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Oh, the good “Te.

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Without love.

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Without worries
Without problems.

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Mmm, the good “Te.

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You're alone
You're free.

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You're coasting along.

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You enjoy.

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Spending time.

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With your friends.

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Sleepless nights.

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Which stretch out.

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Into the early morning.

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But the good “fie...

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It's a movement,
but techno is a revolution.

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Yes, there was rock and punk,

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but this social emancipation
that coursed through music

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which didn't tell you what to think

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or how to think

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was also pretty new.

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Many were quick to understand
that something crucial was happening.

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It was able to develop
into a fully-fledged culture

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thanks to, or because of,
big DJs and artists.

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As a French, small-town raver,

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he was the first icon
of this type of music.

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He doesn't just get into your head,
he conceptualises,

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then gets into your heart
and makes it spread.

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Sometimes you get there,
and if you're tired or stressed,

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you struggle to read the crowd
and start off on the wrong record.

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If I feel like I can't figure them out
or they're not feeling it,

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it's awful. Just awful.

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If I don't manage to do it,
it's awful.

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But when things go well,

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you forget about everything
going on outside,

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you forget about time,
you forget about your problems.

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We're all together.

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And something really does happen.

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The people and I become one.

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We can keep going for hours and hours.

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The aim is to get to a point where

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we feel good together,
we're on the same wavelength.

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Those are the moments
you have to look for

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because they're unforgettable.

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Some things, you don't forget.

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What I need to know,

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because I know there will be racks
all over the place,

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is the linear metres
and the way it's split

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because you know the collection
isn't just...

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It's not just 55,000 records
stacked next to each other.

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I mean, I've arranged the collection.

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I went to check it out
and arranged it in linear metres.

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So, I know that I have 1.70 metres
of funk EPs,

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I have four metres of funk albums,

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I have 1.10 metres of French pop,
that kind of thing.

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I already have a general idea
of lengths and sizes.

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That will determine
how I'll move the collection.

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I am already obsessing over

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moving the collection
and how it'll be re-arranged.

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I keep hassling the architect,
saying,

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"Could you tell me which wall
it's going on

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"and how the CDs and vinyl
will be arranged?"

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Because I'm already calculating
how many linear metres of funk I have,

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how many linear metres of German techno,
Detroit techno, jazz and reggae I have

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and thinking: "This will go there,
that will go there..."

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It's insane.

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So, the Year 9 students
have a much more minimalist approach,

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but it works well.

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It's about trends.

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Quentin, that's awesome.

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People will come to the exhibition,
clueless.

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Afrika Bambaataa, not bad.

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We'll see more of that with Year 10
doing hip hop which will tie in with...

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The 808, that's sick.

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They're Year 9 students, awesome!

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That really is amazing.

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We'll get to really know each other.
Some of them come all the time.

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There are four
who are massive techno fans.

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- They've made videos.
- They were here this morning.

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- They're great.
- It'll be hard to get rid of them.

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That girl is really interesting.

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- She's the one with dreadlocks, right?
- Yeah.

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I know who "Dead Parents" is.

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Her CD was all: "I'm gonna kill you,
I'm gonna do you in."

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But she's such a lovely girl.

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Use it as inspiration
when making your new-wave T-shirt.

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I wrote about dark stuff,
but I'm not dark.

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I can't write about happy stuff.

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But you're always laughing!

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I don't get it.
How does that work?

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I don't either.
All logic has gone out the window.

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- There's no logic? OK.
- No.

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Find something similar to your CD

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where you've got...

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Maybe use one of the drawings
from your CD.

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Anything that's new wave
tends to be a lot darker.

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This is a much darker world.

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With darker colours
and pretty dark ideals, so go for it.

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Does no image come to mind
when you listen to music?

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Any emotions?

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Is there anything
that makes you happy or sad?

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It depends on the music.

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I'm trying to find out
what's going on in there.

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Take five minutes,
close your eyes and listen to the track.

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Be alone with it
and see where the track takes you.

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Do you get lost in a maze?
Does the sound make you angry?

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Try to look for words
that will help you with your work.

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- You're saying you get lost in it.
- Yeah.

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I feel like I'm falling, in a way.

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That could work, graphically.

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Falling could be a drawing.

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Yeah, but how?

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I don't know.
I'll draw some small circles.

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I don't know.
It's up to you to figure it out.

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I think your teacher
is looking for feelings

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rather than something concrete.

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It's about feelings,
try to work with that.

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I'll come back afterwards
and we'll figure it out. OK?

