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To chime in the new release of Valerie and Friends, British DJ/producer Russ Chimes heads down under on a national tour (of the same name) in August. Blending eighties synth hooks with lush composition, Russ Chimes is sure to set the mood on the dance floor. Enjoying significant blog attention for his own tracks including ‘Daytona’ featured on the Valerie and Friends LP, Chimes has also knocked out stellar remixes for the likes of Sam Sparro, Chromeo, The Golden Filter and Heads We Dance as well as Frankmusik (Confusion Girl) recently touted as Alex Metric’s current favourite track on Pete Tong’s BBC1 radio show (12/06/09). But who exactly is Valerie? The woman that Amy Winehouse sings about, a French artist collective, a blog, or all three? Valerie consists of a group of like-minded musicians who run a super-blog valeriecherie.blogspot.com, founded and run by Collage. The French collective is comprised of Anoraak, College, Maethelvin, Minitel Rose, The Outrunners, and champions one honorary Brit, Russ Chimes. Together and separately, they pay homage to the dreamier aspects of eighties music, digging up forgotten synth-pop classics, and making a few new ones themselves. They combine the streetwise edge of Ed Banger with the nü-disco stylings of Institubes and the classic production values of the first wave of ‘French touch.’ Don’t miss Russ Chimes as he celebrates the release of French retro-futuristic brat pack’s LP, Valerie and Friends. FREMANTLE: Friday 7th August Limelite
Valeriecherie Blogspot Press shots and artwork is available to download via the presskit section located under Media on the lefthand menu bar meanwhile, click on the link to read more about Russ-chimes (biog-and-disog) and Valerie and Friends album press release. Please direct all media enquiries to Joselyn Brown joselyn@crimson-communications.com. (25 June Week 1) Follow Mark Knight on his worldwide tour, and read all about the Black Eyed Peas track that he produced, it’s all on beatportal! Toolroom Knights mixed by Mark Knight v2 is out now through Onelove (Australia).
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. . . . Hardware and Poison Apple present Sneakerpeeps 3 Friday 7th August Prince Bandroom Fitzroy St, St Kilda
Thomas Schumacher (Get Physical/Germany) Daniel Tardrew and more! Thomas Schumacher has always been - and continues to be- an eclectic DJ and producer, with strong foundations in Detroit techno and House music. From early beginnings under his Elektrochemie project to the breakthrough hit “When I rock” to his recent releases on Get Physical Music, Thomas continues to be one of the leading players on the international DJ circuit, headlining parties around the world alongside label-mates M.A.N.D.Y., Booka Shade and Heidi to name a few. Thomas returns to Australia for a very special set at the third instalment of Sneakerpeeps where he will showcase the diversity that has become his trademark. Tickets $38 +bf from Hardware website Listen to Thomas Schumacher dj mix on Soundcloud Read Thomas Schumacher’s discog and biog. To download press shots and other artwork for this campaign, please visit the new press kits section (found under Media to the left). For regular visitors bookmark http://www.crimson-communications.com/presskits in your browser once you’ve created your account.
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Thomas Schumacher (Berlin) east coast tour announced!! TOUR DATES FRI 7 Aug 2009 Sneakerpeeps3 @ Prince Bandroom MELBOURNE (refer event info above) SAT 8 Aug 2009 Family BRISBANE SAT 15 Aug 2009 Lost Baggage @ The Cross SYDNEY For more information refer to the Sneakpeeps announcement!
