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    It has been a very good year ! To all of those who supported me and who recognize themselves: a big hug !
    I also want to thank all of those who follow me and listen to my music: I offer my albums at a happy price during the Christmas period !

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    Enter this code to get 50% off digital albums.
    This offer is available from now on until december 24th.

    Happy Christmas !

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    Saturday 29 October 2011, 6pm – Free
    Médiathèque Gaston Baissette, Mauguio (34)
    Tél : 04 67 29 50 89


    For its new edition, the EP Green live tracks gets a new cover and a bonus track : 1001mvts. It is a live soundboard record version of the track MightyMovements from the album La fille verte.
    Enjoy !

    « Ce Green Live Tracks est un EP Live enregistré aux Quartiers Libres de Montpellier en 2006 : trois titres, trois claques, on en redemande. Le blog de l’artiste annonce la sortie de l’album La fille verte par le biais de ce mini évènement, on se lèche les babines. On plonge directement dans l’ambiance du concert grâce à un public actif, qui fait « Waouh », qui siffle, qui s’exclame et qui lui aussi en redemande. De grosses distorsions annoncent La voix de l’empereur, qui a tout pour plaire : des basses sourdes, une mélodie entêtante et des éléments synthétiques qui se mêlent à des sonorités orientales. On croit entendre une guitare, des hurlements de loups : la variété des sons surprend elle aussi. Il y a là quelque chose d’Amon Tobin dans ce premier titre magistral, on pense également à Prince of Persia, à quelques BO de Films (celle de Lord Of War entre autres)… »

    Forces parallèles I Read the whole review…

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    ” Montpellier, scorcher. While in the heat of the day, the golden youth is cooing and having an easy time of it, the impetuous Syl Kougaï is defying the elements in his laboratory and giving the «power» to his machines. Frankly impossible to know where the human is on this disc. What we hear comes from elsewhere : growlings of a tortured processor, moanings of a mutilated laptop, panting bleeps and groanings of an oscillator in distress.
    An unconventional electronica, ingenious and enlightened, alternatly frenetic and fearless; an end of the world music with an insane rythmic : the Metaswing !

    Here is a special disc, pressurized and disorientating, which is visited like Dr. Frankenstein’s library – huge volumes and yet no empty space. During this turbulent ride, between chilling hallucinations and fits of claustrophobia poorly contained, we have, every minute of listening that goes by, the strange sensation of losing bits of reason. Even so it is not disturbing, as if under a spell or a highly concentraded synthetic drug.
    Clearly, this composite and haunted album could easily make you freak out, and yet it looks like one of those old friends returning from a long journey, the mind badly cleared, fogged with a bunch of tall tales that we listen to anxious but captivated.

    Still as uncompromising in his artistic choices, this lover of complex harmonies and wild sonorities has developped an amazing sense of space and movement. A virtuouso quality already foreshadowed on La fille verte, his previous album, he has pushed much further.

    It is, by the way, in this very technical approach that one could find the limits of a project, indeed upscale, but which by its experimental and erudite nature, might well dump on the way some unprepared listeners. Let’s say that to appreciate the true value of this record, we must see, more than a IDM lecture, the celebration of a succesful experiment, even a won battle : the final fusion of a man with his machines. With, under the sonic explosion of this Metaswing, true act of a glitch tamer, this filigreed question : Who really controlled who in there?
    Him? Them? The mystery remains… ”


    Reviewed by Yvan for Dmute.

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    • A PDF booklet with the album artworks.


    I’am pleased to announce that my album La fille verte is now distribute by the Brighton based Netlabel Open. Launched in September 2008, Open is an open source music label run by musicians.

    « Syl Kougaï is a very patient man. I have had this release in my pocket for about a year, while the beginnings of Open Music was emerging. Delays and mis-speaking meant that La Fille Verte remained unreleased, for no good reason and that was just fine with him. He must be a patient man to piece together an album like what we have here. This release is like one of those patchwork quilts your Nan would have kept in the back of a cupboard; cut together from random little pieces, it looks a little ugly in parts. You recognise little squares here and there but over all it’s a bit of a mess. Then you wrap it over you and it feels amazing. La Voix de L’Empereur, the second track is a series of concentric circles. Right in the middle is the super funky (yes, that’s right… funky) guitar lick, wrapped in a super compressed dubby bass, wrapped in some vacant folk vocalisations, further wrapped in some white wash machine noise warmth. R.Daneel is reminiscent of the Rephlex acid releases, but with a more frenetic and softly aggressive approach. In other words, much much better. And this is how it continues throughout the whole release – Little pieces of sounds you love and recognise from somewhere, shouldered out of the way by sounds you’ve never heard and it all feels right. »
    Barry Prendergast – Piratio - Open Netlabel

