On the occasion of Kitsuné Maison 15‘s release, we’re quite proud to start Kitsuné’s residency on Thump! So for the next two weeks, we give you rendez-vous twice a week with exclusive mixes from some of the artists featured on our brand new compilation that you can now order on iTunes or on our webstore!

And today we start at full speed with the excellent mixtape by German hot duo Schwarz Dont Crack : enjoy!

LOGO reveal the new video of «Cardiocleptomania», their last stunning EP, released on Kitsuné! The video is directed by Alice & Virgile, who had already done wonders with LOGO’s acclaimed track « Fabrice”.

Designed to challenge and condemn homophobia in sports as much as it is the story of opposite impulses, the video is willing to fight one of the most painful and taboo subjects of nowadays.

A fight that already has a lot of support as the film is already number one on Hypetrack and Hypebeast!

Filmed at the the French Institute of Sport (INSEP), the video stars the handsome actor Niels Schneider, previously seen in Xavier Dolan’s Heartbeats (Les amours imaginaires), as the leader of a cycling team. One of his team mates, a lonely, hesitant boy, is sitting on a fence: he seems to keep aloof from the other boys and to hide a secret yearning for the team leader, Niels Schneider.

Once, as they get together in the locker room, the solitary boy can’t help kissing the team leader. Offended — or is he? —, the leader leaves only to return and smack the other boy as hard as he can.

What leaves us on a scene as enigmatic as “Cardiocleptomania” ‘s name, which is perhaps the scientific term for a “heart robbery”.

Crowning all, the song’s voltages, convulsive piano and sticky sub-bass lines throbbing in the background, also add hints of tenseness to this drama midway between romance and abruptness.

Buy “Cardiocleptomania” EP on our webstore.

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Check out and share the screenshots of the film below!

Picture Courtesy of : Alice Moitié and Virgile Texier.

NYC dazzling duo HEARTSREVOLUTION, pop dotted lo-fi music masters, are giving an exclusive and FREE Revolution Rising mixtape, to download below or on Hunger TV!

In addition, HEARTSREVOLUTION is also working on mixes with the legendary hip hop producer, Just Blaze, while putting the finishing touches on their crystal ice cream truck which will be unveiled this May at a New York festival…

Join their global masked army and check out their Street He(art) Project!

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The three boys from Is Tropical and their pop dotted lo-fi music will perform twice in Paris this Friday!

Rendez-vous at our Maison Kitsuné boutique, 52 rue Richelieu 75 001 Paris, with our friends from Konbini for an acoustic boutique from 6 P.M.where they will perform some tracks from their upcoming album “I’m Leaving“, out May 20th!

And then let’s party with Is Tropical (djs) for our Kitsuné Club Night at Social Club with the great Alex Gopher and Lifelike!

Kitsuné and Paris La Nuit offer you the chance to win TWO TICKETS for the Kitsuné Club Night event! To participate answer this question on our Facebook page : Who is the producer of the new Is Tropical album?

For the ones who wouldn’t participate you can still get your tickets for the event here and join the Facebook event here.

As a warm-up, download for free their brand new mixtape !

The coolest band Is Tropical took off their masks for good in Another Man magazine and announce their forthcoming album “I’m Leaving” out May 20th!

“Is Tropical’s dancefloor-friendlyamalgam of synthesized beats, oddball lyrics and blissed-out melodies has been blowing up worldwide” – Another Man

Maison Kitsuné Paris, 52 rue de Richelieu, Paris 1er.
The Social Club, 142 rue Montmartre, 75002 Paris. From 11 P.M. (French hour).

A new tantalizing destination just popped out in our agenda!
Kitsuné comes to St Petersburg on April 26th, ready to mess up your hair and chapka!

Kitsuné loves day and night, the day to wear fancy outfits and the night to party infinitely.
But the best is that whenever it’s the day or the night, you can wear this adorable sweater we especially made for the first year anniversary of the DAYNIGHT Russian concept store.

For this matchless occasion, Punks Jump Up will be djing their disco club pleasant pieces from 20 P.M. to 23 P.M. at the DAYNIGHT Lite store!

Daynight Lite, наб р Мойки 59, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191186.

