Kitsune – Maison 6 (Compilation)

Release date: October 27 2008/Download Nov 3 2008 (Kitsune)

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The Kitsuné Maison selection is back for its 6th edition. Since 2005, the Kitsuné Maison series is basically the combination of what gets played in the Kitsuné offices in Paris, what Gildas & Masaya spin at the few parties they deejay at and what stands out from the promising new contacts they pick up all over the world.

If there is a Kitsuné sound, it keeps on evolving towards ever more melody… or something else. It’s a sound that can be violent, almost aggressive, but also haunting and melancholic… or all of this at once.

This time contributions come from Australia, the old Europe, the USA… from all over really. Some of the featured artists are signed and glorious, others are virtually unknown and live in bedsits. Some will release their future albums on Kitsuné and others already have A&Rs in search of the next big thing biting their nails.

It’s Kitsuné Maison 6, you can listen to it ‘à la maison’ or anywhere else for that matters.

Still two of them, still based around Stockholm and not even big-headed after getting their first taste of success at twenty years old.

For the curious with flair, they unquestionably released the best electro-pop album of 2006 (the others can start getting on the case, better late than never).

Here they provide a new exclusive track for Kitsuné, just so to prove that they haven’t lost it and that the next album will be really really good.

 

LA ROUX Quicksand

La Roux, to be pronounced with an English accent. It’s a girl, a kid. The kid of 2009. We always say so and sometimes people won’t listen. It’s not that we’re wrong, it’s more that people don’t pay attention. La Roux mentions Michael Jackson and eighties pop as primary influences. This compilation’s wonderful surprise, don’t you think?

 

PNAU  With You Forever

The connection comes from Sam La More, the Australian producer we’re really into. Pnau are Aussies too, and love nothing more than posing naked in corn fields (nothing unusual here). Everything that goes on in Byron Bay, the most beautiful beach resort in the world, is fine with us, particularly seen from Kitsuné’s Parisian offices (a ground-floor with no view whatsoever but a little garden that’s not exactly exotic). Yes, just to think about Byron Bay makes us go all funny.

 

YOU LOVE HER COZ SHE’S DEAD  Superheroes

After three nice tracks, the compilation heats up violently. Gildas says YLHCSD is like Digitalism meets Crystal Castles. He means it when he says it and we believe him. In all cases this ain’t for the faint-hearted. The Prodigy is their favourite band, nothing original when you’re British and live way out in the sticks. The first time we met them in London, they came by van, it took them five hours… Young people love them. They make young people’s music.

 

TED & FRANCIS  I Wish I Was A Polar Bear (Arctic Urgency edit)

More on Kitsuné’s Australian complex, and we swear we have no solid connection Down Under, it’s just that Sydney’s on the ball right now. Two friends-producers, the first writes so-called classical music, the second listens to New Order. A computer-ish melody to start with… which soon takes off. There’s no need to be too poetic about it but we picked up the ‘Arctic Urgency edit’, which is most probably a green message. Although as soon as their career will take off they’ll be in and out of planes like everyone else… Kitsuné will be putting out their album.

 

DIGITALISM  Taken Away (instrumental)

Unreleased and exclusive. The first Kitsuné band, lots of albums sold, we pretend we’re blasé but we’re not. Since we were just talking ecology, this track was originally written for the advert of a new Mercedes four-wheels. Promise we’ll plant new trees with the royalty cheque. This aside, Digitalism is the best live electro band to become deaf to. And they’re such nice people.

 

autoKratz  Stay The Same (edit)

The album’s coming out on Kistuné. They blew Glastonbury up and later this year will tear the roof off at the Rennes’ Transmusicales. People call us late at night from France and beyond to tell us they were at an autoKratz gig and that it was the bomb. Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx and Underworld, those famous electronic British duos have been around for over fifteen years so it’s a welcome relief to see the crest of the new wave finally coming through (so says Xfm’s Eddy Temple-Morris). They’re from Manchester – pedigree. They have proper thick accents. Halfway through the track, all things come to a stop and then start again after un coin gets tossed, it makes us laugh a lot each time. They sign their e-mail with a John Lydon quote: ‘Anger is an energy’. They say they make electro music, but the interesting kind. They’re nuts.

 

BENI  My Love Sees You

Another Australian, brother of Dangerous Dan – renowned for his Ksubi clothes label (buy Kitsuné jeans though). Beni goes solo on Kitsuné after a few good tracks with his project Riot In Belgium. The production is crazy, Rolex-style. He’s going to tour the world one hundred times, he’s next, he’s going to generate an awful carbon footprint.

 

FISCHERSPOONER  Danse en France (d.i.m. remix)

This is for the ravey big rooms. A remix from D.I.M., a Hamburg producer. The synth line that goes up like mad at 2’30, when the club gets dark, that’s when the crowd goes wild, collectively. We’ve played it out a lot and each time, it drives the dancefloor insane. You must play it loud, with a straight-jacket at hand – just in case.

