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deadwords » interviews 17.11.2011
Fulgeance – To All Of You

Fulgeance sollte den Beatjüngern der heutigen Generation bereits ein Begriff sein. Nach mittlerweile vier EPs, davon drei auf seinem eigenen Label Musique Large, und zahlreichen weiteren Singles und Projekten, z.B. als Teil der Gruppe Souleance, erscheint nun sein Debütalbum auf dem deutschen Label Melting Pot Music (MPM). Wie ihr an seinen lockeren Antworten erkennen könnt, ist der französische Beatbastler aber vor allem ein sympathischer Kerl. Als Künstler bereiste er schon ganz Europa aber auch zahlreiche ferne Länder. Fulgeance ist einer der wenigen europäischen Produzenten, die bereits die Ehre hatten im legendären Low End Theory in L.A. zu performen. Das live Auftreten und Spielen sieht er indes als Kernstück seines Tuns an – ohne die Freundschaften, die er auf den vielen Parties und Konzerten geschlossen hat, wäre vielleicht auch nie sein Debütalbum entstanden. Darum möchte er sich auch mit “To All Of You” bei allen bedanken und widmete einigen Städten ein Lied. Wie er uns erklärt, warum er keine einzige deutsche Stadt grüßt, müsst ihr selber lesen…

DEAD: Your debut album is released on the German label MPM which may be quite a surprise to some people especially because you also own your own label “Musique Large”. Was your performance at the MPM Hi Hat club in Hamburg initial for the cooperation with Melting Pot?

The Hi Hat Clubs are really great parties, such a good mood – the people there love hip hop with an open mind and curiousness.

Fulgeance: The Hi Hat Clubs are really great parties, such a good mood – the people there love hip hop with an open mind and curiousness. I like this kind of family stuff, meeting MPM homies but also UpMyAlley soundsystem, Full Crates & FS Green from the Netherlands or the kind man LeftO from Brussels. So yes, it was one of the reasons for my collaboration to present this LP on Melting Pot Music.

DEAD: What will be released on Musique Large next? Will there be new Fulgeance material on your own label, too? What are the plans for the label?

Fulgeance: Be sure: I will release my second LP on Musique Large. This is Rekick’s and my label, so yes, definitely. It will include tracks from the EPs, some newness and I hope some features and collaborations. We will drop a digital EP soon from a great producer called King Knut, from Stavanger – he is a brilliant producer that we know for a long time. Then, one EP and an LP from our new signed artists Baron Rétif & Concepcion Perez. Also have a listen to the Skwee wonder kid Ben Butler & Mousepad from Glasgow, we just released his GIF N RUN EP in September, with the talented remixers Shigeto, Brokenchord & Mesak.
We love “live things” so that’s what we try to develop. We do not sign too many artists – our goal is to push our artists on the long run, even trying to get some bookings, contacts and remixes.

DEAD: The tracks on your debut album are dedicated to different cities such as Glasgow, Athens and London. However, there is no German city mentioned – how do you explain this to the German DEAD Magazine readers? ;)

Fulgeance: Ah ah, yes, sorry for that, it will be on TO ALL OF YOU 2 … no seriously, I couldn’t make it to everyone of you, sorry, but I tour too much! Ah ah. Last time, I was in Vienna for the 6th time and I talked about this LP on Lazy Mason’s radio show and he was so disappointed… I could do a Vienna track, a Singapore track, a Köln track…. and more. But nothing is over, we’ll see. Some special 7inches could be a good idea to get this back. Please do not blame me!

DEAD: You are one of the few European artists that have performed at the Low End Theory club in LA. How was it?

Fulgeance: It was just perfect and crazy! I was so tired coming from Japan – and there were so many people to meet: Ras G, Jonwayne, Teebs, Nocando, Kutmah, Daddy Kev… The crowd knew my tracks because of them as they were djing my tracks before. So I was really honored and I thank and respect a lot this crew for this amazing moment.

DEAD: How important was the LA Scene to the new wave of electronically influenced instrumental Hip-Hop / new beatmaker wave? Why do you think “beatmaking” became so popular and there is more focus on producers again?

Fulgeance: Definitely. Now people finally know what an MPC is – before that they only talked about guitars or turntables… however, there are still people asking you about playing Madonna tracks when you hit the pads! But it is growing everywhere, of course…

The LA scene is big, and the ideas as well as the mix of cultures make it even bigger. But I want to say that I met highly talented producers and musicians everywhere.

The LA scene is big, and the ideas as well as the mix of cultures make it even bigger. But I want to say that I met highly talented producers and musicians everywhere – Asia, Eastern Europe, … We should not try to know where it comes from, more the way it evolves, because that’s how “hype” destroys everything fresh and indie. My influences are funk, house, hip hop and producers like Dabrye, Prefuse 73, Mike Ladd… even before this LA thing. I respect this, I love it, but I feel it’s going a bit high on notoriousness.

DEAD: You were one of the first out of a “new generation” of Hip Hop influenced producers in France that gained recognition in Europe and worldwide. There are thousands of new beatmakers now – I guess in France too. Do you still follow the scene? Do you get a lot of demos for your label?

Fulgeance: Yes, we get interesting things, great demos, but we are always searching for something we like, something that is in and out of time, not a new James Blake-pitched-voices-step music… u know. Everyone is trying to evolve this way and I understand that (I do some dubstep-inspired beats this days!). We want something LARGE, even some classic house stuff, some real hip hop, but with some crazyness and inspiration too… but we just don’t want copycats, even if we go against what is sellable.

I don’t feel that many new producers out of France, as maybe I follow this less than before… but some indie-folk, some post-rock bands got my full attention these days. I listen to so much different music now, more instrumental, fusion, everything going forward you know. I was so impressed about this Rattcliffe EP (half-Basement Jaxx) – this music is exactly what I would love to do. So many styles in there, something really old and new at the same time…
Dimlite is one of my favourite artists too. I love his “one-step-ahead” vision. Who cares now about styles? About what will be signed or not?

My LP “To All Of You” is dedicated to all of this people, all this kind music lovers who want it different, and I respect that more than anything in music.

I know it’s not easy these days when you are an artist or a label but I think because of this we even need to go more ahead. We need to play “live”, real live shits, to meet the crowd, to get some friendship and collabs more than business. We need to know who comes to listen and who played your music because it’s this people who make the world go round, and not the music going “square”. My LP “To All Of You” is dedicated to all of this people, all this kind music lovers who want it different, and I respect that more than anything in music. Some people will call me a “poet”, a “humanist” with this concept, but it’s more than a concept, it’s something I have been able to make a living from for 3 years now.

DEAD: Thanks a lot for the interview… Any last words to the DEAD readers out there?

Fulgeance: Keep your own style, continue to do your research in music, do not just follow the hype, go forward with more interesting parties, with styles, bring something more than ever in everything, that’s how “underground” can still be alive.

Hier der Track “Montefalco Mato” von Fulgeance’ Debütalbum:

http://mpmsite.com/
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