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    The Primer compilations are an introduction to the latest Open releases. Each batch of new music will include a preview download PLUS some bonus tracks from other friends of Open. They have very good selection of releases, you must go check some stuff !
    Launched in September 2008, Open is an open source music label run by musicians:

    « We operate from Brighton, UK. Open is run by Piratio but is greatly helped by John Cohen & Leo Piggot. We don’t believe in the conventional record label. OpenMusic’s objective is to release great music and sound projects from around the world, in a freel, share-friendly and re-distributable manner. We encourage you to redistribute individual tracks or whole releases via sharing links, Peer-to-Peer networks, MP3 Blogs and any other form you see fit, as long as you respect the rights of the respective Artists and follow the rules of the Creative Commons Sharing License. »

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    Short Film Corner

    Syl Kougaï’s music will be present at the 61th Festival de Cannes. Two tracks from La fille verte album have been chosen by director Raphaël Andreo for the O.S.T of his short film ‘Sale journée’ in official selection for the Short Film Corner. We cross fingers !

    « The Short Film Corner stimulates new cinema talents!
    Throughout the Festival, a privileged meeting place for international professionals.
    Directors, producers, distributors, festival programmers, buyers, institutions…all are part of the Short Film Corner alchemy! »


    The 28th february live show on l’EKO is available to listen from now on, and this until the end of the cycle of March. The flying time is about 2109 seconds, with a cruising height of about 25,000 very dirty feet. The weather at destination is scorching and the sky starry. I wish you a frenzied trip! Mind the dog.


    I will be playing a special session of ‘La fille verte’ on the very alternative radioshow Les Ondes Ephémères
    The live will be broadcast from:
    - the radio station l’Eko 88.5fm for south of France at 8.00pm.
    - In streaming for the rest of the Universe ( 7.00pm GMT ) from:

    > http://kanabis.intuxication.net:8080/ [ogg-best quality]

    > http://kanabis.intuxication.net:9192/ [mp3]


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    For the 4th IDM night at the Zoo at the Usine of Geneva, the Audioactivity collective invites a set of pioneering researchers, adventurers of contemporary electronic music, inconditionnals seeking the constant tension between dancefloor and experimental.

    Milanese : “Avec son premier album “1up” (Warp) Milanese est tombé au milieu de la scène “dubstep-grime” comme un astéroïde venu du fin fond de la galaxie sonore. Même si sa musique colle aux caractéristiques de ces 2 genres, elle en explose les limites. En mélangeant d’énormes percussions industrielles à des basslines géantes, des voix déchiquetées et des synthés tout droit sortis de films d’horreur de série B, Milanese compose dans un style unique et terriblement eficace sur les dancefloors. La suite de ses aventures sonores mutantes se sont dernièrement poursuivies sur le mythique label PlanetMu… logique !”

    AZ-Rotator : Passionné de hiphop et de graffiti depuis petit sa première expérience musicale commence dans un groupe de hardcore comme chanteur. En grandissant il se trouve un intérêt particulier pour les sonorités electroniques et crée, à l’aide d’un ami appelé dani, le groupe E.B.U.D.P ( El buen uso del progreso ) ou se combine sonorités électroniques et influences punk.
    Sa manière de créer est radicalement bouleversée lorsqu un jour il écoute un morceau d’Aphex Twin et prend conscience des milliers de nouvelles portes d’expression musicales qu’offrent la technologie et l’imagination.
    Depuis il enchaîne les expériences avec tout types de jouets électroniques : vielleries, contrôleurs midi, appareils défectueux, tout ce qui sort un son intéressant, sans se limiter il poursuit ses expériences à la recherche perpétuelle de son propre son.

    Syl Kougaï : Echappant aux grilles de lecture traditionnelle, Sa musique semble parfois conçue par un cyborg doté d’une perception nouvelle du temps et de l’espace. Vibrante, sauvage, elle alterne ou mèle des déferlantes carabinées et de timides radiations qui sont miel aux oreilles des amoureux de l’audace musicale.

    Mr.Connard : du hip hop en passant par le dub, l’electronica et toute sorte d’impressions lugubres, vous fera voyager aux coeurs de ces turpitudes journalières. Son univers bancal a un goût particulier; un goût amer, rouillé; où s’entremêlent sonorités acides, rythmes charcutés, distortions en tout genre…Inspiré par les déviances humaines, il se crée un monde, un monde pénible où sentiments perdus se contortionnent sur des beats metalliques,où visions alarmistes se frottent dangeureusement à la vie quotidienne…


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