Fouquet Records. pron. [fuc-et rec-or-ds]

Fouquet Records
pron.[fuc-et rec-or-ds]

Got to give props to this latest record label on the London scene. Today’s mail out reads,
“Welcome to Fouquet Records, named after the Fifteenth Century Master Painter, Jean Fouquet, and inspired by the connotations with Goya Records, we aim to push the envelope firmly out. In his own lifetime Fouquet was very famous, an artist who, when little more than a boy, had painted the King of France, the Pope in Rome and the Queen on the dunny. While clearly not aiming so high so early, we would be quite happy if Camilla and Charles have one of our records played at their Wedding disco by DJ Corgi Pegg."

Fouquet Records intends to be an unfailingly controversial conceptual record label, mixing fine art with music. The four releases so far, (Fqt 1-4), have been met with great enthusiasm and are apparently already showing up on certain on line auction sites for big money.

(1) MC Ice Louis IV - ‘Dung Dung Dung’ a reggaefied cover of Kathleen Ferrier’s ‘Boult The Door’ includes a large piece of elephant dung pressed flat into the central label, an homage to Chris Ofili and Dumbo. (Fqt recs 1)

(2) The Beetles – ‘Three Pints of Shellac and a Packet of Sugar Please’, the skeletons of Moths, Wasps and Earwigs dipped into shellac and frozen under the grooves of this limited seven inch. It sounds like a million spiders breakdancing on sandpaper whilst humming Neophilia (Fqt recs 2)

(3) Pierre-Eugene Marcellin Berthelot – ‘Wham Bang Thank you Maam!’ Berthelot’s Acid Skiffle Version of, ‘I’m Your Man’ by Wham. Berthelot, discovered the many derivatives of coal tar and his syntheses of many fundamental organic compounds helped to destroy the classical division between organic and inorganic compounds. The record explodes when it reaches the run out groove. Which is good because to be honest, it’s not all that! (Fqt recs 3)

(4) DJ Henry Pluckrose Feltch – ‘Hens Teeth’. Super Super rare 12” from this Southside rapper. Thirty teeth from various Texan hencoops are glued to the edge of the disc, thus resembling a circular saw when played. Pluckrose raps, spits and generally mithers about the price of rare records and the dealers who spend their profits on unethical inorganic eggmeat. (Fqt recs 4)”