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The dance-floors were very close together.

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The technical staff assured us
that each area was acoustically correct.

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Knowing the mix of styles
we know what kind of people come.

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Between the "cool" people of Trance
and the "edgy" people of Hardtech,

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Techno is in the middle.
But the crowd was very well mixed.

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This is the first time
we're showing our set-designs.

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We have been working on it for 8 years.

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We linked Trance and our decor with spirituality.

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We chose themes from Mayas,
as well as from Buddhism.

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Other canvases have Ganesh and Shiva
which are from Hinduism.

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It's an association of old
traditions with new technologies.

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According to Indians, the butterfly
represents rebirth and revival.

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Dragons are cosmic energies
which pass through the Universe.

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The tapestries are from the Mayan game of tarot.

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When I hear the music and when I feel it,
the tapestries on the wall become

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not only a representation of spirituality
but they become 3-dimensional in space.

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My name is Stéphane Holweck. Hello.

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Loïc Vanpoucke, a member of Total Eclipse.
He is the 3rd member of the band.

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I'm the 1st and 2nd member of Total Eclipse,
with Serge in the beginning.

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We met at the Trance Body Express (TBE) parties.

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In the early 90's, the families
of techno-like music were not clearly defined.

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TBE was DJ Yayo and
it became a couple, Yayo/Serge.

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We started to work on the equipment
as soon as Stéphane told us:

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"I have some at home, if you want
to see how it works, I can show you".

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We tried to do something which was psychedelic.
We tried to design tracks to make

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people happy on the dancefloors,
to have them dancing and laughing.

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They were new instruments so we could
do somethings that we couldn't before.

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We told ourselves:
"We can bring the studio to the stage".

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We had machines with prepared tracks
that we sent to other machines

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which we played in real time.

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There was always a lot of improvisation.

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There was always synths ready to play,
sounds changed when playing

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and a kind of communication
between the three people on stage...

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Hearing out, watching, listening
what the other did.

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The crowds seem to realize this too.

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The musician gives out his energy,
which the crowd gave him

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and it recycles and makes
a spiral of energy which grows.

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We get to integrate the music that
people want but also show them

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the music that we want to have them hear.
That works through communication.

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Serge left us to set up The Antidote
and fended very well for himself.

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He considers that great and we too.

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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.

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I'm trying to set up a project
that's called The Digital Mystery Tour.

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It was an ambiant project
but it's becoming fun music,

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a kind of encompassing play music,
as techno as house as funky

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as funk as lounge as world.
It is a totally international cooperative.

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When I worked with Juno Reactor
on the Matrix, I saw how Americans work.

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It's a pyramidal-structure of people
with a mutual respect for their work.

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I came back and told:
"We have to do the same thing".

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To make a serious work, we have
to surround ourselves with artists

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with writers, with people making movies
to set up a whole scene.