“ When I started making music in the 90's and started the label I could not have imagined where all of this would lead. It was easy to see and live electronic music at that moment, as an underground phenomenon surrounded by episodic commercial activities but it was hard to imagine how it would be 20 to 30 years later.
It was hard to imagine that electronic music would follow the path of any other musical genre that has created a revolution at one time before fading into mainstream anesthetized feel good music.
The fight we have fought is now in the past. The music with (almost) no faces, the blurry stories, the incertitude of how it was done, the magic…. Everything has been explained and demonstrated. Some that were once leading the movement have been forgotten. Some have been defaced and shamed for being frauds, some have taken all of the glory.
The music itself has been abused, by people jumping on the bandwagon creating music with no soul, using affordable software, cheap looping tools so easy to use that they have stolen what was once the basis of House; finding the right groove, mutating the right sample, and, above everything, making something new.
Nowadays it's all about fun, fame, and money. The advent of social networks has been the nail in the coffin. The music I love and make does not go well with that concept as it has never been about popularity or anything peripheral to the music. We make Electronic Music tracks. Nothing else. We can make visuals, we can write stories that help shape a future for our music, but posting a video a day showing how cool you are is not helping anything.
* And now that we are celebrating the past at every occasion, it seems that the future is not what it used to be. *
On my end, I want to keep doing it the way it was meant to be done, not by preaching that it was better before because it wasn't, it was just different, and by keeping it real. By that I mean thinking of the music FIRST and then embracing new ways of spreading the message.
New ways for me, for us; not for the new generation that is coming up, releasing more music every day that we could never have imagined. And that's a good thing because in these new masses, there exist the ones that will fight the right fight tomorrow.
Here are the people I have gathered on Brique Rouge, the old guard, the new guard, the forward thinkers, the inventors of a future that gives a new interpretation of the past while mastering the present.”
David Duriez
released September 18, 2021
A1.Jules Wells - Breathe 08:39
Written, performed & produced by Jules Wells
A2.ModelSon - Cyprination 05:06
Written, performed & produced by Stéphane Penso
B3.Loloman - Liberation 09:15
Written, performed & produced by Laurent Calmel
B4.G-Prod - Something About You 06:25
Written, performed & produced by David & Nicolas Gaugain
C5.Alex Noto - Gravitational Forces 07:02
Written, performed & produced by Alex Noto
C6.Laurent Chanal - Another Day 07:28
Written, performed & produced by Laurent Chanal
D7.Xaric - Domingo 08:29
Written, performed & produced by Xavier Le Padellec
D8.Bene:Luxe & Christophe Bailleau - Ereignis Zweihundert 06:14
Written by Christophe Bailleau and Orson K. Waterfeld. Produced by BENE:LUXE.
E9.Arocas - Supernova 07:30
Written, performed & produced by Timothée Gonzales
E10.Franck Bouly - Highlighter (Second Coming) 06:53
Written, performed & produced by Franck Bouly
F11.Traffic Beats - Bom Dia 07:51
Written, performed & produced by Julian Marciano
F12.Fred H - Chi-Town Flavours 07:54
Written, performed & produced by Frédéric Haugel
G13.Mazi & Duriez - This is Not A Follow-Up (Laurent Maldo Remix) 06:28
Written, performed & produced by Maziar Namvar & David Duriez -
Add.Prod.by Laurent Maldo
G14.JiHell - Chance 09:42
Written, performed & produced by Jean-Luc Randon
H15.Arno Gonzalez feat.Desprès - The Nice View (David Duriez's Wonder Emporium Remix) 17:11
Written, performed & produced by Arno Gonzalez.
Add.Prod.by David Duriez
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