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"This
will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely,more
beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
Finally!
Three years after the world success of "Musique Automatique"
(on Labels/EMI and Kill Rock Stars in the US) the berlin duo
STEREO TOTAL are back. Let’s shortly quote the list
of references for their first five albums that also influence
this sixth album which celebrates their 10th birthday : «40%
Chanson, 20% R'n'R, 10% Punkrock, 3% DAF-Sequenzer, 4% Jacques
Dutronc-Rhythmique, 7% Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg,
1,5% Cosmonaute, 10% really old synthesizers, 10% 8-bit Amiga-sampling,
10% transistor amplifier, 1% really expensive and advanced
instruments» ... «Yéyétronic, electropunky,
kitsch & speed, sissilistening, bricolopop, Berliner juke-box»...«a
minimalistic production (in a positive sense), meaning a home-made-trash-garage-sound
crossed with underground, authentic as well as amateurish,
ironic as well as effective, pop as well as ... political.»
And in addition children (and the punks and the young fashion
victims and the male and female dreamers of each kind and
from each country) love this music.
It has taken STERO TOTAL a while this time, but finally here
is “Do The Bambi” and a whole lot to hear with
19 new tracks. STEREO TOTAL is still this french-german Garage-Rockabilly
Electronic/Non-Electronic duo consisting of Françoise
Cactus and Brezel Göring.
We know about Brezel that he never sleeps, takes no drugs,
neither drinks coffee nor alcohol and got two illegitimate
children. He prides himself to have a truck driver’s
taste in women. That is not true however because his girlfriend
is Françoise Cactus, novelist, artist, who wrote 23
books and is a highly paid feature writer. She comes from
the “Girl Garage” and “Psychedelic”-Era
of the 80ies, he is considered to be “experimental”.
Where was the album recorded? In the rehearsal space and in
the bedroom. The two have recorded everything on their own:
to ask people for advice is in general pretty unnecessary.
They nevertheless followed the wise instructions of their
producer Cem Oral (which we know from Air Liquide): “Don’t
give up before you are finished!” The result is Homerecording-Folk
in a highly dematrialized world but (quoting Brezel Göring):
“ We want to have at least as much technology, that
we can hate technology”.
So what are the results? “Artificial Girls Music”?,
romanticism, anarchy, happiness and mourning. Intimate, intense,
amusing, agitating, furious, explosive. STERO TOTAL –
caught in a vicious circle of maximum speed and "J'aime
les grandes émotions" – which leads again
to even more speed and emotions.
So what is special about this album? Judging the record by
its cover it is a mixture of kitsch and being fucked up. A
lot of the record is about film-history and the longing for
love
“Do
The Bambi” means something like “Show the beautiful
eyes beneath your long lashes and rescue me from the inferno
of my ego in this sad and mean world!”
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Tracklisting
:
1. Babystrich // 2. Do the Bambi // 3. Ich bin nackt // 4.
Cinémania // 5. Vive le week-end // 6. Das erste Mal
// 7. La douce humanité // 8. Les Lapins // 9. Hunger
! // 10. Ne m’appelle pas ta biche // 11. Orange mécanique
// 12. Tas de tôle // 13. Europa neurotisch // 14. Partymädchen,
gefoltert // 15. Cannibale // 16. Helft mir // 17. Mars Rendezvous
(with Jacno) // 18. Troglodyten // 19.Chelsea Girls
Tracklisting
(French Version) :
1. Babystrich // 2. Do the Bambi // 3. Je suis nue // 4. Cinémania
// 5. Vive le week-end // 6. Das erste Mal // 7. La douce
humanité // 8. Les lapins // 9. J’ai faim! //
10. Ne m’appelle pas ta biche // 11. Orange mécanique
// 12. Tas de tôle // 13. Europa neurotisch // 14. La
gymnastique // 15. Cannibale // 16. Helft mir // 17. Mars
rendez-vous (with Jacno) // 18. Troglodyten // 19. Chelsea
girls
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