My Band...

I'm really proud to present you the cover of the 1st EP from my band : THEORY OF DIFFRACTION!!

Well... In fact it's just a joke as I don't have a band at all! But I find the cover and the band's name quite cool indeed!

It's a funny game to do, the rules are simple:

1- Go on Wikipedia, and click on "random articles or follow this link : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Page_au_hasard
The 1st article you find is the name of your band.

2 -Then, you go on this website to find a quote, http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 and you take the 3 or 4 first word at the beginning of the sentence. This is the tittle of your 1st EP.

3 - then follow this link to Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
The 3rd picture, whatever the picture, is your EP's cover.

Have fun!

I like...YOU!

Let me introduce you to my new musical crush: YOU!

It’s the proof that in France we can do some really good music too!

You! Is a French electro-rock band, based in Paris.
It is composed by two friends, Romuald & José Reis.

Just a little preview:

If you are interested, You! EP will be available on Itunes store on February 23rd
I’m pretty sure they are going to be huge soon!

Good Luck to…You!

For more informations on the band : www.myspace.com/youthemusic

Shall we dance??

This week, I asked my memoir tutor, Fred, to have a look on my blog and tell me how to improve it.
He recommends me to put audio playlist… And he send me this video as a good example for my future playlists…

BOOMBOX from Ely Kim on Vimeo.

Thank you Fred for this very interesting advice! I will consider your proposition only if YOU dance on the video!! ^^

Anyway, I have to admit it’s an interesting way to present a playlist!!

Any volunteers??

Back To School

It happens generally once or twice/year: I am in a « Back to School » mood, and I restart listening to the old rock bands I used to love when I was a teenager.

The beginning of the 90s was characterized by the rise of grunge and alternative rock into the mainstream. The 90's was definitively a very rich and creative period

 

The Grunge was an incredible revolution for most of the teenagers, who discovered new kind of role models, more human, more desperate - really close to the teenage mood (you know the world is against you… By the world I mean the parents, the school…).

 

 

They showed the kids that there was a new way to express ourselves. After all, they were just like us and we felt we could relate to them. I remember how many of my friends were trying to create a band, playing in their garage. I tried to create one too (…well actually two: one was called Plump – grunge- and the other one Duckf****** - metal).

 

It was an amazing period for all the music teacher who saw their training courses full of desperate kids who needed to learn how to play guitar, drum, and bass to express themselves… and well to be cool, to get all the girls!

And later, Pop-Punk bands have replaced the grunge bands, and were followed by metal and nu-metal bands . That was a mental period.

Teachers and parents started to get really worried to see these angry and taciturn kids wearing baggy jeans, dog collars and chains, turning into pierced freaks, hanging around with other kids with long hair with a devil look in the eyes, listening to inaudible music consisting of loud guitars and generally a singer screaming like a mental case.

 

With grunge, kids were desperately screaming out “please help me I’m drowning down”.
With metal they were just saying “F*** You! We’re screwed!” We tried to find a way to survive and face our anger among hopeless and meaningless visions of the future with our pals, drinking beer and supporting the local bands that performed on crappy stages!

 

Me & my friends - Back from the Deftones concert

 

God! I miss this old time !! That was so great!! Lots of fun indeed!! ☺

This is my Ipod Playlist for this Back to School crisis I’m passing through.
Please feel free to post me your own recommendations.

 

