1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:05:24,908 --> 00:05:27,285 One day we saw that word pop-up everywhere. 4 00:05:27,452 --> 00:05:30,497 And at first I didn't get that it could had something to do with us, 5 00:05:30,705 --> 00:05:32,082 or that we were included in it. 6 00:05:32,249 --> 00:05:34,167 It's a new word for us... 7 00:05:34,376 --> 00:05:40,924 Because we started to do this style of music in 2006-2007. 8 00:05:41,049 --> 00:05:43,009 But it did not have that name. 9 00:05:43,176 --> 00:05:48,431 And then suddenly we woke up in 2012-2013 with the Synthwave tag. 10 00:05:48,598 --> 00:05:50,559 And: "Oh ok, we're in it". 11 00:05:50,725 --> 00:05:54,104 So yes, it's music made with synths. 12 00:05:54,271 --> 00:05:56,565 - And waves. - And waves. 13 00:06:49,159 --> 00:06:50,118 The big question! 14 00:06:50,327 --> 00:06:51,661 I see Synthwave as... 15 00:06:51,870 --> 00:06:57,417 ...the illegitimate child of Metal and New Wave, 16 00:06:57,584 --> 00:07:00,253 who did also some shady things with Electro at the same time. 17 00:07:00,420 --> 00:07:03,715 It's a kind of melting pot of different musical styles. 18 00:07:04,299 --> 00:07:07,677 And that's why it actually works, because it resonates with everyone. 19 00:07:07,886 --> 00:07:09,971 There is no need to have a musical education, 20 00:07:10,096 --> 00:07:15,602 or to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the 80s to enjoy that sound. 21 00:11:46,497 --> 00:11:49,167 I've been lucky, due to my age, to live in that time. 22 00:11:49,334 --> 00:11:52,253 The catalyst for Synthwave is nostalgia 23 00:11:52,420 --> 00:11:55,423 and the visual aesthetics of the 80s and cinema as well. 24 00:11:57,425 --> 00:11:59,844 Many LP covers of Synthwave, what they describe 25 00:12:00,053 --> 00:12:02,555 and what they're reaffirming is an aesthetic. 26 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:04,641 And I think this is what people like. 27 00:12:04,933 --> 00:12:08,811 Grid backgrounds, like the movie "Tron", 28 00:12:09,020 --> 00:12:13,149 these gradients and colours especially in lilac tones, 29 00:12:13,650 --> 00:12:17,695 those cities you see on the horizon, at night, 30 00:12:17,904 --> 00:12:20,990 with neon lights and billboards, like in "Blade Runner". 31 00:12:21,157 --> 00:12:22,909 I think the graphic design, the art, 32 00:12:23,117 --> 00:12:26,037 is a first step especially for underground artists 33 00:12:26,246 --> 00:12:28,456 as they need to catch your attention quickly. 34 00:14:47,053 --> 00:14:49,180 The movie, if it got an impact on many things, 35 00:14:49,305 --> 00:14:53,309 it was because it defined a type of sound. 36 00:14:54,185 --> 00:14:58,815 I was waiting in my heart for a director who says to himself: 37 00:14:58,981 --> 00:15:01,776 "Oh wait, there are guys doing this kind of music“. 38 00:15:02,693 --> 00:15:05,947 Electric Youth and us, we were contacted 39 00:15:06,656 --> 00:15:10,243 shortly before the movie was showcased at the Cannes Film Festival. 40 00:15:10,451 --> 00:15:13,579 It was really important for all of us to be on that soundtrack. 41 00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:16,666 That's the magic of cinema: it's forever. 42 00:15:17,083 --> 00:15:19,293 It's a song that's going to last. 43 00:15:19,460 --> 00:15:23,423 For people like us who love cinema, it's the ultimate dream. 44 00:16:26,944 --> 00:16:30,948 I think it made it ok for people 45 00:16:32,158 --> 00:16:36,329 to love pink neons and the cities at night. 46 00:16:36,496 --> 00:16:37,997 I love cities at night. 47 00:16:38,164 --> 00:16:41,459 I think we're doing a little bit too much about ”Drive... 