Summersmile

OK let's skip this:
Ahh it's really hard to record new stuff - I haven't record anything since march, but maybe it's a good thing ? I tried, but I failed, and I'm not happy with anything, but I know I'll try again soon anyway :)B.S.
It's really a matter of weather I think.

Speaking of weather I bought this weekend the wonderful, beautiful new album by Anne Laplantine with this, hum, vocalist, you know, my man Momusu !


Summerisle (or Summerible as it appears on my ticket) is the perfect soundtrack right now in Paris, the kind of record that makes you want to buy an iPod mini to carry it around with you everywhere you go. Yes, it's that good :)

And the fact that Hypo, who works at Gibert Musique almost sold it to me adds to the experience :)

My website has the worst comment section of the web - apparently you need to click on 'check master comment' or something like that in the pop up window... why did they change that I have no idea....

I want to remix RATATAT.

Grafico


Robert Duckworth is a street artist !

Make it happen?

Momus & Digiki: the drugs don't work!

I did a search on "Digiki" in SoulSeek and the only results I get were for my remix of Momus. Funny, but in the same time, scary. How to survive that ? I like this remix of course (and from what I've heard I'm not the only one), but what's next ?
I thought it would be interesting to work with Momus again, on a remix of Kitchen or on something for my next record. Unfortunately, this won't happen, which obviously doesn't change a single thing about what I think about the man. I'm not cool enough for the old guy apparently :) Sorry, I'm not on Active Suspension, Nick !
OK enough. I won't write about the man anymore, check his (very) clever blog, you know the address !

Speaking of things that won't happen, at least some people do answer my mails.
From Smith & Hack / Errorsmith:

Hello Antonin,

Thank you for your email.

Unfortunatly we cannot make a remix, because we we cannot relate much to the
tracks on the website.
Sorry!

A fast, simple, direct answer :) I love it ! I absolutely love S&H and I can relate much to their tracks :)

Speaking of tracks...
I'm officially the worst DJ on earth, but I don't care.

Which leads us to...


"You should play this" a non-stop anti-mix by D!G!K! (DJ DIGIKI)
de-mixed in Paris, April 2004.
all edits/wrong beats by D!G!K!
super special thanks to Eric Ker.
This is a Castellane release.

Tracklist (no artist/track name, stop da namedroppin'!!)

01 A Word from the wise
02 Clapping music
03 Mo' clappin' (with style)
04 The rest of 1984
05 Underground French punk hit
06 Break da whatever
07 Underwater macro glitch
08 Filtered gling gling
09 Just a laptop dancer
10 Game kid A
11 Testing
12 Voice of America
13 New, New York
14 Antiform
15 It's alright
16 Safety speaks
17 Muted TV
18 Do it (the Grenoble way)
19 Hot spot
20 Collage rock
21 B.R.U.T.A.L.
22 Electric fields for ever
23 Quiet madness
24 Not another movie soundtrack
25 Parking lot music
26 Kitchenfunk
27 Shades
28 Yeah (x3)
29 Walk on by
30 Hello, stranger

I will try to post it somewhere...

Wild palms

Cannes film festival selection here.
exciting !

Ice cream cut killa

From the Financial Times:

Gucci on Wednesday morning moved to put an end to several months of management turmoil by naming the head of Unilever's ice cream and frozen foods division as the successor to departing chief executive Domenico de Sole.

"Selling ice creams and frozen peas is a whole lot different to owning stores and making crocodile leather shoes that sell at $3000," said one veteran of the De Sole management team, who warned of the dangers of abandoning Gucci's entrepreneurial and non-bureaucratic culture.

LOL !!

Good day, bad day

Good day: Momus (him again !) posted the original, non-'re-produced' tracks from his last album Oskar Tennis Champion...

...and I received the John Fashion Flesh remix of Kitchen which sounds great !! thanks a lot John !
Bad day (not really but...): DJ Chien Loup launched his own weblabel (great design btw) and... destroyed the power plug for my lovely Korg Kaos Pad while remixing... Kitchen!! ahhhhhhh !!!!!!!
"You won't be able to jump on stage with it like you did in Japan...ahhh what am I going to do ? play acoustic guitar ??!! I got to find a way to captivate the audience !

Kinoko mix party

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Les Taulieres
10, rue de la Fontaine du but 75018 Paris
metro: Lamarck-Caulaincourt
Start at 21h
Free party in Paris 22/4/2004
Special guest DJ: DIGIKI

The new Yukari Fresh single under the Yukari Rotten name is FRESH. (logique!)
This is lovely, strange pop, only cute japanese bands seem to be able to produce.

Yukari Rotten - C.L.I.J.S.T.E.R.S
out on Escalator records, Japan

Momus & Anne Laplantine

Since Nick hasn't post a tracklist for his new album with Anne Laplantine Summerisle here it is:

01 Fur Ming Felt Hunt
02 Black Earth Buzz
03 Go Fishing Wildly
04 Spin Thread Annie
05 McKenzie Fling
06 Fingal Martin’s Mistress
07 The Tailor Of Dunblane
08 Manty Kelin
09 A Spratch ‘O’ Thyme
10 Trilly Birthphone
11 Johnny Jump Up
12 Seakliff Kragg
13 Ossian May

I can't wait to hear it !

We Ker about Eric!

he's back !

