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this time, it's definitive...

I had a great time sharing you the music i loved, the music i discovered, the music i danced on.

but it takes too much time and work conditions are getting impossible, so i have to let it go, unfortunately...

I hope you enjoyed it as much as i did...

keep discovering great bands, keep supporting artists, keep faith in art !

"prenez soin de vous"

CHARLie'S

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my last mp3...

Sébastien Tellier - Bye Bye

CHARLie'S best of 2008

Minitel Rose

Minitel Rose is an old kind of french internet, with a lot of porn. But it's also a new french electro band, with 3 guys from Nantes. Quite nice, sounds a bit like the eighties. Friends of Metronomy, and you can hear it !

MySpace
Buy their album 'the French Machine' on iTunes

Minitel Rose - Continue
Minitel Rose - Business Woman
The Teenagers - feeling better (Minitel Rose remix)

freshin' up

After a few weeks of absence, I'm back ! 

i'll still post great music, 

but having a lot of work planned, 

i will focus on quality instead of quantity

ch.

Chet Baker

(W. Claxton)

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. (Oklahoma, 23 December 1929 - Amsterdam, 13 May 1988) was a really great American jazz trumpeter and singer. Specializing in relaxed, even melancholy music, Baker was a leading name in cool jazz in the 1950s. Baker's good looks and intimate singing voice established him as a promising name in pop music as well. But his success was badly hampered by his drug addiction, particularly in the 1960s. He died in '88.

Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine
Chet Baker - Let's Get Lost (my favourite)

largest record collection in the WORLD

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

if you got 3 million $, and a place for 2,5 million records...

covers

covers can suck... or can be great !

two things.

# I'm not there

a movie about the life of Bob Dylan, with Cate Blanchette, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Richard Gere.

It was overall critically acclaimed last year, and i liked it too. I just found one critical review here.

The Dylan soundtrack is great, but the actual OST-album is a cover album. All artists were supported by The Million Dollar Bashers, an all-star band ( featuring Sonic Youth stars Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley, Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, Television guitarist Tom Verlaine, Dylan bassist Tony Garnier, guitarist Smokey Hormel and keyboardist John Medeski)

Cat Power - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
Pavement & The Million Dollar Bashers - Ballad Of A Thin Man
My Morning Jacket & Calexico - Goin' To Acapulco
Antony & The Johnsons - Knockin' On Heaven's Door

# BBC Radio 1 - established 1967

Radio 1 was 40 years old last year, and did a cover album :

40 artists have recorded 40 cover versions as part of Radio 1 Established 1967. Each artist was given a different year, and asked to record a track that was a Top 20 hit in that particular year. Some of them remained true to the original version, and others reinterpreted it.

Amy Winehouse - Cupid (Johnny Nash 1969)
Robbie Williams - Lola (The Kinks 1970)
Franz Ferdinand - Sound And Vision (David Bowie 1977)
Editors - Lullaby (The Cure 1989)
Klaxons - No Diggity (Blackstreet 1996)
Hard-Fi - Toxic (britney spears 2004)


+ PS : here's an older post with a lot of great covers.

incredible street art by BLU

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Interview : Hercules & love affair

Hercules And Love Affair - Athene