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Hello, my name is Ludo from the Hilight Tribe.

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I'm a singer, percussionnist
and I play various instruments of the world.

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Hi, I'm Greg.

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In 93, the band Hilight Tribe didn't exist
but were musicians playing in jam-sessions.

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We played in our own groups
until we decided to dissolve all the groups

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to make the Hilight Tribe.

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The band Hilight Tribe was born in 95.
We were very much world music.

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We did our first official concert
on a beach in the northern Ibiza.

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It was very magical because 2000 people
were there at our first performance.

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After Ibiza, we began to develop
into a Natural Trance style.

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The Natural Trance is a music trend
which is spreading throughout the world.

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Natural Trance musicians play by themselves

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with acoustical instruments,
and play with electronic music

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like techno-trance styles
without the help of machines.

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We are very attached to the roots of music.

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But we don't forget that we are in 2000s
and there are many trends in music.

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For us, future music is going
to be Natural Trance.

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We learned with our DJ friends
to understand that music and not to be shocked.

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We weren't composers on machines,
we tried to make it with our instruments.

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To relearn the rhythms they use
and make these cocktails

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which make people dance the whole night.

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After going to Goa, we had a boost
to try playing acoustical techno.

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We mix a lot of natural instruments,
bass, guitare, drums,

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and percussions from all over the world.

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Then we use effects with
our sound engineer Matt

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who transforms all our sounds
with his mixing console.

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We don't have a lot of lyrics,
like a singing band.

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The relationship with the crowd is different
and yet quite the same

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to people with electronic music
and how they react with the crowd.

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It works by waves and energies.
You raise people up and back down.

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When some people like a party, there is a feeling.

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When people smile at others, they are
happy together and an energy is created.

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People become so involved
that they surpass something.

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They come at a certain stage.
They dance and suddenly, like sport...

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The guy who is running can feel that same energy.

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You become as addicted to the running
as to the Natural Trance.

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The instruments are heard separately
and then come together.

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People feel that. For that reason
I like meeting with the public.

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One track links to another,
a smile appears and the energy comes.

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There are moments with different energy.

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The crowd has a lot to do with that.
They give us an exchange.

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There is a trance phenomenon.
At some moments with the crowd,

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nobody is watching anyone else.
We don't look at the others.

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The people are in their trance.
There is something happening.

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It feels like something ancestral,
present in the tribes

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of the whole world: that state of trance in music.

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Free Tibet is the leading track of our new album.

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It is the one we chose to make into a music-video.

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We try to present a lot of faces
of Natural Trance but I am sure

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that there is a lot of things
to discover in the coming years.