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)

fresh & unknown (yet) : Little Boots

6 months ago (that's like 50 blogyears according to hipster runoff ), i heard and enjoyed a song called 'stuck on repeat', by little boots, without any back information.

Now, i regret my lack of research, because little boots is a very cute british girl + her name is Victoria Hesketh + she's also frontwoman of dead disco + her first EP is produced by Joe Goddard from Hot Chip + she has a blog + released a free mixtape 'Computer Fairyland Mixtape' + she will be dj-ing in the LA @ Nocturnal Festival, in LDN, in Paris, in Athens, in Berlin ... + Little Boots is in this month’s Dazed & Confused, FADER and Spin magazines, as well as this week’s NME Radar feature + she drinks stella artois + did i say she's pretty ?

(stuck on repeat)

Mixtape's tracklist 

click to download

Stuck On Repeat
Meddle
Stuck On Repeat (Fake Blood Remix)
Meddle (Ebola Remix)

myspace 

fresh & unknown (yet) : Little Dragon

Little Dragon is a swedish band, from Göteborg (like José Gonzales and Jens Lekman). Their music is a warm, mysterious mix of soul, pop, jazz, electronica and R&B. Enjoy, because i did !

Little Dragon - Twice
Little Dragon - Recommendation (Toddla T Remix)

on iTunes

Recorders - Northern Lights EP

Remember my friends from Recorders ?

This indie rock band, from Brussels, started in 2006, with influences like Interpol, Joy Division, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, The Libertines, The Strokes, Editors, Velvet Underground or Bloc Party (nothing bad, right !?)

Alex, Gordon, Math & Max have their own little (cfr. belgian) succes in 2007 and 2008, by winning the Demopoll contest from Studio Brussel (the best flemish radio station in Belgium), and the Puredemo contest from Pure FM (the best frenchspeaking radio station in Belgium). 'God, this country is complicated !

Followed by very cool concerts all over the country, and even in Paris, the band recorded his first EP, called Northern Lights !

And because they're very friendly people, you can download it for free! (click on the picture)

mp3 (right click to save) : Recorders - Black Mountain

They're now selected for a rock competition (again!), called Concours-Circuit
The contest takes place on saterday, 6th september. Go see them ! it's cheap, and you will also see : Bikinians, Les Heritiers, Mad Radios and The Vagabonds.
facebook event (in french)

every info on myspace

fresh & unknown (yet) : Passion Pit

One of my favourite blogs, Good weather for airstrikes, is about to stop. The blogger has launched his own record label, Neon Gold ! They will drop their first release in september, a single from Massachusetts-based pop crew Passion Pit. Listen to the brief but effective introduction to the sound of what Pitchfork calls "a glistening array of woozy textures that call to mind both the atmospheric twee-scapes of A Sunny Day in Glasgow and the ecstatic seaside fantasias of Air France ... "

MP3 : Passion Pit - Sleepyhead

fresh & unknown (yet) : sunny day sets fire

note : fresh & unknown (yet) will be a new serie of posts, with (un)known bands, having a cool and fresh sound. Not necessarily my favourite, but always good to discover (mostly thanks to their label). But you will be your own judge ! And there will be an mp3 to grab, of course... are you ready?

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Sunny Day Sets Fire

This band, from very different horizons (UK, Hong Kong, Italy & Canada), released it's debut album 'Summer Palace' last month. The band masters the happy side of indie/pop/rock 'n roll, like the beach boys meet death cab for cutie. There's also an upcoming  remix EP, Stranger, featuring remixes by Diplo, CSS and the Cool Kids.

stream : sunny day sets fire - wilderness

MP3 : sunny day sets fire - 'wilderness' - CSS remix