CHATEAU MARMONT
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They come from a time when people still believed in the future. A time when the proto French Touch, helmed by Space and Jean-Michel Jarre, dominated the airwaves. The Alan Parsons Project and classic French soundtracks (Francis Lai) still radiate through their music.
Four Frenchmen, childhood friends, united in their love of synth music: Chateau Marmont’s story is half Stand By Me, half Solaris, half Logan’s Run and no, it doesn’t add up. They found themselves and each other through synthetic music, so bright and remote in its promises of infinity and eternal bliss, so hard, cold and disturbing when its outlook turns dystopian.
You may know Chateau Marmont from their remixes of La Roux, Heartsrevolution, Ladyhawke, Röyksopp (after Poney Poney or now known as Jamaica), Midnight Juggernauts, etc, and even themselves for Chromeo’s DJ-Kicks. The band has also co-produced former teenybopper-turned-synth-diva Alizée, on her most recent album, Une Enfant Du Siecle.
And their name is resonant not of faded glories, awkward suicides, scuffed gold stars and velvet-roped junkies, but of widescreen romance, vintage melancholia and studied postures.
2008-2009-2010 (Chambre 404) 2011
http://www.myspace.com/chateaumarmont
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