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I always get little shocks of electricity here. It's okay, it's okay. Do you want me mine? Maybe you have changed Mexican brothers. Thank you all so much for watching, thank you. Thank you very much Nicholas, thank you for having me, it was amazing, magical, thank you, yes, how are you feeling today? So, I have to say first of all that it was a little stressful. Luckily, we were careless as if I felt some raindrops. Yeah, I really went down at the beginning, but yeah, that was good, very lucky, yeah, and you played yesterday at an art festival in Tulum with me, today you played here in Chiapas at the Sumero Canyon, which is like maybe two thousand. or fifteen hundred miles away, um, traveling, yeah, I've traveled a lot now, what's your experience like so far with Mexico? um, it's the first time here, actually, so the first, yeah, that was actually a pretty interesting thing, because I've always loved it.

I go to new places and have been invited many times, but it never happened, so now with the pandemic it was even stranger to receive an invitation to come to Tulum. Okay, yeah, why not? You know, let's do it and then you know. We got in touch and yeah, it was intense, intense, the last three days were really intense, so I just flew, flew, so yeah, I'm sorry, yeah, but now you get arrested, it's amazing to be here and I mean, I was busy looking at my stuff but it's really beautiful here so yeah it's really beautiful and the sunset was beautiful and of course it went really well with your music.

Let's talk to you a little bit about the live stream and I feel like the live stream is uh um it's really um. As we see a lot of live streams online, especially nowadays, I think it's a good, very good tool for artists, a very good form of expression, how do you think it will evolve? Yeah, first of all, it's a good thing also to do the pandemic to have something that you know how to play first of all, so the artist that does that or takes the trouble to record as a streaming concert is really lucky, I guess that's very important, I don't know, I mean, I mean.

You can't always stream forever and I guess at some point you'll have to finish all the locations with you, so I don't know, I think it's about what you like to go to special places, take the music to these locations and and we connect the music with the nature around us or maybe you know we have the same thing in Berlin, a United We Streaming that takes people into the club environment to an empty club, but you know you can get the feeling and yeah, I think it's really important. but I don't know where it will involve, but you'll know, I guess we'll see.

This live broadcast was, perhaps, very special for you. How did you prepare it? There were many unreleased songs, yes, some things. I'm releasing an album next year, of course, of course, so yeah, you know, I knew I was going to go to Tulum, so I prepared a basic set and then we got in touch and I think I have to prepare something. It's a lot better than this, you know, which was a little bit, you know, like a little bit of pressure, but maybe it was worth it because I felt pretty comfortable playing it and you know, I practiced a lot before that, of course, but yeah , I think you have to do something special and that's what you know the beauty of going to a place like that and then having the opportunity, yes, to do a good live broadcast.

I was going through the questions online, a hidden bear tricks question, how do you choose the different ones? Cultural music to use in your songs is traveling there or just listening to different folk music from all over the world, yeah, it definitely goes places, so the first song was, there was a flute and it's really like you know, stuck to your heard and There was in Rajasthan in India, so some, actually, some in a local village, that guy played like a wooden flute, so you know, I recorded it and I prepared it and you know, bring it to the song and the other samples sometimes.

Basically, I collect them on the Internet, so I start to get an idea and then there is a website where you can see different recordings from, you know, for example, in Africa, you click on Benin and then they have some recordings. someone who did that went there and recorded some local musicians, so that's always a source of inspiration, in fact, it doesn't need to be African, it doesn't need to be South American, it just happens by coincidence. and then, ah, okay, that sounds good, maybe you can turn it up and down and bring it to the music in an interesting way.

Yeah, you told me right before that you were really focused on your music today. Do you ever get distracted and what distracts you when? I actually got a lot of questions playing with an audience and some people wonder what's wrong with you, you never look up, you always look at your stuff and I was like, what's the problem with that? You know if you want. Party DJ, you know, then ask someone else, you know what's the problem with not paying attention to yourself, but paying attention to the music you know, I better do it, you know, that's for you to enjoy, you know, for Of course, and now.

I can understand even better that with this background you, you, yes, you enter a bubble exactly, maybe I will see it later and then I can enjoy it when you sleep a little more. Okay, so I'm looking, so let's talk about it. your upcoming fourth album a lot of questions online online uh, but we're really excited about it um and I, Marcus's first question uh, when can we expect or not? Sorry, what can we expect from alban iv? Oh actually, I thought about it a little bit uh a second passport two like the last album I liked a little bit of that, you know, volume two basically, so I took the same setting, the same, recorded in the same studio , the same team, so it sounds a bit.

Kind of like that, but a lot more acoustic at times, so there's a lot of slow beats too, you know, yeah, but you know they heard some songs, so yeah, and when they're gonna be released. We'll start releasing it in um I think it'll be in February and then the end. release a few months later, hopefully, when the coffee's over, yeah, yeah, that was the plan, you know, just, yeah, I saw your post on Facebook, so when it's over, let's get to something, where did you create this album? I live in Berlin so I guess in my studio, that's where I live and where everything comes together, it's nothing special, it's like a small place, it's not fancy acoustically or I don't have too much equipment like our output equipment , but I have many.

They like the instruments too much, I guess that's always the inspiration, so you sit down, you have your, of course, you have your PC and you record it through it, but you invite people to record to play the guitar and I , you know, he played drums or something like that. You know, yeah, that's, yeah, Berlin, you know, Berlin's not the place for this kind of music, I know, but I happen to live there, so it's because you did it, I don't know, yeah, you told me that He was kind. of a paspato volume two you are often afraid to do the same thing as before and if so, how do you review that?

I think it's a beautiful thing to repeat yourself, otherwise you know people, wouldn't you know they listen to you? to someone's music and I think and they immediately say oh this is by this artist and this is by Cooper maybe so this is a good thing so that people can know if they listen to something oh yeah, that sounds like him You know , yeah, we put repetition, um, yeah, it's something you have to take care of, but, um, but after an hour you take a break for a year and then you come back fresh and then you start, um, yeah, fresh. some special ideas, ok, i read somewhere that you were really inspired by classical music like wc or even ludovic.

Have you ever wanted to create classical music or something like that? Actually, I've already booked the studio for December. record some piano, yeah, that's cool, but you know, basically just piano songs, so yeah, we'll see how it goes. I don't know, that's exciting, I haven't done that before, so yeah, okay, thank you very much, Nicolas, yes, thank you very much. It was a great honor to have you here, yes, thank you very much for inviting me and we have a little tradition, it is the mystery box, a small gift for you, if I take it out, it is a large and very beautiful fabric, handmade in Mexico, I hope. you'll like it great something I can bring back you know yeah there's no time some nice memories I'll fly back sorry I'll fly back uh tomorrow no you'll fly back tomorrow or Wednesday yeah and Wednesday but you know I'll probably sleep tomorrow so I won't have the opportunity to bring something, so thank you for doing that, thank you man, thank you, thank you everyone for watching, there were a lot of people commenting, sharing their love as always, so we're very happy with that, um and we'll see you very soon, so stay tuned, bye, when did you push it?

Because I did not have time.