watch out for Sarah's Devo double-header - c'est fantastique!
Verity Françoiz Breut – Vingt à Trente Mille Jours John Foxx – You Were There Jeanne Morreau - La Tourbillon (Jules Et Jim OST) Glass Candy – Life After Sundown Ruth – Polaroid-Roman-Photo Baccara – Parlez-Vous Français? Depeche Mode – The Meaning of Love Dominic Serge Gainsbourg – Le Poinçonneur Des Lilas M.A.R.R.S. – Pump Up The Volume Serge Gainsbourg – Hotel Particulier Gillian Hills – Rentre Sans Moi Michel Polnareff – Beatnik Thomas Leer & Robert Rental – Day Breaks, Night Heals Ladytron – He Took Her To A Movie Brigitte Bardot – Gang Gang Glass Candy – I Always Say Yes Françoise Hardy – Fleur De Lune Sarah Laurie Anderson – O Superman Japan – Fall In Love With Me Sylvie Vartan – De Bonheur Alice Dona – Les Trois Couleurs De L’Amour John Foxx – Glimmer The Associates – Those 1st Impressions Peepholes – Milk + Honey Relaxed Muscle – The Beast Master Verity Jacno – La Poupée Qui Fait Non Françoise Hardy – Ça a Raté Kraftwerk – Ohm Sweet Ohm The Buggles – Johnny On The Monorail Soft Cell – Bedsitter Dominic Fabienne Delsol – I’m Gonna Catch Me A Rat Stereolab – Tempter / French Language Disque Von Südenfed – Fledermaus Can’t Get It Norman Frechette et Les Hou-Lops – J’Etudie Mon Grec Anna Karina – Rollergirl Space – Magic Fly Sarah The Human League – Rock ‘n’ Roll Stereo Total – Cannibale The Chap – Fun and Interesting Metal Mickey – Lollipop Lollipop Kid Carpet – I Don’t Want To Fall In Love With You Kemper Norton Collective – Denaissance (live) *****PODCAST BEGINS***** Verity Pulp – Countdown Dauerfisch – Peter Thomas Kam Nicht Zahlen Mareva Galanter – Pourquoi Pas Moi? Add N To (X) – Adding N To X Petula Clark – L’Agent Secret Magnetic Fields – Smoke and Mirrors Deux – Game and Performance Dominic Holy Fuck – Royal Gregory Jacques Dutronc – Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi Clothilde – Et Moi Et Toi Et Soie Brezel Göring – Ich Bin So Süchtig (mit Christiane F) Christine et Ses Copains – Mon Mini Croulant John et Jehn – 20L07 Françoise Hardy – Les Petits Garçons Sarah Nicole Croisille et Pierre Barough – Un Homme et Une Femme Fayrouz – L’Amour De L’Autre Depeche Mode – Boys Say Go! Devo – Satisfaction (I Can’t Get Me No) Devo – Praying Hands Giorgio Moroder – From Her To Eternity *****PODCAST ENDS*****
Verity Stereolab – John Cage Bubblegum New Order – Round and Round France Gall – Nous Ne Sommes Pas Des Anges Louis Philippe – L’Oiseau De Nuit BBC Sporting Themes/Ray Davies – Breezy Bounce Jacques Dutronc – La Leçon Gymnastique du Professeur Dutronc Dominic Hot Butter – Popcorn Of Montreal – Suffer For Fashion Die Perlen – Jeudi Noir (Tony Punk remix) Stereo Total – (I Hate) Everybody In The Discotheque (version by Echokrank) Frank Alamo - Ma Biche The Mae-Shi – Lamb and Lion Blue Sisters – Il Va T’Aimer Sarah Grace Jones – La Vie En Rose Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene Dauerfisch – So Gut Miss Pain – Shelf-Location ROM (r@zorbla.de hardcover remix) Captain Sensible – Happy Talk Verity OMD – Enola Gay Dominic Stella - Pourquoi Pas Moi? Sarah Christie Laume – Rouge-Rouge Verity Serge Gainsbourg et Brigitte Bardot – Comic Strip Dominic Françoise Hardy – Non Ce N'est Pas Un Rêve Sarah Orlane Paquin – Le Train De 10h03 -FIN-
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This Devo mix of Datarock’s Computer Camp Love surfaced a little while ago. It seems like the ideal marriage: what are Datarock, if not the present day Devo?
