Sourya brings you the “Stockholm 1973″ remix contest! Win a Nintendo DS incl. Korg DS10! Rules and track by track album comment below:

Track by track comments by Sourya:

Drinking in your town

Sou: I was trying to write a short intro to the album, something that would give a glimpse of the melodies, harmonies, sounds that would be heard in Dawdlewalk. It was supposed to be an intro for another song but it was ditched in the last minute.

Julien: The train you can hear is the RER C, going in and out the Val Fleury station in Paris’ suburbs. Rudy and I recorded it with a mobile system.

Rudy: The title of the intro also resume how the band met, alcohol was always there in fact.

Stockholm 1973

Sou: This song is about being trapped by a person you love, so you try to make things right by staying with this person. Useless. Not exactly a Stockholm syndrome case but reminds me of it. The guitar solo is played through a 8×10 Marshall stack in a small room with myself in front of it, great souvenir!

Arnaud: For me it’s a very important song cause it was the first song I compose with the others several months after Julien asked me to join the band. Sou played the guitar line and I started a disco rock beat inspired by the Raptures albums “Echoes” and “Piece of the people we love” that I was listening to all the time.

Rudy: few months after we recorded it, we learned that James Blunt released a song called ‘1973′, we were disgusted. Sometimes, life is hard.

Unsuspected

Sou: First song we recorded with Jean-Paul Gonnod and not the easiest one to do, first time for us in a real professional studio so we were kind of intimidated. This is about fear, fear of being caught when you’re guilty of something, so strong that confession is the only solution, what a relief .

Julien: Jean-Paul forced me to play that japanese lick on the chorus. He wanted to punish me for telling him that the drums sounded like Scorpion’s “Still loving you”.

Numero 1

Sou: Oldest song with unsuspected on the album. Remember the times when you wanted to flea from home but couldn’t because you knew you were too young or too scared of the external world? The over-reverberated piano adds a lot to the frustration.

Rudy: This song was the first one playlisted on the french radio.

The ballad of star gigolo

Sou: This is the song that represents our Britpop culture the most, it’s got everything, everything but the guitar solo which is an assumed tribute to Slash.

Rudy: Guys, if you want to score with a lady, play her this song on the guitar. Believe me. If she still runs away, you probably have a problem with your voice or your smell.

Anatomy domine

Sou: Some songs were written with a palm pilot, anatomy is one of them, you can hear it with the main theme and the beeps in the end. Are you looking for immortality? didn’t know at the time that this particular track would be the core of our future album…

Julien: I can remember the first time sou played it in a bar. Alone with a Palm Pilot. People went bananas.

Numero 2

Sou: This is about growing up, the monster that kills the child in us can be anything that makes you nostalgic about youth. great strings part, the growl of the cello and the cry of the violins with the viola trying to unite the two sections.

Julien: I think when the quartet started to play in the studio, i almost fainted of happiness. Best souvenir in the studio.

Rudy: The quartet left me voiceless. I love the way we recorded this track. great souvenir and my favourite song of the album.

Sleep Stage Zero

Sou: The song for insomniacs, the mellotron flute is here to remind you of a old french tv show called “bonne nuit les petits”. Favourite track of the album, great drums and proud of the last piano riff which is actually played live!!!

Arnaud: With this track we all discovered that Rudy was a mellotron master !

Numero 3

Sou: This is about getting old. Very condensed song, the drums are a tribute to dj shadow but the whole song is a tribute to the Klaxons and their interest in the futurist manifesto…

Cheater, liar! liar! liar!

Sou: The 5/4 song of the album that turns into an epic 4/4 in the end, quite proud of playing the guitar part and singing over it at gigs. Really like the drums in the middle of the song, that moog filter is just awesome.

Arnaud: This song is a mix between Radiohead’s “Knives out”, 50cent’s “Ayo technology” and Pink Floyd’s “High Hopes”.

Au revoir Pluton

Sou: This is a very nice way to finish the album. Delicious drums! This is for the ones who feel rejected by others sometimes and can’t find their place etc. We’re all born to turn around the same sun.

Julien: My fav track on the record. I love the way Jean-Paul shaped the drum sound on this one. And Sou’s little technical guitar lick you can hear from time to time over the song, fills me with happiness.

Arnaud: We kept the voice track from the demo, all the emotions of the song were in this first original take made by Sou in his flat.

Rudy: And for guitar players, you should listen to the last riff of the song. Beautiful ending track.

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