From 1989 up until
1999 Jimmy Beaulieu (an amazing cartoonist from Montréal, buy his
comics||| THIS I COMMAND!!!) recorded solo music under the name `Monsieur
Populaire `. at the time he didn`t have any computer. Everything was
recorded with a mixer and a lot of old school anal-logue equipment. This mini
album (23.13 minutes) was created when Jimmy Beaulieu was 15 years old (at the
same age I was into The Dead Kennedys, The Clash, The
Sex Pistols and The Slits). The gear he used on this album is pretty
primitive: a mixer, a microphone, two tape decks, a fuzz pedal, a guitar and his
dad`s scrap yard. Necessity is the mother of invention and it shows. This is not
music per se it`s more like noisy experimentations with some industrial
undertones. I really mean old school industrial like: Bourbonese Qualk,
Faust, Throbbing Gristle, and Coil perhaps. There`s various
styles at work here: low-fi noise + children singing and / or vocal samples
(enfantines 1, 2, 3), extremely minimal ambient noise (titre inconnu
2), percussions / metal banging + noise bursts (titre inconnu 3, 8, 4 ,
1), ambient noise with meditative qualities (titre inconnu 5), and
various noisy / industrial jam sessions (titre inconnu 7, 6). I liked
this album and I can`t wait to hear some more. Get it here: http://jimmybeaulieu.com/monsieur-populaire/
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