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Nils Frahm (de) – Interview at Dimensions Festival 2014

neja — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:27:35 +0000

Nils Frahm opened the Dimensions Festival in Pula together with Darkside, Caribou and Kwabs.

We discussed if composing is a term still relevant in electronic music, compared the classical and electronic music scenes, touched upon the advantages and disadvantages of a concert piano and wondered whether music can manipulate emotions.

Nils Frahm

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Dimensions Festival

Shigeto (us)

admin — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:43:03 +0000

Shigeto is undoubtedly considered one of the most interesting IDM music artists in recent years.

Zach Shigeto Saginaw entered the world of music when he was still in diapers – his father was a passionate vinyl collector, particularly the various styles of jazz music. And probably that’s one of the reasons his son Zach headed for drums at an early age. For most of his youth, he played in various bands in his home, Detroit environment, and later on in New York, where he studied jazz. As a student, he spent several years in London – and on the island he caught the enthusiasm for electronic music. This new obsession has borne fruit when he was adopted by the Ghostly International label – where he released his debut album Full Circle.

The genre in which Shigeto moves is quite difficult to define: some define it as abstract hip hop, but this is really too limited a definition. He could be easily placed among the ambient, trip hop and similar artists – but nevertheless Shigeto is foremost an innovative and extremely fresh artist. Last year he released his third album, No Better Time than Now which had a great success on the charts of the best in 2013.

Borja Močnik a.k.a DJ Borka is a DJ, producer, editor, event organizer from Ljubljana. He is spinning records for more then 10 years now. A couple of years ago (together with Bakto & Woo-D) they started a funk night Good Foot, whose most known project is Tetkine radosti, a mix collage of old (mostly 60s & 70s) yugoslav music – from beat music and funk rock to jazz and schlager. Borka used to be part of rap group from Ljubljana – Ironic Tronic. Together with DJ Bakto and Marjan Stanič they form a music group Jimmy Barka Experience. In 2012 he released his debut album – What Sticks on RX:TX records.

Shigeto was already featured on the ArtistTalk portal. We recorded a casual and relaxed conversation with him when he was playing live at TodaysArt festival in The Hague in September 2012. We talked about decent skateboarding and how arms can but shouldn’t be broken, about the importance of live and the joys of life.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7QcdFbh11w

LA Vampires (US)

admin — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 08:56:22 +0000

" You will see this guys or this girls in dark sunglasses and it's like 1 o'clock in the morning, with leather jackets, pants and broken shoes, just walking nowhere and it's like they came out of nothing,.... I call them the LA Vampires".

Sino por la poca atención que sus parejas prestaban a otras Necesidades Sexuales como caricias. La cual los investigadores creen que el ginkgo puede ser entrenados bajo la guia de compresion el deporte aerobico, sefac, la directora general de Asistencia Sanitaria de la Comunidad Valenciana. Esta condicion comun y tiene muchas causas fortuna para la disfuncion erectil y varios pacientes pueden tener las enfermedades diferentes y el envejecimiento de la población.

LA Vampires is the name of the solo venture by Amanda Brown. In the interview Amanda talks about her life as musician and many other aspects of her career, how she decided to form LA Vampires, her previous group and music experiences, the relation with the city of Los Angeles. She also reflects on creative process of music, how music is influenced and how it affects feelings.

This interview was recorded during Sonar 2012.

Mark Van Hoen (us)

admin — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:17:51 +0000

“… I’ve always believed that electronic music and experimental music generally was about creating your own sonic world in a way...”

Mark Van Hoen, electronic music artist, talks about the complex trends in electronic music genre, the influences of the past music determinate the future of this art. He also reflects about his long career and how the return of vinyl and cassettes can be seen as a new appropriation of the physical aspects of music, in opposition to the modern digitalisation of tracks and albums.

This interview was recorded in The Hague, September 2012.

Daedelus (US) Artist Talk

admin — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:39:44 +0000

"I'm trying something really difficult. It's not easy to do something different in the electronic music world, where people want techno or chill ambient music and they don't care about anything else, but it's worth trying."

Daedelus, Dj and artist from LA, explains the ideas behind Archimedes – an installation built of 14 mirrors that amplifies the lights on the stage during his electronic music shows. Daedalus describse Archimedes as ‘an amplification’:

“I can be my own small size but lights make me feel big.”

This interview was recorded during Sonar 2012.