The mix: it’s not really a huge departure from the original – but they’ve added some vicious Whip It-esque percussion hits (though I hear “She’s not that kind of a girl”) there’s also a nice little twist when Judy (“that’s a nice name”) gets a cameo appearance, and tells her side of the story, apparently she faked the big ‘O’ (and we’re not talking about her Roy Orbison impression)…
Datarock - Computer Camp (DEVO Mutato Mix)
Talking of the big ‘O’:
YMO Anecdote 1: One morning about half a year ago, We had to get up at some really stupidly early hour to do something really stupidly important. So we set the radio to come on at stupid-o’clock on Radio 2. I have this strange half-dream/half-awake recollection of hearing Yellow Magic Orchestra playing in the background whilst some montone DJ, who’d presumably been moved to the graveyard shift as a punishment, waffled endlessly to himself and the 2 insomniacs who were still tuned in. Thankfully my mind’s eye was picturing 8-bit colour explosions and pixelated mayhem, rather than DJ Monotone, in his grey shirt, whispering down his grey windshield...
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Computer Games
YMO Anecdote 2: Our reporter on the frontline who goes under the alias Feline1, relayed to us news of a small-scale synth-geek uprising when Yellow Magic Orchestra played the Royal Festival Hall in London on 15 June. It seems that even though they were billed as YMO, they only actually played about 3 YMO songs. Naughty. Feline1 wasn’t best pleased and felt like demanding his money back…
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Computer Games
Talking of Feline 1: On my birthday last year he gave me a CD-R of ZX Spectrum Madness. It seems he sat down on his trusty old ZX Spectrum 128K and played some of his favourite games and simultaneously recorded the soundtracks to some of them. So I get to hear some ace 8-bit anthems from the likes of David Whittaker, Dave Rogers and Rob Hubbard. And now you do too.
This one’s quite a jaunty little number, just perfect for going out for a spin in yr hydrofoil (or yr hydrofool) on a Sunday afternoon.
Rob Hubbard – Theme from Hydrofool (ZX Spectrum 128K) [nb. watch out for the abrupt ending]
Thanks Lew for pointing out the ZX Spectrum game is actually called 'Hydrofool'. I'll be the first to admit my knowledge of ZX Spectrums starts and ends with playing Horace Goes Skiing during the last Computer Science lesson of the school term when I was about 10...
If anyone goes out for a spin in their hydrofool this week, be careful, they handle a lot differently from the old hydrofoil pictured.
Phew, just in time to give you a taster for tonight's L'Amour Electronique, 8pm-1am at The Penthouse, Phoenix Place, Brighton. Entry is free all night long. Come and say salut!
here's last month's setlist and the mix is at the bottom...
Dominic Mireille Darc – Helicoptere Serge Gainsbourg – Requiem Pour Un Con Rod Freeman and The Blue Men/Joe Meek – I Hear A New World Kraftwerk – Computer World Serge Gainsbourg et Charlotte Gainsbourg – Lemon Incest Stereo Total – Holiday Innn Jane Birkin – Ex-Fan Des Sixties Pamela – Une Autre Autoroute Ladytron – amTV Sarah Adult. – Pray For Pills Cobra Killer – Mund Auf-Augen Zu (Stecker Raud, Ich Dreh’ Durch) Catherine Clousot et Jacques Rousseau – Dansons La Capucine Josephine Baker – Si J’Etais Blanche Simon Bookish – Michael The Human League – Life Kills Plastic Bertrand – Sha La La La Lee Françoise Hardy – Je Changerais D’Avis Charlotte Gainsbourg – 5:55 (Metronomy remix) Mick Harvey – Jazz in the Ravine Verity Claudine Longet – Love Is Blue OMD – Souvenir Schneider TM – Camping Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy Ruth – Polaroid-Roman-Photo Michel Polnareff – Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta Ladytron – The Way That I Found You Serge Gainsbourg – Elaeudanla Teiteia Neon Neon – Dream Cars Dominic Leonard Cohen – First We Take Manhattan Françoise Hardy – Suzanne OMD – Messages Les 5 Gentlemen – Si Tu Reviens Chez Moi Jacques Dutronc – Sur Une Nappe De Restaurant Jany L. – Le Restaurant