I can't dance the funky chicken

The first hot tip for 2010:



This being the work of Madame Oizelle, the product of unholy union between Domotic and King Q4.

Inactive and suspended

After yesterday's post on Kumisolo, the lovely people at Active Suspension have written to say that the label is indeed closed for good now; the album had been a long time in the making and its release was AS's last gasp. At #18 in the catalog it marks the end of an era. The good news is that label owner Julien Rohel is continuing with his other venture Clapping Music, which has also brought about some good stuff of the inde/folk/fractured pop persuasion. In keeping with today's hairy-wild-man-in-the-forest theme, here's a flashback to Clapping's 2006 album by Orval Carlos Sibelius: