Party: STEREO TOTAL [LIVE] // Low-Tech Explosion

Party: STEREO TOTAL [LIVE] // Low-Tech Explosion

The Beginning

In winter 1992/93, Françoise Cactus and Brezel Göring met while shopping in a bakery in Adalbertstraße, Berlin. Françoise played in the French girl-garage-punk-R’n’R-Band Lolitas (they released 5 albums in Germany and France and toured all over Europe and America) and Brezel had the experimental-noise-copyright-ignoring-tapeloop-soundeffects project called Sigmund Freud Experience (they did 3 vinyl-records, 100 copies each).

In 1993 they started playing together. Their first recording was a 10 minute cooking-recipe, in which all ingredients had sexual connotations. The recording is sadly lost. In 1994 Stereo Total started recording in Hamburg at the Alien Sound Studio of Peter Stein. They started to do concerts in Berlin and Germany. The line-up at this time was Françoise Cactus (vocals and drums), Lesley Campell (distortion guitar) from Scotland and Brezel Göring (vocals, guitar, organ, synthesizer). The logo of the band was two tits (shown on the backside of the first record “OH AH”). This sign was painted on a mix-tape Françoise made for Brezel that was named STEREO TOTAL.

At this time it was impossible to find a label with this unusual mix of musical influences and languages: the band played French Chanson, Disco, Rockabilly, Garage in a very minimal, simplified, essential way with self built guitars and cheap electronics: the lyrics where French or German.

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Baby Ouh [2010-2011]

“BABY OUH” was released in 2010 on Disko B and Kill Rock Stars; the album is glamorous, hysterical and romantic. As always after a release, an extensive, worldwide tour followed. A further highlight of the year: Stereo Total composed the soundtrack for the Japanese pink movie “Underwater Love.” A pink movie is a very popular comedic genre in Japan in which the plot is constantly interrupted with explicit sex scenes. Very amusing…! The film did a successful round of the 2011 film festivals. Stereo Total played at film parties and Disko B released the soundtrack on vinyl.
Françoise Cactus und Brezel Göring traveled to Los Angeles twice during Spring and Summer and recorded a new album live onto tape with the producer Gus Seyffert (Black Keys, et al.)

Cactus versus Brezel [2012]

“Die Frau in der Musik” is the first Stereo Total release on their new label Staatsakt, issued in the 7” vinyl format. The release of the album “Cactus vs Brezel” follows in June. Yeah, “diese Musik hört sich an!” (“This music sounds!”)