A french psyche pop odyssey selected by Dirty Sound System
Out now on Dirty / Discograph
“Genuinely next level shit“
WIRE
“Chef d’oeuvre.“
ARNAUD VIVIANT / FRANCE INTER
“Elégance, détachement, décadence, idéal…“
LIBERATION
“Voyage fantastique.“
CHRISTOPHE CONTE / LES INROCKUPTIBLES
“Certains disques font pleurer sans même que l’on s’en rende compte. Ils font verser ces larmes rares qui proviennent d’un endroit entre la mélancolie et la tristesse, le bonheur pur et la désarticulation totale des sentiments.“
MENSTYLE
“Parcours sans faute témoignant d’un goût très sûr.“
CHRONICART
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 tracklist 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 Dirty Diamonds serie, two compilations of “Dirty Edits” played by the world’s most influential DJs, the creation of a followed blog (Alainfinkielkrautrock) and a Space Disco compilation 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. Have a good trip.
Dirty Sound System is Clovis Goux and Guillaume Sorge, two discerning French selectors currently living in Paris. Involved in numerous musical activities since the late nineties, Clovis and Guillaume are well known for their extensive and exotic knowledge of music. Dirty is now a full on label that draws attention from influential blogs, journalists and djs worldwide, and the boys are constantly touring the world since their first compilation “Dirty Diamonds” in 2003. Their selector works, blog activity (more than one thousand daily visitors to alainfinkielkrautrock) and dj sets have gained them a worldwide following, recently increased due to the success of their “Dirty edits” series. This ongoing collaborative project with their pal pilooski caught attention from everyone these last few months, from Justice to Laurent Garnier, Optimo, Gille Peterson and even Adidas who used one of the dirty edits for their recent worldwide campaign. DIRTY SOUND SYSTEM dj sets cover a wide spectrum from weird disco, jackin’ techno, acid house to the best modern music around. In the last months, DIRTY SOUND SYSTEM played with Justice, Simian Mobile Disco, The Emperor Machine, Theo Parrish, The Gossip, Maurice Fulton, Tim Sweeney, Mr Oizo, Metro Area and many more. Past gigs include Club Transmediale (Berlin), Basel Miami, Sonar Festival (Barcelona), Blogger’s Delight (London), Club2Club (Torino), Edgar (Istanbul), Astropolis festival (France) and a bi-monthly residency at Social Club (Paris).
