Dirty French Psychedelics
Why release a compilation when everything is already available?
Clovis Goux and Guillaume Sorge have been answering this question in their own way since 2003 by releasing selections of rare, little-known and hard to find recordings, which function somewhat like anti-playlists. The compilations of Dirty Sound System can be listened to from start to finish, the order of the track list has a logic and the selected songs lend themselves to repeated listening. Since everything is available, choice, bias and the subjective claim have become more significant values than they once were.
After the series Dirty Diamonds, two compilations of “Dirty Edits” played by the world’s most influential DJs, the creation of a regularly updated blog – Alainfinkielkrautrock) and a Space Disco CD that prefigures the general craze surrounding the genre, Dirty Sound System is back. On paper, “Dirty French Psychedelics” is a compilation for classic rock radio with names our parents would recognize.
In reality, it is a hallucinated voyage through the land of French pop psychedelics to be listened to in one sitting, eyes half-open in the heat of the summer of 2009
Certain experts will tell you that Bernard Lavilliers or Brigitte Fontaine are not psychedelic, and they are probably right. Who cares? May the experts go back to counting their CDs. Psychedelics is a notion too precious and subjective to be imprisoned by such stylistic formatting; psychedelics are about perception, not “controlled appellations of origin”.
Dirty French Psychedelics is intended for fans of French pop from Serge Gainsbourg to Air, for people who want to discover or rediscover the music of the seventies, for those who want to listen to music without really paying attention and for those who want to listen attentively through their headphones.
Some original Psychodelica one might find at Puces de Montreuil and … petite précision la compilation sera disponible fin mai via discograph.
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