Some free PORN anybody? 🙂 C’mon, don’t be shy guys!
After more than a decade of career, some EPs, albums and remixes, Porn has released in the end of year 2009 a best-of compilation entitled “A decade in glitter and danger”. This fall, the band will release its new full length album : “From the void to the infinite”, with ten new tracks of industrial/cold-wave rock, worldwide available on october 10th on Freaksound Music/MVS Distribution Anticraft.
“Love like war”, the single extracted from the album is now available for FREE DOWNLOAD HERE. As they declare: “The message is not only sexual but also intellectual.”
The story began back in 1999, when Phil D. studying psychology and sociology in France, Grenoble, decided to start his own band under the influence of bands such as The Cure, Bauhaus and Nine inch Nails. The name PORN came up as a homage to Cure’s album “Pornography”, but it is also a way of expressing a will to really live things, feelings and acts unrestrained on a quest for Absolutes.
PORN played their first gig in 1999 in Marseille, France (l’Incassable Celluloïde). The band recorded their first EP in 2000, with the songs Soft machine -Porn machine, Recycle and Still. The sound was already influenced by NIN and the whole Noisy-Industrial movement (SPK, Esplendor Geometrico …), but it had kept The Cure’s Pop legacy.
Francis ZEGUT, who discovered and supported bands like Venom and Metallica in France, spotted Porn and aired Soft Machine -Porn Machine for the very first time on RTL2 in 2000.
On September 11th, 2001, Phil D. moved to Lyon, joining his old friend Hughes B. who would be PORN’s Bassist. Lyric was then recruited in 2002. He would take care of the machines. Together they re-recorded the three songs of the first EP, plus The Fee.
In 2003, Laurent Lefevre (BASE PROD), contacted the band and asked them to send a demo. A few months later they signed with Slalom Music.
PORN’s first LP, “Glitter danger and Toyboyzâ€, was released in 2004.
Spotted in Germany the band toured with ASP. In 2005, Porn released “Call me superfurryâ€. The band signed with AUSFHART in Berlin, which would take care of the distribution in Central Europe.
In 2006, the record was released by Australian Label ELECTRICULT, distributed by MGM.
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(A live video, filmed @ Marché Gare, Lyon, France)
Porn had been playing in lots of venues throughout Europe in places like l’Élysée Montmartre in Paris, l’Usine in Geneve, and Batschkapp Frankfurt Am Main…
From 2006 on, Philippe D. stopped every activity in relation to Porn. From 2006 to 2009, he has worked as a DJ, Producer and Manager.
“A Decade in Glitter and Danger†was released on January 5th, 2010. This Best Of is acting as a reminder of this a decade of joy, and pain.
By the end of 2009, Porn started a series of venues with the Rebirth in danger Tour. Step R joined the band on guitar and percussions. MD jumped on board on guitar. Didier Q is the new drummer.Only Hughes B. has survived the early years of Porn.
PORN – Official Site
PORN @ Bandcamp
PORN @ Soundcloud
PORN @ MySpace
PORN @ Facebook