1. Loco / Coal Chamber
2. Du Hast / Ramstein
3. The roof is on fire / Coal Chamber
4. Will to Die / Strife (feat. Chino Moreno)
5. Israël’s Son / Silverchair
6. My Guitar / Radish
8. Little Pink Star / Radish
9. Untrue / Coal Chamber
10. Bachelorette / Björk
11. Toxicity / System Of A Down
12. Glory Box / Portishead
13. Dirge / Death In Vegas
14. Bored / Deftones
15. Violet/ Hole
16. Pretty Lush / Glassjaw
17. Piano / Glassjaw
18. Clown / Korn
19. Aenima / Tool
20. Shoot & Ladders / Korn
21. Back To School / Deftones
22. Lotion / Deftones
23. My Own Summer / Deftones
24. Feiticeira / Deftones
25. Stupid Girl / Garbage
26. Queer / Garbage
27. Bullet with butterfly wings / Smashing Pumpkins
28. 1979 / Smashing Pumpkins
29. Sober / Tool
30. The Burning Red / Machine Head
31. Silver / Machine Head
32. Loser / Beck
33. Swallowed / Bush
34. Popular / Nada Surf
35. From This Day / Machine Head
36. Devil’s Haircut / Beck
37. Coma White / Marilyn Manson
38. Lithium / Nirvana
39. You Know You’re Right / Nirvana
40. Drain You / Nirvana
41. Teardrops / Massive Attack
42. Karma Coma / Massive Attack
43. Down By The Water / PJ Harvey
44. Vitamine / Incubus
45. Drive / Incubus
46. Blue Monday / Orgy
47. Cambodia / Limp Bizkit
48. Wait and Bleed / Slipknot
49. Satan is a Lawyer / Gojira
50. New Sadism / Kickback

 

My Back To School Videos :

Nirvana

Silverchair

Deftones

 

My Playlist Rock #2

 

 

1. Wild International / One Day As A Lion
2. Secret / The Pierces
3. That's Not My Name / The Ting Tings
4. Shut Up And Let Me Go / The Ting Tings
5. I'm A Fake / The Used
6. Pretty Handsome Awkward / The Used
7. Trash / The Whip
8. Maps / Yeah Yeah Yeahs
9. Turn Into / Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10. It's All Over / The Broken Family Band
11. Good Woman / Cat Power
12. Alice Practice / Crystal Castles
13. Lovers Who Uncover / Crystal Castles
14. over my head / The Fray
15. Standing In The Way of Control (Soulwax Nite Remix) / The Gossip
16. Turn It Up / Robots in Disguise
17. Inertiatic Esp / The Mars Volta
18. Roulette Dares (This Is The Haunt) / The Mars Volta
19. Televators / The Mars Volta
20. The Widow /The Mars Volta
21. Concertina /The Mars Volta
22. Wish / Nine Inch Nails
23. Everyday Is Exactly The Same / Nine Inch Nails
24. right where it belongs / Nine Inch Nails
25. Dead Souls / Nine Inch Nails
26. Fuck You Like an Animal /Nine Inch Nails
27. Hurt / Nine Inch Nails
28. Only / Nine Inch Nails
29. I Wanna Make / Queens of the Stone Age
30. Go With The Flow / Queens of the Stone Age
31. If Only / Queens of the Stone Age
32. In my Head / Queens of the Stone Age
33. The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret  / Queens of the Stone Age
34. Medication  / Queens of the Stone Age
35. West Coast / Coconut Records
36. Back to You / Coconut Records
37. Minding My Own Business / Coconut Records
38. Saturday / Soulwax
39. NY Excuse / Soulwax
40. Path / Apocalyptica

PS : Please feel free to post me your own recommendations! :)

Good Morning

This is my morning playlist!

A good way to wake up softly and to start a new day with energy!

 

Découvrez Chinese Man!

 

 

1. Girl Boy Song / Aphex Twin
2. The Art Of Walking / Blockhead
3. Dayvan Cowboy / Boards of Canada
4. I've Got That Tune / chinese man records
5. Un gâteau à l'arsenic / Chinese Man Records
6. Township Funk / DJ Mujava
7. Skins Theme Tune / Fat Segal
8. Hayling / Fc Kahuna
9. My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Classic Remix) / Feist
10. Dice / Finley Quaye and William Orbit
11. And I Kept Hearing / Fragment One
12. Facing that void (w. Maroons) / General Electrics
13. Snakeplayer / Gran Tourism
14. Over And Over / Hot Chip
15. Boy From School / Hot Chip
16. More Dance Music / Kid Koala
17. Adventure / Le Peuple De L'herbe
18. no escape / Le Peuple De L'herbe
19. Beggin / Madcon
20. Young Folks / Peter, Bjorn
21. High And Dry / Radiohead
22. rock it don't stop it / rafale
23. Octopus  / rum Tum Tiddles
24. 1958 (Skalpel Remix) / Skalpel
25. Underwater Love / Smoke City

 

Playing for Change:Peace through Music

"Playing for change" is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect and bring peace to the world through music.

