Slutimids!! is Naal Stayn’s (anab L, trendy store, KZSE, lipstandärd, perplexions, tattooed intestine, while coldblue…) side project, created in autumn 2005. It’s a lab to experiment strange concrete shapes and squeak things without any Post Punk pression or Cold Wave stereotypes. An approach of Anti Wave to reach further steps on each new album.

“I just remember the album was a serious joke. A joke because originally I wanted to criticize the stereotypes of “french cold wave” (”grey” being the cliché of cold wave). But it was then a serious project as art surrounded the joke to create & experiment my own anti-formula. Slap bass is generally “cool” or quite “fun” music. My will was to make sad and chill the “funk” technique for instance. The title was a deconstruction about the “grey” stereotype in cold wave. I tried to use and deform the cold aesthetic to find my own, thanks to a mix of toy synthesizers and chill basses.”

Naal Stayn