellis. Nike leur file des vêtements et Motorola est un partenaire régulier. Devenus des DJ’s hypes, ils mixent dans toute l’Europe.

C’est officiel, le trentenaire dépressif de Vincent Delerm s’est fait évincer par son petit frêre de 20 ans. Loin de toute utopie la génération zapping entreprend et y croit. Tout va vite, très vite, les Fluokids ont pris le train en marche. qui a dit que 20 ans n’était pas le plus bel âge de la vie ?

Blog des Fluokids

“At six years, I studied the musical theory and the piano with the Academy. I left it at seventeen years because I had become a revolted teenager and night bird.” Says Yuksek, French DJ and producer.

Now he is kicking off the North American leg of his worldwide tour. The first city he will be crushing (along with Brodinski & Fluokids- wow!) is my home city of Chicago, at Berlin nightclub. Considering the success of the recent shows of Paris Institubes feat. Para One and Surkin as well as Riot in Belgium, Chicago has been getting hit with great acts as of recent.

Yusek opted to sign to a German label, Relish Records, rather than a native French alternative such as Ed Banger or Institubes or any of the other brilliant upstart authorities is a strange choice, but it makes sense considering the caliber of the artist. Yuksek wants to make his own imprint. Known for using a variety of technical instruments to implement his digital wizardry and even singing over his own tracks live(which he says he learned at the French Academy), those who witness his spectacle are bound to see a kickass memorable show. His most recent album is the “Composer EP” and you can expect a variety of awesome remixes (to go along with the slurry of ones that he has already produced) such as Chromeo & Zombie Nation.

Here’s a couple samples if you need to be convinced any further to go to the show..

Yuksek – You Should be a Slave

Yuksek – The Wax

Teenage Bad Girls – Hands of Stranger (Yuksek Remix)

Justice – D.A.N.C.E. (Yuksek Remix)

Naast – Mauvais Garcon (Yuksek Remix) ***

Klanguage – This is Me (Yuksek Remix)

Here are the North American Tour Dates

September 06 – Yuksek dj set @ Berlin : Chicago
September 07 – Yuksek dj set @ Studio B : New York
September 08 – Yuksek dj set @ Meg : official aftershow Montreal
September 09 – Yuksek dj set @ Social : Toronto
September 11 – Yuksek live set @ Cinespace : Los Angeles
September 12 – Yuksek live set @ Mezannine : San Fransisco
September 13 – Yuksek live set @ Hiro ballroom : New York, New York

En fin de semaine c’est le MEG. Programmation de feu, surtout si tu vas aussi a Oshegea. Une bonne amie de Pagette a travaillé très fort là-dessus et nous on pense que tu devrais venir voir les DJs de Sharp à l’os jouer au Club Soda en première partie de l’Institubes Paris Terror Club. Pis après aussi, dans un « party» dans un endroit «que tu connais». Pis le lendemain, au Saints, ya Kid Sister pis Fluokids. Donc, oublie tes problèmes et danse.

Rod Lee – Dance my pain away (Tittsworth Remix)

*Bonus sample*

Lionel Ritchie & The Commodores – Easy like sunday mornings 

P.S. Si jamais quelqu’un te dit que le Baltimore Club c’est fini, svp, crache-lui au visage.

Since there’s no better way of spending it, break you’re little pink piggy, and come along this weekend cause there’s some great stuff ahead of us in Stockholm.

Beginning on Friday with our talented friends, Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid along with the multi-faceted Kleerup brothers, and more at Grodan. And on Saturday the infamous Fluokids have put their French blogging aside and brought their records and mp3 database to play at Klubb Ace.

If you really don’t have any of the above, you still have the following mp3.

dDamage – Ink 808 (Krazy Baldhead remix).mp3

Catch you on the flip side, dancing with an empty savings account!

/Noseblood