Video: Møme & Ricky Ducati, ‘I Know’

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Møme & Ricky Ducati

Without being in the same room, French producer Møme (Jérémy Souillart) and Los Angeles-based singer Ricky Ducati have made an album they hope evokes a specific place.

That place is Los Angeles, circa the 1970s and 1980s. The album is “Flashback FM,” out Feb. 12, a collection of summery electronic pop that, through the first four singles, is as vibrant as the many West Coast vistas it imagines.

Of course, imagination is the key here. Møme hails from Nice, and Ducati is from Edmonton, Alberta, and neither was alive in the era the duo seeks to sonically construct.

When the duo released the first single from the album last summer, they said: “For us, ‘Got It Made’ and the ‘Flashback FM’ album is a time travel to ’70s/’80s Los Angeles. We would have loved to know California at this time and imagined ‘Got It Made’ driving down Hollywood at 4 p.m. when the sun starts going down.”

You can debate how “L.A.” the vibe is, but the singles are irresistible, especially “They Said,” which is a little bit indie-rock and a little IDM. “This track means a lot to us,” the duo says. “It was composed in a moment of reflection walking the streets of Silver Lake.”

The latest single is “I Know,” which came out Friday along with a video that repurposes the digitized robots/statues that were first introduced in the “Got It Made” video. (The Daft Punk homage is appropos.)

“The vibe behind the track “I Know’ is wanting to connect with someone and knowing they want that connection as well,” the duo says. “It’s being conscious without even interacting with the dynamic and energies, like a dialogue without words. In the last months we were able to tie our concept together between videos and place ourselves as characters in the ‘Flashback FM’ universe. Gold and silver statues from ‘Got It Made’ transformed into 3D modeling of us trying to see each other but being in two different, far outer-space worlds. It’s clear in our current world that it’s harder to connect with people the way we used to, and the clip symbolizes our attempt to create new bridges even in the midst of chaos. ”

||| Watch: The video for “I Know”

||| Also: Check out “They Said,” “Got It Made” and “Moves”