[Script Info]
Title: 
[Events]
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.00,0:00:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,10 days of concerts, meetings, workshops dedicated to electronic music in Congo
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.00,0:00:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Les Siestes Electroniques, what does that means? We don't understand ... to rest after having an "electronic" meal ?!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.00,0:00:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Les Siestes Electroniques is actually a French festival that has started 10 years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.00,0:01:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When IDM was all over the place, we've had to rethink the way we're organizing concerts.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.00,0:01:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watching a guy using his laptop, alone on stage... well it's kind of boring!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.00,0:01:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we've tried to present this kind of musicians in different conditions.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.00,0:01:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if those music would be played in an open air venue, at the sunset ?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.00,0:01:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wouldn't be easier and way more fun to listen to it ?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.00,0:01:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've then explore more aesthetics, using the same "recipe",
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.00,0:01:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,presenting new music to new audience at parking lots, subway stations, churches ...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.00,0:01:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at the French cultural center, you'll understand that electronic music can be plural
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.00,0:01:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be as hot as Coupé-Décalé played in the most sexy club late at night,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.00,0:01:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it can also be very soft, gentle, calm!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.00,0:02:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thanks you guys, we wish you good luck!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.00,0:02:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're speaking with Guillaume Kidula, Douster and Jay Weed.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.00,0:02:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meet them tomorrow at the French cultural center!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.00,0:02:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The musician, alone, in front of his laptop screen, moving his mouse...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.00,0:02:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's kind of oldshool! we're now trying to find more intuitive way to do electronic music.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.00,0:02:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The gesture is now something that really counts for instance.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.00,0:02:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think that with new tools comes new possibilities.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.00,0:03:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our goal is thus to provide new tools and see what you'll do with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.00,0:03:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not here to say : "hey, electronic is cool, you should try"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.00,0:03:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're here like :"we're making that music with those tools, what would you do with them"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.00,0:03:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a computer engineer from Toulouse.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.00,0:03:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in Congo to organize music softwares trainings.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.00,0:03:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The aim is to present several music softwares and see how they could match the local needs,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.00,0:03:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then develop new creative approaches.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.00,0:03:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Hugo "Douster", I came from Lyon and I'm a dj and producer of electronic music for about 10 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.00,0:03:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Jeremie, I came from Lyon and I'm a music producer under the moniker of "Jay Weed".
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.00,0:03:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was first making rap music,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.00,0:04:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thanks to travelling - especially in South America, I've started to integrate different kind of music into my own mix.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.00,0:04:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really enjoy all kind of music, coming from all over the world...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.00,0:04:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm then always interested by discovering new aestetics.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.00,0:04:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that electronic music had become more and more democratic,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.00,0:04:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you can now do almost everything by yourself!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.00,0:04:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even a very low skilled musician can program some drum kit, a bass line and different kind of sounds.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.00,0:04:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first edition of Les Siestes Electroniques in Congo, in 2010,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.00,0:05:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has made us realise that there is space for electronic music in Congo.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.00,0:05:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Congolese are willing to discover new musics!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.00,0:05:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm especially interested by all the local underground subgenres of electronic music.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.00,0:05:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here, there, everywhere, people are making electronic music nowadays thanks to the advent of the personnal computer.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.00,0:05:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if there is no pure electronic music in Congo such as house or techno,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.00,0:05:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is Coupé-Décalé or Ndombolo which are typical African music styles made with computers.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.00,0:05:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems like we have a good team of local musicians around us!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.00,0:05:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pretty much motivated and open-minded...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.00,0:05:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we won't face absolutely no problem working with these guys!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.00,0:05:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But maybe I'm wrong, who knows ...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.00,0:06:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Douster and JayWeed performs live at the Institut Francais du Congo.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.00,0:06:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it started, you first ask yourself "wtf is this ?"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.00,0:06:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we have here: only up-tempo music!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.00,0:06:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tempo is beautiful, alright. Tempo is made to dance.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.00,0:06:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's speechless!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.00,0:06:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't make any sense! How can you understand music then ?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.00,0:06:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the meaning of this music ?