Listen to Punks Jump Up x Dubka (feat. Saint Saviour) “Feels Good” track below, or buy the whole EP here!

Between the music studies and the day job creating flower arrangements (for Valentine’s Day, miss Valentine even held a flower bouquet stand at the Maison Kitsuné Paris boutique!), classically trained Alison Valentine crafts feminine laptop pop just like the delectable and tropical “Circles and Triangles” featured on the new Kitsuné AMERICA 2 compilation!

We asked her to present herself in a few words, so let’s read her funny and girlie self-portrait below!

Three things we shouldn’t know about Alison Valentine :
– Sometimes my friends call me Ali. When I was little my nickname was Allycat. The French boys call me “petit chat”

– I study music at NYU right now. I wrote “Circles and Triangles” about those times when I’m daydreaming during class and drawing pictures all over my notebooks.

– Next to school and singing I am also a florist and I have a flower company called 11×11.
11 is my lucky number and the x in the centre is a kiss.
We make flower creations for many music and fashion clients around New York City.  For Valentine’s Day, this year, I sold bouquets for the all lovers at the Maison Kitsuné boutique in Paris. Even though I am from New York I have a California soul, and in January I played my first show in California with my friend Moon Boots.
While I was singing, a crazy Mexican man jumped on the stage and tried to snatch away my mic,  so I punched him and sent him flying off the stage into the crowd.

Download for free the mix she played at the Kitsuné Le Pool Party in Miami Beach!

Perpetually on the trail of ingenuous talents designing now tomorrow’s soundscapes, trusty Kitsuné releases its new Kitsuné AMERICA 2 compilation, a diverse and quirky selection of tracks which stick to no rules but their own!

Borrowing here, digging deep there, Kitsuné found the new and unexpected sonic hybrids, which groove and urban vibes will keep you springing all Summer long!

Download Jerry Bouthier’s minimix of AMERICA 2:

The video teaser of AMERICA 2 compilation!

Follow Alison Valentine on Facebook!

Chrome Sparks is sparkling a lot with his music.
Cinematic slo-mo is big… the reaction to today’s fast beats which have invaved the charts? No doubt, weed’s played its part… Chrome Sparks won’t disagree!

His track “Marijuana” is featured on Kitsuné AMERICA 2, out April 29th, a reason good enough to ask Jeremy Malvin aka Chrome Sparks three stories about himself that you never could imagine. Read them below.

Three things we shouldn’t know about Chrome Sparks :
– I was in a car chase with a man with a gun because I hit his car after a girl talk concert. It was his fault and I escaped.
– When I was born, my heart was not beating and I was not breathing. Some call that ‘dead’.
– I drink A1 sauce.

Chrome Sparks performed at our Kitsuné Party for SXSW festival, check out the photo report here!

He also played live at the Hype Hotel, watch his show below:

Perpetually on the trail of ingenuous talents designing now tomorrow’s soundscapes, trusty Kitsuné releases its new Kitsuné America 2 compilation, a diverse and quirky selection of tracks which stick to no rules but their own!

Borrowing here, digging deep there, Kitsuné found the new and unexpected sonic hybrids, which groove and urban vibes will keep you springing all Summer long!

Download for free Jerry Bouthier‘s minimix of America 2:

Watch the America 2 video teaser!

BeatauCue‘s brand-new beat “Lyrel” is now available on Beatport!

A three tracks EP that clearly go back to the duo’s cultural clubbing roots, “Lyrel”, “Kicking Back” and “Red Blocka” being perfectly suited for nightclubs parties and stage remixes.

A comeback which will reach the electro headlines!

Find “Lyrel” EP on our webstore from April 15th.

As a bonus, the minimix of “Lyrel”, to download for free below!

Follow BeatauCue on Facebook and Soundcloud.

One year after having bitten the Big Apple’s joys with the opening of a Maison Kitsuné boutique in New York at the Nomad hotel, Kitsuné has toured throughout the States to find the cream of the crop of American musicians and is releasing its Kitsuné Parisien 2 compilation on April 29th!

True to the label compilations’ tradition, this second volume comprises ingenuous talents that are designing now tomorrow’s soundscapes, like Toro y Moi and their overhead indie pop, the loony Heartsrevolution, Theophilus London the crooner-rapper, the gigantic Gigamesh, the garage rock’n’rollers Papa, and to all the other talents featured on the album!

