les chansons de la nouvelle scene francaise (and the oldies too), und ein Deutsch Popsängerin

Credit: Myspace

Coralie Clement is a sultry French pop songstress defined under the chanson genre, however, I think her music is a pretty far cry from the likes of Edith Piaf and Jaques Brel. She has some Chanson-ic elements to her music. Shes been around for a bit now, but I just discovered her earlier music and it's absolutely beautiful; archaic twee fused with the coolness of surf-rock and quintessential latin-influenced old French music. It's impossible not to like, and is impeccably French. Oh, and guys - she's fucking hot.

Coralie Clément - Ca valait la peine

Coralie Clément - Samba De Mon Coeur Qui Bat

Credit: this is my own photo, taken with a Sainsbury's Basics range disposable camera. (Seriously)

If you liked the Noemi track (earlier post) and Coralie, try these 60s songstresses:

Zouzou - Il est parti comme il Ètait venu
Zouzou - Tu fais partie du passÈ
Zouzou's music reminds me of The Velvet Underground but sexier and Frencher.

France Gall - Laisse Tomber Les Filles
Jacqueline Taieb - Bienvenue Au Pays
These two are cheeky Ye-Ye girls, singing along to more upbeat pop.

Françoise Hardy - Mon amie le rose
Beautiful.

By the way - look around Greenwich. Tom and I went into this record shop in Greenwich, and spent about 40 minutes to an hour rifling through all the bargain promos and found a massive amount of new and super-amazing music. We found: a Ratatat album, an Esser promo, Le Pop 2 (a collection of nouvelle French pop), some Clarky Cat, Busy P's 'Pedrophilia' EP, SebastiAn's MOTOR EP, Evil Nine - They Live (yeah, the albums were like £2 each!), Marco Carola Fabric 31 (absolute minimal goodness), Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams, and some new Lykke Li! And more. f u c k.

Here's the best of what we found:

Micachu - Golden Phone
Micachu is amazing. I've seen her live at DURRR and Pure Groove - this song is SO CATCHY AND GOOD. It's a great bit of simple pop music. I love this. Download this.

Ratatat - Mirando
Ratatat - Schiller
Ratatat are weird. Check them out!

Destroyer - Shooting Rockets (From The Desk Of Night's Ape)
This reminds me a bit of Bowie. He's a poet, and probably smokes loads of fags because his voice is a little croaky and strained (nowhere near Tom Waits though).

Holden - Tunis
More French pop! From Le Pop 2. It's one of those songs you listen to on your own whilst looking out of the window, or zoning out in the middle of a conversation at a party.

SebastiAn - Momy
Elastic band electro. 'nuff said.

IWASACUBSCOUT - I Hate Nightclubs
They're all broke up now. Bleepy indie-rock with straining vocals. They were on Abeano - check the label.

Busy P - To Protect and Entertain (Crookers Remix)
Busy P - To Protect and Entertain (Mr Oizo Remix)
Busy P = electro maestro, founder of Ed Banger and Daft Punk's manager (IN CASE U DO-NO) + Crookers + Mr Oizo. 'nuff said again.

Matt John - Io
Minimal techno ear sex from Marco Carola's fabric (31).

Credit: Kitty Hoff's Myspace

I'm not being a racialist, but whoever thought the German language was sexy? Nobody. Ever. However, this foxy 20's flapper girl styled German songstress Kitty Hoff proved me wrong and pulled it off. Yeah!

Kitty Hoff - Blaue Stunde
Kitty Hoff - Toc Toc Toc

mwooooaaam mwoam mwoam mwoooooooaaaaammm mwwwwoooammmm

This pic is from the Jack Beats Myspace

Jack Beats is a new bassline virtuoso!  I stumbled across sick beats blurting out of my browser, a rasping, throaty beat covering Safari in musical saliva molecules.  If you like A1 Bassline, and you like raves and remixes, then I can pretty much guarantee you will like this.  It's like you're in a rave in the 90s BUT THEN mwoooam mwoam mwa-a-a-a-a-a mwoaaaaaam mwooooammmmm *BANGgunshot* MWOOOAM MWOOOAM MWOOOOAM

Jack Beats have remixed Does It Offend You, Boy 8-Bit, A.C Slater, Black Ghosts, and Steed Lord, to name hhhhmmmmBUT A FEW.  This will rape your ears with joyous melodies.

Boy 8-Bit - Fogbank (Jack Beats Remix)

A.C Slater - Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix)

This pic is from the Noemi Myspace

Went on the Pure Groove site and downloaded the 100 free downloads.  The one that really stuck out for me was by this Frenchie songstress Noemi.  Breathy French pop set against surf music, but very much made in 2008.  Showed my flatmate this, who is into 60s French pop and was actually suprised it wasn't from that time.  

A sexy song.  Hot hot French singing over smooth surf riffs.  Fuck, it's just impossible to hate.  I'm playing it on repeat at the moment, followed by The Zombies' 'Leave Me Be'.  

Noemi - Donne Moi Du Feu

The Zombies - Leave Me Be

I also came across a KAVINSKY REMIX of Sebastien Tellier.  That made me cream.

Sebastien Tellier - Roche (Kavinsky Remix)

It's got Kavinsky's signture 80s synth but with the sexual pumping beats of Tellier dusted over with sensual vocals that the Terminator would play to his lady to make love to her.  It's what robot sex from the 80's sounds like.

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