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Cool. Take five.

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Listen to it loud, it's better.

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There you go.

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Someone has taken a liking to it.

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His passionate side is really moving.

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I feel the love behind all that passion.

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I say to myself:
"I'm sure he'll take a break,

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"he must be tired after all this time",
and he doesn't.

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I'd turn up, his flag would be there
and I'd be like: "Damn it, he was here!"

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You know when you go to a concert venue,
you see loads of stickers,

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it feels like he's left
a trail of stickers on everyone.

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You're in China, feeling like the first
to do a techno concert there

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and someone says, "Laurent Garnier”,

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and you're like,
"OK, this guy's paved the way."

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We talk about music.

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That's what I like.
You could be talking about anything,

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such as management, etc.,

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but, no, he takes in all his news.

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If he gets 400 in a day,
he'll listen to all of it.

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It's seven in the morning.

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Gotta get up.

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Oh, I'm sleepy.

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Let's put on some music to get going

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I don't know something like:

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I cleaned that one 50,000 times.

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This is really good.
Bloody hell!

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Back then, the gay scene
was really open to house and techno.

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It's the scene that most embraced
this type of music

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during its infancy.

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My professional life
is closely linked to this club.

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We met Christian and he already had
English promoters organising parties.

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I turned up with Eric Morand

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and we told him
we wanted to organise nights at his club

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because we liked the venue
and the sound.

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He said yes 30 years ago
and we've been going ever since.

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Laurent's "Wake Up" parties
were really the place

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where we were able to invite

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all the American actors we admired,
and the European ones too, of course.

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I wanted to showcase
the whole music scene:

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Trance, hardcore,

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drum and bass, jungle, acid house,
all sorts of styles.

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Tonight, you'll be playing
in front of Derrick May

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and some of your idols
from when you were 20.

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- Are you feeling the pressure?
- Shut up.

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That culture blew me away.

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There were 30,000 guys in a single room,

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all dressed the same in tracksuits,
ponytails and red glasses,

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with blaring music.

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When a culture establishes itself
the way it did,

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there's bound to be conflict.
But to that extent?

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A rave shouldn't be a drug party.

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We're pretty sure that these organisers
are operating like a mafia.

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Electronic music concerts
as well as raves

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were demonised, singled out,

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condemned, banned.

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It was simply a space to be free.

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I think that when there's a space
where you can truly be free,

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it means that it's not under control
and that scares people.

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People would meet
at supermarket car parks

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and set off in droves,

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driving in a single file
to go to some mysterious location.

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This created a sense of the unknown
which was completely new

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and, by its very nature,
caused panic

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among the authorities,
the middle-class,

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family men didn't want their kids
getting mixed up in that.

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My family would call me an idiot.

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My parents threw me out,
saying I would become a homeless dealer.

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Of course, the message
that we were all drug traffickers

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was quite something.

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One in three dates were cancelled.

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There would be countless times
that I'd go to a venue

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and there would be roadblocks.

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It really was a witch hunt.

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It was because certain people in power
were scared stiff,

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petrified,

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and also ignorant.

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We'd get there and say,
"Hi, we want to do techno."

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They'd reply,

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"Whoa, we can't do techno.
We're feeling the pressure.

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"We're not supposed to rent out
our space for barbaric music."

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Apparently,
techno music was barbaric.

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You would want to
organise something completely legal

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and would invest
a lot of time and money into it,

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it would be important to you,
your baby,

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and then they'd turn around and say no.

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When you asked why, they'd say,
"Just because."

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The Prefecture's Safety Commission
will not stop splitting hairs.

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After ordering that
3, 660 chairs be fastened to the floor,

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they must now be attached to each other.

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Either way, we're doing it.

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After two days of harassment,
detection is kicking “m.

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They're doing this
just to screw with us.

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Their anti-techno plan is a joke.

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If I don't play in France,
I'll just go play elsewhere.

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It's fine, it doesn't bother me
if they shut the country off.

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Techno's blowing up in France
cos they're becoming more opposed to it.

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Tell a child not to play with a socket
and he'll electrocute himself.

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When they started talking about
volume levels, they showed two CDs:

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Classical music, which was good,

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it was music
that wouldn't kill your kids' eardrums.

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Then they showed Laurent Garnier
which was in the red zone.

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If some guy turns the bass right up,
of course it'll be in the red zone.

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They said my music would make kids deaf,
that's what they said on TV.

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If classical music were on full blast,
that would make you deaf too.

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It depends on the volume.
That was such a cop-out excuse.

