Louis Garrel in bed with Christophe Honoré, whilst filming Les Chansons D’amour in 2007.
Le futur
Right now as I am spending a couple of weeks in the Caribbean I guess all I should be thinking of is the beach, eating fresh coconut on the beach, reading on the beach and all these kind of activities that you can do on a holiday.
Maybe soon I will quiz my 20 year-old cousin who lives here about what kind of music is hip and what they listen to at parties. I’ve heard someone mention ‘zouk-metal’ and also nights full of ‘retro zouk’ where you dance like it was 1978. Sounds promising.
But the topic of the day is miles away from all this and concerns the recent re-issue of Transvolta’s “Disco Computer”. It is perfect spacey sound with a robot voice ordering you to ‘dance all night’. Don’t you just love it when robots tell you what to do?
And the sound went
Oh my, how I loved Barcelona this time round. I had already visited the city once before in 2005 but I guess with all the touristy stuff out of the way I felt more relaxed and simply ‘lived’ Barcelona.
A few friends and I decided we would hit the Sonar Festival this year (at first we were gonna go to Nuits Sonores in Lyon, but the Sonar line-up seemed almost too good to be true) so we rented an apartment and let the fun began.
Sonar by day was a cool place to hang out, with daytime dancefloor and cold beer at all times. . . In between sets I went to browse at the nearby record shops and found some cheap gems!
Nothing had really prepared us to how big the night-time Sonar was going to be though: ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE. I’m not sure how many airplanes you could fit in that hall but it was humongous.
The night verged on the perfect, I loved that there was a good disco vibe with James Murphy and Pat Mahoney going back to back, and then Erol Alkan who played so many disco bangers. We watched Richie Hawtin for a while, and Buraka Som Sistema which remains one of my personal favourites of the night.
Sebastian and Agoria finished us off. It was 6. 30 am when we left, it was raining and we had to fight to get on the bus. Hello again reality.
The tracks below just remind me of the whole festival…although Erol did actually play the Slick track if I remember correctly.
An Introduction
It was about time I got real about blogging.
Now I’m ready to start digging into my record collection to share with you my best gems; to get my act together and put into words those nights and days that seem to pass so quickly; to talk about whatever I find a.m.a.z.i.n.g.
So let’s see what happens, and I hope you enjoy the ride.
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Countdown
Nocturnal musings, reflections on style,
cosmic sounds…
We will be launching on the 1st of July
with a bang.
Come back soon!
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(flashing lights) rough disco 