RFI French/Belgian new wave?

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1. Suis-Je Normale
2. Euroman - J.J. Burnel
3. Roman Photo
4. Disco Rough [I. Smagghe Edit]
5. Carnival - Metal Boys
6. Person to Person
7. Wallenberg
8. So Young But So Cold - Kas Product
9. Synchro
10. Mae - Artefact
11. Switch on Bach
12. Triangle - Jacno
13. Lighthouse - Tim Blake
14. Force, Pt. 1
15. Welcome (To Deathrow) - Bernard Szajner
16. Iceland - Richard Pinhas

they contain some Minimal Contact and a bunch of other amazing french/belgium artists and a lot of "world fusion" (sounds terrible, but this stuff is sick)

http://www.carparkrecords.com/acute_US.html

Aqsak Maboul
Honeymoon Killers
Mathematiques Modernes
Ruth
Illitch
Edith Nylon (more rock new wave then NDW, but amazing)

See the track listings here (scroll down a bit) : http://www.muziekcentrum.be/cdb/releases-overview.asp?l=B&name=&typ=&genre=&g=3

also, the New Wave Belgian Class-X special in the Club Class-X series? (check out the rest of the series too, oh, and the rest of this page) :

http://www.nwoutpost.com/nwcomps.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvbDEY9jQ78

Edith Nylon is indeed amazing.

I also really like that Mae song off that So Young But So Cold comp above.

I wouldn't count metal urbain as new wave at all, though...

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=83251104&s=143441&i=83251098

A3 Dans Les WC - Contagion

This Guerre Froide track has been killing it for me lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahs-oaAemjg

Track list for It's Belgian compilation, Dites 33 Records 1985:

FACE A
Epsylon - rien Que Pour Toi **
Les Corbeaux - Lolita
The Reporters - Arabic Funk ***
Lenin Shipyard - The Day I Lost My Memory **

FACE B
Septembre Noir - Factory Town
Exit - Leave Ut *
Guy De Simpele - Feest **
Curriculum Vitae - The Moon Shot At A Heart **
Lattice Work - Schyzophrenia *

More asterisks means I liked those songs more last time I checked, but I will try to listen again soon to see if I've changed my mind.

Also liked this archival '79-'85 French compilation from a couple years ago:

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bippp

What I wrote about it for Blurt:

(Various) B.I.P.P.: French Synth Wave 1979-85 (Everloving)

The 14 frog-eating bands and individuals here all turned cyborg in the wake of disco and punk, and it took a Parisian indie label to crate-dig and assemble their obscure old 45s, some of which sold as few as 50 copies the first time around. Rhythmic inspirations range from “Rock and Roll, Part 2” to table tennis (Dole trio Act’s onomatopoeic “Ping Pong.”) And the most memorable cuts partake in hooks that, in an alternate universe, might well have landed them on MTV: Paris foursome Vox Dei jitter nervously like Talking Heads or Devo; Orleans gent Les Visiteurs Du Soir sweetly presage Italodisco; Nice S&M sexpot Marie Möör triangulates somewhere between Trio, Telex, and the Flying Lizards. The latter hussy, shown notably topless in the colorful inner foldout, wants us to know “eets a preety way to die.”

Pulled out It's Belgian, which I don't think I've played for a few years, and the track that had most stuck with me was the one by Guy De Simpele, one of two (the other being Les Corbeaux's "Lolita," which I liked more than I'd remembered) to remind me of the later dark French rock band Noir Desir. Lots of gothic leanings overall; Lenin Shipyard another good one along those lines, and my wife said both Septembre Noir and Curriculum Vitae (another one whose hooks stuck with me) sound to her a lot like Bauhaus, who I've never much liked weirdly enough. (Decadent goth vocals always sound better to me sung in Continental European accents for some reason.) Exit and Lattice Work, the two bands with apparently female singers, sounded more post-punk -- kind of Bush Tetras funky and Slits dubby, respectively. Whole album holds up well.

Angel Face

Intense zero-fi bulldozer, heavily influenced by the Detroit FuzzWah blast school.