MAX!

Our friend Agathe Max has just released a solo album on XERIC, a division of the infamous TABLE OF ELEMENTS label. The record’s really good. Agathe also released another record some time ago on ANGRY BALLERINA which was also great. It was a live recording at one of the coolest clubs in town, the SONIC. For this one, she used the PWL studios.

She plays shows around here and in New York quite regularly. She also plans to tour Europe in the spring. Get in touch with her if you’re curious to experience a violin blast in your town.

Schmetzl tour!

The short tour + recording session with CHAPELLE 59 was really awesome. Thanks everyone. Thanks for trusting us on such a crazy project. We loved every second of fucking shit up and hanging out together.

Saint Etienne

I had the great surprise booking the tour for Kackala to hear that the RAMINAGROBIS in Saint Etienne is still alive and kicking. The girls played an incredible show there and the place rocks for real. Saint Etienne is the future of Lyon!

Serieusement autant je déteste qu’on dise qu’encore aujourd’hui il y a des villes bourgeoises et des villes ouvrières alors qu’on est tous précaires, nivellés par le bas et dans la même merde depuis longtemps.

Autant je trouve que Saint Etienne est toujours et malheureusement sous estime par les cons de quenelles que nous sommes.

Tant qu’on tombera dans le paneau de ceux qui veulent nous diviser pour mieux reigner ça sera toujours autant desolant par ici. 

Faites un effort.

Ciao

FOUTRAQUE!

By the way, S.K records has a new band. That doesn’t even have a myspace. Actually you can’t hear what it sounds like at all anywhere because we only improvise. It’s actually Eric from VIALKA , Mirco from LEM PHAGO, the swiss Minutemen and me. It’s called CHAPELLE 59. It’s improv but it’s still like rocking and loud, not the beeping and clicking type. The name comes from the place where we did our first performance without even knowing eachother. A collective house in Brussels with a basement. We decided we liked it so we sat up a little tour in october and a little recording session at Grrrnd zero. We’re still looking for gigs in Switzerland and France so get in touch if you’re curious!

SONGS TO DEFY IS OUT

Jarring effects gave us a hand on this project so I figured that sneaking in a little mention of them in this post was a good way to thank them.


So I’ve just been out of their office and I’m back at the S.K house listening to… yes… the new DOPPLeR album. CD version only for now but the vinyls will follow on HAK lofi record. What can I say more than what I have said a few times allready these last months? It’s really great and I hope you’re going to enjoy it as much as we do. The release date is officially september 26th but you can already order it on CD1D if you wish. Soon you’ll be able to download the mp3 version from the same site and also stream the entire album on this one site just like Clara Clara, the rubiks and all the rest when Matt and I will have the time to handle all this…

What? Did I never mention CD1D here? Okay. CD1D is the cool, not for profit, cooperative federation of labels that put a lot of energy together to provide an internet tool to make our musc available to you. Basically it’s exactly like if you’d order directly from us the labels only it’s more efficient, it accepts all sorts of payment methods and it’s fast and reliable. Not for profit, yes.

Distros, get in touch with us now’s the time. We should do trades again this year if we can get organized. Let’s talk about it.

Speaking of profits, sorry DOPPLeR friends and fans if I take the opportunity of this post to speak about all this but the transitions are just so easy today I can’t believe it… So, speaking of profits. We have to stop offering the completely free downloads of the mp3 versions of the S.K records albums on the CD1D site. It’s really ridiculous and out of control. I figured that people would download AND buy the records but I’ve been naive and we haven’t sold one single record since we started this so well I don’t know if it sounds like protecting our profits or something… I hope it doesn’t… but, yeah we have to stop this. The records will be available to download at a very fair price and we promess to finish the entire streamable S.K catalog band by band on this site. Believe me it’s a pain, please be patient.

Enough said. Ca va saturer! Mais il faut que ça gueule! Songs to defy is out and it’s a nice day.

ciao.

Residency fun

It’s been awhile

Summer has been slow but quite busy. We (me and the happy folks in the picture) started curating this residency program at grrrnd zero. It was the first time. We hosted KACZKALA, a band from infamous Tabor, Czeck republic (the European Bloomington). We had a great time. We all cried when they left. Greg allmost immediately flew to Tabor to meet them again. They stayed for three weeks in the Grrrnd zero rooms in the Brossette buildings. recorded 20 something new songs at PWL studio. and played a few shows in the area. We hope to do it again in the future, and why not on a regular basis. It was good to hang out with the Grrrnd zero kids again.

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Okay.

Direction survêt est mon groupe préféré en ce moment.

Le Bike kill va être super fun et peut être inciter des gens a se débarasser de leur bagnole.

Et le DEADWOOD n’en a apparemment que jusqu’au 21 août. C’est un lieu génial, en danger et qu’il faut soutenir.

Alors venez.

dead

dead

Venez aussi parce que Kačkala y joue. C’est à la dernière minute mais ça me donne l’occase d’en parler. Kačkala est un groupe basé en république Tchèque composé de cinq bonnes copines dont Hilary de Sabot et Lexa de Toychestra. On les a rencontré il y a des années déjà et on a jamais cessé de les aimer. C’est un groupe vocal, si si complètement a cappella et c’est vraiment vraiment très bien. Bref tout ça pour dire qu’en ce moment elles sont en résidence à Grrrnd zero et que c’est nous qui nous occupons de ça. Ca faisait longtemps qu’on avait rien fait en collaboration avec eux/ elles (grrrnd zero) et que ça nous trottait un peu dans la tête. Démarrer cette série de programmes de résidences, surtout en commençant par Kačkala est vraiment très excitant. J’espère qu’il y en aura d’autres. Elles font aussi deux trois autres dates dans le coin.

Songs to defy

« Songs to defy », the new DOPPLeR album is gettng ready. Again, it’s a great album and we’re very very very excited to work with them again on this new project. The record will come out the second or third week of september. To keep yu waiting, here’s one of the songs:

DOPPLeR – My third life minimum

NEW NED 7″

NED have released a new 7″ on the great British label MOTIVE SOUNDS. There are two songs, one is a newer dub(ish) version of THE MESSAGE, the opening song for their las album RIEN MERCI and the other was never released before but there are good chances that it will appear in their next album.

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