Chinois I Monster – Full Speed To Metric Sarah The Associates – Waiting For the Loveboat Edith Nylon – Femmes Sous Cellophane New Order – Dreams Never End Electronicat – Frisco Bay Le Tigre – Tres Bien Hug Party – Tasty Ladies Verity Venini – Carnival Star (version 2) Bis – Love Will Tear Us Apart Mareva Galanter feat. Jacno – Bang Bang Desireless – Voyage Voyage Brigitte Bardot – L’Appareil A Sous Jacques Dutronc – Mini Mini Mini Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup Silver Apples – I Have Known Love *****PODCAST BEGINS***** Dominic Stella – L’Idole Des Jaunes Cats In Paris – Loose Tooth Tactile Jacques Brel – Les Filles et Les Chiens Echokrank – Abwaerts The Chap – I Am Oozing Emotion Zombie Zombie – Nightclubbing Jacques Dutronc – On Nous Cache Tout, On Nous Dit Rien Sarah Stereo Total – Orange Mecanique Jimmy Somerville – Puit D’Amour OMD – Joan Of Arc(not included due to technical problems) John Foxx – Mr No Nicole Croisille et Pierre Barouh – Un Homme et Une Femme Josephine Baler – La Petite Tonkinoise Les Georges Leningrad – Fifi F Hawnay Troof – Bad News From The Stars Verity Villeneuve – Oh No Neon Neon – I Lust U Erasure – Lay All Your Love On Me CKC – 20H25 Mareva Galanter – Les Cornichons The Knife – Bird *****PODCAST ENDS***** Dominic Ladyhawke – Paris S’Enflamme The Human League – Seconds Stereo Total – Musique Automatique Miss Pain vs Tony Tronic – Shelf-Location ROM (Overdue Under the Shelf remix) Ronnie Bird – Chante April March – Tu Mens Datarock – Computer Camp (Devo Mutato mix) Sarah Add N to (X) – Hey Double Double Soft Cell – Youth A-ha – Manhattan Skyline Verity Etienne Daho – Tombé Pour La France Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough OMD – Enola Gay Heaven 17 – Temptation Dominic Kap Bambino & Khima France – Seed Sarah T.Raumshmiere feat Miss Kittin – The Game Is Not Over Dominic Katy David – Plus Tard (Call Me) Sarah Devo – Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Getting) Dominic Michel Polnareff - Voyages
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Sarah found this book The French Revolution a few years ago in a charity shop. It’s an illustrated children’s book from a series called the Hamish Hamilton history library. She brings it every month to L’Amour Electronique and we always make sure we show off the gory illustrations at any opportunity.
Mister Bookish, the guillotine… Simon Bookish – O Guillotine
Here comes Holy Fuck’s chopper to chop off your head… Holy Fuck – Choppers Maybe they’ll stick it on a spike and parade around the streets with it.
France’s modern day national anthem La Marseillaise was the rallying call of the French Revolution and received its name because it was first sung by volunteers, who had marched from Marseille, upon their arrival on the streets of Paris. B.B. also marched to it in the opening of her 1968 end-of-year show for French TV Brigitte Bardot - Marseillaise Générique
Serge recorded his own reggae version of the French national anthem in 1978. It earned him serious death-threats from the extreme-right, affronted by the appropriation of a symbol of their national pride (I reckon I might be a bit miffed too if one of my favourite songs was given a reggae makeover). It also gave him his biggest selling record to date. A couple of years later he almost bankrupted himself buying the original manuscript of La Marseillaise “it was a question of honour” he said. Serge Gainsbourg - Aux Armes et Cætera
Yesterday I had a little of my faith restored in charity shops. I can't remember the last time I got anything good in one, but whilst trawling the ones in Eastbourne, I unearthed an odd little gem:
The 1977 space disco LP Magic Fly by French electronicists SPACE.
And the best thing was: it was reduced from £1.00 to 50p. C'est fantastique!
I've not had a chance to listen to it yet, but here they are in all their 70's astronautical glory: Space - Magic Fly
And while I'm in a French-y/space-y mood here's another one, in the form of: The Droids - The Force
hmm, maybe next week I'll find a Droids record in a Bexhill-on-Sea charity shop...
