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New album of Berlin based French multi-instrumentalist and electro rocker, Fred Bigot. Fuzz guitars, synths, drum boxes, and two incredible covers of classics, "Dancing In The Street" and "Bad Moon Rising". Electronicat is the alias of Fred Bigot. Wild Animal is his eighth studio album. In 2014, working on a sound performance just using the human voice and guitar recreating a road trip he had undertaken across the USA in 2011, he invested in a piece of almost forgotten and rather cumbersome analogue equipment: a talk box, the ideal tool to generate unpredictable results, giving the music a more organic, unruly nature. Back in his studio in Neukölln, and with his project Electronicat in mind, he began his experiments, combining the talk box with the multitude of instruments available including a fantastic range of old synths and keyboards. The result was ten songs, two of which were cover versions. Soon after, Fred began work on a new project The Magic Ray and his talk box experiments were put to one side. Come 2020, a new studio in north Berlin and the first pandemic lockdown: while sorting and sifting through recordings, Fred rediscovered these ten songs, this Wild Animal described by one Ian Svenonius as "the king of the jungle cats, king of electro-beat rock 'n' roll music. Still sleazy, still dangerous, still mysterious, Electronicat is the final stand of sound in the dead-end cul-de-sac road to nowhere that rock 'n' roll music has found itself stuck at. Electronicat is the only hope for a way out. Electronicat is the wild animal we need in our heart, soul and turntable."
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This is France-to-Berlin transplant Fred Bigot, aka Electronicat, and this is his third full-length release on Disko B. Chez Toi continues the Electronicat chapter of fusing guitars and machines, with rock-meets-noise-meets-electronics, drone and industrial music. However, this album transcends all the previous flirtations with electro and presents Bigot's mature vision of pop, rock and noise, mixed with a healthy dose of risk-taking attitude. "Seveneves" exhibits Bigot's on-going fascination with palindromes and loops. A washed-out, haunting guitar accompanies an industrious rhythm over which Masumi Kobayashi repeatedly counts from 1 to 7 in two different types of Japanese, while we are sent off to charter a rhythmic territory that, though repetitive in form, constantly buckles and changes due to its uneven time signature. "Nu Day" is almost two songs in one, the first half with Bigot singing and the second half turning into a hybrid hip-hop/rock song with Miss Le Bomb and G.Rizo at the helm. "Je Pleure J'ai Peur" is a good old-fashioned love song with a modern, raw and determined edge. "Pancake Lady" starts off with bongos, guitars, and all kinds of percussion to create a pulsing techno song. "The Delphins" acts as a short, slightly twisted environmental statement before we come to "Angers," a methodical and courageous piece of rock music with a tightly precise guitar riff. "Lost Gigabyte" is witty, brash and desperate, full of warped metaphors and references to modern technology. "In Limbo" is a haunting, slow, synth-filled melody -- dreamy, remote and reminiscent of Twin Peaks, shadows, lost love, undiscovered things. The final track, "She's A Queen," is an older track that previously appeared on the vinyl-only album Catatac. This is Bigot doing what he has become known for: a manic sci-fi Moog introduction followed by droning and a distorted heavy bass line and shuffle rhythm. A saturated, quacking guitar joins in, kinda rockabilly, kinda spaghetti western. It all comes together with a perverted choral climax. The only thing left to do now is press play and enjoy it all over again.
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"Electronicat is back again with a new album, Voodoo Man, a spontaneous combustion of electro and rock-n-roll, which at parts plays almost like a deranged horror movie soundtrack. Opening with the previous single, 'Dans les Bois,' the lyrics tell a tale of being lost in the jungle where leopard-skin clad figures taunt and tease whilst demonic leaves lead you astray. From this we are escorted through a maniacal wonder world of dark forces, satanic dragsters, and delirious rhythms, ('Wap Doowap', 'Savage Cat', 'The Smell Of Danger'), only to be caught out by a few more tender love songs ('Scratch You Baby Bird,' though this too is quite deviant and 'In My Dreams' a Lynchian vocoder hymn)."
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"The new 12" from Electronicat takes us deep into the French jungle where we become giddy and lost, threatened by roaring guitars and demon leaves and where ancient voodoo is the real master of the rhythm... Beware of the savage cat! Featuring two additional remixes by Cosmo Vitelliand Patrick Pulsinger, this record sweeps us away from electro and into the darkest depths of jungle rock."
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"This album is more than just a compilation of some remixes of Electronicat's legendary Birds Want to Have Fun CD. In fact, it turned out to become some kind of a full length concept album. A collection of brilliant songs. A monster raised from the ashes of its original predecessor. A psychedelic experience. The prominent list of remixes include usual suspects like: Adult., Original Hamster, Anne Laplantine, Hans Platzgumer, Tommie Sunshine, Dat Politics, Zbigniew Karkowski, Felix Kubin, Mike Ladd, GD Luxxe , Kid 606, Diska, The Hacker, Captain Comatose and many more. Angelika Koehlermann is very proud and happy to present those 17 unique remixes that show the many sides of Electronicat's musical creations."
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"Electronicat's mixture of laptop comfort and sweating hardware brought him to a point where his definition of electronic music coincides with a punk attitude and sometimes makes us feel like George Michael is running around yelling that Depeche Mode ripped off all his ideas. In between (almost...) biker rock anthems and glittering electronic ballads, you find the intensity which marked his efforts on his highly acclaimed Depeche Mode Remix ('Dead Of Night' released on Mute Records, 2002). Working with Gerhard Potuznik (G.D.Luxxe, also co-producer of Chicks On Speed) canalized Electronicat's almost schizophrenic devotion to noisy and pushing sounds. Accompanied at the microphone by Catriona Shaw (Queen Of Japan) the record develops intimate density and tipsy no-limit attitude resulting in a new brand of electronically expressed music which is best described as 'electric-glam-rock n roll'."
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"The first track from the forthcoming Electronicat album 21st Century Toy coming on 500 limited edition coloured vinyl/clear picture disc sleeve and postcard. Featuring exclusive non-album track 'Shake It'."
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