Friday Freakout: John and Jehn

This week the almighty Parisian couple John & Jehn are launching us into the weekend with their very own playlist. So without further ado, switch off that computer, rip off your tie and roar like a tiger - it's the weekend so CLICK HERE TO FREAKOUT!

SLEEVENOTES BY JOHN AND JEHN

With new technologies music often becomes like pollution: horrible mp3 compression, ringtones , Lady fuckin' Gaga, tv adverts, Kings of Leon ,daytime radio, myspace endless void, Kings of Leon... Silence is the essential key to ask yourself: what do I really want to listen right now?

When you think about it, only very few musical artists dare to use silence in their music today: it's not radio or MP3 compression friendly. When we find an artist who dares to use this, we generally stick with them, we go to see their music again and again. we feel respected, we feel good, we love it and we conscientiously don't know why .

But unconsciously we are hypnotised by such beauty, in fact we are hypnotised by their silence . This is a short list of what we think are the best artists using silence.

-John and Jehn

TRACKLISTING

1 adieu creature / serge gainsbourg
2 dindi / astrud gilberto
3 I love you porgy / nina simone
4 sycamore trees / twin peaks soundtrack
5 generique / miles davis
6 mellow truck lady / duke garwood
7 ho renomo / cluster & eno
8 pardon my friends / british sea power
9 microcastle / deerhunter
10 silence is sexy / einsturzende neubauten