COMPILATION CD # VARIOUS

25 BANDS /// USA /// CANADA // UK

Thanks to all the bands
© all songs to the respective bands

special thanks to pals
William cody Watson aka pink priest
and Cndrew caddick aka jeans wilder
for their help

art work : f/j

CHRONIQUE // REVIEW

chronique dans Magic numero double juillet aout 2010
Une multitude d'éléments conjugués (Internet, crise du disque, généralisation du home-studio, essor des méthodes de distribution alternative) a profondément modifié la géographie musicale. Ainsi, on peut désormais voir fleurir des labels originaux dans des lieux insoupçonnés. À titre d'exemple, Beko (label digital de Brest) et La Station Radar (structure autodistribuée sise à proximité d'Avignon) dictent aux Américains ce qu'ils doivent écouter parmi la nébuleuse des productions indépendante d'outre-Atlantique. Fondée en 2008 par les têtes chercheuses Fleur Descaillot et Jérôme Buchaca, La Station Radar propose à l'auditeur curieux de musiques actuelles une série de LP, EP, splits, CD-R et mini-CD-R (la fameuse Fake Tape Serie).
Ainsi, la maison compte aujourd'hui pas moins de trente références qui inondent les blogs de leur élégance magistrale. On citera Ela Orleans, Jeans Wilder, Terror Bird et Pink Priest pour ne faire qu'une sélection arbitraire. La compilation dont il est ici question regroupe quelques-uns des noms les plus prometteurs et présente un microcosme musical majeur (Blessure Grave, Deep Sht, Ancient Crux, Dirty Beaches) sous la forme d'un merveilleux état des lieux. Pas moins de vingt-cinq titres et soixante-dix-neuf minutes de joie pour un tour d'horizon noise, folk, expérimental, rock et pop sans ombrage. En attendant la nouvelle flopée de disques (huit d'ici la fin de l'année), cette collection est l'occasion rêvée de rattraper le temps présent, une bénédiction.

Best album june 2010 impose magazine + review
La Station Radar's recently released compilation features a carefully culled roster track-listed in the precise order to blow the top of your mind in under an hour and twenty minutes
(one hour, 19 minutes and five seconds, to be exact).
La Station Radar (LSR 030) compilation Sure, this seems like a lot of time to spend trying to blow the top of your mind off, an activity the average reader of Impose spends at least two to forty minutes a day initiating, but consider all your regular efforts to burn off skull and inhibitions cheap knockoff versions of the real thing. What you really need is a nice Jen Paul track burrowing directly into Cough Cool, you need some Cloud Nothings before you get to Dirty Beaches and Jeans Wilder, and you really need to close out the whole process by staring through the Pink Priest void before falling into Taped Hiss' "Out At Sea, A Tiny Cat and Me", which you can hear by buying the 25-track compilation at La Station Radar's website. Until then, enjoy some of the intermediary steps towards sending your brain into that tingling orbit where sublime melodies and pop tapestries swirl ad infinitum.

Review in Neu magazine
La Station Radar - basically some people from France who like their music unpolished but with shiny pop hooks hidden inside - have a new CD compilation featuring some bands that we like. We thought we should probably tell you about it. The first of a new series from the label that has previously released the likes of Jeans Wilder, Pink Priest and former band of the day Dirty Beaches, it has new tracks from A Grave With No Name, Cloud Nothings, Blessure Grave, Twin Lion, Ancient Crux, Cough Cool and Deep Sht. Gnarly, noisy and dark with light melodies just creeping around the corners, it's the perfect antidote to pointless hype about 'soundtrack to your summer'.

review in 20 jazz funk greats
20jazzfunkgreats has had a hell of a difficult time deciding which of the fantastic 26 songs included in La Station Radar’s first compilation was going to be featured here, as an irresistible nudge for you
to go ahead and get the whole thing, because seriously, it is one not to be missed.
Not only is it full of cool bands (Cough Cool, Ela Orleans, Dunes, Jeans Wilder, Ancient Crux, Terror Bird, Dead Gaze or Pink Priest to name but a few), but also excellently sequenced so that it plays like a seamless ramble down the avenues of all that’s lovingly crafted and exciting at its own- usually leisurely, portentous- pace, parallel and oblivious to the insistent pressures of fashion dash and fad. It is so good it led us to ask Jerome at the label to put together an exclusive mixtape for us, watch this space.