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๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Time of "Disco Grande" here on Radio 3. Well, we are at 5:30 in the afternoon. I mean, it is about making the planned dual-band telephone communication with Miguel / Digital 21 and with Stefan Olsdal / Placebo who is in London, so they tell us details of what it is today, November 6, the release of the Made For Humans album.
✨(๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ "๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐") ✨
๐ถ https://youtu.be/aen9FtuIlgg ๐ถ
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: There is playing one of the songs that are part of this album that is published today and signed by Made For Humans, the project of Stefan Olsdal / Placebo and Miguel / Digital 21, and I think they are both already calling distance. Stefan, How are you? Hello, good afternoon...
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Hello, good afternoon! How are you?
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: How about there in London? We are confined, right?
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง : Yes, yes at home.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: At home. How long have you been at home?
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Well, a couple of days now. It started two days ago.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Two days ago. Yes, yes of course. Now effectively the new regulations regarding confinement and mobility and being able to leave or not, effectively date from two days ago. And you Miguel? Where are you? Around here in Madrid, right?
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Yes, yes in the Madrid studio.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Well, you had to use your good skills to try to locate Stefan who we had lost, right?
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Haha yes. (and he also says one word that I can't make out)
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: I am so far away, that's why.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Yeah, yeah, I can imagine. How close I have had you both years ago! When you came to present the first album of your joint project. Stefan, Is it normal for this tributary to come out? This kind of derivation from your other project from 7 years ago?
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Well, ehh.. as two musicians, we always kept doing and writing and we realized that all the music that we were doing didn't square directly with the main band that we have together. And at the same time, with the confinement, the softer music let's say…more without the thing of… well, without the hype, let's say and we also have that side, me and Miguel, so it was like an opportunity to travel in that musical direction.
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๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Miguel, in the other (project) were your names, but here, you have given it a name. Why? Why does the other one go with your names in front and here you have put 'Made For Humans'? Which is still a curious name.
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Well, because the other one already existed, so we couldn't given it the name again, of course. We had to look for it ... we had to separate it of course, because it's totally different, but it has many points of union, the strings, everything that are classical nature instruments, do they have in common. But yes, a new name was good for separating it conceptually. Although on the other hand, for example, we don't have "Made For Humans" social networks. Social networks are still "Digital 21 and Stefan Olsdal", or "Digital 21 Instagram" or "Stefan Olsdal Instagram". Our social networks because we didn't want to duplicate our work, all (the work) that comes with social networks, you know? With which it is very close (the band) to us and it is clear that it's a parallel band that we have, but with another name for... well, another label so that the people who follow us know that's where it is the music more... instrumental and the vocal already stays for the main band.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: And who comes up with the name?
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Well, we are always talking. We are 1000 percent connected, because even when we have not seen each other for months, we are always sending each other ideas and without stopping to drop some ideas and others. And there were like… I don't know how many names! and there were fifty names and in the end, well, it was to find one...
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Don't tell me more, you put “Made“ and Stefan put “Humans“!
Hahahaha (laughs everyone)
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Totally! hahaha.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Stefan, this is good because we no longer have to sing. Which I think is even - -but in the final stretch of the talk, we will enter the field of the other project because here we are talking about this- we no longer have to sing or hire voices to sing, right? More comfortable, right?
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Haha, well it is a bit difficult to do collaborations now haha. And yes, the feeling we had in those months was more to travel, a little more... more abstract, let's say, than music with voice.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Miguel, Are the songs of one project valid for the other or vice versa? Maybe it happens that a song from the other project we take away a bit of lyrics and we transform it into instrumental. Although you already said beforehand, 'well if we do this instrumental project it is precisely to differentiate it from the other', right?
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Of course. The truth is that we didn't need it because during the confinement we made at least 20 songs, so, there is this album but there are more songs in the breech. There has only been one song that has traveled from one project to another, which is "Hikikomori", which I think you have there...
