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STEREO TOTAL – Underwater Love Soundtrack

 
Stereo Total - Underwater Love
Stereo Total - Underwater Love
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Underwater Love (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Stereo Total Underwater Love (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Stereo Total

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Format: Limited LP

(limited to 500 vinyls, numbered)
DB157  |  Indigo 96033-1

Tracklisting:

A01  Kappa Theme
A02  Fish Factory
A03  Kappa Appears
A04  Kappa In Love
A05  Kappa Works In The Factory
A06  Kappa Sex
A07  Kappa Interferes*
A08  Searching The Kappa
A09  Kappa & The God Of Death
A10  Kappa Alone

B01  The Escape
B02  In The Woods
B03  The Kappa Family
B04  Fight w/ The God Of Death*
B05  Death Of The Kappa
B06  Kappa Disappears*
B07  Loveletter
B08  The Dance Of All Characters
B09  Kappa-Pa Endtitel

* exclusively composed for this soundtrack.

Our beloved French electro-poppers STEREO TOTAL provided this toe-tapping, kitschy bubblegum soundtrack to Shinji Imaokas “UNDERWATER LOVE”, a weird yet wonderful pinku musical about the love between a woman and a kappa.

UNDERWATER LOVE – A PINK MUSICAL ist anders als alles, was es bisher im Kino zu sehen gab. Die erste eigene Produktion des Filmlabels Rapid Eye Movies entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit Pink-Film-Veteran Shinji IMAOKA, Kamerastar Christopher Doyle, der durch unzählige Wong Kar-wai-Filme berühmt wurde, und dem Berliner Elektropop-Duo Stereo Total.

 

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Sep 072011
 

A PINK MUSICAL – UNDERWATER LOVE
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by STEREO TOTAL

DB157 | Indigo 96033-1 | UPC 880918115719
Formats:
Limited LP
Limited DVD + CD (via Rapid Eye Movies)
Digital Download
Release Date: 27/10/2011

 

TRACKLISTING

Vinyl Side A
01. Kappa Theme
02. Fish Factory
03. Kappa Appears
04. Kappa In Love
05. Kappa Works In The Factory
06. Kappa Sex
07. Kappa Interferes *
08. Searching The Kappa
09. Kappa And The God Of Death
10. Kappa Alone

 

Vinyl Side B
01. The Escape
02. In The Woods
03. The Kappa Family
04. Fight With The God Of Death *
05. Death Of The Kappa
06. Kappa Disappears *
07. Loveletter
08. The Dance Of All Characters
09. Kappa-Pa Endtitel
* Music exclusively composed for this soundtrack

STEREO TOTAL – Do the Bambi Remixes

 
STEREO TOTAL - Do the Bambi Remixes
STEREO TOTAL - Do the Bambi RemixesDiscotheque - Stereo Total

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Format: 12″

DB134| Indigo
87590-6

Tracklisting:

A1. Das erste Mal – Justus Köhncke Remix
A2. Chelsea Girls – Thieves like us Remix
B1. Troglodyten – Munk Edit
B2. Das erste Mal – Vredus Mix

This four track 12” of one of Europe´s premiere Ye-Ye-Pop-Elektro Punk Duo STEREO TOTAL sees three tracks of their recent album “Do The Bambi” touched by the hands of Germany´s finest producers.Former WHIRLPOOL PRODUCTIONS member
JUSTUS KOEHNKE unfolds a dreamscape of the Je t´aime-esque “Das erste Mal”. THIEVES LIKE US from Berlin give Donna-Summer-like Moog-Disco interpretation to the Velvet Underground classic; likewise MUNK (remember the last years most appreciated debut album by GOMMA Labelowner & Monaco rules ok – boys Aperitivo?) dig deeper into Disco-Funk. VREDUS aka Ladomat´s boy-girl-group COMMERCIAL BREAKUP end the parade and plug in EuroDisco we haven´t heard that convincing since a long time.

STEREO TOTAL – Do the Bambi-Francophone

 
STEREO TOTAL - Do the Bambi-Francophone

STEREO TOTAL - Do the Bambi-Francophone

Do the Bambi (French Version) - Stereo Total

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Format:CD

DB131 |
85685-2


Tracklisting:

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


“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{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} Chanson, 20{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} R’n’R, 10{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} Punkrock, 3{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} DAF-Sequenzer, 4{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} Jacques Dutronc-Rhythmique, 7{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg, 1,5{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} Cosmonaute, 10{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} really old synthesizers, 10{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} 8-bit Amiga-sampling, 10{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} transistor amplifier, 1{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} 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!”

