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| PRELUDE Which treasures are you searching for? The most important thing for me is to have a good time in what I am doing. To be and work with the people I love and respect. If you are looking for something, where do you go looking? In Berlin or anywhere in the world? I have the luck to see all kind of different parts of the world. I always meet new people and discover new places. That's where I find a lot of my inspirations to bring home. What role does the internet play in your daily routine. What do you use the net for the most? I spend a lot of time in front of the computer. It's necessary for my communication and daily biz. But I try to avoid it as much as possible. Why do you think do people feel the need to put their thoughts on the internet in the form of blogs? Because it's a platform of showing people their latest interests within the industry. I realized that anyone can do this, so I lost interest. The only blog I find refreshing is Honeyee.com - they're just fun to look at, tasteful and not so serious. I like that. |
If you could pick
one person – maybe someone famous or a historical figure –
whose diary would you like to read? Giorgio Moroder's. In terms of music, your music or your relationship to it and your work, what influences can you see for yourself? Well, most of the music I listen to gives me a lot of influences; I go out and find an old record from the 70s that I had never heard of, and this could be the main inspiriation for a new song. BACKGROUND If there is one instant, one situation, one event from your childhood that you’d like to go back to re-live what would that be and why? Mostly I think of times when my parents took me to these summer festivals. Like for example when we went to see the Beatles play. It was always something special and different from other families' activities. These are some great memories . Who are the key figures in your life, who helped you, inspired you to take the route in life that you took? My parents are the real '68 generation - politics, music, and art was very much the |
'theme' and dicussion. Of
course I escaped from all this when I started growing up but it still
has the biggest Impact on what I'm doing now. You ended up choosing a creative career – which especially parents deem as less safe. Were you ever uncertain? Not really. I never question what I’m doing. It's still a process of reaching different levels. It keeps me exciting and free. I see people doing the same thing for years and years. I realized when I was younger that this would not be the path for me. I always wanted to work creatively. Could you briefly describe your educational background – how did you become a producer? When I was kid I started to play the drums. I learnt it in our local youth center. My parents bought me a set later. It was the biggest nightmare for them. Once I started, there was no end in sight. Later on I became a DJ in night clubs. Music production followed. At what point in your life did you recognize or know that it was music that you would/could earn a living with? Do you remember your first paid ‘gig’? It all came with the hip hop culture. I was really into graffiti painting way back. I started as street painter in the early 80s. |
At this time graffiti and
hip hop weren't established at all. I focused on what was happening
in New York. The music and DJing started in the late 80s for me. I
played some parties here and there. Not really professionally, I was
still discovering. The first paid gigs I played with Marley (now owner
of NORT) my partner back then. It all happened with a night at the
WMF club called "The Sonic Pioneers". We played a mix of
Hip Hop , Disco and Electronic. Which moment would you say was your ‘breakthrough’ – at what point did you know that ‘this is it, this is what I’ll be doing’? I bumped into DJ Fetisch. We started the Project Turntable Terranova. It became a really successful project. This was pretty much the breakthrough. If you imagine having a 9 to 5 job, what are the advantages and disadvantages of this sort of job as compared to yours? Honestly my job is pretty much 9 - 5 or longer these days. I see what I do more flexible then other day jobs. |
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