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.00,0:06:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does it says?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.00,0:06:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You must speak, you must explain!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.00,0:06:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You must have a topic!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.00,0:06:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then people will understand! Then people will give a shout out!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.00,0:06:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here it's just "TUKU TUKU TUK TUKU TUKU TUK"!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.00,0:06:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to me it's a MESS! ...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.00,0:06:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jean-Michel Jarre was playing melodies on his synthetizers,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.00,0:07:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but here it's way more percusive music...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.00,0:07:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's how it becomes universal!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.00,0:07:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We thus don't need to be introduced. Look at the crowd here, check tomorrow in the clubs...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.00,0:07:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody stand up and dance:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.00,0:07:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pure bliss, everybody's in trance!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.00,0:07:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm clearly unhappy! Everything they're playing is prerecorded!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.00,0:07:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're actually not playing!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.00,0:07:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like if robots were playing for me!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.00,0:07:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,True music need true musicians!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.00,0:07:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Musicians playing their instruments and you can say: this one plays this, that one plays that...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.00,0:07:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People showed up to discover electronic music,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.00,0:08:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if there now get up it's because there is a message in this music! Something's happening!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.00,0:08:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a vibe, and that vibe makes the rythm.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.00,0:08:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music is not just only words,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.00,0:08:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,music is what you're hearing!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.00,0:08:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What matters is the groove, the feeling, that will move you even if there are no words...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.00,0:08:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a communion of spirit. You've made a success.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.00,0:08:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We lack that kind of gigs here! I really enjoyed it tonight!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.00,0:08:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if you aren't in the mood for dancing, you have to. Music is taking you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.00,0:08:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, even if we're only discovering electronic music, people get that feeling of trance...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.00,0:08:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People were jumping around... "Hot ambiance!" as they say in the Antilles!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.00,0:08:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll definitly see a lot of "ambiance" with that music. It keep the tempo upbeat and there's no time to sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.00,0:09:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While we discover that music, we make it ours.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.00,0:09:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We make it ours, and it gives us ideas!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.00,0:09:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gives us ideas... and that's the beauty of it!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.00,0:09:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you have broadcast advertisment? Of course we do!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.00,0:09:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being a congolese Dj is kind of hard. We have to work with very few...
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.00,0:09:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We try to deal with what we have and with that we manage the best part of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.00,0:09:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you handle the aircon as well?Yes!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.00,0:09:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When i'm here, i don't play music for myself, i do it for the customers.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.00,0:09:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to play all kind of stuff as i play for all kinds of people
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.00,0:09:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A DJ must try to know about all kinds of music.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.00,0:09:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every week end, i go around the clubs to see the Djs.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.00,0:09:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there's a good track i haven't got already, i take it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.00,0:10:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, you go at friend's place and you have the Facebook, the internet, the Google and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.00,0:10:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My music is the romantic Zouk. I really like the Zouk.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.00,0:10:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When i'm working the Zouk, i don't like to be disturb.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.00,0:10:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The R'nB. R'nB is where i can express myself totally, peacefully.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.00,0:10:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see the girl dance, i'm in the show too...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.00,0:10:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's my favorite music, the R'n'B.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.00,0:10:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When i'm not here, there's no "ambiance" and it's the same when i feel weak.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.00,0:10:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why the people respects the DJs!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.00,0:10:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you call a girl, she may not come.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.00,0:10:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if I call a girl, she respects me, she'll come!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.00,0:10:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We aren't respected. People assume that we're weed's smokers,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.00,0:10:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or an illiterate, somebody that has no level...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.00,0:10:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trully, people thinks that we do that job for girls!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.00,0:10:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somehow it's true, but not only!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.00,0:10:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Girls come by themselves, to hit on you, in front of people!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.00,0:10:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're like "You know I'll love you, here's my phone number, call me!"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.00,0:11:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You get numbers of course, but our purpose is still the love of music.