#turnsteak

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Réalisation: Caroline Cutaïa https://www.behance.net/carolinecutaia

Montage : Caroline Cutaia & Élodie Chrestia https://vimeo.com/user3486863

Étalonnage : Pierre Laurent

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Speaking With Your Hands, a Serendipidous Flower, and the New Album "Digital Pourpre" - Interview with Turnsteak

How did you start making music together?

Our first meeting was at a concert where we were playing with our own, different rap groups, each of us on the turntables. We started to exchange tips, scratch phases, our little ticks, and that was it! 

At the beginning we would mess around and often our challenge was to choose a second-hand disc randomly, then we had to create a plan in 5 minutes. We laughed a lot! Then we passed through numerous different phases and musical aesthetics before arriving where we are today. 

We also bought some materials, a loopstation, pads, and a few synths to evolve our music along the direction of our projects. 

Who do you count among your influences? 

Being first of all DJs, we have the habit of listening to a lot of different, varied musical styles. There are tons of cult albums that have changed our way of seeing things. In terms of electronic we can cite Modeselektor, Edit (GitchMob), Rustie, Lorn, Eprom, Slugabed, Salva, Ta-Ku, Machinedrum, Flying Lotus, Flako, Kaytranada, and also some of the artists from Soulection...

Where does the name of your group come from? 

Turnsteak originally comes from "Turntable Speakers." At the beginning it was 100% turn tables, the turntablism. The concept of "speaking with our hands" represented what we were doing at the time. 

Then the name was shortened to Turnspeak, and it's been changed from there, but I won't say anything else :) 

What is the genesis of your LP "Digital Pourpre" which comes out tomorrow? Does it tell a story or is each track independent from the others?

Having the habit of always working on short projects, even the concept of an album was already a lot of pressure. The idea wasn't to do a series of tracks without coherence. We wanted to go farther. So we imposed certain directions, constraints, and limits on ourselves, to not fly off in every single direction. 

At this level, our friend Olivier Vasseur who mixed the album, did a great job of artistic direction and he gave us a lot of advice around the conception of the album. We worked the sound and the textures with him and added an organic dimension to the tracks. That let us bring in other sensations, images, and have the listener dive deeper into the heart of our music. 

The balance between the light synths and the deep bass let us bring energy and power. The voices are also key elements on the album. They bring a color and different environment to each track, like on "High Line" for example where the voices come from a Vietnamese comic theater! 

Finally, getting back to your question about the genesis of the LP, the first brick was the title. For the anecdote, we were at a rest stop off the highway during a tour and we stumbled upon a description of a flower that was growing in a corner, the "digital pourpre." We were looking at it saying to ourselves that would be an awesome name for an album. All of the universe connected to this flower immediately spoke to us: its history in relationship with white magic, its medicinal side and its pathological and cardiovascular benefits (which we immediately connected with the rhythm, dance) the connection to digital, to fingers, to scratch... a name that's full of mystery and subtleties. It's exactly what we wanted to bring with the first long format. That's to say make an album that's rich and subtle, without falling into easiness, and with the idea of a voyage.

Urielle, the artistic director at With Us Records agreed with us and oriented it the best possible way while staying within the scope of the project. We had also worked on a moodboard together that let us see everything more clearly, the progression of the tracks and the history of the album. 

Where can your fans come to see you live?

A little bit all over France! Find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Bandsintown to find our latest concert dates. 

You can even send us a little private message and we can invite you if there are places left! 

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Purpurea, de Turnsteak. Video de Caroline Cutaïa

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Yex !! Fresh new track from our mates Turnsteak !! Grab this bomb ! its free !!

 Praise Song by Turnsteak

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Turnsteak - Sepak Takraw.

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