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To listen is to tread mischevious ground, an unruly debut release that finds pleasure through the practice of fistingas poetics. But it pulsates with the pounding mechanism of techno rhythms, it begs to be played in the crudest corners of your favourite queer nightclub. Akin to an outtake from 2003’s decadent Party Monster soundtrack. Stark synths, shrieks, even whispers. Distinctive, sensual vocals realising the emotional chaos of abrasive club energy. “Chemistry, connection” calls out MUCHAS PROBLEMAS. Matching the song’s title in violent repetition, penetration is key, the provocateur stresses.
MUCHAS PROBLEMAS is the music project of multidisciplinary artist Charlie Le Mindu, best known for his work as a hairstylist to the stars. He’s worked with everyone, from Troye Sivan at the 2025 Grammys, to Michèle Lamy on the cover of GQ Germany. Now, after an almost 10-year hiatus, he’s taking to the Paris catwalk once again with his upcoming hair collection, to be shown on January 29. Needless to say, he’s steeped in show business across fashion, art, and performance. At the centre of underground and avant-garde culture, “The process was shaped by Berlin at night,” says Le Mindu of his new single. “By darkrooms, basements, spaces where light disappears and attention sharpens. Those environments strip things down to sensation. Breath, proximity, rhythm, trust.”
Born from Le Mindu’s desire to move into performance art, for years already having amplified the vision of other artists, MUCHAS PROBLEMAS was brought to life with the help of Raphaël, Romain and Simon – three established figures from the French rock scene. Infused with the spirit of nightlife across the globe, the project feels like a natural progression for Le Mindu from his early days in French electro-punk band Kap Bambino. “MUCHAS PROBLEMAS started as a survival reflex, not an artistic ambition,” he reveals. “There was a point where the mouth stopped working. Speech was congested, language inflamed. Every inhale felt contaminated by repetition, and the world I live in feels like I was on a loop, so music became that secondary orifice. An emergency passage.”
“Take Me In” is an intentional reflection of Le Mindu’s taste in post-punk, industrial and darkwave, “music that lives in repetition”, he says. The modern-day equivalent of androgynous, black-leathered Depeche Mode cuts: “Stripped” or “Master and Servant”. “Vocals were treated like something emerging from darkness, not meant to dominate. The goal was to create a track that feels like being inside something dark but consensual, where you lose orientation and allow yourself to sink rather than escape.”
Le Mindu’s forthcoming MUCHAS PROBLEMAS EP promises to be far from provocation for its own sake, beyond the sensory sex of “Take Me In”, though it “will continue to explore misused passages and unstable systems.” The track comes from the need to trust someone with what is most fragile. “It’s about choosing to open when instinct tells you to protect yourself. Letting another person become a temporary shelter. The song lives in that moment where control softens and you allow yourself to be received, not fixed, not explained, just held.”
In essence, the entire project is built around emotional trust: “Between partners, between bodies, between voices. It explores what happens when you place your weight on someone else and accept the risk that comes with it. Trust is never clean or guaranteed; it’s unstable. Future releases move between control and rupture. The project is not trying to heal. It’s trying to stay alive.”
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