WEBVTT 00:00:00.460 --> 00:00:04.920 Wilson and myself says "Hi and welcome" to everyone for this channel update, 00:00:04.920 --> 00:00:07.200 for the Wintergatan youtube channel. 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:12.120 I have some upcoming changes, that I'm really excited about, that I want to 00:00:12.220 --> 00:00:16.100 communicate very carefully with you about in this video. 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:20.720 So that's why we're here today, sitting on this beautiful desk, but first: 00:00:20.720 --> 00:00:24.800 Have you seen the MMXS by Love Hultén? 00:00:24.900 --> 00:00:32.280 This is an amazing miniature Marble Machine X and Love Hultén is an amazing Swedish artist 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:38.080 who built these different arcade machines and a lot of amazing amazing art. 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:44.100 If you haven't seen the video, I just encourage you to go watch it because it's really, really, really cool! 00:00:44.100 --> 00:00:47.580 I just want to give a huge shout-out to Love Hultén. 00:00:47.580 --> 00:00:53.300 I get very inspired from seeing something designed so cleanly and so pragmatic. 00:00:53.360 --> 00:00:56.740 Since I came back to France from Sweden in the end of January 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:01.900 I've been working six days out of seven without break on the Marble Machine X. 00:01:02.100 --> 00:01:06.200 I've been really upping my efficiency. I've been... 00:01:06.240 --> 00:01:10.520 searching and trying in every little corner of my... 00:01:10.600 --> 00:01:17.020 of myself and of my life, for how to become an efficient worker and stop procrastination. 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:20.040 And I... I've kind of nailed it. [laughs] 00:01:20.240 --> 00:01:22.300 I've been... 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:27.900 really really doing great work for, like, seven months 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:31.100 and if you look at the Marble Machine X, 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:33.880 from January to today, 00:01:33.940 --> 00:01:36.180 it's not a huge difference. 00:01:36.320 --> 00:01:38.660 And I'm really working efficiently, so 00:01:38.720 --> 00:01:43.520 I feel that I have to lift on some other stones to see 00:01:43.660 --> 00:01:50.180 If I can unleash another set of resources to finish this project. 00:01:50.220 --> 00:01:55.080 And when I look back at this six months, I'm thinking about what I've done, 00:01:55.180 --> 00:02:00.320 the glaring elephant in the room is that I spend all my best energy 00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:05.640 and my highest attention and focus onto making these videos. [laughs] 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:12.760 The chunk of my time is invested in making the documentation about the art piece. 00:02:12.760 --> 00:02:18.180 That is problematic and since the release of the first Marble Machine video 00:02:18.220 --> 00:02:25.400 the amount of attention and appreciation and understanding my creations have received on youtube 00:02:25.480 --> 00:02:31.820 has been so rewarding and just an amazing journey for me personally, but... 00:02:32.040 --> 00:02:37.920 But, but, but, but, but... as I said, the chunk of my time and attention, 00:02:38.480 --> 00:02:40.480 maybe 70 percent 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:44.000 of my thought process goes into the youtube videos. 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:47.000 And it's too much. 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:49.200 We tried to... 00:02:49.340 --> 00:02:55.300 lower my involvement in the video making and I tried to step away... 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:58.560 And the thing is that I feel so personally 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:03.140 for whatever I put out on the internet with my name on it, 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:08.060 so I don't really have that... option. [laughs] 00:03:08.160 --> 00:03:12.900 So let's go back to the master plan map with Sisyphus going up the mountain. 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:16.800 I am still on the same mountain and... 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:20.600 I have to take the responsibility 00:03:20.700 --> 00:03:23.080 to not stay on this mountain... 00:03:23.340 --> 00:03:24.800 eh... forever. 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:28.980 The ultimate goal with this machine is to make music. 00:03:28.980 --> 00:03:33.440 If I just have a functioning machine, it's like a shell without a soul. 00:03:33.660 --> 00:03:38.500 It's like an AI life-size robot that can't have a conversation with you. [laughs] 00:03:38.720 --> 00:03:45.280 As it works today, I'm sculpting my artistic process to fit in to the weekly upload schedule. 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:49.020 I chapter everything I do on the machine 00:03:49.060 --> 00:03:51.840 into some kind of thematic lumps 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.360 that we can turn into videos. 