Two months ago when knowing Altered Zones was no-more we panicked. Where are we going to get our amazing news from besides label newsletters, pr agencies and artists themselves? AZ and it’s great galaxy of indie music blogs …
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Please stand by
It’s always hard to say goodbye. Especially when you’ve finally managed to find a little corner in the pretentious and sometimes dismissive cultural web ecosystem… grab a few quality freelance writers give them some freedom to explore, propose …
Spotify apps
It was a matter of time before Spotify opened their platform to third parties. As a way to extend and become the de-facto music platform for pretty much everyone around the globe. We won’t deny it’s one of our …
↓ my electro party
When you love electro in any of its forms (house, trance, minimal, electropop, hardcore, disco, industrial, chillout ….. or just “electro”) differentiating quality from crap or underground from commercial is many times impossible.
Saying Daft Punk are gods of the French Touch just because they were lucky enough to remix . Cerrone or Breakwater isn’t quite right. Saying the opposite……. is also a blasphemy.
As we say in Spanish, opinions are like asses, everybody has one. However we tend to agree (without thinking) when our favourite radiodj, website or friend gives us a trustworthy recommendation or late discovery.
Personally I use a varied number of sources …
1) Residentadvisor: very clubby
2) Discogs: The database
3) Codamagazine (French) fairly objective & professional
4) Electronicbeats: commercial but delicately chosen
5) Beatsinspace: our weekly radio show
6) …
Other universal sites where you may find more easy-listening (but still quality) artists: Pitchfork, Lesinrocks (French.. they’ve lost their objectivity), Rcrdlbl, Iguessimfloating, thehypemachine…
You also have some records which have “traditionally” released nice stuff, like… K7, Katapult, Haywire, Kompakt, Astralwekrs,…..
You’ll probably see I have a specific taste. Don’t hate me is just what my friends taught me.
Please enrich this list
See you @ Rennes
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Talking about French touch… a reborn Sébastien Tellier who made us all reconsider Eurovision…