Directed by Mark Johnson ans Jonathan Walls, this video featured spontaneous live musical performances, in order to demonstrate the power of music to connect and inspire people around the world.

I think this project is amazing and I wanted to share it with you, because this foundation deserve to be known!

Enjoy this little video!

 

 

http://www.playingforchange.com/

 

My Playlist Rock #1

 

1. Lover I Dont Have To Love / Bright Eyes
2. Mojo / Blindsight
3. Hang Me Up To Dry / Cold War Kids
4. Pogo / Digitalism
5. We Are Winning / Flobots
6. Handlebars / Flobots
7. Piano / Glassjaw
8. Bad Things / Jace Everett
9. Are You Gonna Be My Girl / The Jets
10. I predict a riot / Kaiser Chiefs
11. Everything Is Average Nowadays / Kaiser Chiefs
12. The Modern Way / Kaiser Chiefs
13. Andy, You're A Star / The Killers
14. Smile Like You Mean It / The Killers
15. Tranquilize / The Killers
16. On Top / The Killers
17. Cat Claw / The Kills
18. Last Day Of Magic / The Kills
19. Black Balloon / The Kills
20. As Above, So Below /  Klaxons
21. Golden Skans / Klaxons
22. Magick / Klaxons
23. Monster Hospital / Metric
24. The Police And The Private / Metric
25. Dead Disco / Metric
26. Electric Feel / MGMT
27. Oh / Micky Green
28. Ultra Sex / Mindless Self Indulgence
29. Stupid MF / Mindless Self Indulgence
30. Shut Me Up / Mindless Self Indulgence
31. Elevator / Minitel Rose
32. Be With You / Minitel Rose
33. Straight to Video / MSI
34. Boneless / The Notwist
35. Consequence / The Notwist
36. Teenage Kicks / Nouvelle Vague
37. Supersonic / Oasis
38. The Importance of Being Idle / Oasis
39. stop crying your heart out / Oasis
40. Don't Go Away / Oasis

 

My Playlist Electro/Drum&Bass/Trip Hop/... #1

1. Girl Boy Song / Aphex Twin
2. Windowlicker / Aphex Twin
3. St Louis Blues / Birdy Nam Nam
4. The Art Of Walking / Blockhead
5. Dayvan Cowboy / Boards of Canada
6. Kota / Bonobo
7. Dark Lady / DJ Food
8. Nitrous / Dj Marky
9. Township Funk / DJ Mujava
10. Organ Donor / DJ shadow
11. Drums of Death / DJ Shadow
12. Versus / Ez3kiel
13. Barb4ry / Ez3kiel
14. Akik / Ez3kiel
15. Hayling / Fc Kahuna
16. My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Classic Remix) / Feist
17. And I Kept Hearing / Fragment One
18. Frost on your sunglasses / General Electric
19. Facing that void (w. Maroons) / General Electric
20. Let's groove again / Gonsales
21. Snakeplayer / Gran Tourism
22. Moon Sequence / Herbaliser
23. Masters of the Universe / Juno Reactor
24. More Dance Music / Kid Koala
25. Adventure / Le Peuple De L'herbe
26. no escape / Le Peuple De L'herbe
27. Sexual Attraction / Le Peuple De L'herbe
28. Karma Coma / Massive Attack & Tricky
29. Godspeed / Modeselektor
30. Ziq Zaq / Modeselektor
31. Silikon feat Sacha Perera / Modeselektor
32. Hold Your Colour / Pendulum
33. Coma / Pendulum
34. Blood Sugar / Pendulum
35. Pendulum - Tarantula / Pendulum
36. Painkiller / Pendulum vs The Freestylers
37. Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix) / Prodigy
38. rock it don't stop it / Rafale
39. Tony The Beat (Rex The Dog Remix) / Rex The Dog
40. I Can See You, Can You See Me? / Rex The Dog
41. Bite The Bullett / Roni Size
42. Dirty Beats / Roni Size
43. Snapshot / Roni Size
44. 1958 (Skalpel Remix) / Skalpel
45. Underwater Love / Smoke City
46. Low Place Like Home / Sneaker Pimps
47. Roll On / Sneaker Pimps
48. Ever / Team Sleep
49. Hell is around the corner / Tricky & Portishead
50. Unreal / Unkle

