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TITLE
Polaroid Roman Photo: 40th Anniversary Edition
FORMAT
LP + 7"

LABEL
CATALOG #
BORNBAD 188LP BORNBAD 188LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/12/2025

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of this indisputable classic of French coldwave and synthwave, including hits such as "Polaroid Roman photo" and "Mots," Born Bad presents a limited-edition reissue, including a bonus 7" with two previously unreleased tracks and a 12-page vinyl booklet. Thierry Müller, who initiated the RUTH project, was not a newcomer when the album Polaroid Roman Photo was released in 1985. As early as 1982, an early version of the track "Polaroïd/Roman/Photo" was released under the project RUTH. "I wanted to write a piece to make the girls dance and make fun of the boys. I plugged a small handmade clock on my Farfisa organ as a sequencer. I had a small Roland synth-guitar, I put the organ in it and that's how it started." Thierry worked on other tracks for the future LP and asked some friends to write other texts. Later, Thierry settled down in the Anagramme recording studio to carry out acoustic sound recordings. But when the sessions were over, he was not too happy with the results of "Polaroïd/Roman/Photo": according to them, they lacked "flamboyance". They decided then to record a new female voice with a professional singer and the sound engineer Patrick Chevalot offered to mix the track in the Synthesis studio "so that it blows out." With his tape ready and the help of Jacques Pasquier (S.C.O.P.A./ Invisible Records) he started to contact record companies. "I visited almost all the major record companies and was thrown out every time. Only at RCA's I found someone interested in my music." The album barely sold 50 copies in 1985, despite the eponymous title being a potential success. In 2004, two DJs (Marc Colin and Ivan Smagghe) discovered the track "Polaroïd/Roman/Photoand," and decided to exhume it from oblivion. They released it on a compilation called So Young But So Cold (Tigersushi) and then with Born Bad records on the BIPPP compilation in 2008. Thanks to them, the track and the album began a new life. Alongside his activity as graphic designer, Thierry Müller carries on producing music under his name, those of ILITCH and RUTH, and with various collaborators.