Eiffel 65 | Interview Live @ CNN | 02/2000

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Eiffelites! I present another rare Eiffel65 piece of footage.. It is the interview by CNN !! This was aired on April 02, 2000 on CNN in America. _________________________________________­__ Originally hosted on Eiffel65Rockz, I got this by special request from another fan after the Eiffel65Rockz channel got terminated by YouTube and R.T.I. R.I.P. Eiffel65Rockz :( R.T.I. wouldn't dare remove this video because I have already sent it to my friends and it's on facebook. Whaddya gonna do :P _________________________________________­__ CNN made a mistake, they need to switch Maurizio and Gabry's name around. I have fixed this in the video transcript below ;) _________________________________________­__ VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: JEFFREY: The meaning of Europop actually, you can split this into Euro and pop. With Euro, we're meaning a gathering of different dance, European cultures. So we're talking about trip hop coming from the U.K., techno from Germany, we're talking about dance from Italy. It's all blended together. In fact, the different tracks have a different kind of dance situation as a bottom arrangement. And pop means that there's always a song on it. So that's exactly what we're saying, Europop and songs put onto a European dance situation. MAURIZIO: We have a tradition for the dance music in Italy and our, I think, our best thing in Italy is the composition of the melody. That's the reason why we thought that blue is a good mix between a good Italian melodies and the good situation in dance, you know, rhythmically speaking. JEFFREY: And we used a computer to choose the first part of the name because us three guys are producers so you don't really want to waste time, waste a lot of time choosing names. So Eiffel came out of the computer. But 65 nobody chose it. We got the record and we just went in there and it was like who did this? And we found out that our producer was writing a phone number and two digits of the phone number ended up on the label copy. And the graphic artist thought that it was part of the name put on afterwards and he just fused it all together without saying anything to anybody. "Too Much of Heaven" is still a song that is based on dance music, but this time we're talking about trip pop music, same as blue, talking about a lifestyle. In this case we're talking about having too much of one thing that can spoil your entire existence, like maybe money so that's the only thing that becomes important in your life and you forget your family, your friends and you end up becoming money wise, money this and money that. MAURIZIO: I came from a classic study of piano but I like to play other things and to listen to all the styles. But I prefer this experimental one. I prefer the -- I'm always looking for a very particular electronic. JEFFREY: Jeffrey was raised with rap music, rock music living in the United States, of course, and I moved on to in the '80s the electronic scene, which totally captured me, like Depeche Mode and, you know, that electronic stuff, Craft Work, computer with music. That was the culmination, you know, because I love computers and I love music and when I knew that I could combine them together it was like, OK, I don't need anything else, you know? GABRY: I like all the music too, but I am especially fond of dance music because I started my life in the music business as a deejay. JEFFREY: What we're mainly doing is continuing exactly what we were doing before "Blue." If we're sitting down in a studio, we're not thinking hey, this is going to be the new Eiffel and it has to be like this and it's got to sell. We don't care. I mean we just sit down and do exactly what we do. We love doing music. _________________________________________­__ If you are an Eiffelite a.k.a. a BIG Eiffel65 fan and are looking for rarities of the group then Subscribe to my channel and keep up to date. Also if you have facebook the join my FB page dedicated to Eiffel; updated EVERYDAY ! ;) ✰ facebook.com/Eiffelites Enjoy Eiffelites!