00:03:54.367 --> 00:03:56.830 The process is built from the ground up 00:03:56.830 --> 00:03:59.200 by the intention of making a video. 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:05.360 This means that my processes are not designed to be as efficient as possible for the completion of the machine. 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:09.440 If you remember a couple of weeks ago when I was thinking about the marble divider redesign, 00:04:09.440 --> 00:04:12.160 when I took the decision to not release a video; 00:04:12.160 --> 00:04:18.820 that Wednesday when I dropped the thought of video and started to think about mechanical designs instead, 00:04:18.820 --> 00:04:22.560 like, 100 percent for that day, was one of the best days 00:04:22.620 --> 00:04:25.080 I've had for a long time in my studio... 00:04:25.200 --> 00:04:28.280 Because I felt I had like these oceans of time 00:04:28.280 --> 00:04:33.180 and my creativity has always been like highly dependent on this free amount of time, 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:37.280 where I'm just, like, in a... in an ocean of time, and there's nothing else; 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.937 and I know that if I can just find a seed of a good idea, 00:04:40.940 --> 00:04:43.680 I can craft it into something beautiful. 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:48.880 I don't find the place for this kind of creative process within the weekly upload schedule. 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:53.660 My therapist said something great about formal and informal contracts, 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:57.380 and this might sound very dull, but I love the concept: 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:03.480 I feel I have built up an informal contract with everyone who are watching this series; 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:10.600 that I'm gonna bring you in to see me finish this process, and I will! 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:14.060 So the word "contract" makes this feel, like, super binding and negative. 00:05:14.060 --> 00:05:16.460 That's absolutely not at all what I mean here. 00:05:16.460 --> 00:05:20.034 What I mean here is that this is actually really inspiring for me. 00:05:20.034 --> 00:05:24.440 I feel a responsibility to show you what this machine can do, 00:05:24.440 --> 00:05:27.900 and I need to do whatever I need to do to make that happen. 00:05:27.900 --> 00:05:33.600 And when we come to the situation that the weekly videos are obstructing the path 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:37.180 for the Marble Machine X to become reality, 00:05:37.320 --> 00:05:43.040 the weekly videos has to give way for the Marble Machine X completion. 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:48.700 What I'm going to do is that I'm going to skip the weekly upload schedule. 00:05:48.700 --> 00:05:52.980 And I'm going to keep making videos; more epic, more relevant videos. 00:05:52.980 --> 00:05:55.760 Videos that I feel 100 percent great about. 00:05:55.760 --> 00:05:58.960 Videos that I really think are worthy of your time. 00:05:58.960 --> 00:06:04.120 So whenever something worth covering has happened in the process, I will make a video about that, 00:06:04.260 --> 00:06:08.640 and, hopefully, it will be more exciting and better than ever. 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:13.800 And... I've been trying hard to make the Wednesdays exciting but... 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:18.400 The artistic process that I'm going through is not always really exciting. 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:20.980 It's mostly like a monumental grind. 00:06:21.080 --> 00:06:26.580 I remember a comment a viewer made when I made a similar statement some years ago. 00:06:26.580 --> 00:06:28.860 I've been talking about this non-stop. 00:06:28.960 --> 00:06:34.640 The viewer said, like basically, "You do you. We support you!" and 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:41.240 "It's only a shame for us because the window through which we look into your beautiful world gets smaller." 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:44.580 And that comment stayed with me and I kind of... 00:06:44.580 --> 00:06:46.479 I kind of agree... 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:52.560 But we are now choosing between panoramic window looking into 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:57.100 nothing being finished, nothing being created, no music being done; 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:03.920 or a little peephole into the future where we're gonna explode the walls 00:07:03.960 --> 00:07:07.080 and actually go on a world tour 00:07:07.080 --> 00:07:11.060 with music that makes the hair on my arm stand up, okay? 00:07:11.200 --> 00:07:15.840 I want to propel the project to that phase as quickly and as beautifully as possible, 00:07:15.840 --> 00:07:19.980 I think one of the largest qualities that I can show you 00:07:20.020 --> 00:07:22.600 is the power of delayed gratification 00:07:22.640 --> 00:07:26.180 and the power of, like, latent potential when you 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:29.040 give your best into a project for a long time and you don't give up. 