“because nobody would do it like that,
a track like REPUTATION OR NOTORIETY?
is a slap in the face for most people!.”
CRE.001.CD
IN FLAGRANTI – ‘WRONGER THAN ANYONE ELSE’
Out september 2006
1) are you ready
2) genital blue room
3) bang bang
4) nonplusultra
5) incarnation
6) melodymaker
7) eight consecutive life terms
teaching children how to swear (album edit)
9) just gazing
10) we make love in a house made of glass
11) reputation or notoriety
12) paroli
13) convolution
14) subvariety
15) uncanny hinting
16) escapade
17) futile attempt
produced by Sasha Crnobrnja & Alex Gloor
recording, mix, mastering Sasha Crnobrnja
additional edit’s Alex Gloor
visual, graphic design Alex Gloor
additional contributors:
vocal on tracks 2 & 4 AmyPop
vocals on tracks 6, 10 & 17 Tatiana Llinas
vocal on track 3 & 13 G. Rizo
vocal and all instruments on track 8 Freddie Mas
vocal on 11 Betty Black
additional keyboards on track 16 Takuya Nakamura
publishing: Top Of The Month Music (ASCAP)
copyright: Codek Records
IN FLAGRANTI – WRONGER THEN ANYONE ELSE
In Flagranti is coming at you at full force. We’ve all been waiting and anticipating. I kind of had my doubts at first, due to the fact that I feel their songs are very hit or miss. At first they seemed a bit too rough for me, then I began to hear the influences I seemed to have ignored before. I heard the No Wave classic sounds interweaved with classic house beats. It was a major brain fart, as though my brain didn’t know in which direction to go. Hate or love? whatever. This is an album that can’t be put on the back burner.
In Flagranti graces a field which Daft Punk, Justice, and other heavy electronic acts have seemed to ignore. You obviously hear the disco influence without a doubt. It doesn’t want to slap you in the face like others try to. It definately has a very punk edge and couldn’t be one more that the other. The sounds of ‘Wronger Than Anyone Else’ seem less pretentious and more flexible to the ears of non electronic music fans. You can hear the real drums and the whole album sounds so vintage yet so fucking fresh that it will make your ears bleed. I can picture myself listening to this album on a table top record player with 70′s gear, in space. It is that out of control. To tell you that I had a hard time deciding which track to share with you guys. In general I try to find a track that I feel will appeal to most people. With In Flagranti I really had a tough time, with so many choices. With sure dance floor anthems as “We Make Love In A House Made Of Glass”, “Bang Bang” and “Genital Blue Room”. Actually the whole fucking album is full of dance floor anthems. I can’t fucking choose. I would play this album in it’s entirety at Hold Yr Horses actually, if I could get away with it. So here are two songs. You make up your mind. You will have to find out for yourself, and purchase this album or get it as fast you can!
– www.this.bigstereo.net
IN FLAGRANTI – WRONGER THEN ANYONE ELSE
Cross ABBA and ADULT. and give the resulting offspring some cocaine and a good sequencer, and you’d get something close to In Flagranti, the alias of worldwide scenesters Sasha Crnobrnja and Alex Gloor. Clocking in with 17 abruptly mixed tracks, the two spit out relentless, dirty disco punk with a gloss of sex as well (“Genital Blue Room”). There are a few rare missteps like the monotonous “Melodymaker”, but most of this album is so new and full of energy that it almost feels alive.
– luciana lopez XLR8R September 2006
IN FLAGRANTI – WRONGER THEN ANYONE ELSE
‘Wronger . . .” weighs in with a hefty seventeen tracks. I was only familiar with one In Flagranti track beforehand, the pitched up excellence of “Just Gazing” which is one of the tracks that opens Ivan Smagghe’s brilliant “How To Kill The DJ Vol.1″ (Tigersushi). All the tracks are quite short, no longer than three to four minutes and incorporate a huge amount of decadence and sleaziness. From the medieval italo synths that open the album on “Are You Ready” (which could have come from any amount of places off either of IF’s two brilliant “Mixed Up In The Hague” compilations) , to the electro disco of “Incarnation,”the hillbilly techno of “Eight Consecutive Life Terms” and the euphoric funk of “Escapade,” there is no filler. This is essentially a compilation of earlier released tracks from the previous eighteen months, plus some other stuff. There are no gaps between tracks so the cd sounds like a meticulously – programmed unmixed dj set. There’s Gary Glitter in there too in “Futile Attempt.” I hope that doesn’t put you off though. It’s excellent. - www.machinesarefunky.blogspot.com
IN FLAGRANTI interview for Trax magazine September 2006
Sasa: Where are you from in Europe ?
