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๐น๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ซ๐ข ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ก ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ - ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ (๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐ค๐ ๐๐ญ)๐น
Dear friends, I have no complicated Placebo theme for you tonight. I have found an amazing interview for you that Dimitri Tikovoi gave to a Hong Kong Nightlife Guide Magazine in 2004.We already know who ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ is. A prominent French DJ and producer who has inspired many of Placebo's works with his amazing talent and thanks to him, the MEDS album is still one of the most exceptional Placebo creations.
In 2002, Dimitri formed a group of artists for his solo project called
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ and released a single and completely unique album called ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ under the auspices of this project.
Among the most famous artists from this album are ๐๐จ๐ก๐ง ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฏ๐๐ญ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐, ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ค๐จ.
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I have a very nice Instagram experience with Dimitri. Last year I shared a video on my IG account from the performance of his project Trash Palace in Saint-Malo, France in 2002, it was the song The Metric System, on which Brian Molko was invited to collaborate.
I tagged Dimitri in this post and he didn't hesitate and commented early in the morning that it was a blast of the past for him and that he had played this concert but never seen it again. He even asked me to send him a video to DM, which I was very happy to do.
Dear Dimitri kindly exchanged a few sentences with me and shared this video on his profile with these words:
„๐ด ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ก ๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก ๐คโ๐๐ ๐ผ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก (๐ฆ๐๐ , ๐๐ก'๐ ๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐๐ :-)) ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ โ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก ๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐ 30.000 ๐๐๐๐๐๐.“
๐Thanks man, I appreciate that you are not only a great musician, but you also like your fans.๐
So, take a nice moment at my post and read Dimitri's view of sex as part of our lives and his amazing mentions of working with Brian and the beautiful Asia Argento, who added her sexy vocals to the song
๐ฑ๐ ๐ป'๐จ๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐ ๐ต๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐.
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| Trash Palace. Photo credit unknown |
„There are so many programmes about sex on TV here but when you watch them you feel like you're at school studying a subject such as how you should give a blow job,“ he snorts.
„Sex is not about that in reality at all; it's fashion, perversion, love, whatever; it's much more complex than just the image that's portrayed in the media at the moment.“
He equally opinionated about Trash Palace's perfectly formed fusion of rock & roll and electro-disco, which he created with the help of a highly impressive cast list of collaborators.
„I deliberately set out to find different people to collaborate with because sexuality is about a relationship between two people, it's very hard to have sex by yourself,“ he points out.
„I wanted to have different views, different moods and different sorts of perversions on the album and that's why there are so many different people involved.“
That Dimitri is as persuasive as he's well-connected is clear from the characters he tracked down, who include Velvet Underground legend John Cale and Placebo singer Brian Molko. He also managed to seduce Italian sex siren Asia Argento into performing a version of „Je T'Aime“, though admits he didn't actually know her until she walked into the studio to lay down her part.
„I had this idea of doing Je T'Aime because I've always loved the track, but my idea was to invert the characters roles,“ says Dimitri.
„In the original track, Serge Gainsbourg is fucking Jane Birkin, he's doing the act of penetration and I wanted to invert the roles; to have Asia doing the role of penetrating someone else. Brian (Molko) said he would do it so I asked Asia by sending her an email. Immediately, she sent me an email back saying 'yeah, I really want to do it' so I flew to Italy to record her voice.
She was very nervous when she did it because she's not a singer and she didn't know what I was going to ask her to do, she was still shooting movies at the time,“ he continues.
„We did it in a small room with a very basic recording set-up and I remember her chain smoking with me sitting in front of her. It was a little bit of a tense atmosphere but that was good for the track. She didn't know me, I didn't know her so it was a slightly bizarre environment.“
With Asia being generally acclaimed as one of the world's sexiest starlets, the resulting track is as salacious as Dimitri presumably hoped it would be, reflecting the overall highly polished standards of all 11 tracks on Positions. Musically, he's succeeded in tapping into the talents of all his various collaborators, to produce an album of punk, funk and electro songs that genuinely (and unusually, in this day and age) truly rocks.
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| Photo credit: Claudia Schmรถlders |
DT: „It was mainly down to luck. I was working with those people in different ways as a producer or programmer, and most of them I was introduced to them through my work. I told them about my project and usually I got a really enthusiastic response from them.“
๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐?
DT: „No, I like to be in the shadows, I'm quite happy to be the man behind the keyboards and the computer, I prefer that, I find it more exciting not to be seen.“
๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐ฐ๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐?
DT: „No, they're two different things, Trash Palace is my fantasy, it's something that I'm taking out of my mind. Sometimes I come very close to living it as well (chuckling) but essentially I don't want it to be an explanation of my life. If I try to recreate my life through Trash Palace it will have limitations, whereas my fantasies or those fantasies that I'm generating with other people, are limitless. With fantasies there are more possibilities.“
๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐ ๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐?
DT: „Sex is more diverse here and more pretentious in Paris. There are a lot more taboos in England which makes it a lot better because it makes everything a bit more perverse, so more interesting. There are more rules to break and places to go in the dark to break them, which I find really interesting. One of the aspects of sex I like is its danger; that makes it more exciting. In France, people are more upfront; there is less perversion in France, I think, perversion is more a part of the English culture.“๐
♦You can read the whole interview here:
https://bit.ly/3nx6B5l
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As we already know, this song is a cover version of the immortal song of ๐บ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฑ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐.
It was put out as a single in 1969 and reached no. one in the UK, but it was banned in several other countries due to its overtly sexual content. Gainsbourg wrote “Je t'aime moi non plus” for the famous actress and sex symbol Brigitte Bardot with whom he had a short love affair in late 1967.
Like many of us, I have known this song since childhood because my father loved it.
Dimitri's idea of overturning the roles of lovers then seemed brilliant and very amusing to me, and Brian's live performance just took my breath away๐ฅ๐.
Personally, I wish Dimitri many more successes, because he still has a head full of ideas and shares posts about his musical collaboration with many young artists on his IG account.
⭐And who knows, maybe there will be another collaboration with our beloved band?⭐๐ฅฐ
Post by Marti