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Rather than march and chant,

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"Techno's cool, shove it up your arse",
which doesn't interest me,

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I'd rather work with people
who are quirky and different,

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people who are promising,
artistically speaking, in France,

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to get our own back.

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With an estimated turnover
of 15 million this year

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and over hundreds of Wes,

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F Communications is exploring
the Whole spectrum of electro music.

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It saw rising success With this track,

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music from an ad
for a jeans manufacturer.

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We came onto the scene in 1999
with Mr. Oizo's Flat Beat.

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We sold three or four million singles
in just a few weeks.

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Yes, it contributed to the explosion,
you had a French artist

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topping European charts
for weeks on end.

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All this pop and charts stuff was
something I didn't even know existed.

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When people started telling me
what was happening with that track,

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an educated guy like Laurent,

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who had been following
the entire evolution of this genre,

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understood exactly what was going on.
I didn't have a clue.

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I didn't know what MTV was.

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In a nutshell, I was so lost
and was in way over my head,

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so it was more of a burden
than a blessing.

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Laurent Gamier, Stardust,
Cassius or Mr. 017.0,

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names which you may have never heard,

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01:00:07,159 --> 01:00:09,719
and yet from New York to Tokyo,
from Milan to London,

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they're making people dance
and are making the front pages.

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French rock
never managed to cross the borders,

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but today, disc jockeys,
or DJs, as they say now,

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and techno producers are exporting.

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Spearheading this French invasion
is Daft Punk,

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a duo who have sold
over 1.5 million albums.

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Without ever having shown their faces.

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Whatever you thought of this movement,

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it was catching on.

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Daft Punk offered something that was...

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It had the pleasures of techno
with its sound and synths, etc.,

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01:00:51,159 --> 01:00:54,879
but the instant gratification
of something like Michael Jackson.

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01:00:55,039 --> 01:00:57,879
That's what was crazy,
but it annoyed a lot of people.

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There were many who felt their music
was being violated by trash

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because it was too commercial,
I don't know.

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It was something we'd talk a lot about
back in the day.

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It was precisely so that techno music
would come out from the shadows,

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from the fringes,
from exile, from demonisation

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and have a rightful place
in the streets,

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in the capital, in Paris.

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We're in Bologna, in Italy.
I'm on the crapper.

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And, uh,

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we're going to party hard.

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Anything that breaks away from the norm,

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inevitably causes fear and concern.

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And as usual,
since it's always cyclic,

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at some point,
it ends up becoming institutionalised.

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It's a logical, normal progression.

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The amazing thing,
and this goes for all musical trends,

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is that with these trends,
amid the initial confusion,

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people emerge,
particular artists emerge

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who, in a way, clear up any confusion
about the movement.

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Techno, house,
what's known as electro now in France,

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became a fully-fledged culture,
like jazz, rock and hip hop,

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because it was the soundtrack
of several generations of artists.

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I was at the conservatory on weekdays
and at clubs on weekends.

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That's how it was.

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When I met Laurent Garnier,
as I said, I was 16 or 17,

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and I brought him
my electro music demo tapes,

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which was more techno back then.

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He very kindly said to me, "That's cool,
but it really sounds like Daft Punk."

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I copied Daft Punk way too much
around 1996.

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But I was so happy that he'd listened
to my stuff and gotten back to me.

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It also taught me not to copy
people I admire when creating music.

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If I found my style, it was thanks
to his feedback at the time

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which was important to me.

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This is my first time here,
so it's the great unknown.

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The complete unknown.

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I'm playing tonight
at a club called Bassiani.

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This isn't just any old trip.

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I'm kind of stressed, actually.

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Weirdly enough, it's stressing me out.

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01:14:11,999 --> 01:14:14,759
But I like coming to
these types of places.

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Bassiani is the spot in town
which plays 140 bpm.

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Clubbers go to Bassiani

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01:14:42,839 --> 01:14:44,479
because it's an act of defiance.

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01:14:44,639 --> 01:14:50,279
This is because you can meet people
at the bar or on the dancefloor

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who talk about the various struggles
for civil rights in Georgia,

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for LGBTQ rights,

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01:14:56,319 --> 01:15:00,799
but that could also include
the few rights minors have in Georgia.

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People talk here
and that's what scares the authorities.

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The dancefloor becomes political

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because it's a place where
people have conversations.

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There was a special forces police raid

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right in the middle of a set.

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Clubbers saw 250 heavily-armed guys
storm into the club

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on a supposed drug bust.

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Techno, drugs...

