IndieRE #179 by Radio Campus Paris
Welcome to Independent Radio Exchange. This episode is brought to you by Radio Campus Paris, the number one student radio in the nation's capital and part of the Radio Campus France network. During the next hour, you will glide from light indie pop to dark no wave, passing through all kinds of suburbs and underground sounds.
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Potager
Did you ever hear of sorrel and borage in a pop song? According to singer Juliette Bély, those are just two herbacious plants you could find in her grand-mother's vegetable patch, or Potager in French. The pop jazz trio self-released their debut EP, Bouture, last October, and herbal references abound like daisies in a garden. Its title translates to "a cutting", as in an offspring of a flower that blooms on its own. Much like it, Potager, whose members have worked as market gardeners in the past, seem to spring from the city's markets onto Paris' pop scene with an environmental and poetic sensibility comparable to 70s eco-folk greats Areski and Catherine Ribeiro.
Rebellious and unclassifiable, Paris Banlieue burst onto the French musical scene with Gueuseries, a record that turned them into rock’n’roll’s next big promise. Five years later, the French-Spanish trio release a new album, Dans des lieux, that is more acoustic punk pop vignettes, ranging from 7 seconds to 4 minutes. To be honest, the term rock'n'roll is too laden with heavy, encyclopaedic male poser energy to do Paris Banlieue justice. Part 18th century peasant life, part 1960s folk rock power, part 21st century language, but all DIY energy clad in no-fucks-given song structures.
For La Souterraine, the trio played a live session in our studio last December, three songs of which are featured in this episode.
My Dog's a Bear take their name, as well as musical cues, from Sonic Youth's no wave era. Active since the late 2010s on the underground circuit of the greater Paris region, the Montreuil-based trio have released their first full length album, Deep Fried Bitches, in January 2026. On its 7 tracks, they reflect on domestic and industrial violence, existential anguish and escapism. Sonically, it's all murky guitars, rolling bass, drums right out of a New York basement circa 1985, and some saxophone bits that John Lurie would be fond of.
Included in this playlist is a live solo rendition of "Warm and Soft" by guitarist and singer Morgane A., recorded in our studio for La Matinale de 19h.
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Neno
Neno is a quartet hailing from Chaville, a small city lodged between Versailles and the rich French suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt. Exploring the frontiers between jazz, free improv and electronic music, they have recently been selected as one of the four groups accompanied by Jazz Migration, a nation-wide support program by France's prime jazz network, AJC. Its members have been trained at the prestigious Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, or CNSMDP. They are part of a new generation of French electronic jazz, inspired by cinematic and narrative music. Curious to hear what electronic music without computers sounds like? The tracks "Rouge", "Bleu" and "Jaune" are taken from the compilation Jazz Migration #12.
To let you off the hook in a soothing manner, we will close off the show with a new release by Ausgang 256: "Lullaby's Drone", a lost track that has resurfaced late last year and is the first digital single on the band's Planisphère label. Carried by Hugo Sampeur’s evocative vocals, the song unfolds a timeless narrative reflecting the uncertainties of contemporary youth: finding one’s place, building a life, and confronting geopolitical tensions and ecological urgencies.
Musically, Ausgang 256 craft a bittersweet trance built on hypnotic repetition and psychedelic drones, in the vein of Sonic Boom, Broadcast and Cheval Sombre. A persistent guitar arpeggio, heartbeat-like drums and nostalgic vocals shape a modern lullaby, suspended between quiet anxiety and contemplative calm.
Playlist:
Potager - La belle Hélène
Potager - Plastique Fantastique
Potager - Monstera
Taken from the EP Bouture, self-released on October 30th, 2025: https://potagermusique.bandcamp.com/album/bouture
Paris Banlieue - Jean
Paris Banlieue - Vers de Garcia Lorca (live)
Paris Banlieue - Les viennoiseries (live)
Paris Banlieue - Sycomore (live)
Taken from the album Dans des lieux, released on CARTELLE & Langue Pendue on December 5th, 2025: https://cartelledisques.bandcamp.com/album/dans-des-lieux
My Dog's a Bear - Yes
My Dog's a Bear - Warm and Soft (live)
Taken from the album Deep Fried Bitches, released on Mascara Rocks & Skank Bloc Records on January 9th, 2026: https://mydogsabear.bandcamp.com/album/deep-fried-bitches
NENO - Bleu
NENO - Jaune
NENO - Rouge
Taken from the compilation Jazz Migration #12, released by Association Jazzé-Croisé on March 24th, 2026: https://jazzmigration.bandcamp.com/album/compilation-jazz-migration-12
Ausgang 256 - Lullaby's Drone
Single released on Planisphère & Hublotone Records on March 6th, 2026: https://planispheresound.bandcamp.com/track/lullabys-drone
Prepared by Radio Campus Paris, France.
Production: Philipp Fischer
Sound engineering for the Paris Banlieue session by Marilou Martin-Rastoul, taken from the December 17th episode of La Souterraine (https://www.radiocampusparis.org/emission/2K-la-souterraine-radio-strn-…)
Sound engineering for the My Dog's a Bear session by Joey Fantomas, taken from the March 23rd episode of La Matinale de 19h (https://www.radiocampusparis.org/emission/y7-la-matinale-de-19h/my7G-gu…)
Goodbye from Paris!