48 00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:45,588 When media outlets discovers something for them it's new. 49 00:16:45,755 --> 00:16:49,175 But people making music with synths, it's not really new. 50 00:16:49,342 --> 00:16:52,386 But I think it was the trigger, because the song was a hit. 51 00:16:52,553 --> 00:16:55,973 And then people were like: "Hey, why don't we do the same?“ 52 00:18:59,889 --> 00:19:02,642 I'm probably too old and stupid but I hate the Internet. 53 00:19:02,933 --> 00:19:05,978 In a way, it has killed the concept of criticism. 54 00:19:06,187 --> 00:19:08,564 I mean, everybody says what they think on the Internet. 55 00:19:08,773 --> 00:19:11,192 And there are people who share their opinion with you, 56 00:19:11,317 --> 00:19:12,693 even if no one has asked them to do it. 57 00:19:12,860 --> 00:19:16,906 It becomes a big circus. People insulting, morons, you know? 58 00:24:30,135 --> 00:24:32,596 I was not a user on MySpace. 59 00:24:33,013 --> 00:24:35,641 Something happened in Myspace? 60 00:27:09,670 --> 00:27:12,881 We always come back to Kavinsky. "Testarossa Autodrive", there you go. 61 00:32:21,606 --> 00:32:23,984 We are so in the "Me, I" era. 62 00:32:24,151 --> 00:32:26,570 "I do this, I'm better than you. I have more likes than you". 63 00:32:26,778 --> 00:32:31,116 "I have more fans, I have It becomes stupid. 64 00:32:31,324 --> 00:32:33,910 I don't care what you're doing or eating. 65 00:32:34,077 --> 00:32:36,455 I'm only interested in your music. 66 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,833 I've always thought that music existed on its own, 67 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,420 and discovering who is making it will not make it better. 68 00:32:43,587 --> 00:32:45,714 I can take this off and you can put a light on me, 69 00:32:45,881 --> 00:32:49,926 but I don't think the interview will become better because you see my face. 70 00:33:39,684 --> 00:33:44,814 Nowadays technology is allowing us to reach the listener very quickly. 71 00:33:44,981 --> 00:33:46,816 So you think to yourself: 72 00:33:46,983 --> 00:33:49,945 "I'm going to do it myself because I have all the tools". 73 00:33:50,111 --> 00:33:54,366 "I have YouTube tutorials, the computer and virtual instruments". 74 00:33:54,574 --> 00:33:58,662 "I don't have to wait for a label or someone, to give me a chance". 75 00:33:58,870 --> 00:34:00,664 And what has really been created 76 00:34:00,830 --> 00:34:03,708 it's a movement coming from the artists, not from any label. 77 00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:06,336 It wasn't an executive, it wasn't the industry. 78 00:34:06,461 --> 00:34:08,421 The artists themselves are the ones 79 00:34:08,547 --> 00:34:12,384 who have created this movement in the digital era on the internet. 80 00:34:15,387 --> 00:34:20,517 I do not want to sign with a label. I want to do it on my own. 81 00:34:20,684 --> 00:34:22,894 Maybe Synthwave artists, 82 00:34:23,019 --> 00:34:26,940 we are the last rebels of the Internet 2.0. 83 00:34:27,065 --> 00:34:29,526 You know? Just like: "Fuck you". 84 00:38:42,612 --> 00:38:44,656 I was playing saxophone, 85 00:38:44,823 --> 00:38:48,284 and trying to do music and have girlfriends. 86 00:38:49,702 --> 00:38:51,746 I didn't have a girlfriend, for sure. 87 00:38:52,413 --> 00:39:00,213 In those years, my musical culture was much more techno, 88 00:39:00,380 --> 00:39:04,801 I listened a lot to Underground Resistance, Jeff Mills, 89 00:39:05,009 --> 00:39:06,261 Fumiya Tanaka... 