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:31.744 I've no clue how often a video will come out, 00:07:31.744 --> 00:07:34.580 which leads me to addressing especially 00:07:34.640 --> 00:07:37.120 all the youtube members and all the patrons. 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:41.540 First of all, I'm amazed what you have done for me 00:07:41.540 --> 00:07:44.060 and that you put me in a position 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:48.660 where I am free to think about art 24/7. 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:53.080 I want to take your generous gift to me. 00:07:53.080 --> 00:07:54.900 You have given me time. 00:07:54.900 --> 00:07:56.780 I want to take your gift 00:07:56.960 --> 00:07:58.800 and take care of it. 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:04.760 And I want to make the best possible use that I can of my time that you have given me. 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:09.120 So, depending on how you feel about your support and what the support is for, 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:14.620 you might reconsider your support at this moment and I fully, fully understand that. 00:08:14.620 --> 00:08:18.240 If you feel you want to support 00:08:18.320 --> 00:08:22.760 the music part of what I'm doing and the machine, 00:08:22.760 --> 00:08:27.420 then I hope you understand I'm doing this for the music and for the machine. 00:08:27.440 --> 00:08:32.260 I am not working less, I'm going to work smarter. 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:39.820 Okay, so I think there is now, like, maybe 300 000 people thinking this thought: 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:45.020 "But Martin, what if you just make simpler videos?" [laughs] 00:08:46.640 --> 00:08:50.180 I've been having the same question mark in my head for two years, 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:54.940 I've been trying a lot of different ways, I didn't find a single way that worked. 00:08:54.940 --> 00:08:58.920 Me being satisfied about what I put out in front of... of... 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.060 every one of you is not something I can compromise with. 00:09:02.060 --> 00:09:04.439 It's... it's a fact that we can't change. 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:06.460 So to illustrate the situation, 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:08.656 I made a preparation here on the table. 00:09:08.656 --> 00:09:09.940 Are you ready for this? 00:09:09.940 --> 00:09:14.560 So every Wednesday you've been eating at the Wintergatan restaurant, 00:09:14.640 --> 00:09:18.220 where Martin Molin is the head chef in the kitchen, 00:09:18.220 --> 00:09:19.280 calling the shots. Okay. 00:09:19.280 --> 00:09:22.940 There is one dish on the menu, pasta with tomato sauce. 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:26.205 And you order it and you tell the cook: 00:09:26.205 --> 00:09:28.772 "Make it simple, so it doesn't take too much of your time, 00:09:28.772 --> 00:09:30.720 so you can also build the Marble Machine X." 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:33.520 "We don't want you to cook the tomato sauce all week." 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:37.400 So what you basically think that I should do then is this: 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:40.720 I'm taking the pasta... 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:49.200 Yummy! 00:09:52.020 --> 00:09:53.660 [laughs] 00:09:54.020 --> 00:09:57.600 There you go! So I come out to your table, I slid this plate in front of you, 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:02.820 and I'm, like, "Bon appetit: pasta with tomato sauce!" [laughs] 00:10:03.880 --> 00:10:07.280 I don't want to complain about video making, 00:10:07.280 --> 00:10:09.420 but I want to explain, 00:10:09.460 --> 00:10:12.820 and when you're not into producing videos, 00:10:12.920 --> 00:10:18.280 this is basically how most people think that a video is being made: 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:21.320 You take the film, 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:25.640 you take it out of the package and you put it on youtube. 00:10:25.880 --> 00:10:28.140 That's not how I make tomato sauce. 00:10:28.400 --> 00:10:33.800 To make a tomato sauce you need some garlic, you need to slice it thin, 00:10:33.800 --> 00:10:38.580 like in the Irishman, so it melts in the high quality olive oil. 00:10:38.640 --> 00:10:43.340 Add a little bit of salt with piment d'espelette inside 00:10:43.420 --> 00:10:48.760 and some nice shallots, and make the onion, like, soft. 00:10:49.040 --> 00:10:52.880 Then you finely chop the tomatoes, you put them over 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:56.082 and you let them slow cook for, like, two hours. 00:10:56.082 --> 00:10:58.160 Take all the water out of it. 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:00.380 Boil a lot of water with salt in, 00:11:00.380 --> 00:11:03.561 put the pasta in, make sure it's al dente. 