How did you start to make music ?
How did you both meet?
Sasa: my parents are originally from the former yugoslavia, i was born in basel switzerland. i liked to listen to music since i can remember. i started talking about putting a band together at age 8. got my first guitar when i was 11. but it always frustrated me to rely on band mates to play music. so eventually the turntables took over, because i could play records on my own and it always sounded good. then in the 90′s when the recording technology became more accessible i got in to making music again. i think alex was looking for some of the records that he heard on a mix-tape from italy. then one day he was asking this guy i also knew, that worked in a record shop and i happened to walk in the shop at the same time.
Alex : How did you convince Sasha to move in New York ?
Alex: with a gun! no, serious…i like to work with people, i have a way of seeing what is missing and help them to get their things together, in sasha,s case, i saw a talent that needed a place to explore… and NYC was what i had to offer, so i told him to pack his bag and come on over.
You started your label ten years ago, what was your first goal with Codek Records ? On our website, you describe your label as your playground…
A: it IS our personal playground, we wanted to be free and not ask
some bore at an office if he likes our music or graphics.
You’re also well known because of your artworks…
Why is it so important for you ?
A: well i,m a graphic designer, i started when i was 13 years old to get interested in graphic design here in basel, switzerland. i hung around local advertising agencies & friends of my parents like artist, interior & graphic designers. i was fascinated how they would work, and watched them closely.
Alex, you directed a lot of short home-made videos for this album…
tell me a few words about it
A: right now i.m working on creating the visuals for our live gigs, i,m digging through hundreds of old videos and dvd,s, finding, as i call it “beauty shots”, clips from movies with no talking actors, sort of still shots in motion…that works best for what i do.
You said on your website: I just grab randomly a handful of records and with the help of computers I can (…) take things apart and reassemble them into something new? Is that really your way of composing music ? How do you work exactly with Sasha ?
A: yes absolutely, for this project, i created sound files for sasha in a program called peak, i sample drums, guitars, vocals, synth noodlings or whatever from records i find in thrift-stores & flea-markets and send it to sasha through the internet. sasha selects what he likes and arranges the sounds into tracks. then we ping pong the files back and forth … till we,re both happy with a track.
“Wronger than anyone else” is your first full length album…. before that you released several maxis, why did you decide to compose a full album ?
A: simple, most people don,t buy 12″ vinyl, so for everybody and there brother we made a cd.
“Just Gazing” appears on Ivan Smagghe,s compilation “How to kill the dj part one”, what,s your reaction when such artists love your music ?
S: it was not our first license request, so there was no particular reaction to this one, plus we had no idea who this dj was when we got a proposal. i remember someone told me tigersushi is a ok label in france. so we were like ok let’s do it. i see now that a lot of people refer to that compilation, when they mention in flagranti. i am always more amazed how the record got there in the first place, because we had almost no distribution and only pressed 500 copies.
You talk about Mark Kamins and Daniele Baldelli as your main influences… Why them ?
A: mark and specially daniele where really eclectic, or more daring in their choice of tracks they played, that was inspiring to me. i also liked walter gibbons, & lerry levan, i remember after i moved to nyc, i was invited to keith haring,s birthday-bash at the paradise garage (may 16, 1984) that really blew my mind, everybody was there, diana ross was standing next to jeff beck etc… madonna was doing her “like a virgin” bed routin on stage and larry levan mixed intothat….incredible!
What are you listening to today ?
A: today…. mhhh let,s see…. ah cosmic 60 by daniele baldelli with this brilliant afro-funky-moog track, have to call daniele and find out what this is.
