So my long fun weekend included Yelle and Tepr this past Saturday at Noise and I had a chance to sit down and talk to Tepr about a couple of serious and silly questions. The party needless to say was a big succes, jumpin' kidz all around was more than proof. A big shout out to all the Nrmal kidz, who are definitively representing the nu scene in Monterrey!

Here is what Tepr had to say..

1. Who is Tepr? And what does Tepr mean?
Tepr doesn’t mean anything for real, it just at first I was in a band, like an abstractive band inspired/influenced by DJ Shadow and stuff like that. And we were two and the band’s name was Abstract Kill A Gram, and I wanted to do my own stuff, my solo stuff and more club. And I was like writing letters to see what letters matches the most and T, E, P, R, came and Tepr was the best thing I found, and it was simple like four words so Tepr is just me and my real name is Tanguy. I have release 3 albums on a small French label called Idwet, and from 2003 to 2008 I have released three albums and I only do remixes and producing for all the people like Yelle.

2. How’s the Mexico tour gone so far?
The Mexican tour is like amazing, we had a little sound problem yesterday in Mexico city but people are cool, and everyone is like waiting for us and we are really excited and really surprised about it, to see we made a couple of songs two years ago in a small room in France and two years later we are playing in front of two thousand people in Mexico city, it’s incredible.

3. Now for the music, what are you music influences?
I guess in general terms is hip-hop to me, I was a huge fan and Wu Tang Clan and also all the stuff from New York, and also when I was like twelve Nirvana came with Nevermind and it was a blast like a huge big sound with guitar, screaming and Kurt Cobain so charismatic, so I was like OK I like rock band and hip-hop beats, and the thing that came to me was everything in music is a mix between the rock and the hip-hop. So Wu Tang Clan and Nirvana were the first big influences, then Beastie Boys came and it was also huge, and I decided into music because of Daft Punk and DJ Shadow and it was easier to produce music alone with computers.

4. Describe Tepr’s sound?
My sound I guess I want it fun, but I also want it melodic, I like fat melodies, but I like bouncy beats a mix between all that.

5. What software/hardware does Tepr use to produce tracks?
At first I was only using computer but I’m tired of synthesizers, now I use real keyboards like Minimoog and Juno and old stuff I really like it. Use Ableton and Reason like most of people too. I like to make mistakes while I records songs, you know why I play music to get excited.

6. Any new remixes on the works?
I just did the new remix for Yelle called “Ce Jeu” cause I’am like the official remixer for Yelle’s singles, and I just did three remixes for Santogold and now I want to stop cause I want to work on my next album. And I'm also working with lead singer from Blonde Do Role called Marina on the next album, I’m producing two tracks.

7. Any thoughts on Carla Bruni?
[Laughter] She’s the President’s wife, I used to not like her first album, I didn’t like the second album and I guess I will not like her third album, and she used to be beautiful but not beautiful now.

8. And finally, does Tepr know how to dance Tecktonik?
[Laughter] No, I don’t know how to dance Tecktonik, in fact the Tecktonik story is funny cause I did a remix for Yelle and the guy who worked with us in the label just said: “hey there’s some cool dancers, new stuff in France we have to do video with those guys and they like Yelle and they want to do something with Yelle, can we do something with your remix, Yelle and the dancers” We said yes, we don’t have money to do big video clip, and they said we don’t need a lot of money to have them dance on the track and it was the first Tecktonik video clip so were completely surprised.

Enjoy,
Easy

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