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Underground French Pop
The Sound Of Freaksville 2006-2016
Various Artists
Label : Freaksville Records
Release Date : September 30 2016
Format : Triple album/Digital
You may be aware of a popular English parlour game, where contestants are asked
to name 10 famous Belgians. Eavesdrop on caravans up and down the country on
any given wet weekend, and you might just hear the names Rene Magritte, Hergé,
Papa Smurf and Hercule Poirot being recited. Have a go yourself, it’s harder than
it looks.
It thus proves that Belgium, a sovereign state of 11 million people, steeped in history
and rich with cultural caché (and home to the European Union lest we forget), is the
most arcane and unfathomable land in the whole of Europe. So it makes us wonder:
just how recondite must the underground scene of Europa’s most underground
country be? The answer to that question is “very”, and the purest embodiment of
this almost Marxist underground ethos of creativity, is the wonderful FREAKSVILLE
record label, originating in the eastern municipality of Liège and now based in
Brussels.
Freaksville takes DIY punk culture and sci-fi b-movie underground culture as its
inspirations, and over the last decade, it has been a living testament to how cooperation on a shoestring can reap handsome benefits. Since 2006, this artistic cooperative has been exploring lushly-arranged French pop, retro synthpop, garage rock,
sunshine pop, chanson, motorik, psych rock, noise pop, library and the avant garde,
to name just some of the genres on offer. To celebrate this great abundance of
creativity, a retrospective triple album featuring the very best of the last 10
years of the label is about to be released september 30th.
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Underground French Pop: The Sound of Freaksville 2006-2016, features 40 beautifully produced songs in all. Every track featured on the compilation has been played
on Europe’s most influential radio stations, from BBC 6 Music in the UK, to
France’s beloved antenne musicale éclectique, FIP radio. Quite an achievement for
a small independent label that was just getting started when the music industry was
being administered its last rites a decade ago. Against all the odds, this group of
plucky musicians from the Wallonian region of Seraing threw caution to the wind,
and pressed ahead with the raison d’etre to produce the most scintillating mutant
underground pop music going. And they succeeded.
Fast forward to 2016, and Freaksville Records is in the rudest of health. Led by
Benjamin Schoos - aka Miam Monster Miam (a writer, composer, producer,
singer, actor, illustrator, radio entrepreneur and svengali), Freaksville is the Belgian
Brill Building, The Wrecking Crew and Gold Star Studios all rolled into one. In fact
there’s something Spector-esque about guru-master Schoos (with a “personnage à
la réputation excentrique” according to the Belgian press). “In 2006, social network
websites such as MySpace helped us to sell music and find and promote gigs,” he
says. “For a French-speaking music label, we never expected the artists on our
roster to tour outside of the francosphere in countries like China, Vietnam, Japan,
Spain, Great Britain, Germany and even Russia. So that’s been a good surprise!”
As well as Schoos himself, the stable of artists includes cult Brusselian Jacques
Duvall, French chanteuse, actress and socialite Marie France, New Yorkers April
March & Aquaserge, plus a host of other Belgian artists including The Loved
Drones, Phantom, Mademoiselle 19 and Goldenboy. Add to that, the galaxy of
cult collaborators over the past decade, that includes: Damo Suzuki, Laetitia
Sadier, Mark Gardener, Bertrand Burgalat, Jean Jacques Perrey, Alain
Chamfort, Telex, Chrissie Hynde, Emmanuelle Parrenin, Coralie Clément and
Barbara Morgenstern. Schoos had even lined up a duet with Emmanuelle star
Sylvia Kristel for his lauded album China Man vs Chinagirl, but sadly ill health
intervened. The cast is a mightily impressive one, especially in the face of the
adversity that almost all independents have suffered this last decade.
“A crisis is often a period which is interesting for art, even if it’s more difficult,” says
Schoos.
The highlights on this triple album are almost too numerous to mention, though
there’s everything a listener seeking great underground French pop will be looking
for, from the swoonsome romance and Melody Nelson-style strings of ‘Je ne vois
que vous’ by Schoos and Sadier, to the catchy, almost zoonotic bizarreness of
‘What’s Up Duck?’ by Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam. And while you’re
waiting for Underground French Pop: The Sound of Freaksville 2006-2016 to drop,
how about coming up with some more famous Belgians? Let’s see, there’s Audrey
Hepburn, Stromae, Jacques Brel, Adolphe Sax…
Underground French Pop
The Sound Of Freaksville 2006-2016
Various Artists
Label : Freaksville Records
Release Date : September 30 2016
Format : Triple album/Digital
Tracklisting
VOLUME 1
1. Benjamin Schoos feat . Laetitia Sadier : Je ne vois que vous (Radio edit)
2. Mademoiselle Nineteen : Juillet Brillait
3. Double Françoise : L’automobile
4. April March and Aquaserge : Des tics et des tocs
5. Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam : What's Up Duck ?
6. Benjamin Schoos : The Dragonflyman
7. Mademoiselle Nineteen et Marc Desse : Je marche sur des pétales de rose
8. The Loved Drones (Feat. Emmanuelle Parrenin) : Cosmic Memories (Radio Edit)
9. April March and Aquaserge : Black Bars (radio edit)
10. Benjamin Schoos & April March : J’ai essayé de t'aimer
11. Double Françoise : Les French Chanteuses
12. Mademoiselle Nineteen : Quelle Importance ?
13. Marie France et les fantomes : Elle ou moi
14. Modern Tanz Music : Fin De Transmission
VOLUME 2
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1. Alex Rossi & Frederic Lo : La Chanson La Plus Triste De Monde
2. Benjamin Schoos et Laetitia Sadier : Dernière Danse
3. Double Françoise : Tourner la tête
4. Phantom feat LIO : je ne suis pas encore prete
5. Karin Clercq : Questions réponses
6. Sophie Galet : l’excelsior
7. Marc Morgan et les Obstacles : Beaucoup Vite Loin
8. Phantom feat. LIO : Mon nouveau Jules marche sur l’eau
9. Marie France et les Fantômes : Le Détecteur de Mensonges
10. Benjamin Schoos Alia Miam Monster Miam : Plutonium Baby
11. Juan d'Oultremont : Isadorable
12. Sabino Orsini : L’Aspromonte
13. Benjamin Schoos : Profession Catcheur
14. Goldenboy : Sea Sex Sun
15. Jacques Duvall et Coralie Clément : Comme par désenchantement
VOLUME 3
1. Miam Monster Miam et les Loved Drones : j’écoute une K7 de la vedette
2. Phantom feat. LIO : Ta cervelle est en greve mais ta grande gueule fait des heures sup’
3. Marie France et les Fantômes : Trop de Boucan
4. Phantom feat. Jacques Duvall : J'ai Fait Sauter Le Monde
5. Conducteur Fantôme (Feat. Michel Moers) : Motorcyclegirl
6. Marc Morgan et les obstacles : The Operator
7. Phantom feat. LIO : je ne veux que ton bien
8. Miam Monster Miam et les Loved Drones : La femme Plastique
9. Phantom feat. LIO : Noir Violette
10. The Loved Drones : Escape From The Terror Drone
11. Now Feat. Damo Suzuki : One one equal one