The IE999 Euroganza came to an apocalyptic end yesterday in Brussels and I'm sure photos and camphone videos are floating around, but I have something else to show you. Das Glow is not only our resident technomeister, not only an accomplished jeweler, he's also a budding photo- and videographer with a patented paranoia-inducing editing technique. Witness this amazing piece of cinematography, chronicling a party at Snowbombing Festival, in Austria, last month. Featuring Orgasmic & Das Glow also known as Der Gaga.
Real quick: today is Cuizinier's birthday, so please saran-wrap your best wishes and your finest bitches, stick a purple satin bow on top and send it all to the Cuizi Mansion. He will appreciate.
And Cuizinier has a new street-tape coming up, the third and last one, Godfather-style.
And you know what, it's still produced by ORGASMIC who's still the most stylish DJ ever (ask him to show you the new 2-Tone-vs-SK8-vs-Kid'n-Play sneakers he copped at Alife LA).
Teasers and leaks abound: our friends at The Fader posted this one some time ago:
Quand tu m'aimes (being a love song AND a wake up call to Dipset)
And this was yesterday, in Geneva:
PARANOIA IS A MUST.
If you want to see how grown men and stylish euro-hipsters can lose all cool and act like sci-fiends at a Lost convention, check out The Heathen's Corner (official currency: $wagg€rs):
Cuizinier Mondays
We have a pretty cool post coming up: Para One's video tour diary, featuring all the INS boys slapsticking their way through North America. But yesterday we went straight from Coachella (more on this later) to Geneva to kick off our trans-Europe IE999 mini-tour: Bobmo, Das Glow, Surkin, Para One, Curses!, Jean Nipon and Orgasmic, Geneva-London-Brussels, three cities, three parties but also three limited 7" singles and three limited t-shirts. All info HERE.
Let me show you the records in their Voltron-esque glory:
David Rubato feat. Teki Latex and Manda Djinn - "Institubes Express 999" remixed by Tacteel, Jean Nipon and Bobmo.
And the tees, designed by local heroes Jiro Bevis, The ERS and Schönwehrs:
Geneva was crazy, very packed, very loud, very warehouse. Today will be even louder, as we invade Fabric (room two) all night long (plus in-store at Puregroove). And tomorrow we're in Brussels at Recyclart (plus in-store at Veals 'n' Geeks). Might be fun.
--JR
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Pretty simple story, really. You’ve heard it before. We have this label, Institubes, and we’ve been deep in the trenches for a minute now. Five years. The aforementioned trenches are located in Paris, so let’s not sweat the mud and grime–there are none. Instead, our trenches exhibit a certain majesty of decay: Paris is one of the most elegantly decrepit cities of the world. It is lying there, somewhat immobile, certainly comfortable in its sometimes grandiose, sometimes laughable celebration of its gilded past.
We’ve always been fond of our city. Even in love with it. But it’s never been exciting. Paris is gay, not rousing--no pun intended--we were too young to fully experience the first French Touch, too involved in rap to care about the second. I wanted to live in London or maybe Bristol, in New York, places where pop epiphanies happened on a daily basis, or in Tokyo, where you could be a real, ambitious nerd, a world-class geek tyrant. Some of us were into classic US rap from both coasts and indie polysyllabic backpack stuff, some into semi-mainstream French hip hop, some were even rapping, producing, recording. Some others loved Warp-type electronics, Detroit techno and Miami Bass. Some went to shows were everything was experimental, from the ear-splitting avant-racket to the drugs, to the venue, to the girls’ haircuts. Most of us were bowled over when R’n’B turned digital. Timbaland reframed our minds in the most radical way. And the Internet. Efil 4 P2P.
Institubes started out as a way for us to get stuff out. At first, it was a cute little club between card-carrying friends. Our little hut in the trees, deep in the woods, where the noise bothered no one. The workings of “the industry”, what you were supposed to embrace or avoid--we didn’t have a clue. We still do not know what we’re doing, really. Sometimes we stumble on something cool, sometimes we just stumble. We have a clear populist streak, for which we won’t apologize: to our ears, big corporate hits are not guilty pleasures, just pleasures. When we throw a party, we want people to dance. But let’s not kid ourselves: for most of us, pop is an acquired taste, a second language. We’re wired for music first and fun second. So I have this little theory: what makes our music relevant and worthwile is exactly this. Our best records carry at once our reluctance and willingness to get down and party like there’s no tomorrow (even though we seem to be doing that an awful lot).
Anyway. We'll try and entertain. The whole crew--Bobmo, Cuizinier, Curses!, Das Glow, David Rubato, Jean Nipon, High Powered Boys, Midnight Juggernauts, MSK, Orgasmic, Para One, So Fresh Squad, Surkin, Tacteel--will do some little song-and-dance numbers just for you. Welcome to Vrai Paris.
JR
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