STEREO TOTAL – Do the Bambi

 
STEREO TOTAL - Do the Bambi

STEREO TOTAL - Do the Bambi

Do the Bambi - Stereo Total



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Format: CD/LP

DB130 | Indigo
85468-1/2

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


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{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} Chanson, 20{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} R’n’R, 10{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} Punkrock, 3{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} DAF-Sequenzer, 4{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} Jacques Dutronc-Rhythmique, 7{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg, 1,5{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} Cosmonaute, 10{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} really old synthesizers, 10{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} 8-bit Amiga-sampling, 10{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} transistor amplifier, 1{52683dc5cfbdd8b3430c87738b6fd8a1b6d250070828804dc6c6f79ba8206849} 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!”


STEREO TOTAL – Baby Ouh! – PicDisc

 
Stereo Total - Baby Ouh!
Stereo Total - Baby Ouh! 

Baby Ouh! - Stereo Total

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Format:pic-Disc

DB153pic-Disc | Indigo
94509-1

Tracklisting:

01. Hallo Damenklo
02. Alaska
03. Divines Handtascha
04. Andy Warhol
05. Barbe a Papa
06. No Controles
07. Du Bist Gut Zu Vogeln
08. I Wanna Be A Mama
09. Babyboom (Ohne Mich)
10. Lady Dandy
11. Illegal
12. Wenn Ich Ein Junge War
13. Tour De France
14. Larmes De Metal
15. Elles Te Bottent, Mes Bottes
16. Baby Ouh!
17. Radio Song

The difference between retro cool and anachronism is one of attitude. You can pillage all the referential kitsch you want – whether roller-rink synth lines, electro-clash machine-drums, J-pop croonery, glitter-ball dance beats or advertising jingle cleverness – from whatever decade and stay current, as long as you maintain the right degree of certitude. “Le hip, c’est moi,” is the necessary stance. Start to doubt yourself, and it’s all downhill. 

Baby Ouh!, the 10th album from the long-running Franco-German duo of Françoise Cactus and Brezel Göring, is a polyglot wink at trash pop history, effervescently filthy-mouthed and off-handedly intelligent. Songs start in one language, notch a few pop culture references, then insouciantly switch to another. There’s a bouncy decadence in even the slightest of these tracks, a gleeful whirl to the bottom sound tracked by super-sugary disco. You might catch a whiff of Abba in the crack house, or Donna Summer waking up in the gutter, neither a terrible thing in itself. And yet, you can’t help but feel that Stereo Total is dancing a little too fast, cracking a little too wise. When mid-way through 2010, you still look to Divine and Andy Warhol for iconic style, you’re not retro anymore, you’re just passé.

Thus while previous Stereo Total discs charmed with their deadpan cool, this one has a manic quality to it, as if relevance had to be proved, track by track, chorus by chorus. It starts with the very unsettling “Hello Ladies,” told in Cactus’ voice, from the perspective of an aging ladies room attendant. Caustic asides like, “I give make-up advice that they know already / They don’t give a shit about my long life,” are obviously about all kinds of things: the shallowness of the party culture, the corrosive effect of income inequality, age-ism, etc. But the song might just also be about being a pop singer in a culture that moves with lightning speed, forgetting about bands far more recently born than Stereo Total, and leaving hardly a bubble in its wake. (Today’s empty icon, Lady Gaga, gets a nod later on, in the dreamily melancholy “Lady Dandy.”)

It’s Göring who scores the sharpest points on this disc, with his sort-of tribute to Almodovar’s Bad Education in the song “I Wanna Be a Mamma.” The lyrics veer into dysfunction almost immediately, as Göring daydreams about cross-dressing a son and naming him Lucifer, yet the music bubbles on in a happy, cluelessly buoyant melody. It makes you wonder, if you don’t speak French or German, what the hell these two go on about during the rest of the album.

The covers on Baby Ouh! showcase a playful, irreverent expertise that covers many different styles of pop. There’s a panting, electro-bop version of Kraftwerk’s “Tour de France,” a disco-trash romp through Brigitte Fontaine’s “La Barbe A Papa,” and a tongue-in-cheek gender-play on “Wenn Ich Ein Junge Wär,” (“If I Were a Boy”) from 1950s pop star Rita Pavone (via Nina Hagen). But none of these are as simultaneously clever and silly, daring and frivolous, as Cactus and Göring on their own account, enumerating the contents of Divine’s handbag (“Divine”) or crying metal tears (“Larmes De Métal”).

