Angil was a Cat

Angil was a Cat is a mixing of two of our artists: Angil, and King Kong was a Cat. Angil has added his nice English flow to 4 instrumental King Kong was a Cat's tracks. The result is 4 all new songs, with the original groovy rhythms of the tunes elbwing their way to Angil's hip-pop. Some might think of the Streets' Mike Skinner listening to Angil was a Cat, or Radioinactive. Angil has actually been trying to bring rap into popsongs for years: remember the John Venture (Angil meets B R OAD WAY, 2006), and some parts of Angil's Oulipo Saliva (2007), which will incidentally be released internationally by Chemikal Underground
(Mogwaï, Arab Strap, Radar Bros, Delgados...) in November ‘08.
These 4 new songs were hits to our ears. We just had to release them. Using the vinyl format was quite obvious from the beginning. They were mastered by Lena's and Bidlo's Mathias Delplanque. This is our 20th release, the first 7'' one. We made just 500 copies of it.

ANGIL WAS A CAT by ANGIL:
Summer ‘07, St Malo, France. We Are Unique Records was one of the Route du Rock Festival's hosts, and I was giving a hand. Every day, on our way to the festival site, the label's boss would play "King Kong was a Cat", We Are Unique's forthcoming release. I immediately loved the ‘DIY groovy beats' meets ‘silent horror movies' meets ‘Jason Shiga' feeling of it. Listening to the music, AND hearing voices. Not ‘but', though - I did write ‘and'. King Kong was a Cat was self-sufficient, no doubt. I just had a feeling I could see a potential new identity to it. A sort of Angil/KKWAC whole. "AND" is where revolutions start, Gilles Deleuze wrote. So that was the idea. That, and mathematics. I felt like writing lyrics inspired by the music, I mean KKWAC's music of course, and the inner music of English language as well. From the rhythms, I found what I wanted to talk about: The song going "1, 1-2, 1-2" would be about a recent painful conflict I'd just had. The one with constant countertimes would be about the sense of guilt felt by white guys like me when discovering incredible
black musicians 30 years after they died. On the slow one, I would speak fast, like Radioinactive. On the one with very different verses and chorus, I would talk about my friend Flavien Girard (a member of the Hiddentracks) who lived in Brighton at the time.

ANGIL WAS A CAT by KING KONG WAS A CAT:
August '07, Metz, France. Back from holiday. Checking my mailbox to make sure the ‘King Kong was a Cat' record is ready and the copies were sent to the label. Gérald, We Are Unique's boss, writes ‘everything is OK, you'll get the CDs in a few days'. Then comes another e-mail, with a surprising title: ‘Angil Was A Cat'... Now, the album is barely out, and I'm told that Mickaël Mottet aka Angil already recorded his voice on 4 KKWAC tracks! "Just for fun and for the sake of creating something", he writes. I'm checking it out... and hell yes, this sounds fine. Angil's voice melts very well into KKWAC's exentricities. Angil was a Cat, indeed! I'm glad this vinyl is out - well deserved !