Gilles Le Guen - ProfilesArchive

About Me

As a dj, he put out the DECADANSE Mix Series and the DECA:BREAK:DANSE mix. He opened for Gang of Four, James Chance & the Contorsions and Sonic Youth. He also put out in 2007 a compilation with Marc Collin from NOUVELLE VAGUE called "Nouvelle Vague presents New Wave" on UK label District6.
He lived 7 years in New York and deejayed there; as well as MontrÃ©al, Sao Paulo, Brussels, Berlin, Paris.... He is a regular for AgnÃ¨s b. events in Paris. He played at FlÃ¨che d'Or, Gibus, Frigo etc
he is a singer with different bands : DRY MONOPOLE (Paris), DEPORTED (Rennes), DENNER (NYC). With DRY MONOPOLE, they are featured on the "Tuxedomooning the world" tribute album to the band Tuxedomoon and will appear on the "Des Jeunes Gens Modernes" compilation to be released on Naive in april. DEPORTED is his electro/disco/punk project based on his deportation from the United States mid-2007. DENNER, his NYC post-punk/cold wave project, will appeared on the Charles de Goal tribute album out in may, with the cover "exposition".
As a writer and journalist, he collaborates for New York-based francophile webzine French Morning. He just finished an article about french and european post-punk called "Trans-Europe Post-Punk" (out on Naive in april). And work on more projects to be released...
ALL THESE MIXES AND BANDS IN THE "TOP FRIENDS" BELOW.
"LA VIE A L'ENVERS" ("Life Upside Down") from director Alain Jessua (1968) with Charles Denner, my favorite actor ever.
"FRANZ" directed by Jacques Brel in 1971 starring himself and Barbara

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/14/2005
Band Website: the first seven friends in my top
Band Members: me, my records, a microphone and a pen. well a computer!!!

Influences:
the sound of the ocean, silence, Maurice Ravel, all kinds of reverberations, Billie Holiday, Joy Division, reverberation especially in bathroom bars, Meccano construction game, Jacques Brel, beer, Martin Hannett, Marquis de Sade, pine trees, Tuxedomoon, Tout L'Univers encyclopedia, Boris Vian, Mecano, Tintin, The Sound, Charles Denner, A Certain Ratio, Transpolis, Barbara, The Names, Roxy Music, the year 1979, just the way it sounds...

Sounds Like:

Record Label: District 6 (UK)//Nagra Littoral Audiogrammes (Fr)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Charles de Goal interview (french & english)

NO USE OR REPRODUCTION WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION! still looking for a magazine to publish it. THANK YOU. here is an interview i did of Charles de Goal himself a couple of month ago last fall 2007. Origina...
Posted by Gilles Le Guen on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:22:00 PST

article about DJ Peter Gunn/NYC by me for FrenchMorning.com

Le DJ qui aimait Johnny Au royaume des branchés tout est possible. Il y a quelques semaines, un bar sur le Southside de Williamsburg à Brooklyn, le coeur de la hipster nation. Entre raretés soul, be...
Posted by Gilles Le Guen on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:17:00 PST

article magazine BRETONS par Emmanuelle Debaussart

Magazine BRETONS, juin 2007 DJ nouvelle vague Blacklist, valeur montante de la scËne new-yorkaise, reprend du Asylum Party, combo parisien des 80's. Les dance floors du Lower Eas...
Posted by Gilles Le Guen on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:24:00 PST

what Pieter Schoolwerth has to say.....

Pieter Schoolwerth is a painter who lives and works in New York. he will be part of the Agnès B. show "Des Jeunes Gens Modernes" next april. Here is what he wrote for the catalogue of the show. ...
Posted by Gilles Le Guen on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:43:00 PST

interview on Discordance.fr

read an itw of me by Julia on Discordance webzine about the "Nouvelle Vague presents New Wave" compilation. complete with a fun playlist i picked.... g www.discordance.fr...
Posted by Gilles Le Guen on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:19:00 PST

Reviews compilation "Nouvelle Vague presents New Wave"

Here is a few reviews collected on the net about the comp' i just put out on District 6 with Marc Collin from Nouvelle Vague. They are good! Check out the Rolling Stone magazine too and more gilles &n...
Posted by Gilles Le Guen on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:23:00 PST

Deported//Bye Bye New York City

hello friends, Just to let you know that i got kicked out of the country. That is USA. Deported! It happened last saturday, the 5th. I was coming back to NYC for a month with a connecting fligh...
Posted by Gilles Le Guen on Wed, 09 May 2007 01:05:00 PST