ELECTRONAZE - Waiting For... EP 1984

Electronaze was created for the first time 1979 in Hem (suburb of Roubaix) by Mohamed "Luky" Metidji (guitar), Eric (bass) and Martin (drums). Rehearsals, galleys of all kinds and a few concerts including one in Lille 1982, with Jean-Marie Duchemin who came to lend a hand in singing after leaving the Bâtards (with Richard Cuvillier of SURPRISE). Luky: "...a crazy concert. In fact, we often went to Paris from 1979, to see the concerts, like those of the Clash, incredible, we were inspired by it a lot. I knew LSD." At the beginning of 1983, the second formation with the arrival of Nicolas Cailler (†) on vocals, Santino on bass, Eric on guitar & Martin on drums, replaced by Olivier Felix in October 1983 from the group 221 Bis Baker Street. After six months of rehearsal, a 5-track demo is recorded at G.R.A.V.E. by Herr Professor the guitarist of Killer Ethyl, who has already done that. Finally a 7Inch was born called Waiting For... and was published via the Belgian label Aaltrack Records.

In October 1984, in an interview for the fanzine Gratte-toi Le Cul T’Auras Des Verrues: “We put 2000 francs each for the EP & went to Belgium and we did it. We received a letter from Jello Biafra, he's telling us that our record was fucking great! For the concerts, we must have done about thirty, especially in Belgium and in the north of France”. The same year, we had our title "Just Wanna Be Myself" on the 1984: The First Sonic World War compilation from New Wave Records and comments on the insert: "Be Myself" was recorded and mixed live in our basement some time after receiving a letter from New Wave Records... and is the band's first track (which has been around for about five years) so it's normal that it's our first title on vinyl. Five years of getting high, of work, and of course a lot of problems but is it worth specifying. Might as well say that "Be Myself" concerns everyone, well those who still believe in it... ”. This title was therefore recorded before the EP but released after it, certainly due to the time to complete the track listing of the compilation (source:45vinylvidivici)

I guess, the band broke up in the mid 80's and this EP plus some Sampler contributions is all that's left of them, good stuff anyway.

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