90 00:39:06,469 --> 00:39:09,305 I would go to quite a few technos parties, 91 00:39:09,514 --> 00:39:13,268 And then Daft Punk in 1997 releases "Homework", 92 00:39:13,393 --> 00:39:16,145 which is a cornerstone of all this. 93 00:39:16,271 --> 00:39:20,650 "Homework", when you open it, the artwork is their childhood bedroom. 94 00:39:20,817 --> 00:39:27,240 That's the intention, really "Around the World", all those tracks. 95 00:39:27,448 --> 00:39:30,910 It's already a little nostalgic. 96 00:40:38,978 --> 00:40:40,313 I don't know... 97 00:40:40,563 --> 00:40:43,316 Maybe that was new music made for dancing. 98 00:40:43,566 --> 00:40:44,275 It was... 99 00:40:44,484 --> 00:40:47,445 And it's true that the French Touch... 100 00:40:47,737 --> 00:40:49,781 only the French knows how to do it, you know?. 101 00:40:49,948 --> 00:40:51,616 Musically speaking, I'm not a fan. 102 00:40:51,783 --> 00:40:54,118 I find it loops too much. It's very repetitive. 103 00:40:54,285 --> 00:40:55,244 Well, that bores me. 104 00:40:55,453 --> 00:40:58,081 You should really dance to it, and I don't dance. 105 00:41:45,545 --> 00:41:47,839 Sorry guys. You're gonna get your ass kicked. 106 00:42:28,463 --> 00:42:29,589 It was cheesy! 107 00:42:29,756 --> 00:42:33,509 Even Queen specified "No synthesizers" on one of their albums! 108 00:42:33,718 --> 00:42:35,636 People were ashamed of using synths. 109 00:42:35,803 --> 00:42:39,265 But I think it was because there were so many pop songs 110 00:42:39,474 --> 00:42:41,809 done with the DX-7 synthesizer sound. 111 00:42:41,976 --> 00:42:45,063 "Boys, boys, boys”, Sabrina, stuff like that... 112 00:42:45,229 --> 00:42:48,316 It was hell on earth! But not the cool one. 113 00:42:48,441 --> 00:42:51,652 And suddenly I think, synths, nobody could take it anymore. 114 00:42:51,861 --> 00:42:55,907 We had to go back to something electric. That comes out of an amp. 115 00:42:56,115 --> 00:42:58,910 That's badly played, and who smells like sweat... 116 00:42:59,494 --> 00:43:01,120 ...and piss. 117 00:43:17,804 --> 00:43:23,935 I think that NIN in the 90s, they have influenced as much 118 00:43:24,310 --> 00:43:27,897 as John Carpenter, but nobody says so 119 00:43:28,106 --> 00:43:30,358 or it's not assumed as a fact. I don't know. 120 00:43:30,483 --> 00:43:34,654 I think that unconsciously I put it in my music. 121 00:43:34,821 --> 00:43:36,572 I think a lot of people put it in their music too. 122 00:43:36,739 --> 00:43:39,033 They just are not aware. 123 00:43:39,158 --> 00:43:42,161 They are stuck in this dogma: "We are in the 80's decade". 124 00:43:59,554 --> 00:44:01,430 I didn't know electronic music. 125 00:44:01,597 --> 00:44:04,559 I was making metal music. I was a guitar player. 126 00:44:05,393 --> 00:44:09,814 I've just quit a metal band that didn't work well. 127 00:44:10,439 --> 00:44:14,485 It was an impulse. I wanted to make music. 128 00:44:14,986 --> 00:44:18,114 And the best way to do it, it was alone. 129 00:44:18,364 --> 00:44:22,785 And the best way to accomplish this was to do electronic music. 130 00:45:14,212 --> 00:45:17,340 How old was I in the 90s? I was 15-16. 131 00:45:18,090 --> 00:45:20,092 So I had to be a rebel against something. 132 00:45:20,676 --> 00:45:24,764 So I listened to metal, and it had to be the most violent. 133 00:45:24,972 --> 00:45:28,100 Cannibal Corpse, Brutal Truth, things like that. 134 00:45:28,267 --> 00:45:31,187 I was probably procastinating, like any 15 years old kid. 135 00:46:31,914 --> 00:46:33,666 - It wasn't as easy to make music. - Yes. 136 00:46:33,833 --> 00:46:38,212 To have synthesizers you needed money, you needed gear, 137 00:46:38,379 --> 00:46:40,756 - you needed a place. - A studio. 138 00:46:40,965 --> 00:46:43,259 It was really hard. 139 00:46:43,426 --> 00:46:47,430 Our music was born due to the democratization of music making. 