 

ETIENNE DE CRECY ET MONSIEUR JO  Hanukkah

For the very first time on Kitsuné… to the exception of a remix. Etienne de Crecy does an impressing live show – with cubes – highly recommended. With Daft Punk, Air and Alex Gopher, he’s a member of the French producers’ club who made history. His track here is techno in the old and noble sense of the term. Ultraviolence on the dancefloor. We played it in Dour (between Lille and Bruxelles) in front of 15 000 people with a monstrous PA, faces looked like they were melting, the crowd was on its knees, begging for mercy, they were happy to be there. Then ‘Hanukkah’ also works in the car…  Monsieur Jo, Etienne’s partner here, is a sound engineer and has produced albums for Phoenix and Cazals.

 

STREETLIFE DJs  We Love The Disco Sound (radio edit)

It’s the super-producers craze. Not one Ibiza season without the Streetlife Djs. Saturday night soundtracks for Brit girls on the pull with their handbag and no big brother in sight. The pair lives in London, is resident at Together and also plays at Ministry of Sound, Renaissance, The End, Chibuku Shake Shake, Gatecrasher Summer Soundsystem, Ibiza’s Space, Get Loaded, Gobal Gathering,  you know the kind of parties where you look at the sun rising whilst listening to The Beloved.

 

A-TRAK  Say Whoa

We’re not going to dish out his full Wikipedia biog but it does specify he was born Alain in march 1982, that he lives in Montreal and that he’s won DMC’s World DJ Championship in 1997 at the age of fifteen. He’s Kanye West’s tour dj and uses Serato Scratch Live.

 

WE HAVE BAND  Hear It In The Cans (DIY version)

A very chic London-based trio. A cross between Hot Chip and Talking Heads. And an excellent bassline. Only 3000 Myspace friends so worth discovering quick.

 

HEARTSREVOLUTION  Ultraviolence

The track that keeps you awake at night. They’re from New York in the USA. If you explore the net you’ll come across a nice video with a crying Snow White and a depressed Batman. They have their own world like. They’re also into distorted vocals. They made it into the NME Future 50, not bad. ‘Ultraviolence’ is coming out as single on Kitsuné, popular jubilation.

 

GROVESNOR – Drive Your Car (Hotchip Remix)

Grovesnor is Rob Smoughton from London. When you ask him about his influences, all he mentions is The Isley Brothers. So this is soul music – what next on Kitsuné?! Very very very good tune this. And not even 2000 Myspace friends, which is truly criminal.

 

DAVID E SUGAR  Although You May Laugh

He was already in the Kitsuné Maison 5 compilation. And he’s back because we believe in him. He knows how to write songs. He’s the classy type. He sings (extremely well), writes (extremely well), produces (extremely well). We toured with him and he’s very interesting to be around with: at night this charming, well-dressed, well-behaved man turns into an unstoppable party animal. A complete man. Apart from that the track is sad and sublime at once.

 

AppalOOsa  The Day We Fell In Love

It’s the twenty first century and artists have weird names. AppalOOsa opened Cat Power’s shows this summer. It’s even her best friend. She loves horses. We’re going to do the video, it’s about a girl who’s horse-ridding in slow-motion, a guy who skates on concrete and… French kissing.

 

THE SHOES  Let’s Go

We don’t receive demos from Reims everyday. All fresh, bubbly and rosy, like Champagne. A track with a big lift. Produced by renowned people who strangely stay anonymous. The ghost track of Maison 6 creates one last havoc. The previous ghost track we had was Yelle’s ‘A Cause Des Garçons’. We wish them as much success…

 

Tracklisting:

1: LO-FI-FNK Want U

2: LA ROUX Quicksand

3: PNAU  With You Forever

4: YOU LOVE HER COZ SHES DEAD  Superheroes

5: TED & FRANCIS  I Wish I Was A Polar Bear (Arctic Urgency edit)

6: DIGITALISM  Taken Away (instrumental)

7: autoKratz  Stay The Same (edit)

8: BENI  My Love Sees You

9: FISCHERSPOONER  Danse en France (d.i.m. remix)

10: ETIENNE DE CRECY ET MONSIEUR JO  Hanukkah

11: STREETLIFE DJs  We Love The Disco Sound (radio edit)

12: A-TRAK  Say Whoa

13: WE HAVE BAND  Hear It In The Cans (DIY version)

14: HEARTSREVOLUTION  Ultraviolence

15: GROVESNOR – Drive Your Car (HOT CHIP remix)

16: DAVID E SUGAR  Although You May Laugh

17: APPALOOSA  The Day We Fell In Love

18: PISTE PRESQUE FANTÔME

19: THE SHOES  Let’s Go

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