Leading Mexican label and party collective Discos Tabú welcomes a collaboration from Motordiscs label head, Daniel Weil, & Lucapulco with ‘The Cactus Soundtrack’ that effortlessly weaves disco, Balearic, and deeper, more enigmatic tones. These long-term collaborators have worked across several mediums but always share a common musical vision. Daniel plays anything from new beat to dub techno or indie dance and has previously been resident in clubs such as Le Baron NYC, The Mansion Shanghai and Badaboum in Paris. DMCWorld goes Back To Mine With Daniel Weil.
Ennio Morricone – Chi Mai
The influence of cinema soundtracks on my music taste is tremendous and this one by the maestro is probably the most significant of all. It also reminds me of the movies I love with Jean Paul Belmondo, amongst other things.
Nicolas Godin – The Border
Not only is this song close to perfect in terms of composition, production and mixing, the lyrics are also so meaningful to me “break the rules together… and change the world forever…”, in such a delicate masterpiece. Nicolas Godin is the founder of Air, he once said it stands for Amour, Imagination, Reve… The Border illustrates it to the perfection.
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – Indian Summer
It was hard to decide if I would rather put this version or Joe Dassin’s original in French. I get nostalgic of all my past love stories when I listen to this song and feel that all my ex girlfriends are around me at the same time… in a very peaceful way of course!
Sebastien Tellier – La Ritournelle
This song reminds me the late 2000´s in Paris, the years where I started going out to nightclubs, especially one called Le Baron, where I saw Sebastien Tellier for the first time. But also my first real love stories and my first real heartbreaks. A time when I would live everything so intensely that I was pretty sure I would never recover from these little things that make life what it is.
David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes
What would be the top 10 of my home listening songs without David Bowie. His poetic and glamourous music has shaped the way I approach my music selection since the very first time I heard him. For some strange reason this songs also reminds me of my cat Patafix.
Serge Gainsbourg – La Chanson de Prevert
Staying in the family of the glamourous poets, but this time in french: This song represents everything I love in Serge Gainsbourg’s music. It has a fascintating story involving Yves Montant, Marcel Carné and obivously Jacques Prevert.
Nirvana – The Man Who Sold The World
I discovered Nirvana when I was ten years old and they immediately became my favourite band. There is something that fascinates me with great artists singing songs of other great artists. Something absolutely miraculous about connection that moves me, perhaps even more than creation ex nihilo.
Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Not only is this an absolute masterpiece, and can I say without any exaggeration that my life wouldn’t be the same without Pink Floyd, but I also understood so much about the importance of progression thanks to this song. I learned about the necessity of taking the needed time to be able to share such a variety of different yet consistent emotions.
Michel Berger – Le Paradis Blanc
Victor Hugo wrote “Melancholy is the happiness of being sad”, and to me Michel Berger’s music incarnates perfectly this peculiar emotion. How much of a wizard must can one be, who can make you nostalgic of places that you’ve never been to?
Claude Debussy – Clair de Lune (Suite Bergamasque)
I listen to a lot of classical music and it would have been unthinkable to send my top 10 home listening pieces without at least one of “musique savante”, as we call it in french. This composition is so peaceful and inspiring that I often listen to it on repeat several time in a row.
Daniel Weil & Lucapulco ‘The Cactus Soundtrack’ will be released on January 19th 2024 on Discos Tabú.
