The dance-floors were very close together.
The technical staff assured us that each area was acoustically correct.
Knowing the mix of styles we know what kind of people come.
Between the "cool" people of Trance and the "edgy" people of Hardtech,
Techno is in the middle. But the crowd was very well mixed.
This is the first time we're showing our set-designs.
We have been working on it for 8 years.
We linked Trance and our decor with spirituality.
We chose themes from Mayas, as well as from Buddhism.
Other canvases have Ganesh and Shiva which are from Hinduism.
It's an association of old traditions with new technologies.
According to Indians, the butterfly represents rebirth and revival.
Dragons are cosmic energies which pass through the Universe.
The tapestries are from the Mayan game of tarot.
When I hear the music and when I feel it, the tapestries on the wall become
not only a representation of spirituality but they become 3-dimensional in space.
My name is Stéphane Holweck. Hello.
Loïc Vanpoucke, a member of Total Eclipse. He is the 3rd member of the band.
I'm the 1st and 2nd member of Total Eclipse, with Serge in the beginning.
We met at the Trance Body Express (TBE) parties.
In the early 90's, the families of techno-like music were not clearly defined.
TBE was DJ Yayo and it became a couple, Yayo/Serge.
We started to work on the equipment as soon as Stéphane told us:
"I have some at home, if you want to see how it works, I can show you".
We tried to do something which was psychedelic. We tried to design tracks to make
people happy on the dancefloors, to have them dancing and laughing.
They were new instruments so we could do somethings that we couldn't before.
We told ourselves: "We can bring the studio to the stage".
We had machines with prepared tracks that we sent to other machines
which we played in real time.
There was always a lot of improvisation.
There was always synths ready to play, sounds changed when playing
and a kind of communication between the three people on stage...
Hearing out, watching, listening what the other did.
The crowds seem to realize this too.
The musician gives out his energy, which the crowd gave him
and it recycles and makes a spiral of energy which grows.
We get to integrate the music that people want but also show them
the music that we want to have them hear. That works through communication.
Serge left us to set up The Antidote and fended very well for himself.
He considers that great and we too.
Hello, my name is Ludo from the Hilight Tribe.
I'm a singer, percussionnist and I play various instruments of the world.
Hi, I'm Greg.
In 93, the band Hilight Tribe didn't exist but were musicians playing in jam-sessions.
We played in our own groups until we decided to dissolve all the groups
to make the Hilight Tribe.
The band Hilight Tribe was born in 95. We were very much world music.
We did our first official concert on a beach in the northern Ibiza.
It was very magical because 2000 people were there at our first performance.
After Ibiza, we began to develop into a Natural Trance style.
The Natural Trance is a music trend which is spreading throughout the world.
Natural Trance musicians play by themselves
with acoustical instruments, and play with electronic music
like techno-trance styles without the help of machines.
We are very attached to the roots of music.
But we don't forget that we are in 2000s and there are many trends in music.
For us, future music is going to be Natural Trance.
We learned with our DJ friends to understand that music and not to be shocked.
We weren't composers on machines, we tried to make it with our instruments.
To relearn the rhythms they use and make these cocktails
which make people dance the whole night.
After going to Goa, we had a boost to try playing acoustical techno.
We mix a lot of natural instruments, bass, guitare, drums,
and percussions from all over the world.
Then we use effects with our sound engineer Matt
who transforms all our sounds with his mixing console.
We don't have a lot of lyrics, like a singing band.
The relationship with the crowd is different and yet quite the same
to people with electronic music and how they react with the crowd.
It works by waves and energies. You raise people up and back down.
When some people like a party, there is a feeling.
When people smile at others, they are happy together and an energy is created.
People become so involved that they surpass something.
They come at a certain stage. They dance and suddenly, like sport...
The guy who is running can feel that same energy.
You become as addicted to the running as to the Natural Trance.
The instruments are heard separately and then come together.
People feel that. For that reason I like meeting with the public.
One track links to another, a smile appears and the energy comes.
There are moments with different energy.
The crowd has a lot to do with that. They give us an exchange.
There is a trance phenomenon. At some moments with the crowd,
nobody is watching anyone else. We don't look at the others.
The people are in their trance. There is something happening.
It feels like something ancestral, present in the tribes
of the whole world: that state of trance in music.
Free Tibet is the leading track of our new album.
It is the one we chose to make into a music-video.
We try to present a lot of faces of Natural Trance but I am sure
that there is a lot of things to discover in the coming years.
I'm trying to set up a project that's called The Digital Mystery Tour.
It was an ambiant project but it's becoming fun music,
a kind of encompassing play music, as techno as house as funky
as funk as lounge as world. It is a totally international cooperative.
When I worked with Juno Reactor on the Matrix, I saw how Americans work.
It's a pyramidal-structure of people with a mutual respect for their work.
I came back and told: "We have to do the same thing".
To make a serious work, we have to surround ourselves with artists
with writers, with people making movies to set up a whole scene.