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.00,0:11:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's our job, we were born to it, we live with it!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.00,0:11:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Girls come by themselves, it's automatic!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.00,0:11:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if you don't feel like it, they'll come anyway to bother you, so you got to deal with it!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.00,0:11:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I start to work at 14:00, from 14:00 to 21:00.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.00,0:11:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So as soon as people enter the room, I start mixing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.00,0:11:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When there's nobody I put mixtapes and I wait around,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.00,0:11:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when people enter, i set the dancefloor on fire!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.00,0:12:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The "VIP" starts earlier.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.00,0:12:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's say they start at 15:00 and close around midnight.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.00,0:12:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nightclubs are different as they start around 20:00,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.00,0:12:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and till 2:00 or 3:00 at night.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.00,0:12:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people have that shedule: they start working around 7:30, and they finish at 14:00,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.00,0:12:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and every congolese like to have a bier before going home!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.00,0:12:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why we're opening around 14:00, to get that specific audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.00,0:12:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I won't play any scarry thing!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.00,0:12:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cause you do not scare your audience!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.00,0:13:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll scare them enough!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.00,0:13:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you believe in Acid House's comeback?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.00,0:13:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, we'll import the "neo-colonialist Acid House" in Congo!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.00,0:13:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,20 years later, is about the right time for acid house in Congo!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.00,0:13:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knowing that congolese may have problem to go around, as going around remains expensive,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.00,0:13:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we organised some kind of "tour" based on buses.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.00,0:13:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we could bring a part of the audience from club to club.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.00,0:13:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gave consistency to the party as well, as the audience could see Jay Weed and Douster's mix evolving through the night.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.00,0:13:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Excursions are made by daylight! It's now nightime, wtf?!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.00,0:13:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's as we were going to some warlock!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.00,0:13:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs!- It looks like a club ...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.00,0:13:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Of course, we're in Vegas!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.00,0:13:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Men, it's no Las Vegas, it's Brazza!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.00,0:14:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not sure that mixing electronic stuffs in some rock or pop club in France would work...
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.00,0:14:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One chance out of two that people throw you tomatoes!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.00,0:14:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea was to face the reality of what is a Brazzaville's club, and to see if it could work somehow.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.00,0:14:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've been in three different nightclubs, all really different from each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.00,0:14:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We started with "Le Plaisir", a kind of neighborhood club, with a much younger audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.00,0:14:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ambiance was much more rough, with a funny Dj booth!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.00,0:14:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I loved the Dj booth there!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.00,0:14:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sick light installation!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.00,0:14:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we arrived the resident dj was playing local music, audience was enjoying.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.00,0:15:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We plugged in and Douster started playing Dancehall.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.00,0:15:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to know that Dancehall is not really well known in Congo.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.00,0:15:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Congelese clubs audience is used to listen to r'n'b, hip hop and coupé décalé, but clearly no dancehall...
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.00,0:15:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So even this beginning was surprising for the Congolese crowd.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.00,0:15:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mirrors are everywhere in the clubs. That struck me.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.00,0:15:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And people are dancing in front of those mirrors!
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.00,0:15:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody was in line, in front of the mirrors!
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.00,0:16:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The best Congolese dancer came to the party! He's the father of the congolese Michael Jackson doppleganger as well!
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.00,0:16:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he has some crazy dance moves, believe me.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.00,0:16:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This guy has imported the Smurf dance in Congo!
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.00,0:16:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When music comes, rhythms diverge"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.00,0:16:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Jeremie was playing, the "head" of the local djs guild had hosted the mix,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.00,0:16:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaking about trance music and declaring some weird punchlines to the audience!
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.00,0:17:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The ambiance doesn't choose... you just have to live it"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.00,0:17:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Tonight we have a special guest: the pleasure (play on words about the name of the club - le plaisir)"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.00,0:17:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a lot of white people tonight!
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.00,0:17:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I have had the feeling the white people were playing their white music ...
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.00,0:17:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I come, i here reggae, your music, but it's not my style!