S: i am constantly trying to find that perfect sound, so i listen randomly to all kinds of music, from rock to techno to disco. new and vintage. the one track that strikes me at the moment is Juice Harp – David Earle Johnson the recording is ultra fat!
Why are there so much sexual connotations in your album?
A: because nobody would do it like that, a track like REPUTATION OR NOTORIETY? is a slap in the face for most people! in 2003 i started to use these large digital paparazzi pics from the internet to make email flyers for sasha,s party in NYC called “AGED & UNPLAYABLE” and out of peoples reaction to this kind of smut, i developed the concept for our 12″ covers and wronger album. i started to use more stylized imagery, worked with cut-outs, drop-outs & repetitions, very basic graphic design elements. the next step was to cut & paste music similar to the way i work with graphics/images plus found footage from old vhs tapes for the videos, it just all fell into place at ones for me with this project.
Tell me if I,m wrong, but the fact that your tracks are mixed together and their different styles make sound your album as a good old mix-tape ?
A: exactly, i been listening to these cosmic tapes for 20 years, still do and love it, so when we had our cd tracks selected i said to sasha, let,s try this, cut & paste the complete album together (there is no mixing between tracks, just cuts) and really piss people off. but after listening to it, i liked it allot, it made the complete album very tight, like you said, the feel of a great mixed tape.
You seam to use or sample live drums, LCD Sound-system do the same and they are influenced by Liquid Liquid and A Certain Ratio for example… Do you feel closed to that kind of bands ?
S: i met liquid liquid the first time in 83 when they used our drum kit for a live show in basel, switzerland. their music was so cool. it was punk, but no guitars. they had everyone dance. it had a big impact on me. i was also a big fan of a certain ratio. i still sometime refer to their recordings as a guide line when i record or sample sounds.
What do you mean by “wronger than anyone else”?
A: being wrong is more then just a title to me. it,s a way of working. sort of liberating myself from fix ideas. trying to force myself to do it wrong and see what comes out of it is very liberating.
Thank you guys for answering my questions, look forward to see you in Paris very soon…. and, by the way, “Wronger than Anyone Else” is one of our three albums of the month !
In Flagranti make neo-punkfunk the way
it should be made; with no regards to structure
or formality not as a rehash of tried
and tested Mutant Disco templates.
- cafedellar.blogspot.com
CRE.002.CD
IN FLAGRANTI – BRASH & VULGAR
Out september 2009
Brash & Vulgar. That’s what you get when In Flagranti comes back with a second album. Still constructed piecemeal between Basel and New York respectively, partners in crime Alex Gloor and Sasha Crnobrnja undress punk on their standard sleazy disco fare with Brash & Vulgar, a follow-up to 2006′s Wronger Than Anyone Else. In true Flagranti form, it’s an irreverent balance of sex, dirt, distortion, dance, beauty and tongue-in-cheek humor, all wrapped up in a gritty, 70s aesthetic. Which aesthetic means deconstructed vintage porn. “The image is always first at Codek,” says graphic designer Gloor. “I make many collages, store them and then pull things out when a new project comes up.” He takes his technique from 1920′s German advertising. An artist would simply make and ad and leave the company name blank, showing it to clients who would eventually fill in their name. “That way everything has an off-feeling.” Once the art is chosen, the tracks and their equally “off” names grow from the art.
“The first album was a cut-and-paste aesthetic,” says Crnobrnja. Whereas Wronger Than Anyone Else was a collection of 12″s, Brash & Vulgar is indeed an album. “Our focus is not to be the best-produced record,” he adds. “We use a cheap mic, a 4-track tape and we still make good music. We have never been in a studio for this project.” [One of the vocalists]* even provided her voice from bedroom in France. And if you listen closely there’s no mistaking the reality of their sound. In brief, it lives up to its name.
