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Berlin 61 – 89 / Wall Of Sound is not an ordinary compilation. It is
closer to a concept album, referring both to a chapter in History and a
musical assemblage which resounds like a continental echo to Phil
Spector’ s American pop Wall of Sound.
In this make-belief soundtrack, avant-garde rock and futuristic pop
express themselves, sometimes spangled with cabaret reminiscences and
veiled with the ghost of Kurt Weill. Extreme and intense music,
concocted during those three decades « at the foot of the Wall » and in
front of it by creators who love danger and risk taking. Alongside
pasionarias such as Nico and Nina Hagen, we can find German bands.
Faust, Agitation Free, Harmonia, Can, Die Krupps, Neu !, Einstürzende
Neubauten, their Swiss cousins the Young Gods and all the others are
aesthetes, pioneers of underground culture which tamed electronics with
an acute sense of efficiency ...

New band released by the mythical record compagny Some Bizzare (Soft cell, The The, Cabaret Voltaire)

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Energetic tracks, sweet melodies, The Mondrians are ready to surf on the Swiss slopes and attack the rest of Europe.

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Tusitala is the logical step taken by a very talented and passionate group of professional musicians whom have all collaborated during their career with the biggest name in the game: Sarah Lazarus, Charles Tayler, Menphis Slim, Marcel Azzola and many more…

Tusitala is the name given by the inhabitants of the Samoa’s Islands to the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, which could be translated as the “ story teller”.
The greatest asset of the band is its capacity to tell story, not through books as Stevenson did, but through their music.

With a wide array of references going from New Orlean classics to brazilian Bossa , adding a bit of swagger that might remind you of Boris Vian or Tom Waits.

Between nostalgic melodies, and enthousiastic ballads, Tusitala stories never fail to impress and smoothly impose their style and elegance.

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Born in 1997 from the true love between Danny Mommens, then bassist for the cult band dEUS, and the blond supermodel Els Pynoo, Vive la fête fathered quite an unique and spectacular genre of music:
A zest of new wave crawling between intoxicating electro loops, and all of this, delivered in the language of Gainsbourg, Dutronc and France Gall.
A genuine tribute to Jacques Tati’s “Jour de fête”, Vive la fête musical boldness succeeded once again, with Disque d’or, into creating a glamorous and surrealist effort.
An effort that the band never hesitate to defend thanks to their mind blowing lives, from Bruges, to Sao Paulo, but also New York, Moscow, Paris, Milan, Berlin and Tokyo.

Hailing from Belgium, Vive la Fête is the most stylish musical duo since Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin or Debbie Harry & Chris Stein; and they have a perfect electro-sound (they call it Kitsch pop) that makes you feel and look good…. Their record is excellent and their live act even better.
                                                   V Magazine

Fronted by knockout blonde Els Pynoo and music man Danny Mommens- this fusion of electro with a dab of punk rock oozes charm and glamour, think Blondie, think Brigitte Bardot, think Jane Birkin to stompin’ songs

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