manual for a successful rioting is the title and the program of the new birdy nam nam album. but is it a riot or a revolution? at the very least it is an evolution. a new style. right from the lead-in track, we are treated to electro hip hop references that used to be the sole reserve of warp record artists, acting as a 3-minute transition between past and present working up to a finale of synthesizer notes like a cry of mutation. a new style, another paris. from montmartre to the grands boulevards, two names of parisian metro stations to signify the distance travelled, from abbesses with its accordions tuned in to the aesthetic of scratch music to bonne nouvelle. birdy nam nam takes us to another paris. thats clear. and clear like a sound is clear. and full of percussion. full of percussive uppercuts, perhaps thanks to this vast experience that they have of making music by hand, right down to the fingertips of their turntablist past. and judging by the riot in the crowd at olympia during their gig in september 2008, with yuksek creating fireworks in the first part just like james coburn in a fistful of dynamite, (this explosive young genius of french electro produced the entire album), we can safely say that manual for a successful rioting will galvanise even the most disillusioned ear drums!keyboard on b5 by gaspard aug? & xavier de rosnay from justice!