00:00It is difficult to live a long and happy life without hearing Benassi's track Satisfaction.
00:04Bernie Benassi is a union of cousins.
00:06The elder Marco, the one in the spotlight, and the younger Alessandro, prefers to stay
00:11in the shadows.
00:19Both come from Reggio Emilia, a town of 150,000 people in the heart of Northern Italy.
00:24Marco Benassi has been DJing since the mid-80s, that is, since the age of 15, and gradually
00:30moved from his lonesome basement sets to local clubs.
00:33Meanwhile, Alessandro Benassi received a classical music education, lived in the same house as
00:38Marco, performed in a jazz band, and invested his earnings in his own studio.
00:42It suddenly turned out that the elder cousin knew what people on the dance floor would dig,
00:47and the younger one could record it.
00:48I'm not a musician, said Marco, and have only a very basic grasp of music software.
00:53I've always needed to work with musicians and producers.
00:56My cousin Al made the music, I brought in the ideas and directed operations.
01:01They took one named Benny for two, and throughout the 90s were mastering the lucrative Eurodance
01:07and house scene.
01:07They recorded remixes, released singles, and collaborated with other musicians.
01:31This was until Marco decided to turn to the passion of his youth, the electro sound of the 80s.
01:43Releasing something like this in the early 90s seemed suicidal, but the guys took a chance.
01:47I owe everything to my cousin Al Benassi, often confesses Marco.
01:52It's important people know that.
01:54The satisfaction hook was created by him.
01:58Legend has it that Alessandro Benassi was chilling in a hotel after a jazz tour in 2002.
02:03Suddenly, the carefree Italian's piece was disturbed by the sound of a car horn.
02:08Alessandro recorded the sound, came back to his homeland, and recreated it digitally.
02:14I'll show me the drafts, and we thought it wasn't bad.
02:17We could even release it.
02:18An early version of Able to Love, which contained the as yet unfinished sound of an electric drill,
02:23became the trial balloon.
02:28But the cousin's next single, its drawback was rectified.
02:31Satisfaction was released with a bass drum that hit your head, as well as the bass part,
02:36which was also the melody that trilled through a skull.
02:46Something similar was actually already released at the turn of the millennium by Mr. Oizo.
03:08Satisfaction did the impossible, with a seemingly absolutely unbearable sound, it became everyone's
03:14favorite.
03:14During 2003-2004, it was impossible to hide from it.
03:19Satisfaction hammered through your brain on high and low frequencies in all shops, beaches, and taxis.
03:26It came out of the windows of houses, played on the airwaves of all radio stations and all telephones.
03:32It buzzed in all headphones and was played at the most remote rural discos.
03:53Satisfaction was released in 2002, first in small quantities, signed Benny B.
03:58Friends gave it a start.
03:59From there, the buzzing single went triumphantly all over the planet.
04:03Benny B officially turned into Benny Benassi Presents The Beast.
04:14The cousins weren't going to tour together.
04:17Alessandro planned to continue working in the studio.
04:20Marco wanted to perform as a DJ in the best clubs in the world.
04:23However, there was still a huge demand for a concert program of drilling tracks.
04:29This forced The Cousins to create a choreographic project with two singers and dancers.
04:34Italian Paolo Caidi, Paul French, and Romanian Violetta Brado.
04:38Both had known The Cousins for years.
04:40Both had auditions in Alessandro's studio before.
04:43Both had a single by the time of the Satisfaction hype.
04:46I love my sex.
04:47And I love my sex.
04:52And Don't Touch Too Much.
05:00At the peak of Satisfaction, 2003-2005, The Beast flew around the world several times.
05:07They had separate shows, their own writers, and tour schedules that didn't overlap.
05:12Benassi was so little known in the world that, at first, it was the touring Paul French who
05:17was mistaken for the author of Satisfaction.
05:20For a while, the dancer even performed in an I'm Not Benny Benassi t-shirt.
05:25As a project, The Beast had fewer copyrights.
05:28They performed with pre-recorded music and didn't sing.
05:31Push me, and then just touch me, till I can get my satisfaction.
05:37The robotic male and female voices in Satisfaction really belonged to a robot.
05:42The Mocking Talk program built into the Apple operating system, which voices any text typed
05:47on the keyboard.
05:48By the 90s, the voice synthesizer in Max had 20 different characters.
05:51Alessandro chose the voices of Fred and Victoria for Satisfaction, who will be able to pronounce
05:57the same text if you get an old Mac with the same old version of the program.
06:01Push me, and then just touch me, till I can get my satisfaction.
06:07Push me, and then just touch me, till I can get my satisfaction.
06:13Benassi only distributed the words in syllables so that they clearly fell into the rhythm,
06:17plus corrected the tonality of some Robo words.
06:20Push me, and then just touch me, till I can get my satisfaction.
06:26There is a suspicion that a robot reads the text in 12 tracks out of 14 on the Cousins'
06:32debut album Hypnotica.
06:33Definitely in the hit singles.
06:35Satisfaction, Able to Love,
06:42No matter what you do,
06:43You can change your face, but can change your mind,
06:47no matter what you do, no matter what you do.
06:50And Love is gonna save us.
06:58Recorded in a couple of months, Satisfaction brought the Benassi cousins to a level in
07:02one year that they hadn't been able to reach for 10 years.
07:05Of course, Satisfaction was the result of all these 10 years of work.
07:09Satisfaction has experienced countless copies, reincarnations, parodies and remixes, and
07:15Benny himself has received many awards, titles and offers of cooperation.
07:18Are you satisfied, he is asked.
07:21Yeah, Benny smiles blissfully.
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