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La Ligne Claire - Chéri mini-LP
There's some seriously throwaway craziness on this mini-lp. Punk is obviously the background for this music, though La Ligne Claire were not born when French hardcore punkers Lucrate Milk were wrapping sellotape around their heads in early 1980s videos. Chéri's ramshackle beats are drawn more from African music than Amphetamines. - Clive Bell (The Wire)
If I hadda do any strong comparisons I could dish out names like Theoretical Girls and maybe even those hoary old Godz, but La Ligne Claire are different. There does seem to be the spark of innocence and youth that will probably get wooshed away as the hard slam o' reality finally sinks in, but the spazz joy and Velvet-y drive is enough to have one thinking Jonathan Richman '72 meets Arto Lindsay '77, and that's a pretty heady equation in itself! - Chris Stigliano (Blog to Comm)
these two women and two men are in the process of writing their own musical language out of some fairly warped parts. - Doug Mosurock (Still single) [MORE]
Atelier Méditerranée - Méditerranée 7" 3 tracks
I wish more singles that came through here were as interesting as this one, and credit must be passed – again – to labels like Bruit-Direct, who have never chosen the smoother path as to what they release to the world. Outstanding, densely (dis)organized music for enthusiasts of LIFE itself. - Doug Mosurock (Dusted)
“Méditerranée” is the sound of sticky keyboards poking at schoolchildren until the kids erupt into moans of agony, as if Slugfuckers left the rhythm section at home and just blasted their gear after a particularly lousy day at the factory. - Matt Korvette (Yellow Green Red)
It's a wild pile of Guff - very French sounding (in a Bordeaux Free Rock direction) and quite exciting. Supposed to be part of a series. Can't wait for more. - Byron Coley (The Wire)[MORE]
Scorpion Violente - 12" 3 tracks maxi-single (2012 repress)
one of the most brutal packages to recently arrive at 20jazzfunkgreats bunker. It contains 3 awesome slabs of cold war psy-ops, martial nihilistic mechanics and cyborg bass boost that will fulfil all your dirty proto-NWD dreams. Rome Violente is our choice, it does indeed sound like the Flirts’ ragged, switchblade touting cousin, the one who crawled from the gutter after being raised by mutant vermin. Or P.I.L.’s submission for the Escape from New York theme, sadly intercepted by U.S. Border Police before it reached the hands of our man John Carpenter. Minimal jacking music at its undead best, fear the city. - 20jazzfunkgreats
Accident du Travail - mini-LP playing at 45rpm
A downright entertaining collection of avant garde musings located somewhere between Terry Riley and Fripp/Eno, all played on an ondes martenot! Pleasurable drones to help soothe the inner you battered daily by the constant onslaught of work and other disgusting necessities of life. The fact that it's analog also helps, especially with those pops beginning and ending each side that bring back long-lost memories of vinyl obsession I thought I'd never forget. If you like old old avant as opposed to newer old avant or post-postmodern avant, this might be the surprise hit of the season! - Chris Stigliano (Blog to Comm) [MORE]
Cro Magnon - Wash 7" 3 tracks
Haley Fohr (Circuit des Yeux) and Katie Leming, operating in an overmodulated lo-fi gestalt. There's pop here, in the same way that Times New Viking delivers it (Wash), but a lot more anger and discordance (A Hole), finally culminating in evocative, obtuse, broken dollhouse sounds of quiet fear (Apple Orchard). The slide from somewhat straightforward sounds to deliberate creep-on is quite the thing to behold - Doug Mosurock (Dusted Magazine)
Size matters top ten of 2009 - Byron Coley (The Wire) [MORE]
Minitel - Minitel 7" 4 tracks
The French they are a funny race. They like to do it with their________. Drum machines? Synthesizers? Baguettes? Aperitifs? I forget how that old chestunt ends, anyway, the Bruit Direct label is doing a fine service to us all by providing the most wonderous noise escargot, seemingly feeding their potent Gros Gris a diet of petit greens & toxic earth. The 2nd release, this 7" from Minitel is a plump bugger ripe w/schizophrenic angst; the a-side is clearly borne out of the avant soil once trod upon by Ilitch & DDAA while the flip sounds like the band harvested an entire field of wormwood, distilling it into a noxious absinthe of Swans like potency. The blind carnage that follows, well what did you expect, A Saucer Full Of Secrets? Bruit-Direct is growin real live monsters, no two ways about it. - Tom Lax (Siltbreeze) Both guitarists also play in Sister Iodine [MORE]
Junior Makhno - The theatre of the macabre 7" 6 tracks EP
Amazing horror-hop Metal hybrid. Have listened to this a few times and wish my son was around to help with my vocabulary. It comes off a little bit like a ghetto-recorded soundtrack to a movie starring Glenn Danzig as a vampiric country priest who rides a little donkey into the city to attack MF Doom. But that doesn't really get at the root of it. Its essence is more damaged than that. Can this somehow all get traced back to Metal Urbain ? If so, I'd like to see the map. - Byron Coley (The Wire) [MORE]
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