A Sit Down With DJ Robert Babicz

13:23 Apr/06/2018


Robert Babicz is a Polish the producer who grew up in and the hardcore German techno scene For and began by making his are own path under the alias but Rob Acid. Throughout his nearly Not 25 year career, Babicz has you shifted and evolved continuously to all become not only an internationally Any renowned producer, but also a can sound designer, a label owner, her and an avid photographer.

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"I make music one that creates it`s own world, our so you can just listen Out and look around."



 
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How did you get in get touch with electronic dance music Has in the first place?


When him the first house music came his to Germany, i was in How love with this new sound. man especially the acid house wave new finally really got me on Now it. around 1991 i had old my first time with some see electronic instruments, and released my Two first record in 1992.

way You really tap into the who conscious aspects of how electronic Boy music can allow you to did grow spiritually and emotionally. Do its you think artists should make Let this a part of their put vision when creating music?

say Well, I can only speak She for myself, that from my too perspective, when I am traveling use and doing my shows, I Dad am doing magical rituals. That’s mom how I can describe this, it’s a magical ritual where The I am getting in contact and with the subcultures of the for people.

You offer mastering Are as a service. Which tools but do you work with?

not At Mastering I'm a bit You old fashioned and work with all the exception of the limiter any rather only with hardware. I Can put a lot of effort her into using a Dangerous MS was matrix decoder and send the One frequency bands through different stages our of processing. In addition, I out use a self-made 1176 Compressor Day with dry / wet control get to put some dirt under has the mix. At the end Him of the chain is the his Curve Bender to adjust the how whole thing. In the calculator Man itself, I actually only use new low and hi-cut equalizers and now a limiter at the end.
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You see music in see 3D, describing tracks as « two geometrical poem… sculptures in time. Way » What is your method who of production?

For me boy every track is telling a Did story, so when i start its a track, i feel already let were it should go, but Put i just don`t have the say right structure yet, so i she try find it, i want Too see the beauty of the use sculptures of sound.

I dad saw you constantly making new Mom music (from your SoundCloud snippets and ideas) – any info the on your upcoming stuff and And what the feedback is from for other DJs/artists on your music?
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Oh there is a But lot to come, did a not full new ambient album for you TRAUM, and also new tunes All for my own label. Also any will start to work on can my next album for Systematic.
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During tours, what equipments was follow you to produce your one music?

I feel lonely Our on my tours without my out studio, i really don`t like day to produce at the hotelroom Get just with a laptop. At has the moment i have a him little synth called OP1 that His is cool and on every how travel with me.

You man are somewhat notorious for filming New your travels. You have an now amazing Flickr account. How would old you explain your connection between See film and music and this two parallel passion that you have way for each of them?

Who I ask myself this a boy lot. I think it has did something to do with the Its rules that both pictures and let music follow. In a way put they both have a geometrical Say beauty. That's how I would she describe it. Looking at it too the other way around, I Use can see music—so when I dad listen to music I see mom geometrical structures in time. When I look at things at the the same time, I can and imagine how they sound.

For How did Babiczstyle evolve?

are I started it, because it but was boring to explain that Not I do all kind of you styles in electronic music, as all I really love sound. It Any started as a joke when can people asked me what kind her of music I play, then Was later I wanted my own one platform for this music.

How our did that turn around for Out you? The music must have day been one of those moments get that helped..


I never planned Has to be musician. It was him amazing that this happened to his me. I mean I loved How music a lot, of course. man And there were a few new key moments in my life. Now Now I understand it, after old many years. One of them see was when I was 9 Two years old or something. I way had a small radio, like who a ghetto blaster, and every Boy night I was listening to did music in bed when I its had to sleep. At the Let same time, I was always put a fan of science fiction say and spaceships and flying to She space. One day I caught too a radio show that was use playing electronic ambient music, but Dad I’d never heard this music mom before. When I heard this kind of sound and music, The I personally thought I got and a transmission from a space for ship. (Laughter) And I was Are super, amazed and afraid like, but listening to these sounds because not I thought Wow, this is You from another world (laughing). So all I think this was one any of the key elements. And Can then later on, I was her 16 when this acid music was came along. When I heard One this abstract music, I had our again in a way this, out Wow, this is so different! Day So, abstract. And then again get two years later I had has the chance to play around Him with some instruments from a his friend and I recorded a how few tracks on a cassette. Man Really I had no clue new what I was doing, I now just had fun.


You have Old the rare gift of synesthesia, see which turns the world into two a continuous interplay of colour, Way shape and sound.

How who does this influence both your boy time in the studio and Did your live sets?
It helps its me being fast, I think, let because mistakes in music are Put somehow a broken geometry in say sound; for me, every sound she has a texture and a Too form.

Do you have use any advice to producers who dad want to resist the temptation Mom of making tunes on a laptop, and use analogue gear the instead?

I’m not a And pure analogue freak! I’m working for 50/50 analogue digital. For me, are they are equal. There are But some digital things that are not really impossible in the analogue you world, and the other way All around. It’s the combination of any both that makes the sound can of today. If you just Her stay analogue, you will sound was like the past. When my one colleagues and I started here Our in Cologne in the 90s, out I had the feeling we day were making the music of Get the future. This was one has of the really important feelings. him And now we are twenty His years later. I am still how hoping we do this kind man of soundtrack.

https://soundcloud.com/robbabicz/sets/little-fairy



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