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Laurent Garnier’s Japanese Apocalypse
Laurent Garnier and over 40 other producers have donated tracks for a benefit digital compilation put together by German production duo Snuff Crew to raise funds for the Red Cross in Japan (click here for more: http://bit.ly/ijdyEC).
Snuff Trax- The Compilation includes donated tracks from producers including Patrick Pulsinger, Legowelt, Ascii Disco, The Model, Renato Cohen and Remute as well as Laurent’s contribution, a dubstep to drum & bass production he’d already called Cancel The Apocalypse.
Chatting in detail about both the inspiration behind his track and his distress at the crisis continuing to unfold in Japan, Laurent was passionate and disarmingly passionate.
“I felt very upset and disturbed about what I saw on TV when the tsunami struck. Besides the fact that I have a lot of very close friends in Japan and I thought about them and their families, the probability of a nuclear disaster made me feel very small, sad and completely hopeless,” he told Skrufff.
“For the first time I felt lost and I really didn't know how I could help,” he admitted.
“Of course, you can send money to help to rebuild houses and feed people, but what the fuck can you do about the nuclear danger. It all got completely out of control,” he said.
“Then at the same time in France, TV pictures showed kids rioting and fighting in the streets with each other just because they came from different towns. How fucking stupid and pathetic is that? The rioting ended with the death of a teenager. Things like that make you realize where your priorities should be in life,” he mused.
“It’s about deciding whether you give in to rage, hate, racism and narrow-minded stupid behaviour or whether you try to share love and help each other to make this world a better place.”
“What I am saying might sound very pathetic or corny to lot of people, but the least I could do regarding Japan was sending mails of support to all my friends, telling them how worried I was about them and to give a track to raise money to the Red Cross,” he continued.
“It's really not very much, and believe me, I really wish I could do much more for these people that have given me so much love and joy over the past 15 years.”
In a lengthy polemic, the French nightlife pioneer admitted becoming increasingly radicalised by his growing unease at the rise of the far right in mainstream French society and politics.
“In a country where hatred and jealousy are rising very fast, where the
National Front is about to get 15% of voters, you have to know where your priorities lie,” Laurent continued, “I am sorry to say it but a lot of time I feel closer to Japan than being French.”
The track he’s donated to the compilation- ‘Cancel The Apocalypse’- was written, somewhat incongruously, when he was producing a score for Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet last year, for a production they presented based on the Biblical Apocalypse, he said.
“I was up to my head with the Apocalypse and I needed also to get it out of my system, which was one of the reasons I called it "Cancel the Apocalypse",” he explained.
“It completely made sense for me to give this track and not another one to the Snuff Trax project,” he continued, “The track is not finished and not completely mixed, but it summarizes very well the current political situation.
It was made last summer, it's talking about the very frequent inner city violence we have in France right now,” he continued.
“In response to that violence, racism is growing rapidly. We are living in very troubled times and the fractures between people is becoming bigger and bigger.”
“The track is dark, fast, nasty, urgent, raw and messy. It goes from dubstep to drum & bass, like the sound of a loud noise of a growing menace that descends into fighting and destruction. You can adapt that to the way I was feeling when I saw the news last summer in France and you can also definitely adapt the pattern of the track to the chain reaction between the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear threat,” he said.
Snuff Trax for Japan – The Compilation is available from Wednesday March 23, click below for more details.
01. Laurent Garnier – Cancel The Apocalypse
02. Joe Drive – The Delivery
03. Humandrone – Sun Pillar On the Debris
04. Zwei Of Snuff Crew – Fukushima
05. Billie Ray Martin and Hard Ton – Sold Life (Luke Solomon Remix)
06. Quinto – We Don`t Sleep At Night Part 1
07. KiNK – Memories From The Future
08. Neville Watson – Keep On
09. Patrick Pulsinger – 12a (Dub Version)
10. Dance Disorder – Future Retro
11. Legowelt – I Want Your Love
12. The Saint Petersburg Disco Spin Club – Birds Of Japan
13. DJ Gio MC-505 – My Face On Rushmore Mount
14. Marcello Napoletano – Acid Sunday
15. Morning Factory – Deepest Thoughts
16. Detachments – Holiday Romance (Andy Blake`s Mix For A World Unknown)
17. Photonz – Carnival Of Light
18. The Model – Bump And Jack
19. Hard Ton – Marilyn (Zoe Xenia Dub`n Pop Mix)
20. Elec Pt.1 – It´s House
21. Hieroglyphic Being – Siddharta (Part1)
22. DJ M-Traxxx – House Thunda (Unreleased Mix)
23. Roberto Rodriguez – The Girl Who Silenced The World
24. Discodromo – Bunraku
25. Romina Cohn – Follow Me
26. Meschi – Stay And Play
27. House Machine – Relief (Mix for Japan)
28. Demetrio Giannice – Untidled (One for larry) (Strictly For Japan Mix)
29. Moralez aka Telecommander1 – Life Time Groove
30. Simoncino – Japanese Heart
31. Pathetik – Accroupi
32. Roland Bassline – Ode To Mick
33. Ascii.Disko – Blues For The Red Sun
34. Joel Alter – Roll With Me
35. Andreas Henneberg, Marquez Ill, Leigh Myles – Thousand Paper Cranes
36. Eins of Snuff Crew – Kana Power
37. Remute – Worldfingers
38. Oliver Dodd – Tokyo Lovers
39. Lukatron (aka Luke Solomon) – Tommy´s Cream Soda
40. Renato Cohen – Silly Walk
41. Featherweight – Featherweight (Expanded Mix)
42. Kool & Duvall – U Lift Me Up (Craig Stewart Remix)
43. Fran Mela aka I.F.M. – Not A Game
44. Phil Moon aka Valyom – Einstein Romance
45. Mark Boombastik & Eduardo Delgado Lopez – Anders
http://bit.ly/9qZ8l9 (click here to download the music from the ballet ‘And then, one thousand years of peace’.
Laurent Garnier returns to North America for the first time since 2007 this week, spinning Montreal in Canada on Thursday 24th March, Ultra Festival in Miami on Friday 25th March and to New York on Saturday 26th March.
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