00:11:03.561 --> 00:11:05.000 Pour the water out, 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:08.854 put the tomato sauce in the same pot you boiled the pasta in, 00:11:08.860 --> 00:11:10.980 put the pasta back into it, 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:13.480 sprinkle some basil on top. 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:16.400 That's a tomato sauce with umami! 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:20.620 This is what I want to serve to you all, and... 00:11:20.620 --> 00:11:23.820 To get a really, really nice tasty tomato sauce, 00:11:23.820 --> 00:11:26.860 by the way, don't be shy on the olive oil. 00:11:26.860 --> 00:11:30.127 Vegetarian food should be fat and salty and punchy. 00:11:30.127 --> 00:11:35.460 Just because it's vegetarian it doesn't mean it has to has no taste. 00:11:35.460 --> 00:11:39.460 Somehow people think sometimes that vegetarians don't like salt and sugar and fat. 00:11:39.520 --> 00:11:42.600 Give it some punch! [laughs] 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:48.079 These kinds of aspects... 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:51.640 see the difference between this pasta and tomato sauce 00:11:51.680 --> 00:11:55.760 and the finer aspects of the punch in an umami taste, 00:11:55.760 --> 00:11:59.680 these kinds of aspects is what I love to think about. 00:11:59.680 --> 00:12:05.040 So when I'm making a youtube video I'm thinking about the quality of the olive oil 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:09.140 and if the garlic is thinly sliced enough. [laughs] 00:12:09.340 --> 00:12:13.560 And if you look at the Sisyphus mountain again, the music part... 00:12:13.560 --> 00:12:16.820 I don't have any time to create music at all. 00:12:16.880 --> 00:12:20.280 The building in itself has been a detour already, 00:12:20.280 --> 00:12:24.260 an amazing detour, but still it's a detour that I just took like that. 00:12:24.400 --> 00:12:27.760 And the youtube documentation process is a detour... 00:12:27.920 --> 00:12:35.060 further away from the music, so I will continue to make videos whenever there's a great video to be made. 00:12:35.060 --> 00:12:39.580 We're back in the restaurant and now there's maybe 300 000 people 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:43.100 whose question marks has turned into an exclamation mark, saying: 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:48.700 "I actually would like to try some of that raw Wintergatan pasta, maybe it doesn't taste so bad". 00:12:48.800 --> 00:12:54.360 I'm humbled and thankful, but I'm not going to serve it, okay? [laughs] 00:12:55.520 --> 00:12:59.600 I can't even make a channel update video without coming up with like... 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:02.920 angle or concept for the video, right? [laughs] 00:13:03.040 --> 00:13:08.800 This is a perfect illustration of why you have to keep me working on the machine and not producing videos. 00:13:08.880 --> 00:13:14.900 So, concretely, the plan for the Marble Machine X is to try to make a test song as soon as possible. 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:20.100 I might make a cover. I've been thinking about making "Give Life Back to Music" by Daft Punk. 00:13:20.260 --> 00:13:25.960 I realized afterwards how prophetic that song title would be, so now maybe I have to do it. 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:33.200 I'm going to start with the process of arranging a piece of music on the machine, maybe... maybe that song 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:38.000 and I will cover that in detail on the Wintergatan youtube channel. 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:41.560 That process will leave up to a bookend finale 00:13:41.680 --> 00:13:47.300 about the first chapter in the Marble Machine X life, where it plays its first song for you. 00:13:47.300 --> 00:13:50.480 But what will happen right after that is that I... 00:13:50.580 --> 00:13:53.555 will produce the next album for Wintergatan. 00:13:53.560 --> 00:13:55.660 I will compose and produce. 00:13:55.660 --> 00:13:59.020 I'm talking more and more with Marcus, David and Evelina 00:13:59.020 --> 00:14:02.160 and they're all ready to play together. 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:04.380 They're just waiting for me. 00:14:04.380 --> 00:14:06.780 I've been thinking about this so much and I have some notes. 00:14:07.040 --> 00:14:11.040 I would like to talk a little bit now, when we're here together, 00:14:11.500 --> 00:14:14.380 about this kind of decision. 00:14:14.560 --> 00:14:16.720 I think... 00:14:17.520 --> 00:14:20.560 We live in a fast food economy, 00:14:20.640 --> 00:14:22.900 where delayed gratification... 00:14:22.900 --> 00:14:27.540 the ability for us to employ delayed gratification and work towards a goal... 00:14:27.640 --> 00:14:29.520 is decreasing rapidly. 00:14:29.520 --> 00:14:32.080 Our public square, the internet, 00:14:32.100 --> 00:14:35.460 is a place where everything goes in ultra speed. 00:14:35.460 --> 00:14:39.440 I think a lot of you are tuning in to Wintergatan... 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:43.480 maybe just because it takes time, somehow... 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.080 That I'll allow it to take time. I don't know. 00:14:46.260 --> 00:14:49.240 So let's put the pasta over here. 