Stereo Total
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| Stereo Total | |
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| Origin | Berlin, Germany |
| Genres | Electropop, New Wave, Punk rock, Synth Pop, Garage Rock, Indie, Lo-Fi |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | Peace 95 Little Teddy Records Desert Records Bungalow L'Appareil Photo (Japan) Bobsled Records (US) |
| Associated acts | Les Lolitas Palestina |
| Website | http://www.stereototal.de |
| Members | |
| Françoise Cactus Brezel Göring |
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| Former members | |
| Angie Reed San Reimo Iznogood Lesley Campbell. |
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Stereo Total is a Berlin-based multilingual, French-German duo comprising Françoise Cactus (born Françoise Van Hove and formerly co-leader of the band Les Lolitas) and Brezel ('pretzel') Göring (aka Friedrich von Finsterwalde, born Friedrich Ziegler).
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[edit] Musical style
Their music, which can be described as a humorous mix of synth-pop, new wave, electronica, punk rock and pop music, tends to embody a retro-hip European 1960s mod style, with references to that period evident in their music. Some songs evoke a mod/psych/garage-rock vibe, both in production aesthetic and lyrical content, along with 1960s French-pop, in the vein of Francoise Hardy. Some of their tracks are playful, low-fi versions of pop, rock and soul songs that employ the use of analogue recording equipment and reverberation. In that vein, they made a pop version of Salt-N-Pepa's electro rap hit "Push It".
Their songs are often sung in in German, French and English, but some of their output also features a number of other languages, such as Japanese, Spanish and Turkish. The band has covered songs by Sylvie Vartan, Françoise Hardy, Brigitte Bardot, Serge Gainsbourg, Johnny Hallyday, Velvet Underground, Nico, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Pizzicato Five, Hot Chocolate and KC and the Sunshine Band.
[edit] Songs used in advertisements
"I Love You, Ono",—a re-titled cover version of "I Love You, Oh No!" by Japanese new wave band, The Plastics—from their album My Melody, was used by Sony in a European commercial for the Handycam in June 2005, and was also featured in Robot Food's snowboarding hit "Afterbang". In 2009, the song was used in a Dell commercial for the Studio 15. The title of the Stereo Total version is a play on both the original Plastics title and Yoko Ono, and is a likely homage to the original's Japanese origin.
Another one of their songs, "L'Amour a trois" (the French version of the song "Liebe zu Dritt"), was used in a commercial for 3G-phones in Sweden in the fall of 2005 by the company 3, as well as by the Spanish TV Channel Cuatro in an advert for the company and in the disco scene in the independent Argentinian film "Glue". Their song "Cannibale" was included in the console game Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX 4, released in November 2006.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- 1995 · Oh Ah!
- 1997 · Monokini
- 1998 · Juke-Box Alarm
- 1999 · My Melody
- 2001 · Musique Automatique
- 2004 · Do the Bambi!
- 2005 · Discotheque
- 2007 · Paris-Berlin
