Make the Girl Dance

The Franz Ferdinand band once declared: “We are playing music to make the girl dance.” These words will bounce back and forth in their heads like a magic ball. Isn’t it obvious?! 

Greg Kozo and Pierre Mathieu met during a DJ Set in a Parisian nightclub. Pierre was warming up for Greg who soon pulled a number of astounding devices out of his flight attendant trolley. Evidently, Greg is big on Korgs, Juno 60, Kaos Pad and other printed circuit boards that he endlessly torments to please Berlin clubbers or those under the influence. Pierre, a nighthawk who hangs out in the more rock-influenced cellars of the old Paris-Paris nightclub, lights up and cuts to the chase. After some digs about baldness and portliness, they find themselves in a studio, unknowingly laying the foundation for the “Make The Girl Dance” project. Pierre and his ideas, Greg and his talent… all have been processed through key-riddled machines, some of which belonged 
to Daft Punk (Greg says so, but then again, Greg suffers from compulsive lying). Result: an edgy and girly electro-rock. Purpose: make girls warp their bodies via throbbing infrabass sounds. Status: Full consent. Soon after the release of “Chupa,” “Coachella ma pute” (track selected in the Trax sampler of October 2008), as well as UFO-like and 
melodious titles like “My Name’s Breezy” or “South”, their Myspace counters started going sky-high. The two electro-rock youngsters get requests to remix popular titles by popular singers: Mlle K, Ace Out, Ben Mono, Something à la Mode, and even Franz 
Ferdinand, but without their consent. 

Then came “Baby Baby Baby,” a track everyone can agree on. Its softly subversive lyrics 
are swayed by an electro-pop rhythm and enhanced by (NTM’s) Naughty J’s killer 
scratches. A kind of magic formula found a little by chance, much in the way of 
Alexander Fleming when he discovered penicillin in his lab after finishing a milkshake. 
Now this is it! This music must see the light of day, must break the studio’s walls. This 
new drug, more addictive then freebase coke must be come out as a live set and be 
distilled to non-virtual people. So the two dealers take their trolley on a Paris tour—from 
the Flèche d’Or to the Paris-Paris to the Baron to the Showcase. They stop at nothing, 
not even the train tracks that will take them to Biarritz, Toulouse, Lyon, Reims or Rouen, 
where a sometimes cautious audience will eventually come down to their knees when 
faced with the facts (that’s right, the facts). 

After that, it all snowballs. A video clip will make its way around the world with the 
official release of the single “Baby Baby Baby” (June 1st), which plays continuously on all 
radio stations and has been remixed by the most voguish creators: The Shoppings, We 
are Terrorist, No Kiss With Gloss. And the spiral had been initiated: easy money, easy 
catches, easy concerts, free drinks, free girls, and free concerts. In the end, down the 
road, it’s the Coachella (what a slut!) Festival that warms up audiences… Sickening… 
So, before rise all-out vices, let’s take pleasure in the music itself. Because, sure, it’s 
only music, but it’s damn good. 

http://www.myspace.com/makethegirldance