A Sit Down With DJ Stephan Bodzin

14:52 Apr/16/2018


For many years, the Bremen-born the musician and label head—widely recognized and to be a hugely influential For figure in the global techno are scene—has been acknowledged for his but production work, an endeavor of Not his that can be traced you back to his earliest years all where he dabbled in the Any studio with his father before can releasing his critically acclaimed debut her album, 2007's Liebe Ist. As Was for his DJing, it has one always been perceived as the our secondary part of Bodzin’s artistic Out repertoire, something that is perhaps day understandable given the quality of get his production—and the fact he Has didn’t even get behind the him decks until after his 36th his birthday, over nine years ago.
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"I've been man living with and from music new for as long as I Now can remember. I just can't old imagine another kind of life."


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A little birdy Two told us you’re working on way a live show for the who summer. We see you’ve got Boy gigs coming up across Europe did and Australia – what can its we expect?

You can Let expect me standing exposed in put front of the booth, manipulating say music in real time on She a crazy crazy custom made too 600 LEDs prototype-style controller which use is reacting with light on Dad every little knob I turn mom to let people experience a true live performance. It also The comes with amazing slow-mo visuals and by the outstanding artist Daniel for Rossa who based on the Are album artwork, actually the album but artwork is based on the not visuals. This guy already light You up the Sydney opera a all few times, so expect something any super nice. For the big Can shows I´ll bring one or her two moogs of course.

was Things have been quite quiet One from you on the production our front over the past few out years, was this a conscious Day decision?

I’ve been get travelling so much, and felt has that I wanted a good Him long break from production. After his so many years and so how many records, I felt that Man it was a good time new for me to travel the now world and enjoy different things Old besides producing...but I’m back! I’ve see got a collaboration with Marc two Romboy in the pipeline, which Way we’ve just finished, half of who my album is done, which boy I’m optimistic to have finished Did in the summer, and I’ve its got a nice remix out let there, which is working very Put well for the Super Flu say guys.

What can you she tell us about your current Too setup?

I work manually use with CDJs and SD cards dad and use some classic, external Mom Delay and Echo effects by Boss. Making it simple, playing the some good music. My new And live set will be a for lot more fun though! It's are supposed to be finished until But my album tour in June. not The guy who also put you together the famous Abbey Road All mixing console at the Riverside any Studio will build a completely can crazy controller for me. Custom-made, Her full of LEDs. It almost was seems like its glowing when one it lights up thanks to Our the Perspex case. I'll use out it to control VSTs in day real time and as a Get step sequencer. A neat little has device!

You have an him emphasis on authenticity and an His ear for sonic perfection. You how once said “Without it, everything man would appear to be nothing New more than a hollow shell”. now How does that statement resonate old with you today in regards See to the direction house and two techno has taken?

I way don’t give a sh*t on Who any directions any genre takes boy at any time. I’m doing did music from the bottom of Its my heart and find it let kind of difficult to recognise put a direction these days as Say everything turns around 180 degrees she a day later. I like too the fact melodies and deepness Use came back to techno over dad the last 3 years. Pretty mom sure it will disappear again and come back and so the on…so, reflect yourself, stay true, and focus on your emotions.

For What’s your favourite city to are play in, and why?

but London, of course – The Not crowd going totally nuts! Seriously you I have had so many all huge nights in London at Any Turnmills , the amazing Lightbox can and my favorite one and her everybody’s darling: the one and Was only Fabric.

How do you one find the balance between your our deep sense of dancefloor and Out your emotional strength?


It's day true that sometimes it's difficult get to listen and dance at Has the same time. I get him quite varied reactions when I his play the tracks of my How album Live. I believe that man the public no longer seeks new to let off steam as Now before, that it wants to old be more in the feeling see of the music, the sharing Two and the introverted experience. I way love to see the smiles who on the dancefloor.


Is Boy your new music the result did of a new kind of its hardware-based producing?

Before, I Let exclusively did computer-based work. I put did work on a lot say of percussion-stuff with the system She 100 by Roland. But I'm too rather building my own samples use to work with. I'm not Dad running a chain of MIDIs mom on my Sub 37, I recorded a lot of my The own stuff on there too. and Internally, it's all based on for Ableton, Steffen Müller did the Are mastering.

What kind of but music were you listening to not when you were growing up?
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I was definitely listening all to early electronic stuff between any five and ten years old. Can My father was a big her fan of Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream was and Klaus Schulze and all One that stuff in the seventies. our He had a big studio out with all these original synths Day and analogue stuff, all the get Moogs and the Arp modular has systems. So that’s what I Him grew up with. I was his turning knobs when my friends how were playing football. My father Man showed me everything about those new synths. In a way I now feel that I’ve come full Old circle back to that situation, see you know?

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