![]() ![]() I've read that your music is largely inspired by thousands of films and TV shows you watched as a kid. It was the best visualization we could have for “Nightcall.” That's why I don't want to make a music video for “Nightcall” in the future, because Drive is the best video we could have. I never had the discussion with the director, but I really loved the movie. I don't know, maybe it was a coincidence, I'm really not sure about that. Well, I know that I'm less good-looking than Ryan Gosling. The mystery, the love for cars, was that just a coincidence? There are parallels between Ryan Gosling's character, the Driver, and your own, Kavinsky. So, for me it was, "Of course, you can use my music!" And I was a big fan of him particularly from the films the Pusher trilogy. And then he asked for it, and of course, me, I was really happy he chose my music for the opening credits. Nicolas Winding Refn, the director of the film, contacted me because he was listening to the music in his car going down Sunset Boulevard, and after that I think he began listening to it a lot. How did “Nightcall” make its way into the film Drive? The song works so perfectly. We wanted to take some time to then go back and revisit, so that's why it came out a little later, you could say. After we did “Nightcall” with Guy-Manuel of Daft Punk we decided to make a full album with some new tracks, with my friend Sebastian (a French artist who has worked with Daft Punk, Nero, and the Beastie Boys, among others) and then we found some voices for it. I actually was in the studio making this album from, like, 2010, not 2005 as people say sometimes. It's just more fun for me to make music in this abstract sort of way. OutRun is a plot line, like a story in a movie. Along with just a way for me to make music. We make the perfect balance, except he’s a little shier, yet also more badass. We are very similar, but you could say he is a little bit more badass than me. ![]() How similar are you, Vincent, to the character of Kavinsky? Yes, it's a tribute, you could say, to a game that I used to play a lot. Your new record’s name, OutRun, is a Sega reference, correct? Yes, three days left and then back to Paris. So you're there for pleasure rather than work? I'm breathing a little bit after all the turmoil, really good to be here as always. Vincent: I'm fine, I was having a little bit of sun at the pool. And from that I just started to make music with it, so that was the start of everything,” Vincent told me on the phone from his hotel room in Los Angeles, where the mysterious French flirt took a break from relaxing by the pool to chat with me about the recent debut of his anticipated album OutRun, what's next, and how we can devise a plan to land him a special guest appearance on T he Walking Dead. “I was really into video games, and then he just gave me that computer. Oizo almost threw out an old Macintosh computer, but gave it to Vincent instead. Vincent’s foray into electronic storytelling began by accident.
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