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Music Shit / PARKINSON SQUARE BACK TOGETHER !

« on: January 21, 2007, 07:19:14 AM »

With the first Parkinson Square album reissue / remix coming in june on Seventeen Records, the original Parkinson Square members have regrouped and started rehearsing together again !

There are talks, becoming more and more real, of several reunions concerts to happen in the Lyon area. The whole town is buzzing, as Parkinson Square was one of the most hard hitting hardcore bands to originate from there in the 80's.

You can listen to samples of the upcoming CD on myspace, a rough remix of The Maze (which just shows the difference between the original mix and what was actually on tape), and two different, totally clashing versions of Leprosy, both from 1995 :  the Acoustic version (live), and then the Electric version, which shows the extent of Parkinson Square musical range !

The reformation is 100% original members, same guys that were in the band when they stopped working 10 years ago.

One must remember, Parkinson Square was one of the early, and only, hardcore bands to originate from France, touring with DOA, No Means No etc...

http://www.myspace.com/parkinsonsquare

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Music Shit / Re: Guilty Razors reissue insert

« on: January 16, 2007, 12:17:42 AM »

haha, you got one "mispress", which makes it valuable ! Thought I'm sure anyone can "fake" this insert with a good printer and scanner.

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Music Shit / Re: Guilty Razors reissue insert

« on: January 11, 2007, 11:31:44 AM »

Hi,

I don't need the translation, thought some people here might be happy reading it !

Send me your email, and I'll email you jpgs version, so that you can print out your own, it's basically a printed out handmade insert, on pink paper for most of the copies.

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Music Shit / Re: Guilty Razors reissue insert

« on: January 11, 2007, 05:22:50 AM »

First press had inserts, 2nd press (blue vinyl) had none. I may have a few to spare thought, but I need to get those printed out.

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Music Shit / FuturS Ex from France

« on: December 14, 2006, 09:00:03 AM »

New band made by Ex members of classic or cult french punk bands, and the first new release on Seventeen Records (as opposed to reissues)

Pat Kebra (guitar, ex Oberkampf)
RXC (bass, vocals, ex WC3 / A 3 dans les WC)
Thierry Gaulme (ex Attentat Rock)

They are rockin out their first gig this saturday in Paris, at the Seventeen Club #0 night, the free 7" vinyl is offered at the door, entry is 5 €, 17H30, at le Truskel, 10/12 rue Feydau, 75002 Paris subway "grand boulevards".

For those who cannot get there, we are making a few copies of the single available in the seventeen shop also. If any of you ordered the Guilty Razors 7" pack singles, fancy a free extra copy, let me know, I'm packing them this week end. It's the least I owe you guys for pre-ordering the stuff and trusting us.

This single won't be available after this event, not in this color that is, this is a one off. We only made 500. Take out the free band copies + the free gig copies, and there won't be more than 100/150 left.

Listen to the tracks here
A side "Anesthesie"
http://www.myspace.com/seventeenrecords
B side "Je te hais" (this is "Ti Amo" remade as "I hate you")
http://www.myspace.com/futursex


www.seventeenrecords.com

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Music Shit / Re: Metal Urbain by Jello Biafra

« on: September 06, 2006, 06:31:19 AM »

I first knew of Metal Urbain when I saw their first single on display in a record shop in Paris as a traveling teenage hippie in 1977. There was no more room in my backpack so I did not buy it. But I wondered, what could it be...?

When I got back home to Colorado, I learned that the very same Metal Urbain single had found its way to America and my friend John Greenway (who later co-wrote "California Über Alles") already had a copy. John had the strangest, most non-rock taste of any of my friends and said I must hear this band immediately. "Panik" on Side A was very angry punk, but not like any punk we'd ever heard before. I loved the screaming synth noises and the pissed-off French lyrics. I could not understand the French, but it completely destroyed the idea that the French could not rock because the language did not fit the music. Now French was a fiery punk weapon. But the real shock was the B-side, "Lady Coca-Cola." It was not really punk, more an attack of pure noise. Maybe a little Heldon/R. Pinhas, but more like being attacked by dentist's drills coming out of the stereo—wow!

These guys weren't just different, they were insane. I wonder what Jean-Michel Jarre fans thought of this.

In San Francisco, I found a short interview in the greatest of all punk 'zines, Search and Destroy. "Panik" translated was more political and militant, even frightening, than most other '77 punk bands. "Why do you sing in French?" "So the Americans can't understand us." I liked the attitude too.

More singles came: "Paris Maquis", "Hysterie Connective", each one better than the last. Metal Urbain was not just the outer edge of avant-punk, but a great rock and roll band. Hungry, we waited for the album, but it never came. Like many of the great punk pioneers, fire, emotion and conflict blew up the band way too soon.

Others picked up the torch and made France the only place in the world with a long tradition of drum-machine and electronic punk-rock bands. As far as I'm concerned, Charles de Goal, Kas Product, Ludwig von 88, and Berurier Noir, and even America's Big Black owe their very existence to Metal Urbain.

