Serge Gainsbourg - Requiem Pour Un Con  (c.1968)

Serge Gainsbourg cut “Requiem pour un Con” in 1968
for Jean Gabin’s film Le Pacha. 

Caterina Valente - C’est si Bon  (c.1958)

C2C - Happy (Ft. Derek Martin)

…Happy Easter Sunday

Phoenix - Definitive Breaks

…an instrumental track from their debut album c.2000.

Worked this into my DJ Set last night.

Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi  (c.1978)

…I forgot how much I liked this tune until DJ Lola played it at an event I produced this weekend. 

Edith Piaf - Sous le Ciel de Paris

Ben L’Oncle Soul - Mon Amour

Les Chats Sauvages (The Wild Cats) - C’est Pas Sérieux  (c.1961)

Driving from Barcelona to France…

Les Chats Sauvages (The Wild Cats) - Twist à St. Tropez  (c.1961)

…Les Chats Sauvages were one of the first bands to perform rock and roll music in France.

Joe Dassin - Les Champs-Élysées  (c.1969)

… @thebrothersal & Sarah Lassez performed a lovely cover of this last night.

Hocus Pocus - Feel Good

…When there’s a groove like that, everybody feels good.

C2C - Down The Road

…while things start out as a twangy blues jam, you’re going to end up in a different place than you might expect.

Formed in 1998, and winners of the Disco Mix Club World Team DJ Championships four years in a row, French turntablist crew formerly known as Coups2Cross have certainly taken their time making their way into the recording studio.  Even then, their debut release Down the Road (out now) is only an EP featuring six tracks, one of which appears twice, suggesting that Greem, Pfel, 20Syl, and Atom are still more concerned with gracing the clubs than the charts. However, what it lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality as there’s more invention on display in its brief 28-minute running time than many knob-twiddlers manage in an entire career.  

- EP available on iTunes : http://bit.ly/wBGWA4 

Code Murasaki - I’m Changed (feat. GI)

…heard on House Of Lies Season 1 Episode 10 Prologue And Aftermath 

Code Murasaki (Portishead-Archive-Massive Attack-esque with dubstep dick teases)

France Gall - Laisse Tomber Les Filles

…I like that The Weeknd references this classic 60’s French tune in yesterday’s ASAD, Montreal. 

“Laisse tomber les filles” (English: “Leave the girls alone” i.e., “stop messing around with the girls”) is a French song composed by Serge Gainsbourg and originally performed by France Gall in 1964.

MC Solaar - La Belle Et Le Bad Boy