This second volume of the Des Jeunes Gens Mödernes compilation continues the contemporary pop-archeology work undertaken in 2007/2008 – with the exhibition at the agnès b. galerie du jour, the eponymous catalog, and the first compilation – around the post-punk / cold & synth wave scene that stirred the French underground around the 70s and 80s. This work was also extended in the interim by an eponymous documentary, based on interviews conducted during the preparation of the 2008 exhibition. For this new compilation, the work consisted of delving deeper into the previous research to unearth rare tracks – whose original pressings are now impossible to find or sell for exorbitant prices at record conventions and on specialized sales sites – but also to extract from the creative crucible of the 80s Frenchy (but chic!) – which seems decidedly inexhaustible – period tracks that have remained completely unreleased to this day, and to finally make them accessible to the public, more than thirty years after their creation for most of them. Thus, out of the thirteen tracks on the tracklist of this volume 2, six are completely unreleased. From a musical point of view, the selection of tracks in this volume 2 is less generalist and eclectic than that of the first compilation. The objective this time is no longer to represent, as representatively as possible, the stylistic diversity of the era, but rather to follow a more subjective inclination, more focused on a trend that could be described as electro pop / minimal synth that emerged within the French cold wave of those years, and whose echoes can still be perceived in many current productions.
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