I met Laszlito in a quiet day during the week in his studio with the Goodfellas in Utrechtstraat.
Drinking sweet caramel flavoured japanese tea, Laszlito, multitalented spanish artist, brought me into his arty Wonderland of creative projects, ideas and musical thoughts...
Laszlito Kovacs
Barcelona, Spain - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Graphic designer, Illustrator, Moviemaker, Music Lover.
Where does your name come from?
I took the name from Jean Luc Godard's Breathless.
Which music do you like?
I just like music, but I'm not one of this super expert!
I don't have favorites. I like everything if it's good!
Our podcast is very ecleptic…
Cheesy song… we don't want to make it serious, only what we like!
How did you start the Endtopic project?
I have a studio in Asturia, even though I'm from Barcelona…
With Endtopic we started with a newsletter that now is published every friday!
3500 subscription.
We thought about having a podcast so we started like that.
We have 65 hours right now, maybe more and we also have a friend playlist!
What are you listening to now?
Sufjan Stevens now, the new album. I really like him now!
I like Four Tet, Cat Power, Bill Callahan from Smog.
The American band War Paint.
I'm really into Jacques Tati movies, the soundtrack from Jour de fete, another music I really like.
I'm always listening to music, especially while I'm working, it's also very relaxing!
I also like Moon Dog I found him the viking of the 5th Avenir.
He was living in NY near the Radio City Hall. He was used to make his own music instruments and his clothes, he was one of the first recording sound from the street and he was blind since he was 6 years old.
Some people call him the first minimalist.
How did you start with music?
My uncles really loved music, so I started with them, even if I don't like that music anymore.
Classic Rock, Dire Straits.
In their library I found many things like The Beatles and more conceptual things.
And then this radio in Spain, they were broadcasting old tunes.. old pieces like jazz and movies soundtrack…
My father also had a tape recorder in the car and we were traveling from Barcelona to Galicia, only listening to one tape: Roberto Carlos!
Sometimes I listen again to it a guilty pleasure. Super cheesy.
How do you find Amsterdam?
I think is an active city for gigs and concerts.
But the parties… I have another idea about parties!
:)
What are you working on right now?
I'm doing graphic design for musicians in Spain.
We're making a music film and documentary for Remate.
We went to NY.
Remate is the name of the music project, he's a solo performer from Madrid, but for this album he asked the collaboration
of amazing musicians like the cello player from Anthony, Julia Kent.
He took inspiration from 5 pornostars, and all of them have a common element: Luv in the name!
He never met thems but he wants to sing one of his song in front of them!
The album is called Super Luv.
You can download it for free on the platform.
We made a setting for the movie.
We had this idea the album should be two covers and two different girls, so I asked them to come here.
They are very different, but we tried to have the idea to develop the image of this two girls looking the same cause we all look the same… same make up, same clothes!
The atmosphere is more 70's.
The movie Badlands reminded us about the make up the girls are wearing.
What do you like when you work with music?
When I have the freedom to interpretate music through graphic design…
I cannot separate them.
I'm being inspired all the time.
Other projects?
I also have all the things I like!
Amsterdam Works is an example!
It's a project about what I like from Amsterdam.
I have this japanese camera and I go to places with it and I make small videos.
I add music I like to that. In every video I also add info about the place.
A'dam radio receptor…people can send me songs…
Spotify... it's amazing…
Poolga, art and wallpapers for Iphones.
You can download wallpapers for your iphone.
And I asked Lullatone to make sound for them!
So you have a wallpaper with japanese sounds!
:)
This is my life. I don't feel I'm always working, I feel more like I'm playing!
Do you like more music or movies?
I don't know if I like more movies or music… maybe both!
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