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Introducing the brand new Skylax Warehouse Special Disc Jockey T-shirt designed by our historic designer Danos, featuring the now famous Skylax records panther logo on front centre with the words special disc jockey.
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Available in one colour-ways: Black on white
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Introducing the Skylax records tee designed by our historic designer Danos, featuring the now famous Skylax records panther logo on front centre.
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Introducing the brand new Skylax ACID tee designed by our historic designer Danos, featuring the now famous Skylax records panther logo on front centre with the word acid crossed out.
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Introducing the brand new "Cosmic Club" tee designed by our historic designer Danos.
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Stay Underground It Pays Redux T-Shirt Limited Edition designed by our historic designer Danos
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Introducing the brand new Skylax Bauhaus T-shirt designed by our historic designer Danos, featuring the now famous Skylax records panther logo embedded in the legendary bauhaus logo from the 1920s designed by Oskar Schlemmer.
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Skylax Factory T-Shirt Limited Edition designed by our historic designer Danos
Tribute to the late factory records (1978 - 1992). God bless Tony Wilson
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Extract of an Interview done with Midi-Deux (May 2014)
đ "How did you go from being a US rock fan, MinistĂšre A.M.E.R members classmate, to the artist and music label boss you call 'leftfield' today?"
Honestly, it's a long journey and the fruit of a long "maturation". I have always been a music fan since my childhood, as far as I can remember I was listening to Depeche Mode at the age of 10, around 12 I started to branch off towards Bowie, Velvet & Stooges ; I'm talking about that, back in the '80s when this music that later became what we called "indie" was anything but fashionable. Then the Clash, the Damned, New Order, the Smiths, punk and synth pop⊠I was reading religiously "Les Inrockuptibles" (now a famous french mag 1987 - 88, equivalent to NME or Melody maker) while waiting feverishly for each release of the mag because at the time the music press was zero, it came down to "Rock'n'Folk" or "Best" with very mainstream artists on the cover. Madonna or Prince type.
I was doing tapes (memorex for insiders) for parties or birthdays. And obviously with the kind of music I used to listen to in the suburbs, it made me sound like a weird guy, super weird even. At that time, at the end of the 1980s, all rap or hip - hop started to explode, we could see it coming, we all liked Public Enemy or NWA (besides, when gangsta rap appeared a little later, I was messing up my friends. by telling them that the only one who could be elected mayor of Sarcelles at 99% was Dr Dre as it was so BIG).
It was very strong in the suburbs because it was about minorities, those we didn't want to see, leaving them behind; even our classmates got down to it, I remember Gilles or Passy (future MinistĂšre A.M.E.R) very well who told us "we are going to be stars and not struggle like those fucking stupid teachers in a stupid suburb"; we were laughing out loud, we couldn't imagine what happened next, we took them for liars, they were guys we knew. In short, the trigger for my desire to get involved in music came very late because listening to all these international artists who had rocked my childhood Iggy, Bowie, Joy Division or others; I saw the people who were top in France it was patrick bruel, johnny halliday and pascal obispo, in short : an atomic disaster !
So the equation was simple: how I was going to be able to sell records all over the world when in your own country you were given quotas to "sing" in French (that was the rule in the 90s !). The key was electronic music, no more lyrics, no more quotas, no more nationality, I will do records by myself & fuck off. And for that it took a stroke of fate, when my father died in 2000, I went to Los Angeles with a friend in the hope of starting a rock band and living there. Obviously, the opposite happened, my mate actually knew someone in the music there (Peter Black who released the house anthem Sweetdrop "Human Nature" on Strictly Rythm) but it was HOUSE MUSIC so the big big bang.
I was Discovering the world of the 12 inches, dj culture, classic house, what got us hooked is that I was a guitarist so a musician and I had exactly the same teenage culture as those guys from L.A. : Plimsouls, Nuggets, Lester Bangs , Deviant Rock, Roxy, 80's synth pop, soft cell type, Ministry, Tones on tail, we found lots of pirate versions played in a razormaid club type mixed in their bins so it was much easier for me to understand the electronic music under this prism. We started recording our own tracks via cubase (which came out a little later in 2005 ...) and 6 months later we returned to Paris (France) and we started Parisonic with the now famous motto : Stay Underground It Pays (long before the word UNDERGROUND is becoming a brand for someâŠ).
Our first release was a 2 x 12 inches of remixes from Manu Di Bango's album "Africadelic" from 1972 with remixes by Rob Mello, Slow & Local (one of whose members was⊠Lindstrom I have even met in Miami long before he became kind of âfamousâ with his "I feel space" track). At the same time, we also sold "work it" prince-style boots ect ... It must be remembered that at that time there were few edits (no ableton baby !) and the whole internet culture had not yet become democratized; we sold them the old-fashioned way with the phone, we called the guys and they listened live and then said to us "ok here you put me 100, this one 50 ..."; we we were doing some crazy numbers sometimes (like 4000/5000 copies, it's not the same thing anymore unfortunately as we all know it).
In short, the best of the best and they are still there. At the same time, given that I was the most digger and stalled in music, I got it into my head to bring out some old titles from Trax & DJ International catalogs (nobody had thought of it yet or very little), I found the contact, dealt them and boom that's how our Square Roots sub - label was born with tracks from Franckie Knuckles, Farley Jackmaster Funk ect⊠Besides, for anecdotes the group friendly fires was formed around a cover of franckie knuckles "your love" and on their myspace they had the label of OUR reissue, I found it fun to see that in 2005/2006 when it was an old story (parisonic records), finally the music, from the moment you take it out on vinyl (or on a medium anyway), there is a trace that remains in the end.
Ivan Smagghe also had compiled one of our remix (from gusgus) for the ralphi rosario âin the nightâ track, on one of his mixes which remained cult for a whole generation of killthedj kids âDeath Discoâ, we were very proud. In this interval, we even managed to finally fdo this fuckin rock'n'roll band with a guy who sang very new wave, with a voice Ă la dave gahan, it turns out that the guy in question was an undercover cop to the narcotics of LA so imagine the delirium we were in the studio and I see this guy coming with a small bag, he did his voice tests, great, it turns out well and I asked him "hey, what do you have in this case", I opened it and there were crossbows, point weapons, magnums, like THE WAR ! And there again crash, for an ego story, we had to stop. In short, this story lasted at least 3 years (end of 2003) after for financial reasons, we all had to separate, there was a split within parisonic members Peter & myself against the 2 other partners, the mess was said. Once again, I went back to L.A. to breathe, see my friends and while leaving the plane taking off, I saw LAX (code name for the Los Angeles airport), and there I said to myself "stop the bullshit" I do everything alone now, I am going to create my label, MY structure, I see the sky and BING: SKY⊠LAX therefore SKYLAX.
