⭐𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘: 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒⭐

Today we celebrate the 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘 of the Trash Palace album “𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒” which contains two songs with Brian's on vocals, “The metric system” and “Je t'aime moi non plus”. The album was released 19 years ago on October 15th 2002.
Trash Palace was a project by French producer and DJ Dimitri Tikovoi who lives in London since many years and is well integrated in the British music scene. Early in his UK career Dimitri worked on some Placebo remixes and the band's cover version of Kate Bush's "Running up that hill", and then produced the band's fifth studio album “Meds”.

𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗦𝗛 𝗣𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘 – 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 (𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺)
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Photo credit: unknown, screenshot, cover of the album, Claudia Schmölders (live photo) /Edit by Silke

“The metric system” was first released on “Positions” but was also put out as a single four months later, on February 24th 2003. There's also a Remix edition of “Positions” which includes two new interpretations of the song. ”The metric system” tells the story of a guy who lives in Los Angeles and sells his sperm to celebrity lesbians, so they can have children.
Brian really enjoyed working on the song. In an interview with French magazine “Les Inrockuptibles” he said that it was big fun for him. "Dimitri is my buddy. We have the same sense of humour, porn makes us laugh. What is strange is that people, the media, everybody took us very seriously," he added.

📹 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗖 𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠 – 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢
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 Brian and Dimitri Tikovoi, London, June 2008. Photo credit unknown

“Je t'aime ma non plus” is a duet originally sung by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin. It was put out as a single in 1969 and reached no. one in the UK, but it was banned in several other countries due to its overtly sexual content. The lyrics are written as an imaginary dialogue between two lovers during a sexual encounter, delivered in a breathy, suggestive style. Gainsbourg wrote “Je t'aime moi non plus” for the famous actress and sex symbol Brigitte Bardot with whom he had a short love affair with in late 1967.
Brian recorded the cover version together with Italian actress and singer Asia Agento. In their version the male and female roles are inverted, which gives a different interpretation to the song.

 💿 𝗝𝗘 𝗧'𝗔𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗠𝗔 𝗡𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗟𝗨𝗦 (𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼)
🎵 https://bit.ly/3aoVq6B 🎵 

Photo credit: Claudia Schmölders

📍 𝗗𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗥𝗜 𝗧𝗜𝗞𝗢𝗩𝗢𝗜 𝗢𝗡 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 📍 
📢 "When I worked with Placebo, I had Brian Molko listen to a song, asking him if he would work on it with me. He found the project very interesting. He said "Great! It's about sex! I want to do something like that too" and we did the song “The metric system."
(POPnews, November 2002)

📍 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗗𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗥𝗜 𝗧𝗜𝗞𝗢𝗩𝗢𝗜 📍 
📢 ”The artist in question is a French named Dimitri, whose nickname is the vibrator. He made an electronic record in French about pornography on wich I figure as well as John Cale, Jean-Louis-Murat. We wrote texts for Dimitri. I wrote one a la William Burrough. But it was very interesting to work on this record because it's a kind of music that is very different from what we do usually, and I love this kind of music”.
(M6 music, 2001)

📹 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗖 𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠 (𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲)
🎵 https://bit.ly/3EyNP5R 🎵 

Photo credit unknown

📍 𝗗𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗥𝗜 𝗧𝗜𝗞𝗢𝗩𝗢𝗜 𝗢𝗡 “𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦“ 📍 
📢 “I just wanted to push myself, my own knowledge of computer-based music so there was a lot of experimentation and trying to do things a bit differently. But I also had a theme which was sex, because firstly, everyone uses sex to sell things but they exploit it in a way that’s not very sensual or erotic. I thought that if I could combine some kind of eroticism into something that is as cold as electronic music, then it would be really interesting. Also I wanted things to be a bit deranged or slightly out of place…kind of the opposite of Britney Spears! Electronic music is so cold because it’s made with machines so if you try to put sensuality into it, it kind of gives it some soul.“
(Soundfreakcom, August 2006)

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