Interview With Jean Marc Of Le Branché

Care to get Epic? Lebranche.net is an excellent new noise/design frontier where our favorite crazy frenchman, Jean Marc, holds court. I am particularly enamored with the idea of a gesamkunstwerk–a total life work, as demonstrated most notoriously by Nietzsche, and Le Branché seems to successfully capture elements of this in a manner that’s not pretentious or contrived. We will now speak with the master… And yes, we fully acknowledge that most of what is about to transpire will make no manageable sense.

Can you describe the philosophy behind Le Branché?
The philosophy behind Le Branché : international fuck you style!!! We don’t have any pretension, but what we can say for sure is that we gonna do what we feel, without really thinking about the future. More like… We are everyday the new year eve 2012, you know what I mean? I will say like we are preparing ourself to party and create like there will be “no time for tomorrow”.

What are you influenced and excited by today, visually and musically?
The comin’ of 2012. Visually… The idea of thinking that almost everything has been done. Me and my crew feel that actually there is no limit, and it is time to go to another era. What makes me excited the most is the fact that we have now Myspace, Youtube, Dailymotion, etc. All those platforms to showcase art and music. They should really push all of us to be creative but in the real level, now that we have all those things as tools, we’re still acting like there are majors around to guide us to create and compose because we’re still scared of the being different.

(At this point I lose Jean Marc completely)

People in general… I will say… There are the new artists… Pick one person or 2 is kind of close-minded… Cause don’t believe the hype. Hype is very dangerous. Eyes Lies. Everybody is dope… And everybody is wack… We shouldn’t act anymore like the way things supposed to be “according to the system”, and I guess this is what Le Branché is sure to do.

You describe your work as “Sound Illustration”. What, exactly, does this mean?
It means the work we’re doing is not only music, that our music is composed with images, and our images are designed with sound. we can’t dissociate music from visual. This is the 4th dimension. A lot of people are not ready to understand that, but who cares. Knowledge, once again is the key. More precisely, an open mind is the key to live better in the future.

“Style Bully/Modern Builder?”
Yes… DE SIGNER. We’re all DESIGNERS. DESIGNERSRULETHEWORLD is the second LP of the main band of Le Branché house, DE SIGNER. DE SIGNER is a group of visual and audio artists. Our projects include full-length albums, audio/video installations, and DJ sets. Blending the methods of the modern lifestyle, our work bridges the gap between art and commerce, architecture and hip-hop, and the 3rd world and the ruling class, with a flashlight pointed at the truth that is DESIGNERSRULETHEWORLD. Style and progressive construction, this is what DE SIGNER is about no matter if it is music or video.

Check out DE SIGNER’s first single HERE.