From Eric Ker:

je suis en retard pour l'opera je dois y aller je kiffe le animal machine remix de ttc je continue les boucles j'espere que tu vas bien

simple, efficace, direct: back in style ! ;)

I knew I should Blog it !

The Cult of Mac Blog

shiny shiny a girl's guide to gadgets

Sonido Uzumaki



The track I have recorded for the Friends with you / Mumbleboy / Julian Gatto group art show in Tokyo (opening this spring) called Wiki wifi is featured on the forthcoming art show compilation CD called Sonido Uzumaki to be released by the great Music Related label in May.
The compilations also features tracks by favourites E*Rock, Kiiiiiii! (crazy!), Lullatone and more !
Check the Music Related website for more details.

Super modified



Adidas Superstar Super Modified skate shoes.

Witness the fitness

I'm soooooo lazy, but still crazy...

At last I changed the title page of this website... it's here btw.
To do list for this week: record something !

Work it

Recent and upcoming projects updated here.

don't you want me ooooh-oooooh

You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you...

Process

De La Musique

In search of...'You should play this" perfect tracklisting !

more than 500 tracks, down to 100 tracks... still too long :(
difficult choices... down to 53 tracks...ahhhhhhh
this one or this one ? that Fennesz mix or this Mu track ? or both ? O.Lamm, Hypo... Momus ? hum, no.
Or maybe something off Summerisle...
filling a 74 minute-CD-R is still a difficult task...

You should play this...

Somewhere in Paris, DJs at work...

ahhhhh it's so good to be back. Spent most of the week (between my classes at Science Po) working on the follow-up to "I don't like mixing" and I guess it's going to be great. Even more styles / clashes / unexpected sounds etc - not your usual DJ mix...it's "anti mixed" or "de-mixed", I don't care if you dance, baby.
Which leads me to...

...we could play that

..playlist at Castellane, April 2004 (at last!)

(in no order, just pick'em up !)

-Sex In Dallas - Everybody deserves to be fucked (on Kitty Yo) new french band / 80s sound...
-Ryuichi Sakamoto - Chasm (out in Japan, out in May in Europe & USA) he's back with a clever mix of electronics and pop elements... one of his best album
-Felix Da Housecat - Devin Dazzle and the Neon Fever (new album!) pas mal, pas mal... I like the James Murphy (from DFA) track...
-N.E.R.D - She wants to move (DFA mix)... speaking of DFA... this is a good mix...
-Kahimi Karie - Nana (new single produced by Tomoki Kanda)... not her best, but a good single, with a creative B side, Spinning... can't wait to hear the Keigo Oyamada-produced track...
-Fennesz - Venice a good follow up to his masterpiece Endless summer... with David Sylvian singing on one track...
-Hypo - Random Veneziano (ah Venice again !) amazing pop album, wondeful work on the sounds and structures, this is so good it should be #1... can't wait to hear what he could do with Kitchen (come on Anthony !)...
-Kind Geedorah - Take me to your leader forget about the Neptunes, this is the best hip hop album of 2003... a MUST BUY...
-TTC- Dans le club ... just buy it.... GO. NOW !! a great, great single !!
-Soundhack- Soundkit EP... thanks to Institubes crew for this... I love it... clever house...

other stuff...
-Funkstorung - Disconnected... hum...
-The Micronauts - Anarchie EP... bof bof ...
-Cody Chestnutt - The headphone masterpiece... tres tres sympa... clever...
-various tracks from Biz Markie... thanks MC Cat Genius...
-F.S.Blumm, thanks to Roddy...
-Steve Reich - The Cave... perfect with Outkast's hey ya! if you ask me...

"ouais c'est Snap, le début de la dance"

Hypo



I can't wait to spend my hard-earned cash on Hypo next record ! this guy is amazing.

DJKI

item one: DJQUI/D!G!K!/DIGIKI spins ! special guest DJ set !
(ie. OK that was funny, but we'd rather not invite you again behind the decks...)

Jeudi 22 Avril 2004

Les Taulieres
10 rue de la Fontaine du But, Paris 18e
Metro: Lamarck Caulaincourt


item two: "You should play this" edited and non mixed by D!G!K!
follow-up to I don't like mixing compilation. more details soon, should arrive around May/June 2004.

OK I'm giving up for today.
Can't work on any new sound. See, I tried!
Forget about it, I'm back in front of the PlayStation2 and GTA, while listening to Justin Timberlake.

I'm sure that's because of those freakin' jeans...

Fuck jeans !!!

Forever Lars.


I'm a big fan of Lars Von Trier's cinema, so I went to see his new movie (no it's not Dogville) Five obstructions last monday. It's an interesting piece of work, based on the idea of shooting different versions of one of Von Trier's favourite movies, The perfect human, a short film by danish film maker Jorgen Leth, each time with a different obstruction or limitation, contrainte that Von Trier imposes to Leth. The results are very different, but interesting (the animation obstruction is surprising for example, as both Von Trier and Leth hate animation). It's a film about contextes, and variations on contextes, and that's why I really enjoyed it (and it's quite clever and funny too). I knew Jorgen Leth work before, as I saw one of his film, Det gode og det onde (the good and the bad) 3 years ago at the La Rochelle international film festival, selected in a panorama of european cinema by...Lars Von Trier.

If you have never seen any of Von Trier films you should check Europa or Breaking the waves, or check his amazing TV series, The Kingdom. His movie with Bjork was OK, but it's not one of my favourite. His recent Dogville is absolut genius, go buy the DVD now !