Bikini Machine

Band: BIKINI MACHINE Title: « Daily music cookin’» Label: Platinum Distribution: Discograph For five years, Bikini machine have been making hybrid sounds between electro, soul and 60’s rock. After their first album in 2003, composed of striking vintage samples with state-of-the-art machines, they expressed their taste for simpler structures typical of the classics they love when they released a tribute album to Jacques Dutronc in autumn 2005. Reworking these 60’s jewels gave them an idea for simply writing songs altogether. The sample era was over. The latest genial idea of Bikini Machine? Take out the old guitars again\ a real challenge after the fashionable era of names for bands called « The … «! However, Airline, Hagström, Fender Jaguar, and other amazing Morris would now compete with machines while oozing fuzz underline the rhythms. Crafted programmings find their way among solos. Damn guitar-heroes ! As a result: it all sounds more live, more mature and wilder. Finally, Bikini machine become totally comfortable with more personal neo-pop landscape. Here is bikini machine’s new album, Daily Music Cookin’. Neither an impossible retro dance nor improbable English journal of the latest craze, this Daily Music Cookin’ rather sums up the evolution and savoir-faire acquired gig after gig to create these twelve tracks. In Germany, Britain, Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, China or Russia, they receive the same warm and enthusiastic welcome…. Just like the hundred gigs of their two French tours in venues and festivals show (Vieilles Charrues, Transmusicales, Solidays, Printemps de Bourges…). ‘Le Jerk du Gastronome’ sums up the album perfectly. Written as a hint at Boris Vian, prince of St Germain-des-Prés much before Ray Davies or Andrew Loog Oldham started dancing rue Princesse, the fuzz guitars are omnipresent and boosted by powerful electro gimmicks\ the whole topped by detached and classy vocals. These tone and ambiance are also notable on the two other tracks in French. An evil invitation – worthy of Gainsbourg – to join La Pharmacie anglaise, and the plans of this hero very « Deuxième Souffle » from Downtown jail… too strongly referenced? Two instrumental tracks finish to the painting. Of course, it is easy to imagine Inspector$ Ginko chasing Diabolik and his Type E jaguar on the Riviera in Cougar 73, before the Destinazione Roccapina happy end. Still, Bikini Machine fool with their influences and tear down all clichés. Machines launch the very Byrdsian Summer Kingdom. The wha-wha fills up with Voodoo vibes and destroys everything on its way. The Pawn sounds like it was written in the Fortune records studios by some stoned André Williams. These subtle mixes explode to offer the super-powerful Shake ! and make it the head title on the album. Bikini Machine always manage to keep things straight. With accuracy and power in the performance whatever the style or the instrumentation. From the soul-tainted tunes of It’s all up and Let’s Grab to the more contemporary garage-punk hymn Optimistic breakdown. A real treat ! www.myspace.com/bikinimachine