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Terminal Boardumb => New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates => Topic started by: SSR on April 30, 2006, 03:55:44 PM
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Finally out from the fine person at S-S Records to you the world we love so much. Send us money now for:
Tête de Bébé LP $10 US/Canada, $15 world NEW
Ten releases ago we gave the world Babyhead, our look at the state
of punk rock. The record got great reviews and was touted as what a
compilation should be. To celebrate our twenthieth release, SS, Sr.
put together Tête de Bébé with some help from French rock & roll
luminaries Jack Volt and Seb Normal. This time S-S Records focuses on
12 bands from France and Belgium, all doing very different things to
this thing we like to think of as punk rock. Of course that means
nothing straight forward here. Instead this noise gets a unique
Francophone twist. Bands/artists here are Volt, Crash Normal, Kania
Tieffer, Le Club des Chats, Cheb Samir & the Black Souls of Leviathan,
Cheveu, Crack und Ultra Eczuma, Lawrence Wasser, Lili Z., The Electric
Guitars, Dragibus, & The Normals. For all of you who know that France
has been turning out some of the best rock and roll as of late, this
will be a much expected treat. For those of you who still cling to the
tired cliche that the French can't rock, be prepared to have your world
shattered. On white vinyl.
http://s-srecords.com for more info plus recent catalog additions.
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Brian Turner (WFMU) sez:
Various - Tete de Bebe (S-S)
Oh, the French and their music. Yes, we all love to laugh at the Gitanes-huffing septegenarian speaking obscenely to Whitney Houston, deify the likes of lookers like Gall, Bardot, Dutronc, Hardy, but rarely does the issue of France's absolute kickass punk rock scene get the headlines, which is a damn shame. And unfortunately the stuff that does trickle into American punk consciousness is rife with bands playing up the kooky-beret-and-Pepe-le-Pewisms that frankly bore the shit outta me. On the better side of the coin though, you have Metal Urbain's Stooges-go-synth-destruction "Panic" which might be up there with the best punk singles of all time (and they were still amazing screaming total hell when they reunited for a US tour that stopped at WFMU's Record Fair!), and a whole new breed has taken the torch and blasted the rocket off yet again. Somewhere along the line, California's wickedest weird-punk label S-S has become the prime importer of this stuff, distributing and putting out Francofreaks like Cheveu and Dragibus, and in recent years a few other cool artifacts have trickled into the station from bands like Lili Z and Volt, whom all seem a bit intertwined personnel and vision-wise. This new vinyl comp Tete de Bebe neatly wraps together the more ragged edges of France's more treble-endeared proponents of modern music including the four above-mentioned outfits plus some unknown-to-me peops like Les Club des Chats, Lawrence Wasser, and Cheb Samir and the Black Souls of Leviathan (and I understand a few Belgians are tossed in there). They all share a common thread of crude production, definite fandom of Chrome and maybe some of the LA weirdos of yore like Beelzebub Youth, Nervous Gender and the Screamers, but there's a healthy array of deviation and also awareness of some of the bluesy electromutants like Doo Rag. Great.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/05/recent_faves_fr.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n5QmbAr8qM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n5QmbAr8qM
...why?
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Just mighty excited but the best promo video S-S ever had (actually the only promo video we ever had....)
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I've been playing this thing nonstop. Amazing comp, and unlike anything else. Volt's guitar sound is devastating, and every other track is just as good. Look for a huge interactive article on the weird wave of French underground music up soon at www.Victimoftime.com
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Look for a huge interactive article on the weird wave of French underground music up soon at www.Victimoftime.com
Someone definitely needed to do this.
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The abundance of electrostuffs on this thing caught me off guard at first, but yeah, good comp. The Volt/Lili Z. tracks on there are two of my favorite songs by both artists.
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I've been playing this thing nonstop. Amazing comp, and unlike anything else. Volt's guitar sound is devastating, and every other track is just as good. Look for a huge interactive article on the weird wave of French underground music up soon at www.Victimoftime.com
Ah, so that's what you guys are up to now. "Interactive article?" I can't wait!!!
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CHEVEU french 7" available and going fast
Clara Venus b/w Super Héro
LISTEN TO CLARA VENUS HERE : http://www.myspace.com/pollymaggoorecords
Yeah OK it's a HIT
Our partners at SDZ are working hard to get it on your fave distros like MIDHEAVEN/FORCED EXPOSURE/UMED/GONER etc.
And that french friend of ours Soriano should have a box of 20 soon
I'll deal w/ direct orders from 5 copies on (price 3.50 euros + post). Send a message on our Myspace page
Oh and that CRASH NORMAL new LP is available so bug Joe at Rococo in Chicago to get a copy.
LAWRENCE WASSER 7" out end of the month on Maya's label. Stay tuned.
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diggin the pollymagoo cheveu ep as well as tete de bebe. my girl also brought me over that Pebbles comp with Lili Z doin an awesome version of a Callico Wall song.
gonna be in paris for a couple weeks in august, hope to see some of these bands play.
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Lucky you got one of those Pebbles comps. I was given one, too, but by a greasy french dude. They are all gone now. It is great and you are right, that Lili Z song is very cool.
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Just checked a bunch of this shit out finally. Cheveu is indeed fab, but Crack Und Ultra Eczema is fabtacular. Refreshing fun crashing. Already know the Crash Normal and Volt stuff'll be tight. Needless to say, when I have money to buy records again, I will get this.
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http://agonyshorthand.blogspot.com/
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In Italy they say
http://cheveunet.free.fr/presse_fichiers/presse_interviews.htm