Dialogue: 0,0:17:34.00,0:17:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Le plaisir is my club. I'm going regularly to Le Plaisir.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.00,0:17:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've thought I could go to Le Plaisir after a hard week of work in order to relax...
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.00,0:17:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you're playing your music and I'm not interested... at all!
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.00,0:18:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we arrived at the second club, the atmosphere was different.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.00,0:18:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First af all the light show was all about strobe, which is apparently a very trendy way of lightning things here.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:14.00,0:18:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mixing desk was about this height...
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.00,0:18:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have to get on two beer crates...
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.00,0:18:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which were quite unsteady...
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.00,0:18:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Me, Jeremie and a third guy taking care of lights: 3 people on 2 crates, it was little bit tight :)
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.00,0:18:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looks like everything is always thrown together at the last minute ...
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.00,0:18:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was mixing, the light installation, with all the switchs on the wall you know, seems to have had a problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.00,0:18:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So a fourth guy came up to fix it... We were five behind the desk then!
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.00,0:19:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The guy was pulling the electrical wires, making electrical sparkles at 20 cm of us!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.00,0:19:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the night became more and more electronic as one goes along.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:10.00,0:19:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It became then more cutting edge, less casual for the Congolese crowd.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.00,0:19:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've played UK Funky, then hard Techno and stuff like that...
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.00,0:20:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At some point Jeremie was playing hard UK Funky and some Congelese MCs came up on stage and starts toasting!
Dialogue: 0,0:20:01.00,0:20:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was pretty good, it fits!
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.00,0:20:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people even thought it was part of the original played tracks!
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.00,0:20:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end Mad Michel, the boss of the Boyoma-Boyoma club, made us a surprise.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.00,0:20:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He asked to clear the dancefloor. Everybody stopped to dance.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:25.00,0:20:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then cames 4 kids, 14-16 yo
Dialogue: 0,0:20:30.00,0:20:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They showed us some massive coupé décalé moves for about 25 mn, while the Dj was mixing super fast!
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.00,0:20:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An ecstatic show! The strobes were flashing, the dance moves were extreme!
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.00,0:20:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The atmosphere was definitively different compared to the European one...
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.00,0:21:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Way more hot. An extremely reactive audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.00,0:21:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People that came to the Dj booth really made my night!
Dialogue: 0,0:21:10.00,0:21:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As for the audience it was 50/50 I would say.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:15.00,0:21:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people were quite curious, open to new sounds and jump into it,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:19.00,0:21:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but some others were more reluctant and sometimes quite unhappy about this "novelty".
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.00,0:21:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I hope altogether it has pleased most of them ...
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.00,0:21:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least we were quite happy about it :)
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.00,0:21:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Generally speaking, it worked!
Dialogue: 0,0:21:35.00,0:21:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course we haven't been able to pleased everyone...
Dialogue: 0,0:21:41.00,0:21:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then we went to Le Groove club.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.00,0:21:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we entered the club, it was packed!
Dialogue: 0,0:21:48.00,0:21:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when Douster and Jay Weed started mixing, people were watching, listening, but not dancing.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.00,0:22:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've had the feeling the French djs didn't take care of the reaction of the crowd,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.00,0:22:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looks like they were here to only satisfy themselves...
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.00,0:22:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a little bit like they didn't care about what was there before they came!
Dialogue: 0,0:22:12.00,0:22:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So people started to leave the dancefloor... :)
Dialogue: 0,0:22:17.00,0:22:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some went out, for sure, because it was so much "European", too much for them...
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.00,0:22:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It didn't bother me. I was there because I was willing to discover.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:30.00,0:22:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you're looking for something new, nothing can bother you!
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.00,0:22:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At some point, a bartender came and asked: "More African music! My customers are about to leave! I loose money!" :)
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.00,0:22:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Congolese when they get to club, they wanna see their tables full of bottles! They spend a lot!
Dialogue: 0,0:22:54.00,0:22:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They buy a lot of drinks!
Dialogue: 0,0:22:56.00,0:23:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Europeans, they only buy a bottle of beer from time to time ...
