Translation for MOUV Interview
INTERVIEW VIDEO
TRANSLATION BY NAYARREN
Hey guys, I saw you were looking for a translation of Hugo's Mouv interview, so here you go! :) a lot of the things they talked about we already know, so I did not translate them(sorry for the mistakes!)
[at the beginning they just talk about Adventure, how he had an idea and a sort of synopsis for the album, how he's glad he got to have a CD before the CD medium dies...] 1:39 Hugo talks about how the Beatles inspire him, the way they were able to create new sounds that convey
...specific emotions, he says that it's such a magical thing that they were able to create emotions that you can't get anywhere else, that's why he has a special room in his brain for when he listens to their music. [...] Interviewer: you know that you're #83 on the Best DJs list of 2014? Hugo: yeah I don't really believe in that, did you know that I used to be #53 or something a few years ago! I: but what happened?! H:well I mostly do live sets now, not really DJ sets and I mostly play
in concert halls, not clubs... 3:52 they talk about the tour, he says he's happy he gets to play a lot of french festivals this summer 3:56 the US is a great place to tour in because people know his music, he says Coachella will forever remain one of his best memories 4:37 : I: I'm having a hard time admitting your album's entirely electronic music... H: yeah there's pop too, because it's structured unlike club music I: and in terms of your life's structure as a young dj?you had a very
Btw i'm so sorry it's SUPER long!! Tumblr might not let me post the entire thing all at once// (...) early career... So tell us, where do you live? H: with my parents in Nantes, my siblings moved out, I'm the youngest(...) It's important for me to come home, it feels good to come back to a normal environment even though I'm lucky I get to tour so much. I want to keep on doing music like I did in the early days, at home... 5:50 they talk about school, him promising his parents to take his exam
but then his career really started and he forgot about the exam, says he might come back to it I: will you really?! H: nah, i don't think so :p (...) I: what advice would you give to a 12-13-yr-old whose parents don't understand their passion for music? H: well when i was 12-13 my parents did not understand either! But I took part in remix contests and competitions online.. I'd say you just have to do things on your own at first. 7:05 talks about him selling magic tricks as a 1st job which(...)
allowed him to buy his first machines and tools, says the selling magic tricks thing was a super weird business and he pretended to be older in order to do it. About his tools, he says he's been using a lot of acoustic instruments lately but isn't really good at it, so he has to play very slowly and then cheats by speeding it up on the computer. Also because his studio is so small he has to carefully pick his tools 8:44 to 9:20 talk about daft punk and machines being less important than
ideas, that's why he doesn't own a lot of tools to make music, because he's afraid of getting lost while trying to use everything 10:20 talks about his collab with Mark Foster, how he celebrated his 20th bday while recording Nonsense (says "if you listen carefully, you can hear us the background... No, I'm just kidding!") 11:45 they're doing a blind test using music from 1994 only, he only knows Ace of Base and Elton John. The intvwr tells him that a man wanted to commit suicide but then
heard Mariah Carey's "hero" and changed his mind, so Hugo's like "that's great! The song just got 3 times better!" 14:06 about composing music for a movie one day, he says he'd love to, especially because to him music and visuals are to be connected, so that'd be interesting About different types of electronic music being easy to associate to each decade, he says he didn't want that for his album, he wanted something a bit timeless 15:31 they mention his 24h EP prod session + lack of sleep
sorry some parts of my translation are so vague :p did my best!// 17:51 I: while touring, are there any places in which you sort of take shelter, and which feels like home? H: because youre always on the go, your suitcase sort of becomes your home and for me, it's also my discography on my iPhone 18:57 - I: what can we expect from you now? H: i want to continue working on the directions of the album and focus more on the lyrics, now that I'm more comfortable with english I: what are you listening to ATM?
H: Flume, everything that's in in terms of electronic music in Future Classic, the Beatles always, of course... [looks through his phone] i recently bought Nekfeu's album, the Weeknd's "cant feel my face" is so great, I have it on repeat... I: I hope you wont get your hair like his though! H:[laughs] and then I have Ratatat's last album I: I saw some Drake! H: yeah I love the remix of Hold On we're going home, so I downloaded it to study it! I: it's very hip hop!
H: yeah I like it, it has a lot of connections with electronic music atm so that's interesting to see the exchanges between the 2 genres I: when will we hear a collab between you and some french rapper, Nekfeu for example? H: that'd be cool yeah, i'd love to produce that kind of music! 20:40 till the end, they talk about his upcoming shows in France... There you go!!Sorry for the 194739272 messages haha :p i hope it's not too succinct :) xx
