it could be worse, he’s at least worked with a lot of people i do know of
Mike Lévy (born 24 June 1985), known professionally as Gesaffelstein (German: [ɡəˈzafl̩ʃtaɪn]), is a French music programmer, DJ, songwriter and producer from Lyon. Often called the “Dark Prince of Techno”,[1][2] he has worked alongside artists such as Lady Gaga, the Weeknd, Daft Punk, Kanye West, A$AP Rocky, Electric Youth, Haim, Miss Kittin, the Hacker, Jean-Michel Jarre, Lil Nas X, Charli XCX, Pharrell Williams and Chuck Ellis.
Idk if I’d call Gesaffelstein a celebrity. Also Gesaffelstein is fucking awsome? Do people not know Gesaffelstein? Serious. If you don’t know now you know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRSijEW_cDM&list=RDoRSijEW_cDM&start_radio=1
You’re welcome.
I heard of Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein! /s
A cropped version of this video was my introduction to Gesaffelstein.
woah, i watched most of the thing before i realized the birds are bobbing out of time with the music, a bit faster, if they didn’t switch the frames are realign they’d be completely out of phase several times.
Lol
Definitely one of the most impactful music videos I’ve seen, this is why I know who Gesaffelstein is
Agreed, its pretty jarring.
No clue who this is. I thought you’d comment was a joke, but no idea.
Gesaffelstein is hardly a pop culture figure, though; I don’t think many gen-z kids know him. But he’s an absolute icon of the 2010s dark techno scene.
The Conspiracy singles were legendary. My Conspiracy Pt. 1 record has a More Cowbell joke on it, which I love. Weird record though, it’s 33 1/3 on one side and 45 on the other. And it doesn’t say that anywhere on the record, so it took me years before realizing I was listening to a slowed down Hatred. I kinda love the slowed down version, funny how that happens :P
Gesaffelstein goes hard, I agree.
I kinda love the slowed down version, funny how that happens :P
Day Man!
If you get the chance to see him live, do it.
He looks like his tickets cost 100€ just to listen to his playlist
I saw him at a 3-day festival, which was expensive but there were dozens of performers. No idea how much a ticket price for a show of just him would be. He doesn’t seem to tour often. When I saw him I was pretty sure he was a techno wizard from another dimension but I was very high.
As a Gessafelstein fan I am so surprised anyone knows who he is, hell I barely know who he is
This might be the only appropriate time to ask why is he black?
Thank u for getting the reference but I really want to know. Is this some new acceptable form of blackface? Does he slather putty on himself? Is it a mask?
Blackface implies caricature. This isn’t attempting to be African American.
His visual media has quite a bit of this transhumanist stuff showing people made out of different materials, Hate or Glory shows a maniac who gets cast into gold for pleasure.
Considering he was working with Lady Gaga, who is also known for these extreme runway looks, I would say it was quite appropriate.
I’m glad you provided a serious answer, because I thought the bottom picture was just a joke and not a reference to an actual person or thing that had happened.
He’s going as one of the creepy guys from Expedition 33.
He wears a mask at his shows
is this a new thing? he has the famous (?) smoking drop gif (from a viol live)
I have no idea, ive just seen him live once. Afaik hes always done the mask thing
listen, it’s 202
56, you got to have a gimmick if you actually want to make it big in anything remotely “mainstream”. you think zoomers have the attention span to just watch someone in a suit sing?
That’s Nightcrawler from the X-Men. Be kind to Kurt - his childhood was a real circus!
He’s black, not blue, so Sunspot or Obsidian maybe.
True, although in many of the comics I read in my youth (mostly 1980s) Kurt was depicted as a very dark blue to the point that they made significant amounts of him look black.
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One could assume they’re slathered in oil to protest the fossil industry, but that would be an assumption.
Me sitting here thinking i can relate and don’t know Gaffelstein. Looking at the videos in the chat. Turns out he is in the dark techno list i was listening to just a few minutes ago and I liked his stuff for years.
I’m in my fifties, but I’m still hip to what’s groovy. I know the name of the big artists. Uh … Wet Ass Pussy. The uh, those monitor head brothers … Around the World. Um … Billy Eyelash. The uh … the K-Pops!
Don’t forget Justin the Beaver.
Daft Punk died 5 years ago
Gesaffelstein
Gesundheit!
Viele Dank
Yes, many dank!
If you’re curious, this actually comes from the word Gesamtkunstwerk
Huh, interesting.
I know some German so I understand what “Gesamtkunstwerk” is because the Finnish word for it is probably just a direct translation of the German one – “yhtenäistaideteos” (yhtenäis+taide+teos), loosely translatable as “unified work of art”
ITT old people shaking their fist at the sky
I miss the good old days of non-political music like Rage Against the Machine
The top comment on this thread is frying me. Literally the most stereotypical “kids these days” comment I’ve ever read.
“Woah! Is that fucking blackface, dude?”
Thats me since like… ever? I never really cared about the whole celebrities spiel
You might just be a millennial.
Know the signs.
Even when I knew who the person was, I never memorized names anyway…
I had to read all the comments before I believed this was an actual artist and not a photo of a mannequin placeholder.
More than that you just don’t care enough to go look them up.
I was like who’s this guy and opened up his songs. The track Opr is in Cyberpunk 2077 and I love it so I guess I’m a Gesundheit fan now. His mask also reminds me of Lizzy Wizzy, which is cool.
Playing or talking about Cyberpunk 2077 is a sin against our transgender lord and saviour Jesus Christ. He and Eve don’t deserve the way CDPR commercialises trans bodies.
Wat
why is that?