A melting-pot of miscellaneous tracks, which all stick to no rules but their own, borrowing here, digging deep there, and generally reaching the peaks of New York skyscrapers.

From bedrooms to the most sophisticated studios, these new sonic hybrids return for good, slowing down the beat and getting groovier with some urban vibes springing up.

As foretaste, you can download America 2’s minimix by Jerry Bouthier and find out the track list, below!

The compilation’s tracklist:

Ghost Loft – So High
TiDUS – Say It
Haerts – Wings
Theophilus London – Morning Kisses
Toro Y Moi – Say That
Chrome Sparks – Marijuana
Kent Odessa – Bo Jacksons
Alison Valentine – Circles and Triangles
Gigamesh – GOTF
Malandro – Casa Rosa (Instrumental mix edit)
Jim-E Stack – Come Between
Papa – Put Me To Work
Heartsrevolution – Pop Heart (Grand Atrium remix)
Jhameel x DWNTWN x Giraffage – Move Me

Get the first Kitsuné America compilation, or the package with Kitsuné America + Kitsuné Maison 14 compilation vynil on our webstore.

Crayon & Pyramid, the two new cool French producers and selfmade djs, have just released a fizzy EP together called “So Far Gone” on Kitsuné.

They did an exclusive mixtape for Discobelle which you can get on their website or below!

And as they just held their proper release party with Yuksek as a guest and did a show in Japan with BeatauCue, LOGO and Gildas, we interviewed them about their feelings and upcoming exciting news! Read it below:

What did you want to express in “So Far Gone”?
We composed the music for “So Far Gone”, which has a dominant nostalgic feel to it. Yet some parts come with a more hopeful, laidback atmosphere. We think the singer Golden Retriever did a great job with the words since it basically translates these emotions with the lyrics. You know, “Can We Try, etc…”

Was it intimidating or thrilling to make your proper release party with Yuksek as a guest?
He is definitly one of our biggest influences. It was quite challenging for us two since I (Crayon) got to play before him and Pyramid got to play after.

And what about your live in Tokyo at the Kitsuné Club Night French Kiss Invasion, with Gildas, BeatauCue and LOGO?
This party was pure insanity, we both had our best party ever, played our best sets to the most enthusiastic crowd!

Is Tokyo’s audience really different from the French one?
To be honest, French audience is much more difficult, you have to play fresher, more hip stuffs and etc. While in Japan, from what we experienced, it seems they care more about the energy of your set rather than the tunes.

Your best live memory?
Pyramid: I would say Tokyo for both us.
Crayon: Tokyo and also Montreal with my friends Jupiter. Great memories!

What are your musical influences?
Crayon : We share some similar influences, but in quite different ways and for very different reasons. I’m really into this late 70’s pop thing, acts like Supertramp or Alan Parsons. I’m also a big funk lover, Change is one of my favourite band, and I grew up listening to “Thriller” on repeat like billions of other kids.

Pyramid : Sci-fi / ambiant stuff, I’m a huge fan of Alan Parson’s Project as well, Justice, Supertramp, Boards of Canada or Royksopp for example, I’m not a huge listener of groovy / disco stuff, I find more of myself in melody or long dreamy pads.

Apart from music, do you share other passions together?
Pyramid : We share a lot of stupid passions that we won’t talk about here… We are both big videogame players and I’m also a big movie / TV show consumer.

Crayon: Well I used to draw and paint before I started making music. I don’t really have the time to keep it up but I’m still into arts, I love that new kind of expressionist thing from that “crew” called Black Market. Ben Tour is my favourite out of them all.

What’s next for both of you?
Pyramid: For now we’re both starting to play some gigs here and there. I’m about to release 2 new remixes, one for french singer AV and the other one for Golden Retriever, the singer on “So Far Gone”. I’m also finished with writing the soundtrack for a short film, as well as an Indie Game called Pixel Boy. I should be writing some more, notably for another short animated film.

Crayon: Well I’m working on my first EP, and as usual a bunch of remixes. And of course, touring is another thing I want to focus on more from now on.

Get their EP on our webstore or on iTunes.
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