Emile Shahidi

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Isadora Dartial et Emile Shahidi sont les chroniqueurs du Nova Club | nova

La tracklist : 1 - STEVIE WONDER Master Blaster 1980 2 - PIVOT GANG Colbert 2019 3 - THE CURE Close To Me (12") 1985 4 - KEVIN ABSTRACT Joyride 2019 5 - LIZZO Jerome 2019 6 - YUKSEK feat. POLO & PAN Candenza 2019 EXCLU 7 - IN FLAGRANTI Sell It Out 2019 8 - KINDNESS Lost Without feat. SEINABO SEY 2019 9 - LOVE+SUPREME Knwoledge Don't Know 2019 10 - ERNESTO DJEDJE Aguisse 1978 11 - ARIEL SHENEY Amina 2019

Listen to the podcast of yesterday’s #NovaClub on Radio Nova’s website, with my picks:

Tzusing & Hodge — « Electrolytes »

Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats feat. Baauer — « Cheat Code »

J-E-T-S feat. Tkay Maidza — « Real Truth »

Full episode: http://nova.fr/podcast/nova-club/isadora-dartial-et-emile-shahidi-sont-les-chroniqueurs-du-nova-club

Check all my previous Radio Nova appearances here: http://emileshahidi.tumblr.com/tagged/radio%20nova All my picks in one handy Spotify playlist: http://spoti.fi/2epe8Oq

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Isadora Dartial et Emile Shahidi, selectors du Nova Club | nova

Listen to the podcast of yesterday’s #NovaClub on Radio Nova’s website, with my picks:

Le Dom — « Schism » 

Matmos — « The Crying Pille »

Holly Herndon — « Eternal »

Full episode: http://nova.fr/podcast/nova-club/isadora-dartial-et-emile-shahidi-selectors-du-nova-club

Check all my previous Radio Nova appearances here: http://emileshahidi.tumblr.com/tagged/radio%20nova All my picks in one handy Spotify playlist: http://spoti.fi/2epe8Oq

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Emile Shahidi & Edouard Lacan chroniqueurs du Nova Club | nova

Le Nova Club, animé par David Blot, du lundi au jeudi à 19h30. La playlist de l'émission du 21 février :

Listen to the podcast of yesterday’s #NovaClub on Radio Nova’s website, with my picks:

Xeno & Oaklander — « Angélique »

Roy Garrett & Man Parrish — « Hot Rod To Hell »

Weyes Blood — « Everyday »

Full episode: http://nova.fr/podcast/nova-club/emile-shahidi-edouard-lacan-chroniqueurs-du-nova-club

Check all my previous Radio Nova appearances here: http://emileshahidi.tumblr.com/tagged/radio%20nova All my picks in one handy Spotify playlist: http://spoti.fi/2epe8Oq

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Emile Shahidi & Ruddy Aboab sont les selectors du Nova Club | nova

Le Nova Club, animé par David Blot, du lundi au jeudi à 19h30. La playlist de l'émission du 16 janvier :

Listen to the podcast of yesterday’s #NovaClub on Radio Nova’s website, with my picks:

Vessel — « Fantasma (For Jasmine) »

Ex Hex — « Cosmic Cave »

Modeselektor feat. Flohio — « Wealth »

Full episode: http://nova.fr/podcast/nova-club/emile-shahidi-ruddy-aboab-sont-les-selectors-du-nova-club

Check all my previous Radio Nova appearances here: http://emileshahidi.tumblr.com/tagged/radio%20nova All my picks in one handy Spotify playlist: http://spoti.fi/2epe8Oq

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Emile Shahidi selector du Nova Club | nova

Le Nova Club, animé par David Blot, du lundi au jeudi à 19h30. La playlist de l'émission du 4 décembre :

Listen to the podcast of yesterday's #NovaClub on @laradionova's website, with my picks:

Gazelle Twin — « Little Lambs »

Audiobooks — « Dance Your Life Away (edit) »

City Girls — « Broke Boy »

Swizz Beatz — « SWIZZMONTANA » (feat. French Montana)

The Diplomats — « Dipset / Lox » (feat. The Lox)​

Full episode: http://nova.fr/podcast/nova-club/le-nova-club-daaliyah-roy-hargrove

Check all my previous Radio Nova appearances here: http://emileshahidi.tumblr.com/tagged/radio%20nova All my picks in one handy Spotify playlist: http://spoti.fi/2epe8Oq

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Le Nova Club : d'Aaliyah à Roy Hargrove avec Isadora Dartial et Emile Shahidi.| nova

Le Nova Club, animé par David Blot, du lundi au jeudi à 19h30. La playlist de l'émission du 7 novembre :