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Yes, yes it is with which we will finish the talk, yes…
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Well, because that's going to be the b-side of the single that comes out on November 20, but the rest of the songs are all new, composed right in the confinement and the truth it was not needed (to take songs from the other project).
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Sure. Stefan, after seven years and almost twenty that you know each other; Let's say, one hits the key in one part of the world and the other hits the key in the other part of the world, and let's go. As if there were telepathy! Isn't it? In the connection…
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Yes and that coupled with the miracle of technology. The technological revolution that we are experiencing now and that is wonderful for us.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: Miguel, having a studio at home helps. Now that nobody can hear us: Who has the coolest studio? Does Stefan have it or do you have it?
Hahahaha (everyone)
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Let's see, Stefan's studio is cooler because it is in a mega house that is much cooler and with a mega family, because he has a family. And mine is less cool because I'm speaking from the studio, I live in the studio, which is a room. And so I don't even have a family, my family is in Malaga - my parents - but I mean, I don't live with a family which is less and I don't have the studio inside a house, I live directly in the studio, they are different things.
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Yes, but I wanted to tell Miguel, that what he says is not true because he has a white studio and mine is all in black, so it's like Yin and Yang, hahaha so one doesn't work without the other!
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: That's true! :) Hahaha.
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: The parts are equal.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: And are you jealous, each one of your property, as far as the studio is concerned? When Stefan has been in Miguel's studio, we have already said that it is a house-studio, and Miguel has been in Stefan's palace, we have already said that it is not a house only. Maybe someone wants to put his hands on and touch a button and say "take off, don't touch there!", or let him do it?
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: The truth is not because, note that sometimes when I go to London, we are recording and all this, because usually they want me to stay in a room of the house and usually I stay inside the studio, you know? I mean, because I feel better there and he leaves me there in the studio, hahaha to spend the night there. And it's the closest thing to being in my house, being in a studio and well, besides it's also bigger.
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: What happens is that I have to sleep for at least five or six hours every night but Miguel doesn't, so I leave him in the studio because there he is engrossed and there he can work all night.
Hahahaha (everyone)
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: See how we are finding out more about that project. It was logical that in the end, for so long that they have known each other, they would end up precisely in the other project seven years ago and in this one here today, on Disco Grande Radio 3 presenting their songs, remote conversation with Made For Humans.
✨(๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ "๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐")✨
๐ถ https://youtu.be/NKJvOqCrXzc ๐ถ
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: What is playing is "Liquid Moon", another of the songs included in the Made For Humans presentation album. Now when we make the next stop in the talk, "Open Forest" will sound…
Stefan, Did you want it to be precisely that song that was played afterwards, the one that you released at the beginning as a sample, so that the staff would have an idea of everything, of everything that was going to be on the album?
๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Hmm… it’s that the songs have a tendency, yes to us, the order… and I do not know, is like a feeling... to follow a feeling and that song that follows sounds very good after "Open Forest". It is another side of sound and the other side of emotions and sounds that we want to convey.
๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ: There are no lyrics, Miguel, in the songs, but there is a kind of vindication. It can be done, I don't know! A call to something that is out there and we want it to be better without the need for lyrics? Maybe music is enough.
๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ: Yes, I think we over the years -because as you say, we knew each other a thousand years ago- we have always been talking about this crazy thing that happens in the world, right? That the human being is taking his own oxygen with which he has to breathe and that it is crazy to think for example, that most of the fires (forest) are caused worldwide. And the human being has to breathe the air that is being eliminated. So both "Open Forest" and many of the songs on the album, because we chose titles that had to do with that or that had inspired us.
The album I believe that by making instrumental music we have connected with our feelings more and also with nature and the world around us. Or maybe it was the moment we were… We were talking that we were at the moment most... because we really started recording the album almost in the middle of March, that is when everything started, all this madness that still continues. So I think it has been reflected in all those things that we both felt at the time and also that we both have been thinking about for a long time.
✨ ๐ป๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ …
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