Influences: Antoine Kogut

Music

Last month marked the release of a brand new album on Versatile Records – a sultry, french inspired album by Antoine Kogut who had previously appeared under the alias of Syracuse. The album blurred the lines between balearic, ethereal dream pop and some sort of futuristic, robotic world. Think "Electric Dreams" without the contrived, corny fanaticism…

Anotoine is a talented producer with a focussed sensibility and detailed approach, all things are considered and he takes influence from further afield than you might stereotypically expect. As such we invited him to take us through some of the points of reference which have helped him form the basis of a new musical direction. From Koyanisqatsi to Arthur Russell – the remit is broad.

Buy the new album HERE.

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Sphères

This 1969 movie from Canadian avant garde animators and directors Norman McLaren and René Jodoin speaks about the harmony of spheres, the Pythagorean theory on which any occidental music is based on. Beautiful, emotional, and it works perfectly with Glen Gould playing Bach on it.
Ugo Bienvenu, who directed the video of the first single of my album Sphere Of Existence showed me this a few years ago, since then I’ve watched it quite a lot.

Sphères

This 1969 movie from Canadian avant garde animators and directors Norman McLaren and René Jodoin speaks about the harmony of spheres, the Pythagorean theory on which any occidental music is based on. Beautiful, emotional, and it works perfectly with Glen Gould playing Bach on it.
Ugo Bienvenu, who directed the video of the first single of my album Sphere Of Existence showed me this a few years ago, since then I’ve watched it quite a lot.
Electronic System - Skylab - 1974

One of the sexiest songs ever made, one of the spaciest too. Great theme, wonderful orchestration, well played. Psychedelic jazzy groovy electronic. I’m a big fan of Dan Laxman, who is mostly known for being a member of the band Telex. Here, I believe he teamed up with the band Chakachas in which there is also another of my favorite Belgian Musician : Nico Gomez, who strangely is the composer of some of the greatest Brazilian songs like Aquarela.
Koyaanisqatsi Part 1/9

It speaks about everything on everything to anyone, almost a shamanic experience !
This is one of my favorite movies, so I hope you’ll watch the other 8 parts on Youtube and/or go to a movie theatre when it’s showing.
William De Vaughn- Be Thankful For What You Got (Original)

Great song and perfect motto to be happy in your life. Sampled by NWA and covered by tons of artists, I think the first version I heard was by Massive Attack and my favorite version (except the original ) is the Craig Peyton instrumental one.
That's Us/Wild Combination

Wonderful pop song, I particularly love the way the song seems so simple but is in fact really tricky to play. There are small changes on all of the parts. Brilliant and yet so easy to fall into.