www.martyrsofpop.com

(c) photos : Michel Clair.

Martyrs of pop is Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe’s label. I’m a journalist and pop culture activist, I’m a current writer or have written for Standard, Rock & Folk, M.C.M., Canal +, Geek, Dedicate, Crash, Voici, Playboy, Roctober, Schnock, Shindig, The Idler, Technicart, Fluide G & Citizen K, to name but a few.

I collaborated with Bruno de Stabenrath or Gilles Verlant, as well as I wrote many books on pop culture (with forewords by the likes of Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Bertrand Burgalat and Christophe Lemaire). I’m working onaudio-visual things, a novel, scripts, an album and many more !

As a pop performer , script-writer, author and DJ, creating a label only seemed totally natural for me.

You see, I’ve always liked to share my own enthusiasms and discoveries !

As it now goes with this brand-new project with Jacques Duvall & Jean-Marc Lederman !

Martyrs of pop finds its roots in labels such as Sordide Sentimental, él Records, Factory Records, Rough Trade, Tricatel & Compact organisation...

The idea is to establish a strong friendly link between artists and their audience in a craftsman-like spirit.

Our catalogue :

April March & Steve Hanft : Magic Monster

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The incredible April March whom I once introduced to my dear friend Bertrand Burgalat, with the artistic good fortunes that we all know about now ! April, of whom Tarantino used "Chick Habit" (her cover of France Gall’s "Laisse Tomber Les Filles"), which I had released 15 years earlier on my previous label Euro-visions!

(vinyl LP)

Alexander Faem : Agent 238

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A mock soundtrack to an espionage movie, in between John Barry and Ravel ! (CD)

Penelope : Benefit of doubt

(see-through red vinyl EP) Phoenix’s protégés, they offer a retro-futuristic garage rock blend with vintage electro !

Purple Submarine Orchestra : Acapulco EP

Purple Submarine Orchestra truly belongs to the the Wilson- O'Hagan (High LLamas) family ! (EP vinyl)

Seamonster : Two Birds (EP vinyl)

Enchanting psychedelic indie-rock from Elefant 6 galaxy (Apples in Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control)

With Lion Productions

The Beautiful Losers (Jay Alanski): Nobody Knows The Heaven (CD)

Jay Alansky, a cult musician who was the other half of Lio’s "Banana Split" with Jacques Duvall, and both a producer forJil Caplan and a pioneer of techno with A Reminiscent Drive, had recorded this masterpiece of a glam folk album with his accomplice Christophe J. It had long since been unavailable and considered as a lost treasure that specialists did not hesitate to compare to Lou Reed’s Berlin !

Groove club vol 1: La confiserie magique

A compilation of rarities and bracing psychedelic nuggets from French pop of the 60s et 70s.

Bye, Bye City" by Le Coeur, "Flower Power" & "Georgie Girl" by Les Hamsters, "Dee Duck" by Maraton, "Une Petite Fille" by L'Empreinte, "Bye, Bye Brighton" by Epta, "Nevada" by Les Rotomagus, "Crazy Mister Badge" by Mister Badge, "Monsieur Cyber" by Les Chimeriennes, "La Vie Est Belle" by le Système Crapoutchik.

With Chalet Films

THE COMMITTEE

Directed by Peter Sykes in 1968, on a script by Max Steuer

A cult, existentialist, psychedelic pop trip

Though clearly influenced by Harold Pinter, R. D. Laing and contemporary Czech cinema, the film has a wild narrative life of its own. “In a glade bathed in summer light, a hitch-hiker coldly beheads the man who has just given him a ride. Soon, the hitch-hiker is invited to join a strange assembly, gathered up in a country house by the powers-to-be” : what an insight, innit ?
Filmed as Swinging London was in full bloom, The Committee makes one think of TV series such as The Prisoner or The Avengers, with a touch of Kafka’s Trial as seen by Orson Welles.
It also features an unreleased score by the Pink Floyd, recorded just after Syd Barrett’s departure from the band, and is granted with an incredible performance by Arthur Brown (off famed “Crazy World Of”) !

MONDO HOLLYWOOD Directed by Robert Carl Cohen in 1967

This underground documentary is a cult film about Hollywood in the sixties, featuring a lush gallery of its actors, sportsmen, LSD gurus, hippies, dancers and transvestites ! Viewed on its release as a “weird prophecy” by critics, a “pro-communists” film by the CIA, or as “glamorising capitalism, with too many cars and swimming-pools “ by the communists themselves, it was banned in France, due to its “ apology of deviant conducts, including drugs and homosexuality”. The film witnesses a society whose morals were deeply changing indeed ! Featuring Frank Zappa, Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Alfred Hitchcock, Ronald Reagan, but also Bobby Beausoleil, once a member of the Manson family, now convicted for murder, and Jay Sebring, himself a victim of Manson…

With Serious Publishing

At Serious Publishing :

http://shigepekin.over-blog.com/article-peep-show-1965-de-j-x-williams-55612050.html

http://cinephiliquement-votre.blogspot.com/2010/09/jx-williams-psych-burn.html

http://contre-cultures.blogspot.com/

A DVD introducing the best-kept secret of the movies : J.X Williams, the man who influenced Scorcese and Tarantino, whose tumultuous life (the mafia, Kennedy, the Vietnam war, sex, drugs and betrayals) is to made into a biopic, Hollywood being really fond of such "larger than life"stories. A fascinating and exploding Barnum !

To finish with, I’ll add that I’m about to release a new album in the line of the first I made called Tribute to Delon/Melvillewhich featured April March, Bertrand Burgalat, Jacno, Helena Noguerra, Saint-Etienne, Luis Régo and Ariel Wizman.

On this new opus, entitled Rouenllywood (Rouen being my hometown), the guest will be April March, Fifi Chachnil, Helena Noguerra, Bertrand Burgalat, Kevin Coral, Sean O' Hagan (High LLamas) et Zappi (from Kraut-rock legends Faust)

Two vidéo previews :

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Leatherman "Rumania"

Leatherman "Rumania"