MUSIC MONDAY : FLAIRS

By Mykal • Jan 11th, 2010 • Category: BLOG, FEATURES, MUSIC

Today’s Music Monday should be called VIDEO monday because the only reason why Im putting these two songs up is because the video is so freaking amazing

Until this morning I had NO idea who the FLAIRS were until someone forwarded me their latest video for TRUCKERS DELIGHT.. and needless to say it’s so good. (It’s a little perverted so if balls and tits gross you out, don’t watch)


Im not trucker but Im pretty sure that is EXACTLY what my fantasy would look like if I had one.

Some background info on THE FLAIRS from their myspace:
Cockney speaking French knob twiddler Lionel Flairs is currently shacked up in Paris producing some of the most eccentric and off-beat pop & electro that you are likely to have heard since the start of this admittedly young millennium.

Starting his career as a bass player for Ben’s Symphonic Orchestra, first two albums produced by Oxford based Radiohead & Supergrass management, he very soon tours the globe & also starts playing for established French bands such as Mellow, AlexGopher Benjamin Diamond or the Hush Puppies, to name a few.

….But Years of shuttling between gay Paris, Staines (before Ali G and Hard-Fi had heard of it) and London’s Soho infused the maverick songsmith with the tongue-in-cheek triple irony of post-post modern England : he sets up a studio, puts his brains to work and soon produces « the non PC ep » a now collector white vinyl 12’ (2004/microbe rec.)

Thanks to the sonic talents of legendary producers Etienne de Crécy & Alex Gopher, he then self releases his « Better than Prince EP » 7’ limited edition customized vinyl (via his label, muddy trench rec.), a cynical electronica piece disguised in a form of basic indie rock…few weeks after, Koln based infamous producer Patrick Alavi (roXour) offers him to officially re-release the single, to be out in march 2008, with brilliant remixes from Benjamin (texas/Kitsuné) 25HRS a day (Phoenix & Cassius remixes) and Alavi himself (reRoX).

Not wasting his cockney rhyme, Flairs also gets a golden hand from French Wonders Jonas & François (Justice D.A.N.C.E, Kavinsky, Keanye West, Madonna “4 minutes”…) who produced a « better than Prince » stunning animated psychedelic Walt Dysney on acid video…that one can watch below !

Last but not least, Flairs recently finished producing & mixing a debut album that will demonstrate that when it comes to surpassing the little one formerly known as ‘The love symbol’ in hatching the perfect 3 minute electro pop gems, he is the dog’s bollock’s, mate…


FLAIRS – TRUCKERS DELIGHT

FLAIRS- TRUCKERS DELIGHT (ALEX GOPHER REMIX)

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