Preliminary, we hope that our parties will convince you more than our website… It’s home-made but I assume you could guess…
We’ve only organized parties and concerts in Paris so far mainly because our only strength - if any - is to make artists we appreciate meet their public within the city where we get a few connections. Being an agent and selling an artist does not make us dream: it seems sometimes to us that this is a little like selling a peace of meat. Not always of course…
Promoting parties and concerts is not our unique job but we must confess that we spend much of our time into it. No talent but a lot of transpiration! And that works relatively well. Our last year or so has been quite incredible both in terms of affluence and from an artistic point of view.
As you will see through the videos/the flyers/the artists section, our musical scope is larger in life than in our gigs. We love Tv on the Radio, Grizzly Bear and many others but so far, free your funk is mostly dedicated to “Black” music (to make it brief). This is quite stupid! But hopefully, this has not always been the case and to be fair with us, let’s say that the scope is in fact between Brazilian music and electronic music with a focus on hip hop (but it is becoming in 2009 a difficult challenge to keep such focus).
If you’re not yet bored, here are a few lines about our previous years in Paris at night.
2009 - 2011
Well, well, i've decided today to update a bit this very exciting and short... text. Our first parties took place in 2002 and depsite getting older and..., our lives and parties still seem to get some success. I assume that when Emmanuel and me got eighty years old, we will remind our parties at Bataclan (Stones Throw vs. Ed Banger, Wonder-full with Spinna and Bobbito, dj Premier and Jazzy Jeff..)all sold out on presales but we had to stop there as the sound there was no longer good enough. We will also remember the most stressfull live of our life : the first live of MF Doom in Europe! He came! The show was not the best we've seen but i can tell you we're releived. What else? The worst dj set even offered in a party: it was a saturday night at djoon. I won'te reveal here the name of this great artist who is not French but lives in Paris : we were the promoters of this very funky night...I will also remind a party called Marathon with nearly all the French electro scene, the yearly "Thank you Jay Dee parties" which are becoming a phenomenon, the various artists of Stones Throw who are all very unique from James Pants to J Rocc, Dam-Funk to Madlib. In 2011, we also had the chance to promote Aloe Blacc whose record is gold in France and thanks to him, we sold out Trabendo, La Cigale, Le Trianon and hopefully, on november 2011, Casino de Paris. We've also started to work with some big players of the industry on Raphael Saadiq, Cee-Lo Green or Wiz Khalifa. We also received the Gaslamp Killer, Gonjasufi twice (we loved his first live, not really the second one), Gilles Peterson or dj Spinna many times... We are now entering a new season 2011-2012 starting with ?uestlove at Cabaret Sauvage. It's been 4 years now since we stop to run the Bus Palladium. On the positive side, we 've got incredible answers from both the artists we've received and from the crowd. On the negative side, i start to feel a bit of repetition Let's hope some good surprise happen in the future
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2008 - 2009
After running a venue for 2 years, we got some deserved holidays. Our first night in 2008 was only on May with the first concert in Paris of Pharoahe Monch: 1300 hysterical persons and honestly, a memorable live …
Since this first night, Emmanuel and me had the chance to get the confidence of a few artists with whom it is hard to have bad parties: dj Mehdi or ?uestlove are not very used to playing in empty venues. However, all the other nights went quite well too from the Mighty Underdogs live although their record was not released in France to Waxgroove, the night with Erik Rug. SOLD OUT every time, everywhere (except one!) at Bataclan, Bellevilloise, Nouveau Casino & Charbon. Nice… so far!
Most of the flyers on the homepage comes from this time period: when they are nice, it is because they were designed by Tom. Thanks to him! When they are not, you may guess…
2006-2007
FREE YOUR FUNK RAN A VENUE CALLED BUS PALLADIUM : >200 PARTIES…
Some unexpected negative news can lead sometimes to surprising changes. The closure of the venue planned for a party with Kurtis Blow five days before the date led us to a club where we never had organized any night: an historical venue called Bus Palladium with a capacity of 500 persons. Historical with no hype: this is the least we can say… But this party and the next one, a week later, gave us a unique and unexpected opportunity: getting the keys of a venue for 2 years in 2006 and 2007 trying to turn the most untrendy Paris club into a more decent spot producing concerts and parties with many artists and numerous promoters, record labels, …
But organizing 3 parties a week, drinking 20 glasses of champagne a night, consuming the end of our youth in a club was not our main goal and we decided to stop in 2008. But overall, we keep a good souvenir of 2 very hectic years: a boring book would not be enough to tell everything…
We sometimes went to larger / different venues for some one-off including:
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Stones Throw 10th year anniversary (with Madlib, J Rocc, Peanut Butter Wolf, Percee P, Daedelus from Ninja Tune, and Dusty from Jazz Liberatorz)
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Fool’s Gold Party at Globo with A-Trak, dj Mehdi, Uffie, Feadz, Kavinsky, Pierre Wax and 2 or maybe 3 000 kids willing to get in…
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Marcos Valle’s live at La Maroquinerie
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Waxgroove every 2 months at Nouveau Casino…
2002 – 2005
We were young, handsome and still clever. Mathieu was still my partner, was still single, but it was such a long time ago… So let’s be brief, our first parties were at Favela Chic, a Brazilian restaurant/bar/swinging club... Birdy Nam Nam, Simian Mobile Disco and many others played live there and we had some amazing parties especially when a bus from the seventies with music and djs in it was rented to lead the public from Favela Chic to Le Pulp. We’ve also started at that time our collaboration with Erik Rug, one of the best French djs we know to promote a night called Waxgroove. We also promoted with Goldrush a few parties at Rex Club called Transformer. The idea of the party was fun: 4 djs, 1,5 hour each in a different musical style from the one they were know for ( a hip hop dj playing rockabilly…). Last, we started to set up parties at a forgotten, large and historical venue called Le Globo. We even celebrated Mathieu departure to South America at Le Globo … The various parties there made us famous! This is the only lie of this boring text … |
