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Label : Nostalgie De La Boue [ndlb#80], Ivory Coast, 2016
In 1985 was released by spanish label STI an obscure compilation tape of french artists, that I consider as a milestone in the history of french underground musics, and that was also the very first post on that blog : Le Défilé Des Épaves. Some of the artists appearing on this cassette are still active today, and many many more have appeared since then.
Thirty years later, I've decided to propose a new panorama of french underground musics, according to an inclusive definition : artists living in France whatever their nationality and french artists living abroad.
Here is the result : 91 tracks (including 80 previously unreleased), more than 9 hours of amazing music covering many sub-genres of post-industrial and experimental musics (ambient, bruitism, dark ambient, drone, electroacoustic, electronica, improvised, industrial, minimal synth, minimalism, modern classical, musique concrète, noise, post-folk, ritual, tribal, etc.). As it is a very masculine scene, I've done my best to invite as much women as possible : as a result, 13 artists/tracks include a female element.
Given their quality, I really think that many tracks here deserve to appear on a physical release. If a "real" label wants to organize a redux physical version of this compilation, please contact me or the artists.
The compilation comes with a 12p booklet with tracklist and informations about all tracks. It is included when you download the complete album ; if you choose to download a few tracks only, see below the link to download the booklet separately.
Those who prefer to burn CDrs can separate the tracks on 8 albums : CD1 : tracks 1-9 / CD2 : tracks 10-20 / CD3 : tracks 21-32 / CD4 : tracks 33-43 / CD5 : tracks 44-55 / CD6 : tracks 56-69 / CD7 : tracks 70-80 / CD8 : tracks 81-91.
Many thanks to all artists involved and to Jef Benech' for the artwork.
Tracklist :
1. Art & Technique - Scratchy monday (6:46)
2. Vincent Laubeuf - Des stèles (couchées sur le sol) (10:09)
3. In Aeternam Vale - Dans ma maison (4:19)
4. ßęđŧīmĕ Šŧōŗĩėş - Īċĕ (4:06)
5. Pylône - Modal (8:28)
6. The Dead Mauriacs - Ectoplasme dada (3:42)
7. SRVTR - Holy shit (9:04)
8. Maxime Barthélemy - Bleu, blanche, rouges (6:06)
9. Christine Mannaz-Dénarié - Le songe de Sisyphe (16:26)
10. Laurent Saïet - Invocation (4:35)
11. Lieutenant Caramel - Der einsame Engel (8:09)
12. Palo Alto - Elementary mauriarty (10:19)
13. ceMeuble - Feel and smell more (6:03)
14. Emmanuelle Gibello - Eat me mister E (3:10)
15. Le Syndicat Faction Vivante - Douleurodrome (8:34)
16. Tiger Gong - Bass export (6:02)
17. Philippe Lamy - FDK (10:49)
18. Zonder / Ronsky - Cancrelat (5:33)
19. Raphaël Leray - Recurrence (2:36)
20. Pansyshell - Brouillon de chair (6:58)
21. Airworld - Rien ni personne (6:59)
22. Rainier Lericolais - Side A (3:58)
23. Rainier Lericolais - Side B (3:44)
24. Horse Gives Birth To Fly - Conradass (10:40)
25. Mutation Urbaine - Troubadour contemporain (6:58)
26. Trèfle Noir - Invocation (5:14)
27. Z & the Organs - Lombrics révolution (3:41)
28. Martial Bécheau - Javel noise 2 (2:02)
29. Joachim Montessuis - Extase à tous les étages, ou rien (9:43)
30. Le Syndicat - Structure (5:50)
31. Thierry Jolif-Maïkov - Anthropophage nuit (4:02)
32. 2kilos &More (feat. Black Sifichi) - Only hazardous (8:18)
33. Marc Hurtado with Vomir - Saturne (2:33)
34. Bruno Capelle - Ballata veneziana (9:15)
35. Outside Field - Cicadas and planes (5:00)
36. Madame B - A girl named Blue (3:52)
37. FLØG - Surgery 42-1 (7:53)
38. Jacques Barbéri & Laurent Pernice - La misérable et triste fin de la bergeronnette printanière (5:48)
39. Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - Die unausweichliche pittoresque (9:00)
40. Flavien Gillié - Le graphe du désir (5:29)
41. Overload System - Les mauvais hommes (8:11)
42. Paskine - #default001 (6:12)
43. Éliane Blaise - Frayées - intimae in micro circum polaris (edit. µ reducere) (9:37)
44. Flint Glass & Mode In Gliany - Undulating shadows (5:34)
45. Pacific 231 - Curvature (9:51)
46. No Way Out - Industrie lourde (5:17)
47. Amor Fati Trio - Danse sacrale (4:38)
48. Vincent Epplay - Les chiens de l'île de Pag (4:40)
49. De Motu Cordi - Exi(s)t (5:56)
50. Geins't Naït & Laurent Petitgand - You dit her (6:49)
51. nobodisoundz - Ochre suunmoon (3:38)
52. Strangelucid - Storm (5:31)
53. Black Egg - Gravity (4:00)
54. Benjamin Aït-Ali - Miniature II (2:28)
55. Carroll Catcher - Mon peau rouge (10:53)
56. Internal Fusion - Autrement dit (6:54)
57. Hélène Breschand - Dévoration (1:56)
58. M.NOMIZED - Abyss (9:37)
59. Tôf - Fond de mer (3:38)
60. ERT - La marche de l'escargot russe (5:59)
61. Noir Boy George - Les masques à gaz (2:22)
62. Magali Dando - The hidden corridor (5:51)
63. Klimperei - Akogare (2:58)
64. Jef Benech' - Douche froide chez les Massaï (2:32)
65. Somekilos - Right thing to do (5:42)
66. Mecano Lacrymo - Bleu de Prusse (3:18)
67. Entre Vifs - Session T7-1 : Substantiellement (15:23)
68. Roro Perrot - Gueule de chambre (1:33)
69. Zu Maia - xported2 (3:36)
70. The Grief - Algesia (Norscq remix demo 1993) (4:36)
71. Duncan Pinhas - Kobol (4:15)
72. Cheval Rétréci - Mugyo (12:20)
73. Minamata After Dark (feat. Mors Mea) - The death posture (5:52)
74. Marc Sarrazy - Lobotomy nostalghia (5:24)
75. RRR - Final (hi-fi) (5:54)
76. Terrine - Beer noodle (2:19)
77. Yannick Dauby - Radiolaire (7:27)
78. Treha Sektori - Onverth emh (5:19)
79. L'Étrange Couleur de l'Orichalque - Mouvement armillaire inversé (15:03)
80. Versolo - Reste de moi (4:57)
81. Vox Populi! - Mush dubby gnarls & vrooms (4:55)
82. Cent Ans De Solitude - Rien, ni personne (11:24)
83. Bertrand Gauguet - Hypnos IIA 2 (3:31)
84. Klaus Legal - Cher et tendre ulcère (5:11)
85. David Fenech - Traffic jams (5:32)
86. Patrick Wiklacz - Twist my night (6:46)
87. Phronèsis - The weird track (6:11)
88. 若潭 (ruò tán) - Emptiness & skin (5:53)
89. Astreinte - Le spectre visible (8:30)
90. Paul Grémare - #A.vers (rhythm chafed) (11:27)
91. Colombey - La France (1:57)