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A natural leap, apparently.

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People's reactions around Bassiani,

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01:15:42,559 --> 01:15:45,839
so, not just clubbers,
but various activists,

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was to meet in front of Parliament
on Rustaveli Avenue in Georgia.

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There were around
10,000 to 15,000 people there

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blasting out music in the street.

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It's not dissimilar
to the Champs-Élysées or Times Square,

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so that place is a pretty big deal.

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01:16:01,759 --> 01:16:05,519
They staged musical protests
for two days

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01:16:06,159 --> 01:16:07,599
in front of Parliament.

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It's very important
to preserve this heritage

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which provides an area for freedom

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01:16:21,959 --> 01:16:24,719
because we all need an escape.

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01:16:24,879 --> 01:16:27,359
We all need moments
where we can be ourselves,

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01:16:27,519 --> 01:16:29,599
express ourselves
without being judged.

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01:16:49,719 --> 01:16:52,879
The youth says
fuck you to the National Front.

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01:16:53,039 --> 01:16:55,639
The youth says
fuck you to the National Front.

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You know, when Laurent mixes,

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01:17:01,559 --> 01:17:06,559
thousands of people
from all walks of life,

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01:17:06,719 --> 01:17:10,119
all with their own personal world-views,

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01:17:10,279 --> 01:17:12,919
peacefully come together.

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01:17:13,079 --> 01:17:16,719
That's political.
That's extremely political.

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01:20:29,999 --> 01:20:34,119
When it comes to the evolution of music,
I often compare it to chaos theory.

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01:20:34,279 --> 01:20:37,039
In other words,
it's never where you expect it to be.

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01:20:37,199 --> 01:20:38,959
There is no logical evolution.

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01:21:46,719 --> 01:21:51,199
I think about reverse polarity,
about making music without electricity.

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01:21:51,399 --> 01:21:53,759
That would be
the most revolutionary thing,

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01:21:53,919 --> 01:21:59,119
to make extremely acoustic music
with a very modern vision.

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01:21:59,279 --> 01:22:02,799
Music that's totally innate,
organic, spiritual.

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01:22:03,759 --> 01:22:04,879
That would do us good.

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01:22:35,399 --> 01:22:39,959
Any movement creates a counter movement.

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01:22:40,119 --> 01:22:43,439
Alternatively, musicians
will get inspiration from the past,

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01:22:43,599 --> 01:22:45,119
but completely reinvent it.

348
01:22:45,279 --> 01:22:47,319
It's almost impossible to predict.

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01:24:15,159 --> 01:24:18,599
Thanks for bringing the festival-goers,
it's revamped the castle.

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01:24:18,759 --> 01:24:20,679
I didn't do it, the guys did.

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01:24:20,839 --> 01:24:22,759
That's what has revamped us.

352
01:24:22,919 --> 01:24:24,159
You're terrific.

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01:24:32,639 --> 01:24:34,439
So, I'm...

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01:24:35,079 --> 01:24:36,679
I hope I don't injure you.

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01:24:37,799 --> 01:24:39,319
It's an instrument of torture.

356
01:24:39,479 --> 01:24:42,159
It's an awful instrument, that bit is.

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01:24:42,639 --> 01:24:43,879
I said to Laurent earlier

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01:24:44,039 --> 01:24:48,799
that the first decoration I awarded,
as a budding Minister of Culture,

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01:24:48,959 --> 01:24:50,999
was to Rostropovich.

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01:24:51,759 --> 01:24:54,479
From Rostropovich to Laurent Garnier...

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01:24:55,439 --> 01:24:58,439
With Miles Davis in between.
Yes, sorry.

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01:25:00,599 --> 01:25:03,679
I was very clumsy, I still am,
plus, I injured myself.

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01:25:03,839 --> 01:25:05,639
Rest assured, I'm being careful.

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01:25:05,799 --> 01:25:10,959
So, I dug it into his jacket...

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01:25:12,279 --> 01:25:14,079
There was an actual pool of blood.

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01:25:15,399 --> 01:25:18,079
Rostropovich was like:
"Look, don't worry about it,

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01:25:18,239 --> 01:25:20,759
"we'll wash it off with vodka."

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01:25:22,359 --> 01:25:24,559
So, I'm going to be very careful.

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01:25:24,719 --> 01:25:26,239
On behalf of the President

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01:25:26,399 --> 01:25:28,839
and by virtue of
the authority vested in me,

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01:25:28,999 --> 01:25:33,479
I pronounce you
a Knight of the Legion of Honour.

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