I want the listener to imagine what will happen,” he says. The character of Kavisnky was born in ‘OutRun’, a Testarossa-driving musician who crashed his sports car and reincarnated as a "zombie." “‘Reborn’ is definitley a follow-up in terms of the story of this character that I came up with on the first album, but for this one, I didn’t really want to impose a story, rather keep the character and let people figure out what’s to come with him. Incorporating this influence from the silver screen into his own character of Kavinsky, the producer formed an unusual, cinematic world for himself under the moniker.
Kavinsky’s iconic synthwave and electropop releases have always mimicked the cinematic world of film with enormous ethereal soundtrack-esque tracks bridging the gap between film and French house. With rumours even circulating on a return collaboration with The Weeknd, we ask the producer on the likelihood of this: “We text Abel quite often,” he admits, but shies away from answering. "It was friends like Victor le Masne and Gaspard Áuge with whom I teamed up and went to Motorbass Studios to finish the stuff I’d started”. “The people I met during that time made me realise that I really wanted to come back and release new stuff, it’s been such a long time since I was in the studio,” he says. Certainly, over the years, Kavinsky has hobnobbed with some of the biggest names in dance music, and it sounds as though he hasn’t lost touch with those formative connections. When asked what brought him back to music production, he retorts: “It was about meeting new people”. Read this next: "He was a revolutionary": Busy P on the remarkable legacy of DJ Medhi I don’t feel that much pressure anymore, I’m way too old! I want people to talk to me about something other than ‘Nightcall’ now, even though Drive was a huge help for me and I still thank the director for including my music in it,” he says. “After ten years, I’m back being the leader of what I want to do. In a surprise announcement at the start of this year, Kavinsky revealed that he was working on a second album, ‘Reborn’. Whether it be a period of self-reflection for the producer or simply time away from the spotlight, Kavinsky now returns with the same spunky energy that gained him such prestige over a decade ago. With such success, you have the opportunity to take your time, chill and do things you could never have done before,” he recalls. But it was also this track, Kavinsky says, that pushed him away from producing music. The song would attain millions upon millions of streams and find its way onto the much-celebrated soundtrack of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive just a year later.
The 2010-released single hit Billboard’s Top 100 at a flying time for French house. “At the time of ‘Nightcall's' release, we didn’t feel much pressure except for the fact that we were releasing a track with one half of Daft Punk,” he claims. The producer, who very seldom does interviews, chats to us from his home in Paris, the place he first honed his craft all those years ago.
“After it was released and it had huge success, there was a bit of pressure,” says Kavinsky, real name Vincent Belorgey, on the hit track that shot him into insurmountable fame, ‘ Nightcall’, created alongside Daft Punk's Guy-Manuel. Read this next: A 'multi-sensory' Daft Punk experience is heading to LA Its release would both catapult him to monumental fame and overhaul the world's interest in French house before he quietly left the bustling Paris scene he'd reinvigorated behind. Kavinsky on the other hand was just gearing up to release 'OutRun' - his debut record, seven years in the making. Robot-era Daft Punk had just debuted their Tron Legacy soundtrack, having become arguably the most famous electronic duo in the world with records ' Homework', ' Discovery' and ' Human After All'. Just over a decade ago, Paris still existed beneath the shadow of its all-star electronic exports: Busy P's Edbanger Records had grown into global hitmakers with releases from Justice, Mr Oizo, SebastiAn, Breakbot et al.
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