“It’s very electronic and like intellectual R&B, although not in the same way that Beyoncé or Justin Timberlake are R&B … When you listen to US R&B, if it is very exciting you can be excited with your girlfriend but usually it’s too vulgar. I tried to keep vulgarity away from sex and my music.” – Sebastien Tellier AUSTRALIA FINALLY GETS A TASTE OF SEXUALITY The Federal Government’s pornography filter has been tanked in the senate. Lesbian romance will shortly appear on Home and Away. Australia is clearly eager for a taste of sexuality … Sebastien Tellier’s Sexuality, that is! Produced by none other than Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (of Daft Punk), Sexuality is a seductive album layered with eighties synths and Tellier’s honeyed baritone. The subject matter is, of course, sex – but it’s unlike any other album about sex. Instead of bravado and tales of willing groupies, Tellier opens up about his own peculiarities: his envy of bisexual people, his fetishisation of sportswear, his association of sexual stamina with the Germanic character, the perfect moment of “la petite mort” after orgasm. The instrumentation is delightfully tacky (and isn’t all sex a little tacky?), his synthesiser tones as day-glo as a neon pink vibrator. Sebastien Tellier’s career began in 2001, when Parisian taste-makers Air picked him to appear on their newly-founded Record Makers label. L’Incroyable Verité, his first album, was mixed by Quentin Dupieux, better known as Mr. Oizo. He made his name with 2005’s Politics, which featured the hit track ‘La Ritournelle,’ described by Boomkat as “somehow managing to merge the timeless genius of ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ with the nostalgic baladeering of Air at their finest.” After this dancefloor coup, Tellier went on to cement his reputation with the 2006 compilation Universe, which collected acoustic versions of his songs from L’Incroyable Verité, Politics, and his soundtrack to the film Narco. Since then, Tellier’s been a busy man, working on the soundtrack to Quentin Dupieux’s début film, Steak (a role he shared with Mr. Oizo and Ed Banger wünderkind SebastiAn). His song ‘Universe’ featured on the soundtrack to Daft Punk’s first feature film, Electroma, and Guy-Manuel de Homm-Christo took time out from Daft Punk’s already-legendary Alive 2007 tour to produce Sexuality. Since the European release of Sexuality, he’s collaborated with American Apparel to release his own line of clothing (named, of course, Sexual: IT). He was also selected to represent France in the 2008 Eurovision song contest with the track ‘Divine’ (from Sexuality). With one of the best album covers of the year, and an even better album underneath, Sexuality will take Australia by storm! SEXUALITY IS AVAILABLE NOW IN ALL AMERICAN APPAREL RETAIL SHOPS AND ONLINE FROM ITUNES.
Talking Points: — Has collaborated with the crème de la crème of the French music scene including Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo (Daft Punk), Mr. Oizo and SebastiAn (Ed Banger records). — Was selected as France’s entry for Eurovision 2008, despite opposition from France’s prime minister, Nicolas Sarkozy (who thought he wasn’t French enough). — Has had his music featured in several films and TV shows: Daft Punk’s film Electroma, Sofia Coppola’s Lost In Translation, and Ugly Betty (which used several tracks, including ‘La Rotournelle’ and ‘Look’ from Sexuality). — Collaborated with American Apparel to deliver Sexual: IT, a line of clothing based around Sexuality. — Has had video clips filmed by Francois and Jonas (Madonna/Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Justice), rising young creatives Fleur and Manu (who have directed ads for Becks and Peugeot), and Roman Coppola (Phoenix, Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, Arctic Monkeys). — REMIXES of original tracks on Sexuality: A-TRAK – Kilometer, currently on high rotation on triple j (A-TRAK/onelove compilation), AEROPLANE – Kilometer ‘LEAVE THEM ALL BEHIND 3’/ (Modular compilation), BOYZNOISE-L’amour et la Violence Track by track with Tellier: Roche: “I always used to spend my holidays there. I always wanted to return, play my music and say to myself, ‘Tonight, I’m king of the night.’ In this song, the sun is beating down and I’m having really intense fantasies about girls in bikinis. If I wanted to seduce them, I’d play this song which is a European or French twist on the sexual enchantment that you’d associate with American R&B.” Kilometer: “With this song, you should try and think of Justin Timberlake, but from Berlin instead – a mix of American sensuality and cold Teutonic precision. It’s my vision of German love: the motorway which runs for miles.” Look: “This is a song about the Latin style of seduction – completely based on appearances. I like knowing that a woman has taken the time to make herself look attractive. ‘Look’ is about the little bit of skin between the mini skirt and stockings. I’m talking about sex here in a wise and serious manner, like an analyst elegantly trying to pick up girls in a cocktail bar in New York.” Divine: “This is my tribute to the Beach Boys and the Juicy Fruits (from the 1974 musical Phantom of the Paradise). It’s about a time of innocence – when having fun was more important than picking up girls. I visualise a bunch of kids playing on the beach and I’d really love to play with them.
