{"id":50794,"date":"2014-09-23T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/?p=50794"},"modified":"2014-09-25T16:30:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T14:30:01","slug":"kitsune-trip-mode-jerry-bouthier-exclusive-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/2014\/09\/wear\/kitsune-trip-mode-jerry-bouthier-exclusive-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitsun\u00e9 Trip Mode: Jerry Bouthier Exclusive Interview!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maison Kitsun\u00e9 released beginning of September the Kitsun\u00e9 Trip Mode Mix<\/a> coinciding with the house’s\u00a0first New York Fashion Week Spring\/Summer 2015 presentation<\/a>!<\/p>\n

The mix’s mastermind and Kitsun\u00e9’s long time friend & collaborator\u00a0Jerry Bouthier<\/a>\u00a0makes a leap forward by introducing a gorgeous, dreamlike slant to DJ\u00a0mixes. Music director of Vivienne Westwood’s labels for five years and collaborator of numerous designers Jerry\u2019s honed a new craft by conceiving the soundtracks of the London, Paris and Milan catwalk shows of some of the most innovative talents in fashion.<\/p>\n

Originally a club DJ\u00a0for whom unsurprisingly it is essentially about making people dance,\u00a0Jerry developed a challenging musical approach focusing on heart-melting emotions and atmospheres while remaining funky and danceable.<\/p>\n

Read below the exclusive interview he made for the Kitsun\u00e9 Journal as we asked a few questions on this enlightening piece of work.<\/p>\n

Kitsun\u00e9 Trip Mode Mix was recently released on Kitsun\u00e9. In the mix, there are some fine inspiring tracks, how did your put it together? What coherence is\u00a0there\u00a0between them all?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI put on the side the most magical and\u00a0inspired\u00a0tracks I could find for a while, pretty much regardless of styles as long as it had some kind of groove and warmth to it, and tried to build an enchanting evolution\/development out of them. Finding\u00a0outstanding\u00a0ingredients is the key, after that it\u2019s mostly about the cooking, there\u2019s much dramatic production and fine-tuning going on to enhance the atmospheres and try to carve a grand, blissed out picture. I try to stay clear from too much of the same thing, it gets boring quickly, well to my ears anyway. Combining as many moods as you can is intoxicating, the wildest the better like in fashion shows, a little madness is always a good thing. The coherence stems more from the emotions of each piece and how one takes you onto the other, than focusing on one single genre or feel. I was trying to bring inspired catwalk moods onto the dancefloor for something a little trippy and feminine.\u201d<\/p>\n

After many years of experience in the industry, how do you think the global electronic musicscene will evolve in the next few years?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOh like everybody else I read Bob Lefsetz’s write ups to find out about that kind of stuff haha. I\u2019m essentially a music fan surfing the waves for better or worse. I regularly get excited like a 16 year old and I\u2019m off embracing a completely new way of looking at music, until\u00a0something else comes\u00a0along haha.\u00a0As electronic music\u2019s commercialisation goes bananas, it all ends up formatted one way or another, like fast-food. I love music made with machines\u2026 not by machines. It\u2019s still got to be humans with sensibilities controlling them and getting the best out of them, one of the most important skills in the studio. Everybody uses the same equipment and the same tricks, it\u2019s all so\u00a0predictable. Hopefully there always will be genuine musicians with imagination and inner poetry to resist the dollar signs and achieve personal work. Good ideas and strong melodies never go out of fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been part of the Maison Kitsun\u00e9 family for a long time, tell us again how it all started\u2026!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGildas and I are house heads at heart, we\u2019ve done our fair share of raving. But we also like guitar-based indie pop and gigs as well as beatsy, groovy stuff\u2026 we were bound to bond. I fell in love with Kitsun\u00e9’s concept as soon as it kicked off. It proposed more than just another record label, the music was\u00a0different sounding, often exciting,\u00a0and its vision encompassed spirit and\u00a0lifestyle: a seducing equation if there ever was one. I was resident dj at BoomBox the infamous east London night that shook things up a few years back, Gildas\u00a0\u2013\u00a0a regular behind the decks there – offered me to do a BoomBox mix on Kitsun\u00e9 to keep a snapshot of those wild times. More mixed cds followed. The Kitsun\u00e9 Soleil series we\u2019ve been doing together is another good one, the soundtrack to your holidays, sweet, fun and relaxed but not naff. What I probably like most about Kitsun\u00e9 is the fact that it doesn\u2019t have a particular sound as such, it simply stamps its seal of approval on interesting artists, the spectrum\u2019s limitless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last Saturday, at the Kitsun\u00e9 Trip Mode Release Party in Paris, you put the dancefloor on fire! What is your recipe to a good DJ set?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI believe the recipe to a good dj set is to seize the moment. I never play the same set because depending on the place and the time, the mood can be pretty different. I try to be attentive and see what vibe people are in so I can contribute, not simply do my thing regardlessly. I\u2019m like the kid with fun toys, the records, and would rather play with others than on my own. I\u2019ve always considered deejaying\u2019s important thing is to assess who\u2019s in front of you and what the expectations are, there\u2019s a lot of sociology involved. There are various school of thoughts when it comes to deejaying, but for me it\u2019s about winning people’s trust from the word go, once that\u2019s established you can take them with you almost anywhere.”<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been living in the British capital for some time, give us an idea of the London nightlife!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s become a bit like Ibiza without the sunshine haha. Extremely cosmopolitan, people from every walk of life and nationality. Thecapital of Europe if you ask me, nowhere\u2019s as mixed and colourful on this continent. London’s night buses, an institution dear to all clubbers, are like lunatic asylums on wheels with people singing, screaming, mingling, smooching, sometime fighting, the lot\u2026\u00a0and more often than not you don\u2019t even hear a word of English. It\u2019s quite something\u00a0haha. Apart from that I\u2019d say that the nightlife in London’s pretty corporate these days, essentially about putting bums on seats, and cliquey too, long gone\u2019s the time of One Nation Under a Groove. It could do with an injection of passion and originality in the way it runs its clubs.\u00a0There are tons of things going on, every artists\/djs under the sun headlining events but\u00a0what\u2019d be cool is a place you want to go to because it\u2019s got a great, different vibe and an\u00a0interesting crowd, add to that a decent music policy and you\u2019ve got a winner. Who gives a damn about the dj? In a great club, it\u2019s who you\u2019re gonna meet and\u00a0socialise with that matters, no the dj. It\u2019s become a business like any other, when it\u00a0should be about heart and extravagance. BoomBox offered a glimpse of that but it\u2019s been back to\u00a0normal since it ended it seems to me although there are small things going on here. Apart from Disclosure and the house come back of course, but that\u2019s more of a mainstream scene in the UK\u00a0I guess.”<\/p>\n

