Alizée Central

Institubes: 2003-2011

In a press release issued just hours ago, saying that the label is closing it’s doors. Institubes is the the independent label that helped release “Une enfant du siècle” and was the home base for acts like Teki Latex, Rob, Chateau Marmont, Para One, Tacteel, and numerous other French acts. 

According to the press release the current business model was no longer working out…

“We’re closing shop because the operation is losing too much money, this much is clear. Most of what we could have done to prevent or delay this outcome reside in two words: lifestyle and branding. Investing in t-shirts and co-branding, scoring “collaborations” or sponsorship deals with deep-pocketed companies. I have but a regret: we actually did it sometimes. We should have said no more often….. The fact that ours is a struggling industry, where 90% of your time is spent “staying afloat”, obscures an important fact: we are still playing by the rules that got us fucked in the first place. The way we do business is defective: our values are defective, our contracts are defective, our post-Napster economy itself is defective. I just read an article by a label owner who states that “anything we can do to stay afloat should be condoned”. I don’t think so, no. Staying afloat by any means necessary is a meaningless pursuit.”

The message goes on to say that many of the artists have started their own independent labels, and will be moving forward.

You can read the entire release at the Institubes Tumblr blog: http://institubes.tumblr.com/

Good luck to all involved, and we all hope for your success in the future!

According to the GQ France blog there will be an article in next month’s issue on Alizee.

Translation from GQ France blog:

In the category of young women we loved for the wrong reasons, we present Alizée. Ten years after her hit “Moi … Lolita ‘, is an unexpected return with a new album of pop and cosmic ambitions, a child of the century (Sony / BMG), which is produced by the trendy electro label Institubes, Para One, Tacteel and Chateau Marmont.  Now on her own, the former protoge of Mylène Farmer manages to write songs to be both sophisticated and mainstream.

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Dans la catégories des jeunes femmes qu’on a aimées pour de mauvaises raisons et qu’on retrouve pour de bonnes, voici Alizée. Dix ans après son tube « Moi… Lolita », elle fait un retour inattendu avec un nouvel album de pop ambitieuse et cosmique, Une enfant du siècle (Sony/BMG), qui est produit par le gratin des branchés de l’électro (le label Institubes de Para One, Tacteel ou Château Marmont). Désormais émancipée, l’ex-protégée de Mylène Farmer parvient comme les meilleures Américaines à proposer des chansons à la fois pointues et mainstream.