
Bonjour! When did you create Donnemencinq (Give me five)? Where did the concept come from? Do you give a lot of high fives?
Hello! Donnemencinq was born in October of last year. I had wanted to launch a cultural project for a long time and instead of launching something too complicated, I prefered to start off with a simple and attractive start: each Monday one playlist with quality musical discoveries.
The idea comes from two big motivations: my desire to share and my love for music and new sounds.
Have you ever noticed that you always feel better after a high five? For me, every Monday I give myself a big high five and that guarantees me a successful week!
You suggest playlist with five tracks each week. Where do you find these tracks? Why only five?
I follow a lot of artists and labels on Soundcloud and on other social networks. Since I started to use Whyd I also discover more and more tracks thanks to other users’ playlists.
Only five tracks for a question of quality. If we succeed in publishing five tracks that really make an impression on our visitors then we are already really happy. At the beginning it was a question of selecting one track per work day (from Monday to Friday) and finally we said that it would be even nicer to have a full list from the first day of work.

Who should listen to your playlists? Tell us about your style of music, is it the same overall or does it change from week to week?
Our playlists are made for the widest audience possible. Our goal is to make people discover tracks that haven’t been listened to a lot but deserve to be. We also like to bring back a few classics that have been forgotten. It’s important to remain accessible, it has to be a moment of pleasure!
On the style side, even if we like electro, we pay attention to bringing diversity in our selections. We can go from one style to another very rapidly but we try to keep a certain progression to the flow of the playlist.
We can we look forward to you in 2015? Do you have plans for world domination?
The project is still very young but we already have a lot of ideas. The next steps are:
- Go to meet artists that have impressed us and interview them
- Create artwork for each playlist from talented photographers and graphic designers
- Present the latest news from artists that we really appreciate
With that, we might not dominate the world, but I’m sure that the simplicity and quality of our site will have a nice place in it!
So Whyd, give me five!
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