"My Friend Dario"
Single by Vitalic
from the album OK Cowboy
ReleasedMarch 29, 2005
GenreElectronica, electroclash
LabelDifferent/Pias
Songwriter(s)Pascal Arbez-Nicolas [1]
Music video
"Vitalic - My friend Dario" at YouTube

"My Friend Dario" is the first single from Vitalic's debut album, OK Cowboy. It is the first single from Vitalic to use "Brigitte", a vocal synthesis program.[2] "No Fun", which is another track on OK Cowboy, also uses Brigitte.

The music video for "My Friend Dario" features a band mimicking instrumentation; the guitarists play air guitar and the drummer air drums. The lack of band instruments in the video reflect a statement made on Vitalic's website; that the instruments on his album OK Cowboy are entirely synthesized and that "the only thing he can't fake is the emotion that galvanizes his music."

The maxi-CD version of the single includes a live cover of Daniel Miller's "Warm Leatherette", performed on BBC Radio 1.[3] The cover was later included in a collector's edition of OK Cowboy.

In an interview with Pascal Arbez in CMJ New Music Monthly, Arbez dialogued:[4]

[Interviewer:] What can your alterego "Dario" do that you haven't been able to do?
[Interviewee:] When he finally has a crash, because he drives like a brainless kid, he dies. But it is not real because it is just a song. It has no impact. As far as I am concerned, I try to make my own excesses, which are real, not leading to a sad end.
[Interviewer:] But you've gotten a few speeding tickets lately. So are you and Dario becoming the same person?
[Interviewee:] Sometime we are. Dario is just the concept name of a part of myself. It is convenient to have these names to point out in an easy way how I feel or how my behavior is at a precise moment. Instead of saying, "Oh, you are acting like a stupid drunk and please don't take the car," my friends would say, "Arrête de faire ton Dario!" ["Stop acting like Dario!"]

The song appears in the EA video games FIFA 06 and Need for Speed: Carbon (plays only when driving a tuner car). It also features in Riders Republic, developed by Ubisoft Annecy.

It is also used as a catwalk soundtrack for Versace Fall/Winter 2005 show.

Single track listing

12"
  1. "My Friend Dario" (extended mix) – 4:38
  2. "My Friend Dario" (Dima prefers new beat mix) – 5:30
CD
  1. "My Friend Dario" – 3:37
  2. "My Friend Dario" (extended mix) – 4:38
  3. "My Friend Dario" (Dima prefers new beat mix) – 5:30
  4. "Warm Leatherette" (as heard on Radio 1)

References

  1. ↑ "ASCAP Songview repertory entry for this song". Retrieved December 17, 2023.
  2. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r744629
  3. ↑ My Friend Dario at Discogs
  4. ↑ "Now known as VITALIC, Pascal Arbez's robotic rhythms prove he's still top dog". Google Books. 2005. p. 23.
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