Dialogue: 0,0:23:01.00,0:23:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trully when we arrived at the last club, a little bit late, it may have been intrusive for the audience that was already there.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:09.00,0:23:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know how the resident djs of all the "VIPs" would welcome us...
Dialogue: 0,0:23:16.00,0:23:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're a resident dj, you do your job and then come from nowhere young fellows that wanna play their music...
Dialogue: 0,0:23:26.00,0:23:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fact is we've been very warmly welcomed by all the resident djs!
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.00,0:23:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the main problems here is they just can't download tracks. Internet is too slow here.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:39.00,0:23:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's hard to get new stuffs to play...
Dialogue: 0,0:23:42.00,0:23:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end in Le Groove club the local djs wanted to get all the sound we've played!
Dialogue: 0,0:23:47.00,0:23:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we've filled up a hard drive, half drunk at 5 o'clock... Quite a funny moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:53.00,0:23:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inch Allah, one day, they will entertain their audience with all these weird "European" sounds they got that night!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:25.00,0:24:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My vision about Africa? It's a mess and i like it!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.00,0:24:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've found quite happy folks here.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:33.00,0:24:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It feels good! Their open-mindedness is a blessing!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:44.00,0:24:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I must confess that I didn't knew much about Africa before coming here ...
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.00,0:24:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what I would remember is the kindness... and the smooth African way of life which suits me well!
Dialogue: 0,0:25:07.00,0:25:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Congo isn't an easy country to understand...
Dialogue: 0,0:25:10.00,0:25:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We speak the same langage, so we think we understand each other...
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.00,0:25:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's way more complex!
Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.00,0:25:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our cultures are different. Our visions of the world are different.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.00,0:25:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So even if we use the same words, the definition, the comprehension of it can be different.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:37.00,0:25:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some aspects of the Congolese culture are quite close from the French culture partly because of the colonization ...
Dialogue: 0,0:25:44.00,0:25:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there is always a slight difference in meaning that can create trouble even in really simple things.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.00,0:25:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, when I set up a meeting at 9:00
Dialogue: 0,0:25:57.00,0:26:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most of the Congolese think they have until 9:59 to arrive ... which is true!
Dialogue: 0,0:26:02.00,0:26:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here you also have to get used to a "last minute" way to do everything...
Dialogue: 0,0:26:06.00,0:26:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which would create much stress somewhere else but is just normal here! That's how things work here!
Dialogue: 0,0:26:13.00,0:26:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've booked buses for the club night, for instance
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.00,0:26:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've had the firm confirmation only 3 days before the gig ...
Dialogue: 0,0:26:23.00,0:26:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unbelievable in France, absolutely normal here! :)
Dialogue: 0,0:26:26.00,0:26:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The money issue is also quite hard to deal with.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:30.00,0:26:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're in a country where most of the people live with very few...
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.00,0:26:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But also in a country which has oil resources,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:36.00,0:26:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fortunes are made on that material of course...
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.00,0:26:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next to this you have people that live with really hard conditions,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:45.00,0:26:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with no water nor electricity,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.00,0:26:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which can create some "kafka-like" situation sometimes...
Dialogue: 0,0:26:53.00,0:27:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact that there's almost no internet connexion or let's say no fast connexion is also a difficulty.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:01.00,0:27:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're organizing an event in Congo from France,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:06.00,0:27:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even being here, getting the flyer's artwork from France was some sort of complicate thing...
Dialogue: 0,0:27:46.00,0:27:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The congolese way to deal with the rain may be extreme: it just stops everything!....
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.00,0:27:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it rains the taxi cabs and buses almost stop circulating, there are floods everywhere ...
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.00,0:28:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Time stops when it rains!
Dialogue: 0,0:28:01.00,0:28:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was expecting 2 or 3 participants today,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.00,0:28:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,15 trainees were there, behind their laptop, ready to work, already tweaking knobs!
Dialogue: 0,0:28:16.00,0:28:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a clear indicator of succes!
