That's right folks, this week's borderline-awful ROADTRIP! gimmick is drawing to a close. And yet, for all its conceptual craptitude, we've dug up a lot of ace bands so far on our virtually-drunken, imaginarily-debauched trundle around Northern Europe. Sweden's Envelopes, Norway's Hiawata! and Poland's MR BEEP have provided us with a ADHD-fat-kid-in-an-ice-cream-parlour sample of Upper-Euro music, and brilliant it all has been too.

Thus, before we head back to Cyber-Calais (Yes, this is getting tedious now), for the ferry, we've stopped in France for one final hurrah, and look who's Today's New Band - it's Facteur! Now, as the observant of you ANBAD readers will readily acknowledge, if there's one thing we hate to regularly do, it's to recycle old musings and pass them off as new. So, without further ado - just what is it that makes French dance music so awesome? We may never know - it's certainly not the legacy of Johnny Hallyday - but Facteur aren't concerned, and certainly aren't hanging around to find out, as they're too busy thrashing wildly around the room, losing themselves in their ridiculously thumping songs.

Pick any of the songs - any - on their Myspace page, and you'll be yearning for the dancefloor instantly. If you can't imagine yourself going chicken oriental in a nightclub to their frighteningly CHOON-tatsic remix of Asshole by Giko, you may have exhausted your brain's supply of serotonin, in which case, call a priest and wait calmly for death. It's Friday night. Go nuts and dance in your bedroom to his brilliant tunes, and worry about how daft you look afterwards. You deserve it.

Labels: CHOOOON, French, stupidly bangin'

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What is it about French dance music that makes it so distinctive? No-one does 'funky' in dance music like the French - perhaps it's all the fine food, fine wine and fine weather they have there. It's hard to imagine a band as sullen as Joy Division emerging from a country where you can visit the Loire Valley for a smashing sunshine top-up. On the other hand, when you hear the songs that today's new band Teenage Bad Girl make, it's easy to understand that they haven't felt the crushing despair of living in Macclesfield like Ian Curtis. They just want to Have A Good Time All The Time.

Listen to virtually any 'bangin' tune' on their Myspace page www.myspace.com/teenagebadgirl and it's hard to do anything other than form a 'T' shape with your arms and shamefully scream"CHOOOON!". Like all the great French dance music, it's got all the elements of crappy 70's funk music and made it awesome.

So it might sound like other French music. So what? French dance is so far ahead in terms of fun than most attempts at electronic music, it's silly.

---Don't forget, ANBAD is running a reduced service this week, due to being on holiday and eating a lot of dried cod in Portugal. Full service as per usual next week---

Labels: CHOOOON, French, Super Funky

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