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[Moods For Mallards]

Beyond Jacques Brel (I'm lumping in the Belgians, alright), Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Dutronc and the latter-day dance stuff.
Show me the good stuff, there has to be plenty of it but I don't know where to look.
I love the garagey sound of 60s Dutronc with the French lyrics. The sound and the language fit together fantastically. Anything like that? Or completely different, but, you know, good?

 

[ratmonkey]

Brigitte Fontaine.

 

[bloopitybloop]

France Gall

 

[Raar - Maximum]

Where to start!

Debussy
Edith Piaf
Francoise Hardy
Brigitte Fontaine
Jean Claude Vannier
Cerrone
Alain Stivell

Contemporary
Daft Punk
Justice
Turzi
Zombie Zombie
Steeple Remove
DAT Politics
Sebastian Tellier
Kandinsky
10LEC6
Monade
Charlotte Gainsbourg

 

[Dktr. Faustus]

Various Artists - Bippp: French Synth Wave 1979-85 [Everloving Records 2008]

Increasingly detached form the original punk formula, the modern and arty youth of the early eighties set itself to jettison an art form that had lost much of the nihilistic and exhilarating energy of his halcyon days. NO FUTURE was the motto of an art form without a cause that no longer echoed the mindset of the time.

Disheartened but eager to experiment and create, a NEW WAVE of French musicicians followed the beacon of JACNO's seminal 1979 hit "Rectangle;" a visionary, digital coup de grace, with which the former punk dealt the Rickerbacker and Fender era a fatal blow. Cold and robot-like bips of analog keyboards took over. The Casio, Korg MS 10, and Arp Omni became the new paraphernalia of the NOVO generation -- ideal conveyors of their retro-futurist elegance and self-professed cold arrogance. These were symbols as potent as electric guitars in the fifties or laptops in the nineties.

oops

 

[Dktr. Faustus]

also check out METAL URBAIN - one of the first wave of french punk bands....with synths! the original stuff was great, haven't bothered checking out the new stuff done with jello b - a 30 sec clip sounding like tedious generic industrial gak was enough

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[Moods For Mallards]

Cheers, Faustus.

And I'll look into some of those other names. Obviously I know Debussy, Piaf, Hardy and some of the contemporary ones - but I'll check out the rest.

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

blut aus nord
deathspell omega
Aluk Todolo

these are completely different but good....

 

[rettucs]

le negresse verts
noir desir

 

[Froog]

saian supa crew if you like hip-hop.

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[Moods For Mallards]

noir desir

Ah yes, that's the fella who manslaughtered the wife.

If you're going to recommend gutter musicians, you can do it on your own.

 

[Froog]

django rheinhardt even though he's belgian.

 

[Franco]

Frustration

http://www.myspace.com/_frustration

and other fellers on Born Bad records.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

aside from what's above

two standouts

Jean-Claude Vannier - Les Enfants Assassin Des Mouches

Nino Ferrer - Metronomie

 

[bloopitybloop]

France Gall

she was a roide too, although i would severely doubt she remains one.

 

[Franco]

Space

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Hey! How come my video won't embed?

PEEEEEEEEEETTTTTE!

 

[chickenham]

Would recommend:
Red Noise; Filles Qui Mousse; Heldon; Lard Free; Urban Sax; Catalogue (or anything Jac Berrocal related); Heldon; Brigitte Fontaine (as mentioned but esp with Areski); Magma; Etron Fou Leloublan.
Stormy Six have been recommended to me but I've not heard them yet.

DJ-ed loads of this last Sunday........

 

[Cara]

Yann Tiersen, man's a genius

 

[dudley]

Francoise Hardy for sure.

Tahiti 80 for your slick soft pop thrills (who notably have a song about Joe Dolan)

Benjamin Biolay for your slick soft rock thrills

 

[Lillian]

Dimitri from Paris, the ultimate in french disco