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:52.120 Wilson, you want to taste it? He loves it! 00:14:52.220 --> 00:14:57.200 I hope the pasta analogy can help you understand my decision a little bit. 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:02.640 I think some discrepancy in understanding the situation will come from the fact that 00:15:02.820 --> 00:15:08.280 it is hard to understand how much extra work goes into... 00:15:08.400 --> 00:15:11.840 making a video, a video that I want to sign off on. 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:15.540 I come to terms with the fact that it's a personality trait I have 00:15:15.680 --> 00:15:19.380 that I cannot do that much about. 00:15:19.420 --> 00:15:22.960 The cool thing... the really cool thing is... 00:15:23.880 --> 00:15:30.400 What I really want to do... align perfectly with what I really should do. [laughs] 00:15:30.820 --> 00:15:33.220 My ultimate... 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:37.480 My ultimate responsibility towards myself 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:40.560 is to make music with a machine I've built. 00:15:40.560 --> 00:15:43.600 The machine is only a tool otherwise, it's a soulless body. 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:47.740 Once you get down to the core of the fact why you are watching, 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:52.640 it's because once upon a time I closed myself into a dark room... 00:15:52.940 --> 00:15:59.180 and performed some magic trick, and a year later I came out with the Marble Machine video, or... 00:15:59.560 --> 00:16:03.080 some years before that I closed myself in a dark room 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:06.399 and I came out with a Wintergatan's debut album. 00:16:06.400 --> 00:16:11.900 It's really difficult to step off a successful train, like the Wintergatan youtube channel, 00:16:11.980 --> 00:16:15.380 but I think this is also a sickness of our times that... 00:16:15.540 --> 00:16:20.240 once you find something that kind of works, 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:22.160 you just stick to it for too long. 00:16:22.260 --> 00:16:26.300 And I think pivoting a youtube channel is... 00:16:26.340 --> 00:16:29.700 something that is really, really important 00:16:29.700 --> 00:16:32.719 for the long life of a channel. 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:37.520 Otherwise, if you just do the same thing over and over, you're gonna have a huge popular spike 00:16:37.520 --> 00:16:41.320 and then you're gonna go over the mountain and down on the other side. 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:44.660 You can see that in all youtube statistics. 00:16:44.660 --> 00:16:50.180 So, by doing what I'm doing now, reassessing the situation, it's... 00:16:50.660 --> 00:16:55.300 It kind of consolidates the future of the channel as well. 00:16:55.300 --> 00:17:00.000 And talking about that I want to end... 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:02.760 with a story from my life that is... 00:17:02.940 --> 00:17:06.480 really valuable to me. I once knew a bass player. 00:17:06.560 --> 00:17:10.960 I think I was 16 and the bass player was 14 and we were playing like... 00:17:11.340 --> 00:17:15.680 a lot of jazz together and we were playing jazz on bars for payment. 00:17:15.840 --> 00:17:19.100 It's starting to go better and better, we had more and more gigs. 00:17:19.280 --> 00:17:23.500 So I almost worked like a guitar player when I was 16-17, 00:17:23.500 --> 00:17:27.760 getting some cash in the pockets from the bar owners, that kind of thing... 00:17:27.760 --> 00:17:30.080 It was awesome and I was loving it. 00:17:30.080 --> 00:17:32.400 Like, "can I make money playing music?!" 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:36.880 Like, "I play guitar and someone gives me 20 euros?" 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:38.500 Like, it was maybe not so much money. 00:17:38.500 --> 00:17:43.360 But then the money started to become more and more, because we became better and better at playing jazz. 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:48.120 And this bass player... The culmination was when this bass player was offered 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:54.560 300 dollars to play one song, "Autumn Leaves", on the... 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:57.131 on an opening ceremony on a university. 00:17:57.131 --> 00:17:58.280 And I was, like... 00:17:58.280 --> 00:18:02.480 "Wooow, you really made it! Like, 300 dollars to play one song!" 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:04.700 "Autumn Leaves, such an easy song as well!" 00:18:04.700 --> 00:18:12.020 The bass player... declined the gig because that week he had started a hardcore band 00:18:12.100 --> 00:18:15.580 with his three friends. And I was like: 00:18:15.580 --> 00:18:22.460 "But... you can play in the hardcore band, and play Autumn Leaves, and keep the 300 dollars." 00:18:22.560 --> 00:18:25.540 And he was like: "No, we want to focus!" 