I make a lot of different types of music, I write weird folk music, and punk rock and dance music. And when I was making this record I didn’t know what type of record it should be and then at some point I thought, well it’s a record inspired by empty cities at two o’clock in the morning. And when I am not making music in empty hotel rooms at two o’clock in the morning I listen to a lot of weird, old, electronic music. So I thought, oh, I guess this album should be an album of weird old electronic music. 

So the song ‘Sevastopol’ it’s an instrumental that originally I thought I was the only one who was gonna like it. And I played it to my manager and few other people and they liked it. Which made me think that I should actually put it on a record and the more I lived with it the more I really liked it. 

It’s hard to speak positively about my own music but what I really like about this song is, it’s quiet driving, it’s ostensibly a dance song, but the music is really mournful with quiet a lot dissonance in it. It’s sort of big, enveloping, cinematic, electronic, melodic component with quite cold, repetitive electronic drum loops underneath. 

When I was in the Ukraine, there is a town in Ukraine called Sevastopol and I just thought it’s the coolest sounding name for a town. So there is literally no correlation between the name and the track except that I like the track and I like the name and I thought they somehow make sense together. Maybe in the future I will say that the song was written in Sevastopol except someone could check and realise I never actually been to Sevastopol.


Sevastopol

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Made a little disco edit for those naughty dance floor moments where all you can do is blast some funky disco! 
Absolutely love Crown Heights Affair and thought I'd put some drums and bass under the gem that is I See The Light so that it goes all like ompf ompf when played in the clubbi-wub!

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Crown Heights Affair - I See The Light (Niles Cooper's Trommer & Bas Haus Miks)

The Player [Secret Society]

Live @ Crooner Café on 20/10/2017

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Dr.Mr.

Aus heiterem Himmel - Thomas Fehlmann Radio Edit

COEO - DON'T OHO (COEO EDITS) (RAZOR N TAPE)

Take Off

Romain BARTIER - Take Off (Original Mix)

DJ / Producer, Founder of Green Mayday, clearly inspired by the Belgian Electronic Music. Benoît is traveling in a deep universe fulfilled of beautiful melodies from finest Electronic Music.

He collaborated with artists like Jessie Deep! (R&D, Lost tracks), Jean-Marc Lederman (Fad Gadget, Front242,…), Jean-Michel Jarre (Jarkaos) on “Odyssey Through O2”, Michel Grigorakis, Werner Pans, Marco Hinic,… To the creation of CD+ with artists like Moby, Moloko, St Germain,… Records such SONY music and PIAS record through the birth of Arkaos and numerous avant-gardist digital projects.

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