Dialogue: 0,0:28:21.00,0:28:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Congo is always like that, like in a rollercoaster, you can be really disappointed or really amazed within the same day...
Dialogue: 0,0:28:39.00,0:28:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Performance of all the Brazzaville's workshop participants.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:17.00,0:29:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Arrival in Pointe Noire.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.00,0:29:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's hard to fall totally in love with Pointe Noire..
Dialogue: 0,0:29:35.00,0:29:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The gap between the poor and the rich is too big.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:40.00,0:29:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've been in the neighborhood, and where all the expats foreigners are living...
Dialogue: 0,0:29:48.00,0:29:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gives you a weird feeling...
Dialogue: 0,0:29:50.00,0:30:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here you have 1l of pure oil. You add this with coke and you can drive for 600 km :)
Dialogue: 0,0:30:00.00,0:30:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are more foreigners... more money too... and loads of oil!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.00,0:30:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Congolese oil is here!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:08.00,0:30:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the relation with the local inhabitants is different, from what we saw in the clubs, at the hotel...
Dialogue: 0,0:30:21.00,0:30:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are not as relax as in Brazza, they're seeing us, the white faces, as wealthy colonizers...
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.00,0:30:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you're going to club here, only the prostitutes speak to you for instance ...
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.00,0:30:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sunset DJ set at "L'escale d'Emex"
Dialogue: 0,0:30:45.00,0:30:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During at least an hour and a half, we thought: ok, it's dead, no one will come!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:54.00,0:31:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could see people standing by their car, far away from the dance floor, waiting for something to happen...
Dialogue: 0,0:31:01.00,0:31:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were far from our "sunset at the sea" fantasy!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:06.00,0:31:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Night and a huge shower rain felt at the same time...
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.00,0:31:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oddly enough people came at that very moment and started to dance their ass of!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:15.00,0:31:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And from there... It was massive!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:52.00,0:32:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had great feedback from the people! But nobody gave us 5000F notes as in Brazzaville: our audience didn't look so rich actually!
Dialogue: 0,0:32:05.00,0:32:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But their unusual moves and choreography on the dancefloor were unmistakably a way to show their love!
Dialogue: 0,0:32:15.00,0:32:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The audience was some sort of weird "mash-up" as gathered at that moment the people that hanged around the beach,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.00,0:32:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the audience of inside the bar as it stayed open the whole time, broadcasting heavy coupé décalé,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:30.00,0:32:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pointe noire's expats and brazzaville's friends came as well... and finally kids!
Dialogue: 0,0:32:35.00,0:32:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Twenty of them came from a nearby youth club but above all we were join by all the street kids wanderer!
Dialogue: 0,0:32:43.00,0:32:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We ended up with a feeling that was much likely our french version of Les siestes:
Dialogue: 0,0:32:48.00,0:32:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a laid-back and easy going gathering, like a nice family meeting... It was a great moment!
Dialogue: 0,0:33:04.00,0:33:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In france we are all blasé, having that feeling that everything have been wrote, said, seen or done.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:15.00,0:33:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a refreshing feeling here in Congo, even if it's sometimes hard to introduce new things due to the weight of traditions.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:28.00,0:33:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things are still possible here and new things are emerging.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:35.00,0:33:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just hope that those congolese Siestes were not just about bringing something "cool" to the people... That we've been further.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:45.00,0:33:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As people and musicians we have collect a whole lot of positive thing: sounds, discussions, way to see life, music...
Dialogue: 0,0:33:57.00,0:34:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sharing of all those ideas and sounds is a succes in itself for me, and it clearly moved me.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:05.00,0:34:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More than ever i think that the people from Brazzaville are welcoming and have this appetite for new things.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:18.00,0:34:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are not so many roads here, it's hard to fly away, hard to use internet...
Dialogue: 0,0:34:29.00,0:34:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So sharing is crucial, talking is crucial!
Dialogue: 0,0:34:33.00,0:34:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way people welcomed us, especially the club's DJ, that was awesome...
Dialogue: 0,0:34:39.00,0:34:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It clearly moved me!