Page 12 - Zone Magazine Issue 021

Your favourite DJ/producer, and why?
I like many names like: Hot since 82, Camelphat, Matan Caspi, Luna City Express and many more. I like more Tech House , minimal , Deep Tech. And I like this style because combines stylistic features of Techno with House. This is what I like. And these artists they give me this taste of music I want to listen to. Minimal production style that associated with Techno from Detroit and the UK.
Your stranded on a desert island
for the rest of your life, what 5
tracks do you have with you?
1. Every Little piece - Hot since 82 2. The Sultan - Matan Caspi
3. Anja Schneider - All I see
4. Fear - Boris Brejcha
5. Runaways - Tiger Stripes
What do you think of the scene today? Why?
There are so many artists in the world that you can hear, different festivals, different kinds of music. Various platforms with millions of songs. Certainly this affects the artists somehow. But now we are all stuck with this big change in the music scene. It does not go unnoticed, but it can not be changed. It's so much easier to discover every kind of music online, but festivals and clubs are not compared.
What do you think of playing for
FREE gigs and downloading FREE
music?
In my first steps here in Berlin I played sometimes free. Perhaps this is what some people hear crazy, but it has actually happened to many times. When you are at the beginning of the
course you want to follow, you have to suffer everything. You
may have to play four to five hours and get nothing. But later you realize that the world that comes to listen to you constantly increases your chances of playing more often in more clubs and maybe you are not playing for free anymore. If I want to download music I have spotify, and I think that this is ok for me, I can find everything I want, also soundcloud, mixcloud and others.
Does it matter about genre, or do you just play what sounds good?
For me House music is what represents me. I can play other genrres, minimal or techno. But this kind of music is with which it can characterize my ego. In many of my sets I play Deep Tech - Minimal. Tech-house uses the same basic structure as house. However, elements of the house 'sound' such as realistic jazz sounds and booming kick drums are replaced with elements from techno such as shorter, deeper, darker and often distorted kicks, smaller, quicker hi-hats noisier snares and more synthetic or acid sounding synth melodies, something I also use in my productions.
Last words?
Everyone can listen to my new album from my label 'Upside Down Records' in Berlin. New album coming soon and from another artists. I plan new gigs in Berlin and Europe.
Connect:
https://www.facebook.com/Upside-Down-
Records-1575342552775002/
Words By Paul Newhouse Pics by Angelo Salvaggio
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