Produced by Sasha Crnobrnja & Alex Gloor
Recording, mix & mastering: Sasha Crnobrnja
Additional edit’s Alex Gloor
Pop-up box, graphic design & videos: Alex Gloor
Publishing: Top of the month music (ASCAP)
In Flagranti – Brash & Vulgar
In Flagranti make neo-punkfunk the way it should be made; with no regards to structure or formality not as a rehash of tried and tested Mutant Disco templates. Not as fabulously fractured as their debut 2006′s ‘Wronger Than Everyone Else’ nevertheless there are more ideas and experiments in here than a million Bloc Party Lps. And with song titles such as
She Bend Each Leg Alternately (sic)
I Can Thrill And Delight
A Piece of False Morality
Svelte Blonde
I Hadn’t Screwed Around Before
And the fantastic ‘ooh I’ll have to loose weight luv’
There’s an inkling for what you’re about to hear, good knock about funky filthy fun produced with European style with a New York attitude. Marvellous! -myweb.tiscali.co.uk/swine
In Flagranti – Brash & Vulgar
A ’70s buxom blond screams in excited wide-eyed fear as spindly treefingers claw at her already torn underwear and the bracken mixed with glitter and confetti cracks and shatters beneath her blackened bare feet. She is escaping the In Flagranti edits forest, a dense woodland full of echoing samples spun around cobwebs by spiders with disco balls for abdomens. The rhythmic thumping/pumping of the discopic orgy at the central clearing is but a vague undulating rumble now as she reaches the satin silver river with a scaled down replica of the Golden Gate bridge connecting this land to the next – a shimmering city that resembles NY circa 1977, all the road signs written in strobing liquid neon, its permanently nite-time and everyone looks like variations on Shaft and Pam Grier, and there is a Studio 54 on every street corner where all kinds of vice is mirrored in the rain soaked pavements.
- 20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk
In Flagranti – Brash & Vulgar
Here be the title track from the second album from In Flagranti, destined to grace shelves and internet emporiums in March. Its porn music for cyborg sexaroids getting dirty with moustachioed lotharios in plush landscapes of wicker chairs, sheep-skin rugs, brown leatherette and colour schemes ranging from lurid yellow to passive beige by way of spectral magentas and fur-coat browns. - 20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk
The People Went Mad When They Heard That
Just at the second that I finished listening to the new In Flagranti album, a new remix dropped into my inbox as well. I’d been listening out for ‘Brash & Vulgar’ after hearing it on a recent Soulwax mix, and it’s surely going to be heard out on a lot of dancefloors in the coming months. There’s a killer riff running through, with a few of what have become In Flagranti’s trademark vocal drops. I’m sure this will be a single at some point… at least I hope so as the original version is far too short. – headphonesex.co.uk
In Flagranti – Brash & Vulgar
In Flagranti – Brash & Vulgar was just as wowed by the remix, from a forthcoming remix compilation on New York’s Nubu Records, which also features Underground Resistance, Sinden, Claude Von Stroke & many others. It veers rather towards jazzy deep house, but retains a rough post-disco feel. It’s also doing my head in trying to work out what the bassline at the beginning is sampled from.