Pomme: “This is the song which is most representative of the whole album. I see it as the most erotic as well as the sweetest. The apple is the forbidden fruit. The sun waits until the lovers have finished making love before rising. He doesn’t want to disturb them.” Une heure: “I’m singing here about my admiration for bisexuals who have the chance of sampling all the types of pleasure. Bisexuality shows the greatest freedom of spirit – the genuinely cool people are bisexuals. It was the first erotic song that I wrote; I wanted to make it last an hour. It triggered something off in my mind, which resulted in the album.” Sexual Sportswear: “The first single. An instrumental. This track is the best representation of my relationship with Guy-Man: My moving harmonies mixed with the efficiency and lightness of Daft Punk. For me, the ultimate fantasy is a girl in a tracksuit working out in her living room. She has two coaches who make her work her glutes and her abs … things can only get messy from there.” Elle: “Composed with Guy-Man, it’s the ‘Fox and the Hound’ song of the album. It’s impossible to reach orgasm without some closeness and tenderness at least. The key to sex is love. It’s a very pure song which resembles heaven.” Fingers of Steel: “This song is about the Kubrickian fantasy of the machine which is self-aware. The computer touches me here sensually with its fingers of steel. From our union comes this song.” Manty: “I love classical music; it’s a huge inspiration for me. My starting point here is the universe of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette: a mix of discretion and glitz which for me is extremely sexy. I imagine myself in the middle of making love on a sailboat as large as Italy. This is what happened to me this summer. Living your fantasies is for me a good example of a successful life.” L’amour et la violence: “It’s the title which sums up what I’ve lived through in the most profound way. It shows that the rest of the album is a huge fantasy where I’m searching for intensity in the superficial. With ‘Love and Violence’, I’m finally revealing myself – I have neither the skin of a stallion nor a virgin, I’m naked and I ask that people judge me as I really am.”
Who the %$#@! are you? What’s coming out of your stereo? Onelove thinks it’s time to Smash Your Stereo – yeah, you heard right! Smash, destroy and demolish that old piece of crap with the sound of the new. Get ready to tear it up as Onelove present their latest release “Smash Your Stereo 2009”. Always upfront, Onelove has called up the hottest dance floor destroyers to mix. On the back of soon to sell out national tour, Italy’s electro-schiziod duo The Bloody Beetroots don’t just rock the Backroom disc – they break it into little bloody pieces. http://www.vimeo.com/5073067 After destroying Australian dancefloors with ‘Now You’re Gone’ we asked the UK’s Juan Kidd to mix the middle disc with big upfront tech & house – keep an eye on this kid, he’s got his fingers on all the right records including Fatboy Slim, Zoo Brazil, Afrojack, Steve Angello, & Paul Van Dyk. Melbourne’s Andy Murphy (nee CityLife) lays down all that is good about club music in the big room today - including Citylife’s very own new record, and bombs from Tommy Trash, Calvin Harris, Tiga, Renaissance Man, Gossip, Don Diablo, Thin White Duke, Wolfgang Gartner and many more. “Smash Your Stereo” is all about the now and turning it up until the speakers burst – this is going to be devastating!
Juan Kidd (UK) Andy Murphy - dates coming shortly! THE BLOODY BEETROOTS AND JUAN KIDD TOUR PR CONTACT joselyn@crimson-communications.com
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Onelove Music Group is pleased to announce that, for the very first time, the globally-essential Toolroom Knights DJ mix series is being locally manufactured and marketed. The new distribution deal sees the brand new Mark Knight installment in the hugely successful series released on June 6 along with the now classic Benny Benassi and Dirty South releases on July 25. Toolroom Knights resides at the cutting edge of upfront dance music, with some of the globes top DJ and production talent providing top-selling upfront mixes for the globally-recognised imprint. Pushing new boundaries and blurring the lines between DJ and producer, Mark’s second Toolroom Knights compilation boasts a mass of exclusive tracks written specifically for the compilation, alongside tons of unreleased tracks by label favourites Tiger Stripes, Mark Mendes and D-Formation. Singles for the compilation include Mark’s new offerings ‘Mannheim’ and ‘Club Politics’, Funkagenda’s sublime ‘Do Geese See God’, ‘What’s Occurring’ by ‘Leaders’ Adam S, a remix of Funkagenda’s ‘Breakwater’ courtesy of Dataworx and a spanking new remix of the Leftfield classic ‘Phat Planet’ by Mark Knight & Funkagenda, all exclusively available for the first time. Read full album bio including tracklisting toolroom-knights-by-mark-knight-v-21. Read Mark Knights bio mark-knight-bio. To download press shots and other artwork for this campaign, please visit the new press kits section (found under Media to the left). For regular visitors bookmark http://www.crimson-communications.com/presskits in your browser once you’ve created your account.
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