For curator-site Perfects.nl I compiled the ultimate Vanessa Paradis compilation. Deezer- and Spotify-only. Go HERE.
Archive for the ‘Podcast’ Category
Parfait Pluie
12/07/2012
Right after I posted the Parfait Eté compilation, all hell broke loose here in Holland. Torrential rains! As an addendum, I compiled the best rain songs in French, on Spotify.
Parfait Eté 2012
10/07/2012
New French Pop Spotify Playlist
03/07/2012
If you have a Spotify account, and want to keep up with what’s new in French pop music, go HERE. This playlist features songs that were posted on this blog, plus songs that we could’ve posted but didn’t. Because we can’t post everything. It’s that simple.
Benjamin Schoos & Laetitia Sadier
23/02/2012
Go HERE (or HERE, if you want to download the song) to listen to the duet between Benjamin ‘Miam Monster Miam’ Schoos and former Stereolab-chanteuse Laetitia Sadier, from Ben’s upcoming album that also features Marie France and Chrissie Hynde. According to The Guardian, this duet ‘makes you want to run around the streets of Paris with a Super 8 camera and a coy but knowing smile on your face’.
As Mordi pointed out in the comments, the song was originally sung by the magnificent Mademoiselle Nineteen. (I wonder, will she change her name, now that ‘Mademoiselle’ is banned?)
When the postman don’t call on Valentine’s day…
14/02/2012
…there’s always this mix of French 60′s and 70′s grooves (featuring Michel Legrand, Gainsbourg, Michele Mercier, Alain Goraguer) to keep you warm.
Funky Vélo Mix
04/07/2011
Made a (live-)mix for my funky friends of Wicked Jazz Sounds, for their Radio6-show, with tracks about bicycles, cycling, Tour de France and/or with a French summer theme. Download/soundcloudlink HERE.
Picture stolen from here.
Parfait Été (part deux)
23/06/2011
A new summer, a new compilation, a new violation against the vocabulaire (yes, it’s L’été parfait, I know, but this is part of the Perfect …-series, so there). French tunes, by French artists, by a Canadian rockband, by a Flemish girl, by a singer with roots in Cameroon and Algeria backed up by a Brit soul singer – all pretty recent, very versatile indeed. Grab the zip HERE (where it says ‘hier de download’) or try on Spotify HERE.
Artwork as always by the brilliant Wilbert ‘Mr Perfect’ Leering.
Dutch Dolls
25/05/2011
Without Mordi and his fabulous Blowupdoll-blog, my own blog would’ve never existed. Blowupdoll is the blisteringly beautiful mother of all blogs dedicated to singing girls. So it was a huge honour when Mordi asked me to put together a mix-tape with my favourite ‘dolls’. I chose only Dutch meisjes, singing in Dutch, English, French and even German. My tape, and a lot of other fantastic zips with gorgeous girls, can be found HERE. Pictured is, of course, Mariska Veres of Shocking Blue. You can hear her marvellous voice on two songs on my ‘tape’.
DJ Set
03/05/2011Last Sunday, the homies of Wicked Jazz Sounds asked me to do a dj-set in their weekly show on Dutch Radio 6. Much obliged! You can listen and/or download my set (great songs, no dj-trickery) HERE
In other news, go HERE to download a remix of Serge Gainsbourg’s Hold Up by Manu El Chino.