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EIFFEL 65's Interview

 You were born under the motto “Technologically Advanced Creativity”, but for the common people, how could you define your “belief”?

  /Creativity is a human characteristic by definition. We link it to the calculating power of computers which  allows us to find more solutions rapidly, or which suggests to us through randomization programs, possibilities that the human mind cannot propose. The mind works using logical routes or through the association of ideas that leads us to something different from which we started off but at any rate sequential and with some relation to the starting point, and thus somehow, foreseeable.  On the other hand, computers, in a random fashion, work on absolute chance.  The union of these two concepts, i.e. chance and reasoning, produce interesting effects and gives way to talking about something unusual in the interviewsof Dance magazines.

When, where and with whom was the Eiffel 65 project born with? And the BLUE single?

/BLUE was born in Studio C of BLISSCO from the collaboration of the senior producer Maurizio Lobina,the vocalist Jeffrey Jey and the executive producer Massimo Gabutti; DJ Gabry Ponte looked after the commercial version. The single was released in November 98’.

I recently saw one of your live performances in a well known club in Milan: how much importance do you give to your shows in front of an audience? 

/The contact with the audience is absolutely the most beautiful part of creating music because it is the direct confirmation of your ideas or of the opinions that you have of yourself and of the things you do.

What do you think of the possibility of exchanging files through internet, e.g. MP3s, in regards to the protection of artists and Publishers?

 /The end of music as we know it, the end of the “Star”, the end of recording companies, our end, that of Madonna, Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson and Bob Marley. The beginning of a world in which everyone will be free to produce without earning anything after having worked 8 hours in an office or a factory.

Everyone will be free to listen without spending anything, choosing  from millions of free tracks, composed and played by accountants, cooks and secretaries. It’s the dream come true of a society without class, without God, without a boss....  After solving a few problems of collocations at a planetary level, of millions of music industry unemployed people such as musicians, Recording company's A/R, Secretaries, Creatives and Assistants, workers of music factories, assistants and Clerks in record stores, all people that work and support their own families thanks to the music industry, the music world will find itself completely changed.  MP3 is not a phenomenon that will disappear, but an anticipation of what is yet to come. Internet is chaos, and chaos is the source of life: natural selection will do the rest.

How was the name Eiffel 65 born?

/The computer in Studio A proposed it and we liked it.

Speaking of the future, will the album you are working on be dance inclined, or will there be pop melodies for which there is fascination at Scooby records?

/To speak of a record is a little like speaking of ourselves, i.e., of the only people in the world we have difficulties to understand. Generally, we are better described by others. When it’s completed, we’ll send you an MP3 this way you can describe us :)  Some people say it doesn’t exist but to obtain success a little luck is handy... Luck is a fundamental factor, it’s God’s way of telling you that He likes the track.

When it comes to dance music, we generally notice the melody that is inmediately sung by everyone; but in the Eiffel 65 project, the lyrics were also given importance...

Jeffrey, who wrote the lyrics, is dangerously crazy and unforseeable, so he came out with this idea of someone whose life was based on the blue color, so he tried to imagine the way he lived and saw things.  If you want to know why Blue and not Red or Green is because he wanted to pay homage to the song “Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu”, of the great Modugno, a track that in the music history has sold more singles than any other, even more than “Yesterday” by the Beatles.