Another chapter to the “Revolver VS …me” book !
SOON at YES and on coolcats.fr

Finding a cab in Paris, as some of you may know, is often a hard task.
That’s the first test, then you have to sit in someone’s car,
and as with any corporation I guess, that someone can be nice or not.
Some are silent, some are annoying, some are nice, and some are amazing.
As you might remember (if not, it’s HERE), my taxi drivers always look like a famous french actor.
Tonight he (David) looked like the twin of Zinedine Soualem,
a guy who’s always in Cedric Klapisch films.
But like, really.
Here’s Soualem :

Here’s David :

Him : “Where are you going ?”
Me : ” Barbes, please.
- Is that an iPhone you’re using ?
- Yup.
- Is it any good ?
- Well I used to have a shit phone for years, and I had to step up, and yes I quite like it.
- With that you go on the internet, right ?
- Indeed.
- Could you plug speakers to youtube ?
- Basically this is also an Ipod so I guess you could plug the phone to speakers,
and then go on youtube and play stuff loud.
- Yes, I don’t have a computer, but at my father’s I found out you can listen to any music on youtube.
- It’s true, besides the video aspect of it, a lot of people use it this way. Everything’s on there.
- Yeah not like these other things… like… Desert !
- Deezer ?
- Yeah, well, all this stuff, Emule etc they don’t have the good stuff.

- can you go online ? Youtube ?
Me : Sure.
- Then go check “The Limits”
- ah, mmh, I need more info, results are “Push it to the limit” from Scarface.
Title ?
- Add “She’s Divine”
(Song starts)
- Is it like Shalamar, or something ?
- No, way better, listen, listen.
- Oh and the video looks kinda great.
- Girls dancing and all that ? Listen to the synths !
(…)
- Oh we’re here.
- Ok well too bad it’s not a longer ride, I’d have you discover stuff.
Bye (shaking my hand). My name’s David.”

Soundtrack to my ride home :

I’m sure you’ll soon hear from Busy P’s favourite cab driver : Notorious Vincent Tang.

Mehdi and I are working on a duet cover.
Who wants to clash ?

I would never say that Nino Rota is the best movie composer that lived.
There are too many good ones : John Williams, Bernard Hermann, Danny Elfman, Lalo Schifrin, François de Roubaix, Vladimir Cosma, Michel Legrand, George Delerue, John Carpenter, John Barry…
for those that I know or remember, ignoring geniuses whose music I don’t put a name on.

If i had to say who’s the best I’d say Ennio Morricone, but if you ask me who’s my favourite, I’d have to say Nino Rota.

No other one has expressed melancholy like he did, and no other film maker as expressed memory and nostalgia like Fellini.
These two are linked together, and both are a reason for me to love the other one’s work.

Together, they collaborated on 15 movies.
A good example of their symbiosis is one of Federico Fellini’s masterpieces : Amarcord.

The music here is one very important element, that enhances the main character child’s memories.
The theme is arranged in many different fashions along the film – depending on the feeling of the scene,
wether it is joyful, or very intimate – that usually refer to styles that were popular in Italy during the 30s.
But not only. In a very original way, it sometimes interfers with the action.
We can hear the score recorded by the orchestra, accompanying the images like in any other movie,
when suddenly a character grabs a flute and joins it, questioning the reality of what goes on screen.
Indeed, these are souvenirs, they are sometimes closer to dreams or fantasies than reality,
and that is a very poetic way to illustrate it.
In a similar way, several characters sometimes address straight to the camera.

Below is an example of how Amarcord’s music breaks the traditionnal score rules.

I think I’ve seen that in a few other movie since, like in Kusturica’s “Black cat, white cat”
(Goran bregovic being a great composer I forgot to mention).
In Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil”, the music played on any radio, by the orchestra at the restaurant, etc, is that old standard that gave his name to the movie.
Oh, and Morricone again, what about “Once upon a time in the west”, when Bronson plays his harmonica, and the orchestra joins him for an epic piece.
but as far as I know, Amarcord remains the best example of that practice.

After raising his fist as high as he could during Ed Banger parties,

After playing the smoothest tunes in every hotel room afterparty we had together,

After destroying his health because of early flights and vodka, forced to sleep next to Feadz’ socks

after being compelled to play weird games to please his future boss,

our good friend BREAKBOT finally made it, and now materializes his EDREC MILITIA membership
with an E.P. that’s gonna make you hum and sweat.

After a few mistypings and several sunglasses issues, here is the final artwork :

Don’t miss great remixes from Cool Cats SIRIUSMO and LA FUNK MOB !

Official release : Valentine’s day 2010.