Who would you like to collaborate with in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn fashion I loooove the work of Comme des Garcons\u2019 genius designer Rei Kawakubo, so collaborating with this unique mind\u00a0would be as mind-blowing as working\u00a0with Vivienne Westwood (in respect Rei\u2019s pretty much Vivienne’s Japanese equivalent). Same with Viktor & Rolf, their world\u2019s so\u00a0fascinating and stylish.\u00a0Both have much humour too, crucial. In cinema, the more childish films of directors Wes Anderson and Spike Jonze, \u2018Moonshine Kindom\u2019\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cWhere The Wild Things Are\u2019, touched me on several levels (and more than some of their other films). I\u2019m forever\u00a0indebeted to my childhood and the emotions it provided me with, innocent perceptions that have help build my sensibility without blinkers and that I cherish hard by resisting many adults\u2019\u00a0behaviours towards music. Sourcing and composing music for that type of movies would be an absolute treat. As far as music goes there are tons of gifted artists I adore out there, but right now I\u2019m quite happy to keep on digging with\u00a0JBAG\u2019s other half Andrea Gorgerino as our\u00a0music project\u2019s fully\u00a0formed now. The only\u00a0down point is to our dismay we haven’t managed to integrate permanently a vocalist-friend, which is a shame cos the way JBAG functions is very much like a band. I\u2019d be amazing to have one vox fronting it all. So if there are any candidates out there, please get in touch!”<\/p>\n

What are your upcoming projects musically speaking?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI spend a lot of time in the studio working on JBAG\u00a0with Andrea, we’ve just released our 3rd single ‘Through Blue\u2019 featuring our buddy Tomek, the singer from\u00a0Kamp!\u00a0the Polish band that deserves to break globally, the track\u2019s included on the ‘Kitsun\u00e9 Trip Mode\u2019 mix too. JBAG’s now working on the follow up, with the singer of Shindu hopefully,\u00a0and an album too which we want to be more experimental although still melodic. We’ve just remixed the next single on my label\u00a0Continental\u00a0which will be the re-release of Scarlet Fantastic’s ‘No Memory’, a late 80s hit that was an anthem for Andy Weatherall\u00a0at the Boys Own parties\u00a0during the summer of love; the lyrics wonderfully encapsulate hedonism and teenageoptimism. This song’s legendary so I’m really chuffed bringing it back to life in 2014 with radical new versions from the likes of Luke Million (The Swiss), Sean Hi-Fi (ex-singer of the Soup Dragons), Monday Club, ELIOT etc and JBAG of course. Hopefully\u00a0\u2018Kitsun\u00e9 Trip Mode\u2019 will become a regular\u00a0occurrence, can\u2019t wait to\u00a0bring out some more\u00a0beautiful, spooky moods in the mix on Kitsun\u00e9.”<\/p>

Shop Maison Kitsun\u00e9 on NET-A-PORTER\u00a0here<\/a> and get a free Kitsun\u00e9 Trip Mode Mix\u00a0download card!<\/p>\n

Get your copy of the catwalk-inspired Kitsun\u00e9 Trip Mode Mix here<\/a><\/p>\n

Read more<\/a> about the mix and Jerry Bouthier x Bernstock Speirs collaboration on the ‘Highbury Eden’ hat!<\/p>\n

Stream below the Kitsun\u00e9 Trip Mode Minimix!<\/p>\n