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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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Angoulême

Les NED voudraient s’excuser sincèrement auprès de toutes les personnes impliquées d’avoir été obligés d’annuler la date à Angoulême cette semaine. C’était vraiment frustrant et décevant d’avoir eu a faire ça et on espère que ça n’arrivera jamais plus. Encore une fois pardon et on espère revenir très bientôt.

Excitation

We’re very very very excited because a new DOPPLeR album will come out soon. Certainly in september. We’ll have the chance to talk about it more precisely soon but right all I can say is that I’ve heard it and it’s brilliant. It was recorded at the BLACK BOX studios in Angers by Peter Deimel and it will be called « songs to defy ». Der Kommissar is currently doing the artwork.

DOPPLer has already two albums on S.K and a bunch of other things as well

The Rubiks

The Rubiks have finished recording and mixing their debut album. It has been recorded at SUPADOPE FACTORY in Lyon by Niko Matagrin. It contains 8 songs, one of which is a 22 min epic anthem. We really had a good time recording it and we’re all very excited to be a real band at last. For those who have no idea: The Rubiks are Andy Duracell on drums, Seb Radix from Kabuki Buddah on bass and vocals, and myself, who also plays in NED on guitar and vocals too. The story of the Rubiks is funny and frustrating at the same time because we started this thing as a joke. Actually a friend of ours decided to hook all of us together to start an all star band of his own, with whom he could play the producer and then it really got out of handy because we started loving playing together beyond any attempt and we really have allways wanted to be a real band but our real real bands were very demanding as well and time was hard to find, not only time to just hang out and have some good time together, no, that was not the worst part and we kept writing songs over the years. No being a real band requires some time off to get our shit together and to stay motivated. We held on and now we finally got an album and it really is exciting. Seb from the Kwack collective in Clermont Ferrand will do the artwork and Choko is going to master it next week it should – if everything works fine – be out shortly after the summer, and we’ll post some mp3s here and there in the meantime. So you’ll hear from us sometime soon…

OKay here we are finally

I swear this is my last attempt in finding a good way to regularly update this site. Even when I’m out of town, which is a lot at the moment. So: there you have the news blog of S.K records which will be updated hopefully at least every week. I won’t translate it. It will be in English or in french when I feel lazy, don’t worry, you’ll see that french is not so unbearable when written and I’ll put photos to illustrate. Anyways. Enjoy. Ciao.