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Is there a certain message you wanted to bring across with your new album?

Not really, the title speaks for itself. That’s why I didn’t want the songs to be too oriented. I wanted the songs on this album to be very open for everyone to make them their own. The album title is so powerful and so straight forward. The title is a way of saying “Whatever we’re doing on earth, even if we keep fucking up this planet, the earth will recover anyway. The worst thing that could happen to us is to disappear. If we keep going and doing this shit to the planet, we will disappear, but the planet will recover.” So that’s like, everything will grow again anyway.

Talking about titles. You have some track titles that sound a bit foreign. “Kaishi”, “Tadlo”, and “Sekoia”. I hope I’m pronouncing these right. What is the meaning behind those titles?

It’s very straight forward, very open. “Kaishi” is the Japanse word for the beginning. That’s very simple.

“Tadlo” is funny but it’s not something I can translate in English, actually. It’s a joke in French, but a private joke between me and my girlfriend. It’s a mix of two words and I can basically translate it to “Do you have water?”. Some French people have spotted it and understood it.

Sekoia is a big tree. In the USA there is a big Sekoia park and it’s really pretty.

When I was listening to the album, I could already picture myself sitting on the beach with friends and listening to the album. It gives off a very cheery and happy vibe, especially songs like “Sekoia”. Was that what you were going for?

Yeah, actually to me it sounds a bit darker than the previous ones. For this album, I wanted to record everything in my apartment. So I would just call friends and they’d play for example the violin in my kitchen. I have this warmth of friends around me in this album, so it’s cool that you say that. It seems like I’ve completed my mission.

You also made a song called “Carrie” with DJ Alex Metric, how did that collaboration come to be?

My manager met Alex Metric once in LA, and he called me and said “dude I met this guy and I’m sure you two will get along so well. Give it a try, go to his studio and see what’s happening.” And I was a bit taken aback, a bit scared even because I didn’t do that before, just giving another man an insight into my album.

You normally perform a lot during the summer. How is your summer going to look now that COVID-19 has struck and paused everything?

I don’t know. I think I’ll just go on normal vacations with my friends, and that’s something that hasn’t happened since 2012. I didn’t have a full free summer since then, so I’m really happy to go on holiday and go to the beach with friends and listen to music. Because that’s something that people normally do to my music, so now I will be able to test that myself.

You’re releasing your album right now, while a lot of artists are postponing theirs. Why are you still releasing yours? Aren’t you scared that it might affect it?

This album was meant to be released at the end of September, and we advanced it. I think it’s different for each genre. For electronic music, it’s different because people listen to it during parties and stuff. We wanted this album to be a summer album because, even if this is a summer of camping and small events between friends, we wanted this album to be the soundtrack of it. We advanced it and we saw all the other artists freaking out and postponing their albums, but all the people are eager for new music.

My last question. What do you want to accomplish in the future?

I think I just want to stay true to myself; I just want to be honest when making music because you’ll always be influenced by your tour and how people respond to it. It’s maybe an idea, something I will never reach. It’s my perfect goal to be 100% honest and to get rid of the question “Will people like it?” because that’s not really the point. The point is making the music.