THE PERFECT DRUG*

I have abused drugs, I have abused alcohol and many other things, but I have one true addiction, that has remained for years.
In fact, as far as I can remember, I have had this addiction since my childhood. And it’s growing inside of me and it’s incontrollable. And I don’t want it to be.
In fact, I let myself gladly sink in.

It’s my father who introduced me in the first place. In fact, it’s the first gift I received that I can actually remember. It was the most beautiful and powerful gift ever. And a part of who I am is forever bounded to this gift.

When he was 18, my father was a hippy, listening to the cool rock bands, smoking spliffs with his pals and taking many other things, hanging around at festivals, and so on…

From this amazing period between the 60’s/70’s, my father handed down to my brothers and me this incredible musical richness.

And that’s where my so very delightful addiction comes from.

The first gift I can ever remember was a vinyl of Joe Cocker in concert that my father gave to me. I was 5 or 6. 
Then, music and I became strictly bound, and the relationship never went away.

Allan Bloom said: " Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music"

Indeed, music is to me the most vivid, thrilling, inspiring, exciting and stimulating addiction ever. It has taken control of my life, my moods, … all of myself and me!

One song can instantly change my mood, my way to perceive the outside and the others.

Once my brothers decided to divide up part of my father’s musical heritage: one took the 50’s – 60’s, the other one the 60’s-70’s, I absorbed all this to create a global knowledge in rock’n’roll and blues music, and to follow this thirst for music knowledge and improve it by discovering new bands and new style of music.

Actually, I am pretty proud of my musical knowledge, music library and influence.

From basic rock, I explored psychedelic, post-punk, British punk, US punk, metal, nu metal, metal hardcore, emocore, alternative rock, pop rock, indie rock, punk cabaret, trip hop, drum & bass, chillout… and many others kind of music.

There is not really any kind of music I’m not interested in listening to. I trust that I can find at least one good band in all types of music. Even if my roots belong to rock’n’roll, I don’t reject any form of music. And my thirst for more new music is never quenched.

Music is my addiction, my obsession.

I can’t spend a day without listening to music, my headphones and my Ipod are on as soon as I am out of my front door. Itunes is my best friend. In fact I can spend an entire night doing nothing, just browsing at my Itunes, as if I were hypnotized!

My devotion to music pushes me to go from Website to Website and to concerts, looking for new bands, all to find incredible original sounds. Hoping to discover unknown band that I would love impulsively, irrationally, immediately. The way I love music.

For most of my friends, I am a reference in music knowledge, always aware of artists long time before most people know who they are and before they are already the next big thing! And even if I try not being pretentious, I have to admit that I am pretty proud being approached by my friends for music recommendations.

As a 4th year communication student, I want to work in the music industry. Organising concerts, booking and promoting artists are my great plans for the future.

So, who I am now, and what I want to do with my professional life is definitively bound to this great gift I received from my father when I was a little girl. And for that, I thank him eternally and forever!


"My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life."
Stan Getz

* The headline of the post is named after a song from Nine Inch Nails ;)