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A budapesti buli teljes felvétel nagyon jó minőségben. Elfelejtettem, hogy ki vette fel, de ezer köszönet ismét!

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Our favourite psych garage rock band from Bordeaux JC SATÁN recently released their 5th album CENTAUR DESIRE on BORN BAD RECORDS. Strange that this is their first release which was recorded all together. On the past albums, Arthur (guitar) and Dorian (keyboards) used to handle all instruments.

The title Centaur Desire tells everything about the record. Traditionally the centaurs were the offspring of Ixion, king of a Greek tribe and Nephele the cloud nymph. They lived in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia. The centaurs were often represented drawing the chariot of the wine god Dionysus or bound and ridden by Eros, the god of love, in allusion to their drunken and amorous habits. Their general character was that of wild, lawless, and inhospitable beings, the slaves of their animal passions. These passions were channeled into this album with French jauntiness and Italian fervour.

If you feel this powerful passion then need to buy the legendary first release of RNR666 RECORDS, a beautiful limited edition JC SATAN / PIRESIAN BEACH split 7″ vinyl EP directly from RNR666 or at Musicland and Wave record shops in Budapest.

French synth-punk band CHEVEU and GROUP DOUEH from Western Sahara spent two weeks together in the city of Dakhla in 2016, and they wrote and recorded an album together.

Western-Sahara is the home of Sahrawi people. They are speaking a variant of Maghrebi Arabic, and have Berber, Bedouin and Black African ethnic backgrounds.

Their basic instruments are percussions and traditional stringed instruments which ones often replaced by electric guitar nowadays. The region was under Spanish rule until 1975, then Morocco and Mauritania divided up, but there is a movement of independence, called Polisario, which established his state in the inner Western Sahara.

On the one hand – The leader of Group Doueh was born in Dakhla in 1966, at that time it was a village. Of course he made his first guitar himself with metal can and fishing wire – as the legend says. His heroes are Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Mark Knopfler, and also influenced by Moroccan chaabi and psychedelic music, e.g. Nass El Ghiwane, which was established as an avant-garde political theatre in 1971.

„When I take the instrument, I leave elsewhere. I am absent. Music is my life. I inherited from my father who played percussion from house to house. I can approach any kind of styles, but I track down traditional music, the source.”

On the other hand – French trio Cheveu is not really punk in fact, rather outsider, in out of control zone, somewhere between the crazy psychedelic rock of the 60s and the no wave, industrial and electronic music of the late 70s.

At first files were exchanged, then Cheveu went to Dakhla to play, write and record songs together for two weeks. It was hard to bring together these distant universes.

The music of Doueh is often very ornamented improvisation. „The trigger thing was to fix one of their themes in punk rock mode. It freed us. They made a lot of improvisations, variations, and whenever you thought you had picked up, they left elsewhere…” „At this stage we played a few selected pieces of our repertoire to show what we are going to see (…) in response they suddenly started „Acid Waltz”, a theme brought by us, but they little by little made twists on it.

And finally there was a common live show at a venue. „At first Group Doueh goes to the stage, later Cheveu joins them. And everyone begins to find his place in a repertoire that they have refined for ten days. David takes the microphone. Some women dance. There is even a Parisian who made the trip after he saw the announcement of the event on Facebook. All of a sudden, Hicham turns to me: „Alan Vega in the sand! ”

OUT NOW ON BORN BAD RECORDS (FR)

At the École des Beaux-Arts El’Blaszczyk was a student of Christian Eloy, the eminent composer of concrete music and head of the class of electroacoustic creation at the National Conservatory of Bordeaux

SO THE STYLE IS TOTAL BIZARRE ROCK N ROLL MINIMAL ELECTRO CLASH by

EL’BLASZCZYK ROCK BAND HIMSELF

feat. his early teenage sister SOFIA BELLINA
 
Among others El’Blaszczyk explores such topics as the French resistance during WWII, medicine and illness

The Quirky Lost Tapes 1993-1995 released on Born Bad Records (France)

JC SATÁN

Killer Religious Psych Garage Rock from Bordeaux

from the S/T album on Born Bad Records

And there is

JC SATÁN / PIRESIAN BEACH split 7 „EP by RNR666 RECORDS. 2 x 2 songs. Exceptional beautiful cover painting by Paula H. Satán.

Taketori Monogatori by JC Satán +  Baby Disorder by Piresian Beach

Few copies left. We can post it also from the UK. Order here

by Nicolas Belvalette of Headwar under alias Usé

who can even beat two guitars at same time

album on Born Bad Records (France)

He is the head of Parti Sans Cible (Party Without Target)

YOU ARE THE MAYOR, YOU ARE THE FIST!

The party got 2,17 % on Amiens’ local election in 2014.

more PSC videos

Chocolat started in Montreal in 2008, when a Bloodshot Bill and Bob Dylan mix one man band, Jimmy Hunt has begun jamming with Demon’s Claws bassist. Funny francophone psych prog rock

„Tss Tss” album on Born Bad Records (France)

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Post hardcore noise rock by Proton Beast from New Zealand

„Digitizer” album on Muzai. It’s a New Zealand record label based in Leeds (UK). We’re livin’ in a strange world.

The English Burning Alms duo plays noise rock. I think Fugazi, Helmet, Sonic Youth and black metal; others mentioned e.g. Glenn Branca and Swans as influence.

debut album „In Sequence” on Smalltown America Records (Northern-Ireland, UK)

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Elzo Durt is Belgian graphic artist who made many cover arts for such bands as Thee Oh Sees, Magnetix, Jack of Heart, PyPy and many more. On the occasion of his Parisian exhibition, Born Bad Records have released a single with really various artists: Cheveu, Pierre & Bastien and Violence Conjugale

Elzo is co-founder of Teenage Menopause Records

Stupid, unimaginative video Vs Absolute garage pop hit
I Got The Moves

by the 4 pieces Brooklyn based all girl band, Habibi.
They plays Motown influenced mystical oriental minimal garage beats.

debut album on Burger (US)
debut single on Born Bad Records (France)

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)

„We work like dogs drinking sparkling water”

CHEVEU is more and more absurd and entertaining eclectic electronic punk rock band, like Devo, but in France

Johnny Hurry Up!

from the album BUM on Born Bad Records (France)

“I guess there’s quite a dark side to me. It always comes out when I’m writing songs. I love Sylvia Plath, and I love listening to songs that have that haunting darkness that really pulls you in, so it’s probably something that I want to create in my songs.” She plays every instrument on her recordings, from bass to piano, from guitar to sitar. Strange bitter-sweet haunted folky pop songs by Marika Hackman

Deaf Heat EP by Dirty Hit Records

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Cobra is a French thrash rock band. Outrage & destruction since 1984.

7″ on Born Bad Records