Conspiracy (EP) by Louis Lingg and the Bombs

Our first record was called Conspiracy or Conspiracies Rock My World depending on which edition you got. I recorded it in the basement studio of Morgand from the 80s french band, Les Avions. I was producing a string of records for some french bands like Underground Railroad, NMA, First Part and Flashing on Bright and was renting out the studio from time to time to record noisy stuff there. Recording my own stuff was kind of an after thought because I saw how much fun the bands were having recording there.
My girlfriend, Julie and I would laugh all night at the conspiracy videos on a young site called, You Tube so it was a good idea for a song. The other songs were mostly the results of other things that made me laugh. Princess Mononoke came from a night of laughing at the craziest japanese stereotypes. Hey! The song is actually full of my love for Japan so the stupid genesis is drowned out by a genuine love.
I asked my friend Jerome from Flashing On Bright to play drums and we recording all the songs quickly in a day. Some of the worst errors made us laugh and became part of the songs. Guillaume from Henchman and a few other people helped me with some overdubs. My girlfriend helped out with vocal overdubs. I mixed it quickly and started giving CDRs to people. Polydor were interested in the song Princess Mononoke but I though they were talking about the CDR of Underground Railroad that I'd given them. The guy came to the next Underground Railroad concert and this aristocratic kid (french record labels are ruled by dozy rich kids) said, "How come they're not playing Princess Mononoke? That's their best song!". Oh fuck! Woops! I excused myself and got the fuck out of there! There was an immediate reaction (even among people I respected) so I knew I had to make a band. I decided to make the band using my gut feelings and avoiding logic altogether to see what would happen. I founded a guitarist because the guitarist of the Tracy Lords (a good french band) had a brother called Ben. That was all I needed! I called him up and said he was in the band. He said he didn't know me and pointed out that just because his brother could play, it didn't mean that he could. I said I didn't give a flying fuck and he was in the fucking band. He showed up to a practice and we booked a gig! He was a great artist though and drew the front cover! I said "fuck! Nice cover we need to make the record now!" I found a dodgy company that paid for half the CD manufacture costs in return for god fucking knows what and we had the record. They're still ripping us off to this day because the record sold out all 1000 copies became a MySpace hit, was downloaded 100 000 times and was on videos that added up to about 2 million views on You Tube. You can get 2 million views wiping your arse on You Tube these days but back then, it was a lot. I got menacing letters from lawyers representing the french artist Dorothy who I'd unconsciously ripped off for the song La Menteuse. I told them it was in the public domain and they could kiss my motherfucking arse! They could see they were dealing with an mad man and left it there. Then Russian punk kids started pirating the record and I said, "good idea!" and put it up on all the Creative Commons websites. That was a good move because, we got a lot of fans from that decision. I also gave to an Indonesian punk label called Stoneage Records. Cool! One day about 4 years ago, I tried to trace who was getting our royalties, found a company in Lebanon or something owned them now and gave up! Fuck it!

Tracklist

1.	Conspiracy	2:50

2.	Princess Mononoke	2:30

3.	Zapatista	2:53

4.	La menteuse	3:14

5.	Am Stram Gram	1:48

6.	Jiggy Baby	1:34

7.	School Bell	2:33

Credits

released January 1, 2010

Produced, recorded and Mixed by Joshua Hudes

License

CC BY-NC 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.