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February 2005
On the turntables this month in Montpellier :
The Sharp Ease : Going Modern (Soft Spot).
Emilie Simon : La Marche de l 'Empereur Soundtrack (Barclay).
The Je Ne Sais Quoi : We Make Beginnings (Coalition Records).
The Vanishing : Still Lifes Are Failing (Fatal).
On the turntables this month in Oslo :
Asja Auf Capri : Novi Ronde (Difficult Fun).
The Vanishing : Still Lives are Failing (Fatal).
Tracy and The Plastics : Culture for Pigeon (Troubleman).
Korrupt Oppkastere : Moralem ut til Folket (self-release).
Les Georges Leningrad : Sur le Traces de Black Eskimo
(Alien 8).
What Babes in Boyland wrote about you.......
.Phallus Über Alles : Iron Woman (Fatal Recordings).
This band isn’t made to please the machos’… That
was my first tought when I’ve first lent an ear to their debut
album. I did really enjoy listening to their electro punk distorsions
and shouts, it was exactly what I had been looking for in what some
people call the Digital Hardcore Industry. Don’t get me wrong
though because this gem belongs to Fatal Recordings. Diesel gives
us her anger and sharp tongued lyrics served all raw in the plate,
and with the plate on to your face!!!
Phallus Über Alles denounces a patriarcal society (as their
name which means Phallus Before Everything Else lets us understand).
They turn a critical eye at men but also at women who get involved
in spreading this mis-conception. In the ‘brawl at the boys
and girls club’, everyone is pointed at and the rage that comes
out of the track won’t keep you still. ‘The future homemakers
of America » presents us a rant against America’s narrow
minded values. The spoken words are abrasive and make me feel that
some kind of resistance isn’t over in the States. On the top
of that, the drum and bass beat gets hammered into your brain without
even noticing it.
So yes if you like punk fury mixed with electro beats (which I personnaly
do) from drum and bass to digital hardcore, Phallus Über Alles
is the band that you need to listen to immediatly. Got the message?
Riotmiloo.
.The Sold Out : Stop Talking (Anorak Supersport).
Electropop with drops of darkelectrobeat. Read between the lines
of intelligent tracks by Garbage (there WERE some on their first
album, remember?), Ladytron, Miss Kittin and Client, and you will
find some unspoken references: like Madonna's "Justify My Love"
intro before the verse brings a Client-style in! "I don't want
to have Sex with you" was big in Belgium last Summer, from
what we hear (I won't exciting chart tracks here too!) , and yes,
it has everything of of hit: catchy, easy, and...simple. There are
way more interesting tracks on the record, though (like "A
Taste of Candy" or "I Can't Wait" for example). Of
course the die-hard electropop people will not find this record
of the most revolutionary, but it's still efficient and clever...
and remember it's pop! Besides, I read a reference to AuPairs' "It's
Obvious" in you're "Different", so, even if I am
mistaken, Belgium: 4 points!!!
.Asja Auf Capri : Novi Ronde (Difficult Fun).
Now we're talking! Let me introduce Anja Krischner and David Panos,
who are neither just one person (thanx to Rhythm King and Her Friend
I now can count to 2!) called Asja (name which presumably refers
to Asja Lacis, the woman who stole Walter Benjamin's heart and gave
it to Karl Marx...gossips again... or is it historical?) not far
from Capri, Italy. The duo is based in London and deliver on this
first LP of their a talented DIY (post)punk ethos going back to
Nina Hagen's genius (no, I promise it's not only the use of German,
I am not THAT superficial. I had not been so excited about an album
in what feels like centuries!
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