It would all be quite enjoyable if you didn’t have the sense that they were trying too hard, and, in frantically reconfiguring the most transient of pop kitsch, had somehow become their own raw material.

By Jennifer Kelly

STEREO TOTAL – Baby Ouh!

 
Stere Total - Baby Ouh!
Stere Total - Baby Ouh! 

Baby Ouh! - Stereo Total

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Format: CD / LP

DB152 | Indigo
94417-1/2

Tracklisting:
01. Hallo Damenklo
02. Alaska
03. Divines Handtascha
04. Andy Warhol
05. Barbe a Papa
06. No Controles
07. Du Bist Gut Zu Vogeln
08. I Wanna Be A Mama
09. Babyboom (Ohne Mich)
10. Lady Dandy
11. Illegal
12. Wenn Ich Ein Junge War
13. Tour De France
14. Larmes De Metal
15. Elles Te Bottent, Mes Bottes
16. Baby Ouh!
17. Radio Song
18. Tschaikowsky And Other Russians

The difference between retro cool and anachronism is one of attitude. You can pillage all the referential kitsch you want – whether roller-rink synth lines, electro-clash machine-drums, J-pop croonery, glitter-ball dance beats or advertising jingle cleverness – from whatever decade and stay current, as long as you maintain the right degree of certitude. “Le hip, c’est moi,” is the necessary stance. Start to doubt yourself, and it’s all downhill.

Baby Ouh!, the 10th album from the long-running Franco-German duo of Françoise Cactus and Brezel Göring, is a polyglot wink at trash pop history, effervescently filthy-mouthed and off-handedly intelligent. Songs start in one language, notch a few pop culture references, then insouciantly switch to another. There’s a bouncy decadence in even the slightest of these tracks, a gleeful whirl to the bottom sound tracked by super-sugary disco. You might catch a whiff of Abba in the crack house, or Donna Summer waking up in the gutter, neither a terrible thing in itself. And yet, you can’t help but feel that Stereo Total is dancing a little too fast, cracking a little too wise. When mid-way through 2010, you still look to Divine and Andy Warhol for iconic style, you’re not retro anymore, you’re just passé.

Thus while previous Stereo Total discs charmed with their deadpan cool, this one has a manic quality to it, as if relevance had to be proved, track by track, chorus by chorus. It starts with the very unsettling “Hello Ladies,” told in Cactus’ voice, from the perspective of an aging ladies room attendant. Caustic asides like, “I give make-up advice that they know already / They don’t give a shit about my long life,” are obviously about all kinds of things: the shallowness of the party culture, the corrosive effect of income inequality, age-ism, etc. But the song might just also be about being a pop singer in a culture that moves with lightning speed, forgetting about bands far more recently born than Stereo Total, and leaving hardly a bubble in its wake. (Today’s empty icon, Lady Gaga, gets a nod later on, in the dreamily melancholy “Lady Dandy.”)

It’s Göring who scores the sharpest points on this disc, with his sort-of tribute to Almodovar’s Bad Education in the song “I Wanna Be a Mamma.” The lyrics veer into dysfunction almost immediately, as Göring daydreams about cross-dressing a son and naming him Lucifer, yet the music bubbles on in a happy, cluelessly buoyant melody. It makes you wonder, if you don’t speak French or German, what the hell these two go on about during the rest of the album.

The covers on Baby Ouh! showcase a playful, irreverent expertise that covers many different styles of pop. There’s a panting, electro-bop version of Kraftwerk’s “Tour de France,” a disco-trash romp through Brigitte Fontaine’s “La Barbe A Papa,” and a tongue-in-cheek gender-play on “Wenn Ich Ein Junge Wär,” (“If I Were a Boy”) from 1950s pop star Rita Pavone (via Nina Hagen). But none of these are as simultaneously clever and silly, daring and frivolous, as Cactus and Göring on their own account, enumerating the contents of Divine’s handbag (“Divine”) or crying metal tears (“Larmes De Métal”).

It would all be quite enjoyable if you didn’t have the sense that they were trying too hard, and, in frantically reconfiguring the most transient of pop kitsch, had somehow become their own raw material.


By Jennifer Kelly