- headphonesex.co.uk
In Flagranti – Brash & Vulgar
I’ve had the good fortune to listen to Brash & Vulgar, the latest LP by Brooklyn’s In Flagranti, in its entirety and it’s exactly what I wanted to hear from them. Dirty drums, clever samples, and no regard for convention. Listen to the title track below and tell me if the “people went mad” sample sounds familiar then check out the other tracks and buy Brash & Vulgar from Codek Records. In Flagranti also mixed the latest volume of the RVNG of the NRDS series which is already sold out. – motherandcountry.com
In Flagranti – Brash & Vulgar
In flagranti literally means to be caught in the act of.. in most cases being caught have sex with another person by your other half. isn’t that enough to love in flagranti already? they’re much more than sexual innuendos though- see “i chatted up the nympho sectary (part 1)” and “she bend each leg alternately”- but rather they’re this new york duo called sasha crnobrnja and alex gloor who share the love of the italian cosmic scene from nearly three decades ago. the end result? this kind of experimental blend of electronic disco music. i guess in continuation of “the ones to watch for 2009″- the next in flagranti album “brash and vulgar”, which is set to drop on march 20th on codek, is probably one of this years LPs that im most looking forward too. luckily junodownload let you preview their album! isn’t it special! anyway i just can’t give you any tracks off that because well you just have to buy it- but what i can do is hand out a peace offering until its final release. – youfunkinloveit.blogspot.com
In Flagranti – Brash & Vulgar
In Flagranti – Black & Grey Stripped Trousers In Flagranti make neo-punkfunk the way it should be made; with no regards to structure or formality not as a rehash of tried and tested Mutant Disco templates. Returning to form with their ‘Brash & Vulgar’ LP, this track is two minutes of Nouvelle Vague naughtiness – like Breathless on crystal meth! - cafedellar.blogspot.com
In Flagranti – Brash & Vulgar
A new piece of X-rated synthesizer-disco from Brooklyn’s In Flagranti. It’s all implied filth, of course. There’s really not a whole lot that could be offensive about a bunch of sequenced machines. But like The Rolling Stone’s “Brown Sugar” or Lil’ Wayne’s “Lollipop”–and really, all the really good sexy music–it just sounds like it’s dirty. - www.nbcwashington.com
In Flagranti – Brash & Vulgar
Just at the second that I finished listening to the new In Flagranti album, a new remix dropped into my inbox as well. I’d been listening out for ‘Brash & Vulgar’ after hearing it on a recent Soulwax mix, and it’s surely going to be heard out on a lot of dancefloors in the coming months. There’s a killer riff running through, with a few of what have become In Flagranti’s trademark vocal drops.
- elbo.ws
In Flagranti – Brash & Vulgar
Yes the picture opposite is the album art for the new In Flagranti LP.Thankfully this is one record that has a lot more class and sex appeal than the girl pictured. Their sexy blend of deep disco, punk, new wave, electro, deep house has long been a favourite sound of mine and there are not many who can do it better. So I was a little anxious when I pressed play for the first time – hoping not to be disappointed. The In Flagranti boys (Alex & Sasha) must not know the meaning of the word ‘underwhelming’ which is good because it’s not needed here. From the frist track ‘She Bend Each Leg Alternatly’ I was head nodding at maximum intensity. The repetitive synth groove on the title track ‘Brash & Vulgar’ is so addictive I defy anyone not to wish it was three times as long.
It’s not all electro instrumentals there are some killer glam new wave punk tracks on here like the awesome ‘Svelte Blonde’. You need this LP while it’s fresh. It’s almost certainly going to become a future classic. – vainzine.blogspot.com
In Flagranti – Brash & Vulgar
In Flagranti – Black & Grey Stripped Trousers In Flagranti make neo-punkfunk the way it should be made; with no regards to structure or formality not as a rehash of tried and tested Mutant Disco templates. Returning to form with their ‘Brash & Vulgar’ LP, this track is two minutes of Nouvelle Vague naughtiness – like Breathless on crystal meth! - cafedellar.blogspot.com
In Flagranti – Brash & Vulgar
In Flagranti – Black & Grey Stripped Trousers In Flagranti make neo-punkfunk the way it should be made; with no regards to structure or formality not as a rehash of tried and tested Mutant Disco templates. Returning to form with their ‘Brash & Vulgar’ LP, this track is two minutes of Nouvelle Vague naughtiness – like Breathless on crystal meth! - cafedellar.blogspot.com
In Flagranti’s inspiration is from yet again the past, but with a deeper excursion and thought philosophy called hauntology which is a fascinating read about ghosts of past childhood memories leaving a brunt on impression on a person that he build an effigy of those memories which in this case is through Alex’s experiences of 1970s- 80s New York City.
– nerdy-frames.org
CRE.003.CD
IN FLAGRANTI – “Worse For Wear”
Out Spring 2011
Predictably jacked to the brim full of their signature no-gristle, no-glory aesthetic, In Flagranti introduces their new album, Worse for Wear. Succeeding 2006’s Wronger Than Anyone Else and 2009’s Brash & Vulgar, In Flagranti’s Sasa Crnobrnja and Alex Gloor have left behind their vintage porn-chic sensibilities and instead turn to yesterday’s trashed goods for inspiration.