140 00:46:47,847 --> 00:46:51,684 When I bought my first personal computer, that was it. 141 00:46:51,851 --> 00:46:53,227 Everything changed. 142 00:46:54,186 --> 00:46:56,689 We could make music in our bedroom. 143 00:46:56,939 --> 00:46:59,317 I used Fruity Loops, for Christ's sake! 144 00:47:00,067 --> 00:47:01,360 There you go. 145 00:51:53,193 --> 00:51:56,822 I think people were very willing to forget what happened before, 146 00:51:57,531 --> 00:51:59,325 we were in this state of mind: 147 00:51:59,491 --> 00:52:02,161 “We'll move forward and make better movies, better music... 148 00:52:02,328 --> 00:52:05,623 But there's a blockage, something that doesn't work anymore. 149 00:52:05,789 --> 00:52:09,460 And people look behind, and say to themselves: 150 00:52:09,835 --> 00:52:14,089 "There was something cool in the 80s. I really like neons". 151 00:52:14,256 --> 00:52:16,925 I too had this effect so I watched tons of films, 152 00:52:17,092 --> 00:52:19,970 I watched everything. "The Goonies", "Gremlins", 153 00:52:20,095 --> 00:52:22,723 "Scarf ace", the "Rocky" and "Rambo" saga... Everything. 154 00:52:22,931 --> 00:52:26,101 And I realized that it's true. There is something attractive. 155 00:52:26,268 --> 00:52:28,771 We want to be there. 156 00:52:29,271 --> 00:52:32,274 We don't want to be sitting in front of our shity television, 157 00:52:32,441 --> 00:52:34,443 eating expired chips. 158 00:52:34,652 --> 00:52:38,447 We want to be in "Back to the Future", in the "Delorean". 159 00:54:00,821 --> 00:54:03,407 I grew up in a housing project, and I think 160 00:54:03,574 --> 00:54:05,576 it has really influenced my culture. 161 00:54:05,701 --> 00:54:08,871 There were several housing projects like that in France 162 00:54:09,371 --> 00:54:13,083 and they were somehow modelling the US housing ones. 163 00:54:13,333 --> 00:54:17,421 With the school, the supermarket, everything in one place. 164 00:54:17,588 --> 00:54:19,715 And as we watched TV shows, 165 00:54:19,882 --> 00:54:22,301 somehow we felt like we were in California. 166 00:54:22,509 --> 00:54:25,679 But no, we were in the suburbs of Nantes. 167 00:55:18,190 --> 00:55:23,570 The Walkman! You were carrying your cassettes and a pencil to rewind them. 168 00:55:23,987 --> 00:55:26,740 When you are growing up, it's your best time. 169 00:55:27,199 --> 00:55:29,827 When you're a teenager, and you're discovering everything. 170 00:55:29,993 --> 00:55:31,370 If you know what I mean. 171 00:55:31,537 --> 00:55:35,082 And when you get older, life is actually less amusing. 172 00:55:35,249 --> 00:55:39,461 So you try to put yourself back in the moments that made you happy. 173 00:55:39,586 --> 00:55:41,505 For me, it's the 80. 174 00:55:41,713 --> 00:55:44,299 This is what is called in France “Proust's madeleine... 175 00:55:44,424 --> 00:55:49,721 There is a little smell, right? Like when you used glue pots. 176 00:55:49,930 --> 00:55:52,724 Well now, if you smell that glue, 177 00:55:52,891 --> 00:55:55,269 it automatically reminds you when you were in primary school. 178 00:58:15,409 --> 00:58:18,954 "Star Wars", "Robocop , Predator", "Terminator". 179 00:58:19,121 --> 00:58:22,416 "Ghostbusters". I got some bottles of water, and a piece of wood, 180 00:58:22,582 --> 00:58:24,710 and I went to school like: "Yeah, Ghostbusters!“ 181 00:58:24,876 --> 00:58:28,005 In fact, that's what I wanted to do later as a profession. 182 00:58:28,171 --> 00:58:29,673 Ghost hunter. I thought it was cool. 183 00:58:32,134 --> 00:58:33,844 I told you there was a dinosaur! 184 00:58:36,513 --> 00:58:38,765 I'm still a newbie. 185 00:58:38,932 --> 00:58:41,059 I'm discovering things everyday. 