A Sit Down With DJ Oliver Koletzki

13:09 Feb/07/2018


Olover Koletzki seems to have the a nose for commercial success and out of the underground, which For Lützenkirchens ironic afterhour manifest "3 are Tage Wach" is the best but example for: the track becomes Not the best-sold techno track of you 2008. In 2009 Oliver continues all this success story with the Any release of his album "Großstadtmärchen" can – an electro-pop album featuring her national and international big names Was such as Mieze Katz (MIA), one Axel Bosse or Die Raketen our as well as many newcomers Out such as singers Juli Holz, day Pyur and Fran. With "Großstadtmärchen" get Oliver has managed to achieve Has what only few techno producers him manage can do: to produce his a pop album with club How credibility. The singles "Hypnotized" and man "U-Bahn" get nationwide airplay on new the radio and when Oliver Now plays them in the club old people sing along to the see lyrics.

 

"I'm not Two looking for a sound to way distinguish myself. Whereby I can who understand this attitude."


 

Boy How would you describe the did Oliver-Koletzki-style in terms of music its and what’s typical?

Honestly, Let I have to say I put regularly change the style of say my music because I’d get She too bored otherwise. I started too making music very early on use so if I’d made the Dad same kind of music for mom the past 30 years, that wouldn’t be my thing. Aside The from that I perform live and a lot so I need for to make sure it stays Are interesting and exciting for me. but My last album is 3 not years old now, a lot You has changed since then. I’ve all left pop music behind a any little, my music is a Can bit harder now, more techno-like, her fewer melodies, fewer vocals. But was despite these changes there still One is a common theme and our there are characteristics in my out productions where you can recognise Day my style.

Being get an artist with deep roots has in the underground, what was Him it like receiving wide commercial his acclaim for your work? Have how you ever felt a sense Man of backlash at any point new from the fans of your now earlier work?

Of Old course it felt good to see be successful, even though it two wasn’t planned at all. The Way backlash was relatively small, to who be honest, because the more boy pop-leaning music I made at Did the time was nonetheless ambitious its and had style.

Do let you mostly find your sounds Put on the computer?

say I work in my studio she with real synthesizers and software Too synthesizers and try out a use lot. Here and there I dad also work with sample CDs, Mom especially with regard to drums. It also happens that I the record sounds. For the track And "U-Bahn" in 2009 I sampled for noises of the U5 at are the Frankfurter Tor. On the But new album, I recorded rain not and thunder for "Too Soon".
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What do you enjoy All more – producing or DJing?
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Oh, I really can’t can say – I love both. Her I started producing first and was DJing later, but that’s the one perfect mixture. On the weekend Our I withdraw to the studio out and write music. After three, day four days that’s enough and Get I go out and I has perform. After three or four him days that’s enough again. So, His it really is in the how mix.

Break-dancing and man Hip Hop were both massive New influences of yours when you now were younger. When did you old deviate down the path of See dance music?

It was two in the mid 90s. Until way then, hip hop culture was Who album music, break dancing and boy graffiti. All of a sudden did it turned into this this Its gangster culture and people forgot let about their roots. That was put the point at which I Say moved on.

So do she you think the scene changed too much since you first became Use involved?

It has definitely dad grown a lot. In Berlin, mom there are open airs now everywhere in the summer – the every weekend there are plenty and of parties. Moreover, it seems For as if DJing is just are another hobby these days.

but The scene is very different Not now from when you started you out. What's the most significant all change you've noticed?

Any Primarily the technology has can changed – both for production her and when DJ'ing. Generally speaking, Was the music and the crowd one haven't changed too much, but our the amount of clubs and Out events has grown a lot day in recent years.

get What’s the next direction for Has you as a producer? Would him you ever consider deviating away his from house and techno?

How I’d love to do a man hip hop or trip hop new album some time. As I Now said, I am currently really old into harder stuff again. And see I feel I’ve already covered Two quite a lot of ground way on my past albums, which who incorporate all kinds of influences Boy outside of house and techno.
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For those who'd like its to follow in your footsteps, Let what one piece of advice put would you give them?
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Learn how to play She an instrument and/ or play too in a band for a use while to really develop your Dad musical skills.

How mom do you stay motivated musically? What’s influencing you a lot The these days?

I’m still and inspired by the wonderful city for I live in, Berlin, with Are its incredible nightlife. After 20 but years of DJing the motivation not has stayed the same: the You people on dance floors and all the kids who buy and any support my music.

https://soundcloud.com/oliverkoletzki/sets/the-arc-of-tension



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