“Flea markets and recycling parts of our production are really at the center of this album,” said the now London-based Crnobrnja. “I like things to be old and run-down,” added Alex Gloor, who still resides in Basel. “So I let myself be inspired by one of my favorite places to spend time: 1970s- 80s New York City.”
Using experiences from Gloor’s past trips to the Forty Deuce, Worse For Wear conjures up ghosts from the finest of adult playgrounds past. “Hollow Discourses” swaggers in on a gritty bassline, revealing excess in its degenerative electro finest, and “Prelude to Chaos” reminisces the days where the finest of 69-cent wines glistened in the gutters outside the arcade.
But standing at a right angle from In Flagranti’s better-known, dirty disco sound are tracks with a peculiar sense of calm. Tracks like “The End of the Road” and “On the Fringe” leave a bit of the sleaze at the massage parlor door, opening up a new chapter of sound for the band. More outer space dump diving than straight-up vulgar, Crnobrnja also added that the album “Works with old recordings that we have not used yet, such as vocals recorded years ago that I didn’t like at the time.” Bringing back the past has meant a softer edge for the duo, who still work from different countries. The only time they come together is for music.
file under: In Flagranti – Worse For Wear – Codek Records – Hauntology
here a quote from Tristan Eldritch on Hauntology:
The culture we are exposed to as children exerts an extraordinary power over our imaginations; it leaves a heightened impression of something, which is not quite what it was, or is perhaps the essence of what it was in a way that becomes only partially retrievable through memory. Every childhood will then create a store of memories to haunt the adult world; a series of entities out of time which, like paranormal hauntings, operate under a potent but mysterious logic.
http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/2010/05/hauntology-rising-part-1-ghost-box.html
more reading on Hauntology on Adam Harper’s Blog:
http://rougesfoam.blogspot.com/2009/10/hauntology-past-inside-present.html
In Flagranti – Worse For Wear – Teaser 3 from in flagranti on Vimeo.
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In Flagranti – Worse For Wear
Alex Gloor and Sasa Crnobrnja are about to release their highly anticipated 3th album ‘Worse for Wear’ to an eagerly awaiting fanbase that they’ve established since their debut album Wronger than Anyone Else in 2006.
From first impressions of this album (courtesy of the Youtube Teaser and the preview download from Above Board) this feels like a mature take on ideas predicated on their love of throw away nostalgia from the 70s and 80s. As a matter of fact this album did away with the nefarious nudity cut up of playboys and skin magazines (see their last release EXEXEX as proof) and went for a more simplistic take with the cover even though the back does have a bit of skin for you in the upper right hand corner.
Again with In Flagranti it’s pretty hard to determine whether they used samples or not but that’s the beauty of it all is that it keeps you guessing and cements their allure and mystique.
In Flagranti’s inspiration is from yet again the past, but with a deeper excursion and thought philosophy called hauntology which is a fascinating read about ghosts of past childhood memories leaving a brunt on impression on a person that he build an effigy of those memories which in this case is through Alex’s experiences of 1970s- 80s New York City.
What are my thoughts of the tracks? Well what do you think? I love it despite going by a small snippet previews and the videos. There is a fair amount of balance that engrosses you into that era with little discontent. Tracks like ‘Prelude to Chaos’, ‘On the Fringe’ and ‘Anglo-Saxon Pragmatism’ offer the darker and slower chic of In Flagranti’s while ‘knock out logic’, ‘Peculiar Protagonist’ and ‘The End of the Road’ are sure to becoming classic trash disco bangers for the 23 century!
The film (via their brockenstube Youtube channel) matches up well with the music that it becomes stamp complimentary to the album as head visual man Alex Gloor utilizes film stock footage of New York in its prime state of gritty disarray but hidden beauty within the hauntology permeating within. A scene of the late night streets of NYC in the 70s to the ever famous subway system and even a roller disco rink shows us the intent and direction they chose to go.
Worse for wear is set for an April 4th release from Codek and I might forego the digital download as the CD looks like a collector’s item with some visual keepsakes. – nerdy-frames.org