RETALI8 ❤ ÉMILIE 2JOURS, in case you didn’t know.

I will get off my ass and update this site more starting again from now. New mixes and music on the way. Peace

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Merry Xmas babies.. I love you all oh so tenderly

Two of my favorite writers on some hardcore street level bombing shit with a soundtrack from one of my favorite electro musicians. Best thing I have seen on Youtube in a long long while!

Le Syndicat Electronique – The Men Who Killed The Beat

Horfe & Tomek getting teenage kicks

Les Invalides – Au Revoir

A couple of weeks back my homeboy Alex Nôrinh sent me some tracks from a new 12″ he had picked up, C’est Passé by Les Invalides. It was released earlier in the year on obscure Polish/German label Automatik-Datamatik as a super limited single sided 12″ of only 77 copies (including 22 extra special white vinyl editions, one of which I am dying to get hold of!)

C’est Passé instantly caught my ear — three electro-wave tracks with an unmistakeably warm analogue sound, minimal but well-written step sequenced bass and drum machine rhythms with some possibly hand-played synthesizer parts layered on top. I was already enjoying the first two songs but the third, Au Revoir really grabbed me. A bare CR78 drum pattern backing a slow, romantic and melancholic synthesizer track. Beautiful.

Once we got over talking about how great the tracks were, Alex and my discussion instantly turned to who these ‘Les Invalides’ could be! Our first guess was that it must have something to do with Invasion Planéte. It fit the bill perfectly — minimal analogue electro/wave tracks, pressed on a limited 12″ with little to no information existing on the artist. The Invasion Planéte music and newer releases on Musamore and Zusammen are always shrouded in as much mystery as possible, but of course a little hunting around the net couldn’t confirm this either way.

I got in touch with Interfunk, who runs the Automatik-Datamatik label — but typically, predictably, as it was always going to be, he wasn’t able to tell me much more:
“Les Invalides are a forgotten Parisian synthesizer group started in the early 80s. They sent me these tracks from a recently discovered tape which had never seen the light before. It’s also a mystery for me…. I don’t know if there is more stuff still existing. I was told that a vocal version of Diable Danse has been recorded back in the old days, but I have never heard it… they tell me a lot of tapes with the old recordings are lost, so can’t say if there will be discovered one day to release another 12″…”

Sooo, the mystery remains unsolved for now. In fact the most I can tell you about this record is the impressive list of vintage analogue gear that was used in producing the tracks, boasting:
Roland: CR-78, Jupiter 4, Juno 60
Promars: System 100M, System 100 (Model 101 & 104)
Moog: Minimoog, Prodigy, Satellite
Arp: Sequencer, Odyssey, Axxe

You can buy the 12″ (a few copies left on black vinyl) directly from Automatik Datamatik. They are a completely independent and not-for-profit label working without a distributor, so show some support for great underground music and pick up a copy.

Oh yeah, if anybody can shed some light on Les Invalides or has some music for me to listen to, hit me up!

Les Invalides – Au Revoir

Listen kids, anyone who tells you to stay in school is wack. Skool sucks. Australian fashion model and babe galore Tallulah Morton knows what’s up — if I were still in school, these photos would be enough to make me drop out in a second. Don’t listen to your parents, listen to Tallulah. She’s hot.

Saturday night OSC-001 and myself are going to be repping the Cold Crush Wreckin’ Cru on support duties for none other than West Coast king Egyptian Lover along with Detroit pervert Jimmy Edgar, who are playing at the Civic Hotel. Me and OSC are both abso-fucking-lutely pumped!

Check out Cold Crush for more info on both nights, see you on the floor there Sydney cats

Cold Crush flyer hand drawn by my baaaad self! (Cold Crush logo by the man Crazy Kade) | Cold Crush event page on Facebook

Egyptian Lover + Jimmy Edgar event page on Facebook

DOOM – Cellz

Protests in Athens turned into riots after the shooting death of a 15 year old teenager by Police. Read more here, here and here.

Track is by bad man DOOM aka MF Doom from his latest album Born Like This.

The next film clip by my girl Jackie Ransom, from her upcoming album Cell Death. The song is about a giant fish that eats children, be afraid. No MP3 with this one, you will have to wait for the album to drop later in the year. Another sweet homemade video from Miss Ransom: she certainly has a way of making what was probably at one stage pretty innocent imagery look completely menacing. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next!

Stay tuned too for more news on my split 7″ with Jackie Ransom, featuring a track I recorded with Beta Evers from Germany. It’s coming soon on Zerohour Doom & Glamour.