So imagine my surprise 25 years later to see Metal Urbain advertised to play a small club in San Francisco called the Hemlock. I went to the show, half-expecting to see some stupid yuppie indie-pop band that had stolen their name. No, it was the real thing. Even now their music confused many people in the crowd. V. Vale from Search and Destroy was there too, so we gave them a friendly "Hello Hello" to let them know there were people who remember.

Then they returned to the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, with great new songs, and a new synth wizard named Jerome who seemed to have lit a fire under the whole band. Metal Urbain was no longer nostalgia, but once again a band of the future.

I am surprised and honored they asked me to produce their new album. It seems more like Metal Urbain were my mentors than the other way around. I knew we would need Matt Kelley to engineer since he is great with sounds and a master of electronic and hip-hop sounds in his work with the Coup, Hieroglyphics, Digital Underground, and George Clinton.

The new songs are fantastic: no filler, at least as good, if not better than the original 70s classics. We all agreed not to restrict ourselves to make it sound like the old Metal Urbain. Times have changed, technology has grown, and this music matters now. I think there is something good here for fans of many things—from the old Metal Urbain to Turbonegro or Ministry. From Berurier Noir to Atari Teenage Riot. The music, the sounds and the friendship with the band have all been a great experience for me.

Jello Biafra

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Music Shit / Re: MONO vs. Stereo

« on: September 05, 2006, 11:52:38 AM »

Actually Beatles is a crazed bunch, if you discount the american versions, which are a mixed bag of fake and true stereo, it's better to get the first four in stereo, japanese bootleg (way superior to the shitty mono official CDs), the rest, except for Abbey Road, was mixed in both mono and stereo, and both versions are of interest, due to the differences (some takes differs etc).

Just avoid Anthology and their new, shit, stereo mixes (it's just George Martin destroying his past with Pro Tools and getting the nod from the survivors due to them being tone deaf after years of touring/playing), or any new Beatles product anyway.

The Beatles were one of the more popular band ever, but their back catalogue will forever, never being represented in a good light, due to a bunch of several factors. Any self respecting Beatles fan should just check the original releases, or a japanese official boots, in both stereo and mono, all about a 1000th superior to anything they reissued on CD, or will reissue, ever.

The MFSL stereo vinyl box cost your arm and leg, but it's so far the best ever issue of their back catalogue in stereo. There are so many different mono, you will go crazy trying to sort out it out haha check this page

http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beatles/

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Music Shit / Re: YouTube videos (Tyrades, etc)

« on: September 04, 2006, 09:55:09 AM »

French punk retrospective show, full of rare footage (Metal Urbain, Guilty Razors, Asphalt Jungle etc...)

Partie 1: Introduction, Daniel Darc, Starshooter...

Partie 2: Frenchies, Lou's, Guilty Razors, Eudeline...

Partie 3: Les punks à la télé

Partie 4: Bazooka

Partie 5: La Brune et Moi, Pacadis, Alain Kan, Bijou...

Partie 6: Lucrate Milk, Eric Tandy, Plastic Bertrand, Jean Neplin...

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Music Shit / Re: YouTube videos (Tyrades, etc)

« on: June 18, 2006, 04:26:18 AM »

The most intense 12 second (sex) you will ever heard before all hell breaks loose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwjkWv-LLmc

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Music Shit / Re: YouTube videos (Tyrades, etc)

« on: June 14, 2006, 02:26:46 AM »

Guilty Razors, "Guilty!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSha2c1LxpQ

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Music Shit / Re: YouTube videos (Tyrades, etc)

« on: June 03, 2006, 11:30:59 PM »

Metal Urbain original 1977 video for "Panik" single

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_HMXbk3g08&search=metal%20urbain

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Music Shit / Re: Metal Urbain recording new LP with Jello Biafra !

« on: March 05, 2006, 05:22:18 AM »

You can read the production blog (alas in french) and watch pictures there :

http://metalurbain.canalblog.com/

metalurbain also have a myspace

http://www.myspace.com/metalurbain

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Music Shit / Re: Metal Urbain recording new LP with Jello Biafra !

« on: February 18, 2006, 09:35:31 AM »

The answer to that is in his comments on his podcast. And it's certainly not for that...

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Music Shit / Re: Metal Urbain recording new LP with Jello Biafra !

« on: February 18, 2006, 02:55:53 AM »

Jello discusses his involvement in an official podcast here

http://alternativetentacles.com/batcast.php

Click on batcast # 5

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Music Shit / Metal Urbain recording new LP with Jello Biafra !

« on: February 18, 2006, 01:07:34 AM »

To all those who enjoy this pioneering mix of drum machine and synths noises with stooges like riffage and rock'n'roll solos from the 70's :

The new version of the band is leaving today Paris to San Francisco, where they will record their new and first LP with JELLO BIAFRA producing in the next two weeks.

You can expect surprise shows in the SF area, (hopefully with Jello guesting ? we don't know, but can hope).

If you got the Acute CD "anarchy in paris", you know what I'm talking about.

If you didn't, I still got about 20 copies left of the "Chef d'oeuvre "double CD digipack, which is the most complete collection of this great band so far, find it there :

http://www.seventeenrecords.com/cdshop.html

or get until feb 21 for a cheap price the single CD album version, 17 tracks reissue of the original album

http://www.seventeenrecords.com/shop.html