186 00:58:41,226 --> 00:58:44,521 I wasn't born in the 80s! but I love films from that era. 187 00:58:44,688 --> 00:58:47,858 "The Goonies", the old "Star Wars" and all that stuff. 188 00:58:48,025 --> 00:58:50,694 There was "Miami Vice"? 189 00:58:50,902 --> 00:58:55,449 - Who was the composer? - I don't remember. 190 00:58:55,657 --> 00:58:56,783 I'm very cold. 191 01:00:32,254 --> 01:00:35,257 For me it's timeless, it's a movie that hasn't aged. 192 01:00:35,423 --> 01:00:38,885 It's a film that is beautiful. Everything is perfect. 193 01:00:39,094 --> 01:00:41,263 The score it's so... extraterrestrial. 194 01:00:41,429 --> 01:00:43,431 It's sounds we've never heard before. 195 01:00:44,141 --> 01:00:46,351 And even today when I listen to the Vangelis score, 196 01:00:46,518 --> 01:00:48,812 I don't know anyone else who has done that. Nobody. 197 01:00:49,020 --> 01:00:51,273 And I know many who tries it. Including me. 198 01:01:34,733 --> 01:01:38,153 I think about horror films, and I think of John Carpenter. 199 01:01:59,966 --> 01:02:03,470 He creates melodies that stay in your head... forever. 200 01:02:10,018 --> 01:02:12,646 I relate to his attitude, back in the days. 201 01:02:12,812 --> 01:02:15,190 "I don't have an studio that's gonna help me, 202 01:02:15,357 --> 01:02:17,651 I'm all by myself, but I'm gonna find a way". 203 01:02:17,859 --> 01:02:19,236 It's like: "Fuck you all". 204 01:07:05,772 --> 01:07:07,398 There was Tangerine Dream, 205 01:07:07,524 --> 01:07:11,402 but they were more focused on live performances 206 01:07:11,569 --> 01:07:15,698 with amazing shows in cathedrals and everything. 207 01:07:16,241 --> 01:07:19,619 And then they started to work with Hollywood on film scores. 208 01:07:19,869 --> 01:07:22,080 And I think that's where the link between 209 01:07:22,455 --> 01:07:24,832 synthesizer music and the visuals was born. 210 01:14:06,776 --> 01:14:08,861 Technically, I was not alive. 211 01:14:11,072 --> 01:14:12,740 It's true that 212 01:14:12,907 --> 01:14:16,535 most of those who listen to Synthwave were not even born then. 213 01:14:16,702 --> 01:14:20,665 So, I wonder how you can be nostalgic of something you did not know. 214 01:14:20,831 --> 01:14:22,625 For me, the only nostalgia, that would be 215 01:14:22,875 --> 01:14:26,295 that I thought life was cooler in the 80s. 216 01:14:26,796 --> 01:14:31,842 People seemed less stressed... everything were more colourful... 217 01:14:32,134 --> 01:14:36,097 Colour doesn't exist anymore nowadays. It's all gone now. 218 01:15:09,797 --> 01:15:12,091 I don't expect people, when listen to my music 219 01:15:12,216 --> 01:15:14,385 to go: "Fuck, the eighties were so great" 220 01:15:14,552 --> 01:15:16,637 Because that's not really the goal of my music. 221 01:15:16,846 --> 01:15:20,057 For me the 80s, it's a theme, a tool, but not the absolute meaning. 222 01:15:20,224 --> 01:15:22,309 But it's true that there are people who come and say: 223 01:15:23,310 --> 01:15:25,396 "It's not 80s enough what you do". 224 01:15:28,858 --> 01:15:31,819 It makes me laugh. I don't know. They don't get it. 225 01:15:32,862 --> 01:15:35,281 For me Synthwave it's the perfect tool to say: "It was better back then". 226 01:15:35,489 --> 01:15:38,075 But I don't know if it was better. I don't think so but... 227 01:15:38,242 --> 01:15:41,203 It's just music. The rest, it's pointless. You can't explain that. 228 01:15:41,370 --> 01:15:43,789 You want people to listen to it, and if they like it you go: 229 01:15:43,956 --> 01:15:46,417 "It's great folks, we meet in a common ground". 230 01:15:46,584 --> 01:15:48,669 "Have fun and never forget you are going to die". 231 01:15:48,878 --> 01:15:50,004 End slate!