Listen to Wed 7 Nov 2018’s NOVA CLUB with my picks:

Molina — "Mike" (Tambourhinoceros)

Uniiqu3 & TT The Artist — "Vaseline" (Club Queen Records)

BEA1991 — "V4" (BEA1991)

http://nova.fr/podcast/nova-club/le-nova-club-daaliyah-roy-hargrove

Check all my previous Radio Nova appearances here: http://emileshahidi.tumblr.com/tagged/radio%20nova All my picks in one handy Spotify playlist: http://spoti.fi/2epe8Oq

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Please Mr Postman : le Nova Club du 10 octobre | nova

Où l'on reçoit Madj pour nous parler du volume 2 de ses compilations Motown Motor City et notre chroniqueur garage punk favori, Emile Shahidi.

Listen to Wed 10 Oct 2018’s NOVA CLUB with my picks:

Guerilla Toss — « Come Up With Me » (DFA)

Amnesia Scanner feat. Pan Daijing — « AS Unlinear » (PAN)

http://nova.fr/podcast/nova-club/please-mr-postman-le-nova-club-du-10-octobre

Check all my previous Radio Nova appearances here: http://emileshahidi.tumblr.com/tagged/radio%20nova All my picks in one handy Spotify playlist: http://spoti.fi/2epe8Oq

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Hey my PERIPUNK MIXTAPE is exactly 1 year old today! 42 minutes of punk-adjacent-but-not-all-the-way-punk music from 1973–1984. 

TRACK LISTING:

Marine Girls — “A Place In The Sun”

The Raincoats — “No Side To Fall In”

Essential Logic — “Wake Up”

Family Fodder — “Der Leiermann”

Delta 5 — “Try”

Lene Lovich — “New Toy”

Lizzy Mercier Descloux — “Fire”

Suzi Quatro — “48 Crash”

Girls At Our Best — “Go For Gold”

The Slits — “So Tough”

Debbie Harry — “You’re Under Arrest”

Nina Hagen — “Born In Xixax”

Marie Möör — “Pretty Day”

Chrisma — “Black Silk Stocking”

Siousxie and the Banshees — “Skin”

Cristina — “Don’t Mutilate My Mink”

Lydia Lunch — “Atomic Bongos”

X-Ray Spex — “Identity”

Kleenex — “Ain’t You”

Gina X Performance — “Be A Boy”

Q4U — “Böring”

Au Pairs — “Sex Without Stress”

Patti Smith — “Gloria In Excelsis Deo”

Ivor Cutler & Linda Hirst — “Women Of The World”

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Techno berlinoise et dub anglais | nova

Nova Club du 22 Juin 2018

Listen to Tue 22 Jun 2018’s NOVA CLUB with my picks:

Asian Doll — « Arm Froze »

Fiedel — « Doors To Manual »

MMM — « Que Barbaro »

http://nova.fr/podcast/nova-club/techno-berlinoise-et-dub-anglais Check all my previous Radio Nova appearances here: http://emileshahidi.tumblr.com/tagged/radio%20nova All my picks in one handy Spotify playlist: http://spoti.fi/2epe8Oq

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On the 13th of June, I’ve had the pleasure of hosting a great Boiler Room session live from Paris in collaboration with Huawei, with fantastic performances by Stellar Om Source & Eva Papamargariti, OK Lou, Hiele, and Crystallmess. I also did some local production on the show. You can watch the full 4 hours of the event in this Youtube vid.

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Into The Night - BOILER ROOM

Hidden Happenings is a series diving into undiscovered and progressive clubbing scenes around Europe.

Exactly 2 months ago, we produced this INTO THE NIGHT session of BOILER ROOM, done in partnership with Eristoff Vodka. We put up a full-on rave in an secret warehouse in the middle of an industrial area.  Venue research + venue staffing + full venue supplier chain + tons of misc production by me, in collaboration with Amy, Gloria, Harry, Juline, & many others at Boiler Room.  Surprise lineup had Dave Clarke, MPIA3, and TGAF. I didn't have a single sip of vodka throughout production and learned how to drive a forklift.  Watch the show here: https://boilerroom.tv/playlist/intothenight

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Let's Eat Grandma : le duo de pop expérimentale dans le Nova Club | nova

David Blot et Sophie Marchand reçoivent le duo Let's Eat Grandma. Les deux membres du groupe anglais de pop expérimentale racontent dans le Nova Club leur rencontre, leurs influences et leur première soirée en club. Mais aussi la chronique musique d'Emile Shahidi avec au programme le rap de Philadelphie, de la cumbia new-wave nippo-colombienne et du RnB futuriste.

