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From New Records
Cha Cha Guitri was a French minimal synth pop band in Saint-Etienne in the early 80s. The boys composed and sang, the girls sang and designed minimal costumes. Only two cassettes were released and three concerts were given. They were too artistic for the break-through.
Their records of 1981 on LP/CD/digital on Born Bad Records (France)
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„Das Leben ist ein Puff…” und Puff ist eine Berliner synth punk gruppe
7″ vinyl platte über Slovenly Recordings (US)
Mr. Pop Under Torture
„Justin Biber is the future of rock’n’roll” – said Iggy Pop
after an easy chat with specialists of the Amnesty International
„The overall goal of this campaign is to try to influence people’s ideas on the use of torture. According to surveys, a shocking number of people believe that “torture may sometimes be useful” ; more than 36% of people even think that torture is justified in some cases. This is unacceptable, and we illustrate this reality with the message that a man who is tortured will say anything in order to escape this awfulness, using provocative images and statements to attract public attention. We would therefore also like to make it clear that the statement attributed to Iggy Pop that he believes Justin Bieber is the future of rock and roll does not represent Iggy Pop’s personal opinion but was part of the creative process for this campaign and was intended to be ironic. The image has been removed.”
Amnesty International Belgium French speaking section
Somewhere On The Baseline Road
New Zealand for me: sheep, Hillary, the big beer boycott of Greymouth, continuous earthquake, Flying Nun and Axemen
The newest band there is the Avoid! Avoid! It’s a psychedelic, kraut rock inspired trio from the Baseline Rd
Dadaist Dance Party with a Little Marsh Fever
Here are the recent RNR666 Party’s pics. There were two great French bands. Badaboum is like a Neue Deutsche Welle band infected with Malaria. Unfortunately their show was very short, because the bass guitar got spoiled on fore-part of their show, and there wasn’t another one.
Bonne Humeur Provisoire is a Dadaist dance band. Their instruments are unseeable on the pics. They have a big table with keyboards and lots of weird gadgets.
pics by gyerage
Élet a Földön / Life on Earth
avagy: A DOHÁNYZÁS HALÁLT OKOZHAT…
or THE SMOKING CAN CAUSE OF DEATH…
…DE, MINDIG VAN FÉNY AZ ALAGÚT VÉGÉN!
…BUT THERE IS ALWAYS LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL!
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a találatért köszönet illeti Delay Danit
és üzenjük neki, hogy ne cigarettázzon sokat, mert tényleg káros!
From New Records
Dub Thompson plays a strange mix of contemporary music. You can find there almost every style of music that was heard by them: dub, new wave, kraut rock, stupid cartoon tunes, punk , hip hop and more. Really amazing.
„9 Songs” LP/ CD/digital on Dead Oceans (US)
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In last autumn The Wytches emerged all at once from the nothing, i.e. from the Peterborough’s plain in East of England. They’re one of the best new-comer garage rock bands. Their music is er garage doom grunge surf or such a thing.
7″ on Heavenly (UK), Partisan Records (US)
A Postcard from Budapest
Xeno & Oaklander, cold minimal synth pop duo from Brooklyn,
in January between New York and Moscow landed in Budapest
to play a show and to shoot a video for the new album Par Avion,
because Sean McBride also loves this city
Keith Moonshine Show
Iggy Pop has made a special cover album 2 years before. His label refused to release it. They would have preferred that he does a rock album with popular punk songs because the money is rather in it, than in these old-fashioned melodies. This is a strange point of view because the original performers of his covers sold vast number of records. Finally the album called Aprés was released by himself in 2012.
Now you can listen to the original songs. There are 5 French chansons by Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, Henri Salvador, George Brassens and Joe Dassin. Originally those were recorded between 1946 and 1975. The oldest one is a Cole Porter song which was recorded in 1929.
Mr. Pop said about his work: “All popular music forms of today get their strength from the beat. The beats imitate the human heartbeat and that is where the power lies. But before the birth of the blues there was another form of popular song, in which the timing comes from the human breath and the feelings are much more about emotion. I’ve always loved this other feeling, one that is intimate, sometimes a little sad, and does not try to beat me on the head.”
1. Iggy Pop – Everybody’s Talkin (2012) 2. Joe Dassin – Et si tu n’existais pas (1975, right corner with newspaper) 3. Serge Gainsbourg – La javanaise (1962, above Dassin) 4. Harry Nilsson – Everybody’s Talkin (1969, sitting on a barrier) 5. Yoko Ono – I’m Going Away Smiling (2009, lying on a piano) 6. Edith Piaf – La vie en rose (1946, with accordeon) 7. George Brassens – Les passantes (1972, on the road) 8. Henri Salvador – Syracuse (1962, with guitar) 9. Cole Porter – What Is This Thing Called Love? (1929, performed by Leslie Hutchinson. Porter is sitting by a piano.) 10. Beatles – Michelle (1965, 4 backs) 11. Frank Sinatra – Only The Lonely (1958, like Jesus)
Not enough punk? Porter, Piaf, Brassens and Gainsbourg are among the greatest punks for ever.
From New Records
„Stale white boys playing stale black music” or „100 AUSMUTEANTS fans can’t be wrong… 100,000,000 Bon Jovi fans can.” Well, a fantastic Aussie garage synth-punk band where every member is Kurt.
LP on Goner (US) and Aarght Records (Aus). And their brand new 7″ on Easter Bilby (Aus). You can listen their home recorded album here
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DEPAKINE CHRONO. Czech punks on acid with guitar, drums and calculators. Debut album on cassette
and digital. A witty pun track title: Iva 8bittova
Side effects: seizure, double vision, back-and-forth movements of the eyes, seeing flashes of light, blurred visions, lack of coordination, confusion, hallucinations, tremors, dizziness, ringing in your ears, problems with thinking or memory…
Music for Sliding
They said: acid punk. I say: psychedelic rock. Influenced by kraut rock and Japanese pop. Similar to another Japanese band, Boris.
BO NINGEN – SLIDER
from the album III on Stolen Recordings (UK)
Their short story: 2006. Two Japaneses meet in London and form the Bo Ningen. Give only one show where the audience to force them to cease music. 2007. One of them meets another Japanese. Big happiness. They play music for 10 hours per day. Finally the drummer is coming towards them.
Nouveaux Vague Francaise
NEXT RNR666 PARTY
24 JUNE 9PM BUDAPEST TRAFIK KLUB
BADABOUM – French Neue Deutsche Welle infected with Malaria
+ full concert video playlist +
BONNE HUMEUR PROVISOIRE – Residents of Tristan Tzara’s hat from Negativeland, or Neue Dada Welle
From New Records
Berlin > To Rococo Rot is a no wave pop trio with jazz and classical elements and a little Velvet Underground feeling in their music. The upcoming album featuring Arto Lindsay (DNA, Lounge Lizard, Ambitious Lovers)
‘instrument’ – LP, CD on City Slang (UK)
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New York > Sex Scheme (ex-Mountain Cult) plays noisy blues with harp. Strange, but it comes Big Black to my mind.
7″+ digital + cassette + if you order either of them, then you can pick a CD-r