Not as e-z to come up every week with (interesting) ideas that you get out of your hat. After all, inspiration has never been a precise science allowing you to come with the right idea at the right moment, being at a sort of 100% of your abilitities on a 24/7 basis from Jan.1st to Dec.31st. And I guess those whose work is to create (write) will pretty much understand what I’m saying when mentioning those necessary breaks that you have to manage for yourself in order to get the food to refresh your mind and avoid the risk of repeating yourself.

History is full of people who, right after being at their peak, have gone back to terrible downs. I can’t help myself thinking about a man who was amongst those producers/remixers on heaviest demand back at the beginning of the 90’s, best remembered for numerous works for people such as Ten City, New Order, Roberta Flack, Inner City, Clubland, not to mention a whole bunch of Chicagoan pals. His name : Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley who I ended up meeting at the MIDEM in Cannes a couple of years later. I guess I ended up burning myself into flames, he said honestly to me. I didn’t pay attention at the time. I was being sent offers from almost everywhere, then it stopped all of a sudden ! And you know why ? Simply because I didn’t realize that I ended up leaving everyone one asking me to reproduce the same kind of stuff from a work to another… A situation which, no doubt, is quite illustrative of the pressure that we’ve allowed our society having on us on an everyday based production process. And I’ve got to say that this has (also) been for much on the progressive impoverishing of what we get on offer as compared to some 20 to 25 years ago when people were allowed to take some time to give shape and body to their ideas.

As a matter of fact, some of you might be tempted to say that the times have changed, but although the arrival of a sophisticated technology has allowed almost each of us to generate sounds, let us not forget that the amalgamation of the latest is first and foremost the result of existing rules which one has to know if in the will to be understood. In other words, a language with its conjugations, what and however you’re up to express. And, no doubt that reputed experimenting people such as the late Miles Davis and Prince back in the days or A Guy Called Gerald, Juan Atkins and Matthew Herbert more recently (not to mention Stevie Wonder) have perfectly assimilated this reality before giving it their own touches. And this is probably while they’re still around and so respected far beyond their sole respective fan bases.People who, incidentally, have never been the slaves to anything, including the current system. This, no doubt, being for much in the fact that they sound so fresh and unexpectable on our pre formatted environnement. A question of… time, I would say. MFSB