Listen to Tue 17 Apr 2018’s NOVA CLUB with my picks:

700 Bliss “Cosmic Slop” (Halcyon Veil)

Flash Amazonas “Agua”

Redinho feat. Vula “Mmm Mmm” (Roya)

http://nova.fr/podcast/nova-club/lets-eat-grandma-le-duo-de-pop-experimentale-dans-le-nova-club Check all my previous Radio Nova appearances here: http://emileshahidi.tumblr.com/tagged/radio%20nova All my picks in one handy Spotify playlist: http://spoti.fi/2epe8Oq

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Club Atlas - Episódio 8 - RTP Play - RTP

Paris - Considerada por muitos como a capital da World Music, Branko viaja para Paris

The Paris episode of CLUB ATLAS is out. I had a great time working on it in a local producer capacity. This documentary series is created & hosted by Branko (from Buraka Som Sistema and Enchufada) for RTP2 in Portugal. 

It showcases emerging dance scenes from cities all around the world, meets young and established artists, and contextualizes them with the help of journalists. 

Branko is the absolute best person to be given the opportunity to create a TV show like this and it makes me wish we had a similar one on French public television. It was very interesting to see his perspective on what’s happening here (and what’s not). 

Click through to watch the episode for vibes and chats with Feadz, Acid Arab, 2ManyDJs, TGAF, Rinse France, Paradoxe Club, David Blot, Christelle Oyiri, Birdy Nam Nam, that dude Teki, plus some cameos by a chubby and bearded 2017 me.

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Découvrez la dernière playlist du Nova Club | nova

Sophie est toujours à Clermont Ferrand pour le festival international du court métrage alors c'est parti pour une émission en compagnie d'Isadora Dartial (animatrice de Qué Onda ? et de Dans les Oreilles De...) et d'Émile Shahidi de Sound Pellegrino.

Listen to Wed 9 Fev 2018's NOVA CLUB with my picks:

U.S. Girls “M.A.H.” (4AD)

Simon Doom “Lucifer The Lightbearer” (Votiv)

Kuroma “20+Centuries” (Votiv)

http://nova.fr/podcast/nova-club/decouvrez-la-derniere-playlist-du-nova-club Check all my previous Radio Nova appearances here: http://emileshahidi.tumblr.com/tagged/radio%20nova All my picks in one handy Spotify playlist: http://spoti.fi/2epe8Oq

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Table ouverte, du Rap au Punk | nova

En ce dernier mardi de novembre, la table du Nova Club s'ouvre pour vous détendre. Avec nos amis et confrères journalistes Émile Shahidi et Étienne Menu, on écoute des titres allant du rap au punk, en passant par de la pop ou du downtempo. Dans une ambiance propice à la découverte, mais on parle également des grands producteurs Timbaland, The Neptunes et Swizz Beatz, qui ont marqué une génération entière, fan de hip-hop dans les années 2000.

Listen to Tuesday 29 Nov 2017′s NOVA CLUB with my picks:

The World “Some Like It Hot” (Upset The Rhythm)

Delta 5 “Mind Your Own Business” (Kill Rock Stars)

Essential Logic “Brute Fury” (Kill Rock Stars)

Makthaverskan “Leda” (Luxury)

http://nova.fr/podcast/nova-club/table-ouverte-du-rap-au-punk Check all my previous Radio Nova appearances here: http://emileshahidi.tumblr.com/tagged/radio%20nova All my picks in one handy Spotify playlist: http://spoti.fi/2epe8Oq

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RIP Jean Rochefort. An origin story.

Jean Rochefort has died.

This is the kind of day you fear will come when you realize that all the people who count for you eventually disappear. With each actor and director of his generation passing away, the Lost In La Mancha stuff and at every health scare of his, my dread grew bigger over the years… and here we are.

Jean Rochefort is in a hundred movies and he’s wonderful in all of them, but you already knew that.

If you haven’t seen them, I personally recommend Yves Robert’s masterpiece diptych “Un Élephant Ça Trompe Énormément” / “Nous Irons Tous Au Paradis”. Two of the best French comedies ever made.

But I didn’t really know Rochefort from a pair of ‘70s movies about middle-aged Parisian dudes and their quirky affairs…

For kids of my generation, Jean Rochefort is the unforgettable narrator of a series of 7" records released in France by Walt Disney, including Winnie The Pooh, and my favourite of them: Peter Pan. I’ll lose my shit just thinking about him saying the name Wendy, so I won’t. For now.