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.380 And I was like: "Okay..." 00:18:28.800 --> 00:18:33.100 I didn't understand the decision at all. I thought like: 00:18:33.360 --> 00:18:35.280 "Why? You can do both..." 00:18:35.280 --> 00:18:39.080 And this hardcore band went into their rehearsal place 00:18:39.280 --> 00:18:45.700 and five times per week they played their whole set list of ten songs, two times per rehearsal. 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:50.820 One year later I had moved to Gothenburg, Sweden's second city, 00:18:50.820 --> 00:18:55.220 and they were coming to Gothenburg to play. And they were playing on this kind of youth place, 00:18:55.680 --> 00:19:01.740 on the floor, no stage, like no real PA system, just two speakers for the vocals and... 00:19:01.840 --> 00:19:05.220 one microphone on the kick drum to give some bass, you know. 00:19:05.260 --> 00:19:10.420 And it was like distorted guitar and all the other sounds comes directly from the amplifiers. 00:19:10.560 --> 00:19:13.420 So, no stage, everyone's standing on the floor, 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:15.600 and... 00:19:15.600 --> 00:19:18.880 it's the tightest concert, 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:23.880 the most impressive performance I've seen in my whole life to this very date. 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:27.040 And I've been on a lot of large festivals, 00:19:27.120 --> 00:19:30.880 seeing bands performing in front of 50 000 people. 00:19:31.060 --> 00:19:36.580 And they, just standing on the floor there, just rolled over me... 00:19:36.800 --> 00:19:41.540 like a machine; they steamrolled over me! [imitates crushing sound] 00:19:41.760 --> 00:19:47.000 It was such an impactful experience! They had honed... 00:19:47.120 --> 00:19:50.360 their edge to perfection, right? 00:19:50.360 --> 00:19:55.360 They cut through all the bullshit... there is. 00:19:55.360 --> 00:20:01.340 And I went out of there and I was, like... because I was a music producer at the time, producing other bands, 00:20:01.340 --> 00:20:03.720 I was like: "I have to start my own band!" 00:20:03.760 --> 00:20:06.654 So I went out of there, I took my phone up and called the drummer 00:20:06.660 --> 00:20:09.300 that I've been working with in the studio and I was, like: 00:20:09.300 --> 00:20:13.220 "Hey, we have to start a band!" [laughs] "When can you rehearse?" 00:20:13.220 --> 00:20:16.420 I was like Cartman in the South Park episode when he goes to Butters: 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:20.440 "We have to make a platinum album! Get your drums up and meet me at my place now!" [laughs] 00:20:20.560 --> 00:20:24.380 I was like that enthusiastic: "We start tomorrow, right?" 00:20:24.540 --> 00:20:27.960 And we started to play around a little bit. 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:33.140 That band, through some iterations, later became my first band Detektivbyrån. 00:20:33.140 --> 00:20:36.940 So Detektivbyrån was the band who propelled me from being a music producer 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:42.200 into transitioning into being artist myself, where I'm actually fronting my own music. 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:46.080 That later led to me starting Wintergatan. 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:49.740 So... that little decision... 00:20:49.760 --> 00:20:53.380 of saying no to "Autumn Leaves" for the fast buck, right? 00:20:53.380 --> 00:20:57.660 Nothing against Autumn Leaves, I think it's a great song. 00:20:57.780 --> 00:21:03.880 To focus on rehearsing with your hardcore band that no one knows about - yet... 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:10.020 That decision, in hindsight, I thought it was so impressive. 00:21:10.080 --> 00:21:14.240 There is something very similar about the situation now, 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:18.440 and I hope that you can actually share my excitement in 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:22.300 grabbing control of my situation and... 00:21:22.300 --> 00:21:26.260 taking 70 percent of my time and resources 00:21:26.260 --> 00:21:31.080 and putting it back on my table for creating art and see what I can do with it. 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:36.460 Yeah, so that's it. So for some weeks now, I think we will have videos every week. 00:21:36.560 --> 00:21:40.280 Last three weeks in September I'm taking a vacation to meet my parents. 00:21:40.280 --> 00:21:43.280 When I come back from that, from first October... 00:21:43.360 --> 00:21:46.300 that's probably when you're gonna start to see 00:21:46.340 --> 00:21:49.860 how often we upload videos. We'll just see what happens. 00:21:49.860 --> 00:21:53.600 I'm really grateful for having such an intelligent 00:21:53.600 --> 00:21:56.640 and patient audience. 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:02.240 And I'm looking forward to taking what I'm doing as seriously as I need to take it 00:22:02.320 --> 00:22:05.920 to really reach the goal I'm striving for. 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:09.220 Thank you so much. See you on the next Wintergatan Wednesday. 00:22:09.220 --> 00:22:11.200 Wilson, you have to finish the video. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:13.200 [shooop] 00:22:13.660 --> 00:22:16.000 Bye!