Excuse Me, I Am A French Man

I first discovered the music of Bernard Fevre online via music blogs, freebie downloads and DJ mixes. Andrew Weatherall remixed one of Fevre's tracks as Black Devil Disco Club in 2015. However, it was the Feel My Bicep site that gifted a couple of stunning exclusive mixes in 2011 and 2012 that originally got me hooked. Bicep have of course gone on to create some pretty incredible music of their own, as evidenced by many 2021 'best of' lists.

 

Bernard Fevre has been releasing music since the late 1970s and this hour-long mix from 2011 liberally dips into that decade, with plenty of (then) contemporary tracks as well as liberal samples of Black Devil Disco Club's album Circus, featuring guests from Afrika Bambaataa to Faris Badwan (The Horrors) to American synth duo YACHT to Nancy Sinatra. It's a surprisingly (electro) funky selection, perfect for a Sunday morning. 

 

Today's post title is taken from the intro of Serge Gainsbourg's none-too-subtle Sea, Sex & Sun.

1) Magnetic Devil: Black Devil Disco Club ft. Afrika Bambaataa (2011)
2) Love & Romance & A Special Person: Joakim (2009)
3) Dating Do (Remix By LeBatman) (aka Dali (Remix)): Bernard Fevre (2011)
4) Crescendolls (Album Version): Daft Punk (2001)
5) The Devil In Us: Black Devil Disco Club (2007)
6) In Crowded Subways (In Flagranti Remix): Paris (2010)
7) Crocodiles In The Sky (Original Version): Parallax Corporation ft. Nancy Fortune & Melvin White (2001)
8) Distrust: Black Devil Disco Club ft. Faris Badwan (2011)

9) Sound Industrial: Roger Roger (1977)
10) Camel: Sauvage (2011)
11) E.V.A.: Jean-Jacques Perrey (1970)
12) Sea, Sex & Sun (Mirror People ‘Cosmic’ Rework By Rui Maia): Serge Gainsbourg (2010)
13) To Ardent (Grovesnor Remix By Robert Smoughton): Black Devil Disco Club ft. Nancy Sinatra (2011)

14) The Way You Make Me Feel (Plaisir De France Re-Edit): Galaxy Birthday (2010)
15) Free For The Girls (Richard Sen's Sumerian Fix): Black Devil Disco Club (2009)
16) Follow Me: Amanda Lear (1978)
17) Stay Insane: Black Devil Disco Club ft. YACHT (2011)
18) Couleurs: Karl-Heinz Schäfer ft. Leoni (1973)*
19) Fantasm: Bernard Fevre (1977)
20) Hello.jpg (Original Version): Logo (2011)
21) Mots: Ruth (1985)

* Note from Bernard Fevre, accompanying the original mix posting: OK, this one is only sung in French, but it’s the OST of ‘Les Gants Blancs du Diable’, which means ‘The Devil’s White Gloves’ 

Feel My Bicep 2:04 2011 (DJ MIx By Bernard Fevre): Black Devil Disco Club (1:05:29)