Flou, Empreintes-Digitales.fr & Believe invite you to remix “La publicité” off their first single (as free download here) and get a chance to be featured on their next release! Bonus interview below:

Flou “La publicité” REMIX CONTEST:

1. Download the song’s parts here

2. Remix the song the way you like.

3. Upload your remix on Fairtilizer.com and name it La publicité (your name Remix)
and add flou remix contest in the tags.
Note: You have to register to Fairtilizer.com to be able to upload a track (it takes 30 seconds and it’s free).

4. The best remixes will be selected by Flou and featured on their Myspace.

Prize:

winner: Digital release in next Flou’s single + Flou’s goodies + Fairtilizer T-Shirts .

runners-up: get Flou’s goodies + Fairtilizer T-Shirts.

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT REMIX: 19th July

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What are you up to at the moment?
I’m in a club with Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy. They want to have sex with me. But I don’t.

Who is Flou and how do you work, who does what?
Flou is a trio from Lille. We love to eat children, drink beer and compose some hits on shitty PC with an old version of Logic. We play bass and guitar without amp. We make electronic music without Mac. We sing without voices.

What’s your next release about, why should we listen to it?
It talks about advertising, money, ego, madness and work. You should listen to it because you’ll broadcast it on your blog.

What’s your musical background?
Rondo Veneziano and Catherine Lara.

How would you define Flou sound?
It’s an orgy with Pamela Anderson, Benny Be, le Commandant Cousteau, Punky Brewster and Eric Cantona. It’s like making love with your clothes.

Influences and family?
Yeah, of course !

You gave away your first single, digital only, for free, what’s the philosophy/idea behind this?
We just used the good old method of New York’s crack dealers that consists in offering rocks to young people craving for new thrills and hoping that they’ll become addicts and make them rich. And, to have the CD for free, you just have to come on our gigs.

You are just releasing music in a difficult time for the music industry: how do you see the future for it?
It’ll die peacefully in its sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

As an artist how do you use & see the web today? How important is it for you?
As an artist, I use it with my computer. I see it with my eyes. It’s very important.

How do you see it evolving in the coming years?
I think it will become big.

As an artist, what would be your dream online music service?
I have a dream that one day this online music service will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created to listen Flou.”

You are unsigned, what do you expect from a label in 2009?
We hope they have a pen to sign up the contract.

What’s your favourite digital and physical format and why?
Viva K7 and MP3. Death to CD and vinyl’s revival !

Recommended music site (shop, blogs…)
www.myspace.com/flouprod
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T0cwPOXxwg&feature=related
www.empreintes-digitales.fr

How’s the scene in Lille ?
There are a lot of bands : Seik, Douglas and the Beauties, gachette of the mastiff, Louis Aguilar, Mad regal, the Lonely Twin, Sylvie Cious. There are not really good but it’s our friends so they won’t be happy if you don’t mention them.
And there’s also La Seine in Paris.

Places of interest in Lille?
“La cave aux poètes” to listen music, “le drugstore” to be drunk, “Enter your name“ to buy clothes, “le cheval blanc” to watch old drunkard playing Johnny Hallyday’s covers and the municipal Zoo to watch monkeys. There was also a white tiger, but he’s not here anymore. They have replaced him with an owl.

Best thing that happened to you recently?
I began to smoke cigarettes. It’s fucking cool, you should try it !

Number one junk food?
I’m French so I only eat frogs and children. I love also “le kebab sauce blanche au poulet”.

Best venue?
My girlfriend.

A movie you would like to watch now, right now?
A movie where I’m visiting my best venue.

Best place to live?
Next to me of course.

Last album you enjoyed listening?
Impact tuning.

Best TV shows (current and ever)?
Arabesque, Californication and Dexter.

Last book you enjoyed reading?
The unbearable lightness of being – Kundera.
If this is a man – Levy
1984 – Orwell
Every books of Buchowsky
Biba Magazine

How do you know what time it is?
I count the bottles on the table. One beer per hour. But when I forget to throw in the garbage the beer of the night before, it’s a bit complicated.

Fave night drink and morning beverage?
I don’t have fave night drink. I love them all. White spirit for the morning.

Smoking or non-smoking clubs?
We can’t smoke in club in France. Except the fog machine which have a special dispensation.

Your joke of the moment?
Life.

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