I want to talk a little bit more about the vibe and vision for the new album overall. And then all of a sudden, something will click, and the dominoes will fall into place - and that 25 extra percent will basically finish the song, and you'll finally be like, ' Oh my god, I did it.' You're gonna feel hopeless during that whole time, and you're gonna question you if you should even be making music anymore. I say this every time: Your music's gonna suck until like 85 percent of the song is done. Music is so fun to make, because of the way that it falls in place. And I basically put, 'I want somebody, want somebody's body.' Right when Phil heard it, he's like, 'Dude, take that! Figure it out with that, that's such a good line.' And then it all kind of came together. I was in Ableton and I started basically cutting up the vocals and repeating stuff. We had the M1 bass done for the drop, but we didn't have any vocals on it. And that's where I was like, 'Let's go back to the M1.' We'd already been using it in a couple songs already. I was sitting with it and I was just like, 'This does not sound like something I would make' - even though I did make it.When Aleyna sang on it, it just helped us get a different sense of what to do to it. We originally had made a completely different version of the song that almost was like, toned-down progressive house, something CamelPhat style. Shout out to him, he's been incredible through the whole process. I was working on that song with Phil Scully, who's a big collaborator on the whole album. I've always loved the Korg M1, it's just such a classic dance staple. I definitely hear a late-'90s, early-2000s dance bassline in 'Real Love.' What were your points of reference for that song? She's from Turkey and she's like, 'Oh yeah, my friend has an army base where I can rent a Turkish airplane, and I'll get a bunch of dancers in front of it.' She was DMing me while she was shooting, and it's insane. especially ' Captain Jack' by Captain Jack, it's kind of an homage to him.ДЄleyna went all out. It's an ode to old Eurovision-style music videos, like '90s dance music era. He did ' Need You,' and we finally got back together to do the video for the song 'Real Love 'with Aleyna Tilki. I shot a music video yesterday with Jack Wagner. The eight-track set features 10 stellar vocalists on music perfect for dancing solo around your living room, or surrounded by fellow revelers.Д«illboard Dance caught up with the Los Angeles native about the inspiration for Happy Machine, how the collabs came together, why Calvin Harris didn't want to meet him originally, and more. It is as much a gift to his fans as to himself, a project that made him happy and re-inspired. The result is his upbeat third album, Happy Machine, released via Mad Decent yesterday (October 5), on Francis' 34th birthday.

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