1984: My mother drops me on the first day of preschool and I had barely been spoken to in French. Ever. My Iranian parents were separated and rarely spoke French at home. So first year was rough. However, I had the incredible fortune of growing up in Chinatown (in the heart of Paris’ 13th arrondissement) where teachers were absolute superheroes capable of handling kids coming from every culture. And at home I had Jean Rochefort telling me those stories in bed. Rochefort had that mellifluous voice and insanely warm presence that makes you feel everything will be alright. And it did. Thanks to a wonderful team of teachers (I love you, Madame Moreau), I turned out OK, despite still carrying some… let’s call it “social laziness”?

1999: Shortly after graduating high school, I’m chatting with my internet friend Teki Latex over then-popular instant messaging software ICQ—hey, we’re in 1999. I tell him I want to do a rap version of the Rochefort/Disney 7′s, with the little bell signaling the end of the side and everything. I was making some money building websites and I needed a music partner. Teki immediately tells me that TTC’s then-main producer Flash Gordon had the same idea. Weeks later we meet and become friends. Songs featuring Teki as half of sci-fi-rap duo PSYCHOTRON (again: this is 1999) and Mike Ladd (of Infesticons fame) are recorded and backed with sampled-filled instrumentals and skits. Flash Gordon becomes Mr. Flash and in 2000, LE VOYAGE FANTASTIQUE 7″ EP comes out in a heavy-duty cardboard sleeve with illustration and layout copying the Disney records. Hear it on YouTube.

So expensive to produce for a niche record like this, that one could only explain its existence by some dot com bubble money behind it, and, well… it sort of was the case: I was working as a web designer for a few record companies and bands including gallows alt-rap group Svinkels. Through them I made a few friends, including a director named Bertrand Doudet.

Spring 2002: my friend Bertrand tells me he just spent an evening in the studio with Gérard Baste from Svinkels and Pedro Winter. 'Pharrell from The Neptunes’ was also around, because sure, why not? Pedro and Baste had made a rap song together. This is at the height of Daft Punk’s “Discovery” cycle. Matsumoto-animated videos, “the robots”, the new hide-and-seek genius marketing, everything. And Pedro was everywhere, this tall guy with a trucker hat, the friendly face of the whole operation and a very active figure in Paris. Flash had moved to the south of France and worked on a few projects while I had mine here + my day job. And I didn’t have the skills to manage or produce an act like him. I thought Pedro might be the guy. The next day Bertrand gathers a few people including Baste and I for drinks. I ask him for Pedro’s number to see if he’d like to work with Flash.

Although Pedro was mostly associated to big house music acts, I knew he had a taste for fun weird shit, loved connecting people, worked with Mehdi who was no stranger to mutant hiphop, and just seemed like a very nice dude… so I had a feeling it might be worth it. They met at rue Ramey shortly after. Pedro remembers Flash’s name from “Le Voyage Fantastique” (we had sent copies to EVERYONE) but he’s very busy managing Daft Punk, Mehdi and Cassius. He promises he will stay in touch.

He did: a few months later, he calls Flash and tells him he’s doing his own label and would like to start with a track Flash & I worked together but didn’t release commercially: “Radar Rider”. Pedro buys the master from me and releases it on the first Ed Banger EP in the first weeks of 2003, backed by a track by Zdar under his A Bass Day moniker. Flash & I worked together on a couple of his Ed Banger releases (the mixtape “Monsieur Sexe” and his “Champions” EP feat. TTC) and slowly drifted apart.

2005: I wanted to celebrate the relaunch of my online store Arcade Mode—most graciously styled by So Me—with a series of blue, wait for it… 7" records consisting of new tracks from all my friends. The first one was a split between Pedro and Flash, followed by names from Institubes (that was right before I joined the label), from Ed Banger, and the many friends they introduced me to (full discography here). Years pass. As I’m wrapping up the 7" series, I wonder what happened with this Pedro/Baste session that started it all. It was still sitting on a hard drive. My impression was that after Ed Banger had become this international dance juggernaut, a funny French alt-rap song wouldn’t be the best fit for his label. There also was a big, tough-to-clear sample on the beat. So I asked Pedro if I could release it on Arcade Mode and without hesitation he said yes—which has been a constant since I met him. The vinyl came out in August of 2006, more than 4 years after the studio session.

That big sample the instrumental flips? It comes from Vladimir Cosma’s theme for the movie “Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Noire”, starring Jean Rochefort. On the song, Baste even calls Pedro Le Grand Blond À La Casquette Noire (the tall blond with a black hat).

Rest in peace, Jean Rochefort. Thank you for reading me stories and thank you for bringing a few people together.

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Listen to Tuesday 3 Oct 2017′s NOVA CLUB with my picks: The Ritual “Speed Freak” (Numero Group) Lorenzo Senni “XAllegroX” (Warp) Errorsmith “Who-Is” (Pan) http://nova.fr/podcast/nova-club/speciale-musique-avec-emile-shahidi