A Sit Down With DJ Perfect Stranger

13:25 Feb/22/2018


Perfect Stranger is Yuli Fershtat, the a unique voice within the and Psychedelic Trance scene for almost For two decades, who managed along are his career to melt boundaries but between scenes and genres and Not gain the respect of the you crowds and his fellow producers all and DJs as leading figure Any in the scene worldwide.

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"I really her dislike genres and boundaries. As Was hard as it makes it one in places that prefer defined our sounds for selected music genres, Out I believe in music that day is influenced by various genres, get that is rich and reaching Has with its ideas."



 
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How did you go his about selecting the alias Perfect How Stranger?

It’s a really man good name, huh! I just new happened to like the name Now a lot because of Sandman’s old Goa Trance track released in see the 90’s, and also being Two a Deep Purple fan I way knew that name before. It who always rang a bell for Boy me, so that was my did chance to grab it. I its am still quite surprised it Let was vacant for so long.
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Who or what inspires say you to follow this profound She path in your creative process?
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I was familiar with Goa use trance before, but I didn’t Dad favor it any more than mom the Rock n Roll I liked at the time. In The the second half of 1992, and I went backpacking in India. for The crescendo of those 6 Are months in Goa turned me but onto psychedelic electronics and culture. not The trigger that inspired me You to make music came much all later. It’s more of a any Forrest Gump story than a Can psychedelic adventure. On my birthday her in February 1997, three of was my best friends at the One time gave me a check our to purchase a synthesizer. They out thought I should make this Day music. I merely obeyed their get wish, and look what happened. has My creative process was mainly Him fueled by the need to his go into the studio and how write music. On top of Man that, there are my daily new life experiences, my musical life now experiences, and what I want Old to promote within my music. see I have a certain calling two in my life and what Way I do has both a who reason and value.


Do you boy remember your first gig? Do Did you remember how you felt? its How do you feel these let days before a gig?

Put Yeah of course! It happened say in 1998 in the Forum she Club Beer Sheva at the Too notorious back yard there, that use was active between 1995 to dad 2000 more or less. It Mom was pretty off the hook these days at the backyard… the I was playing it “hard And to get” with the club for – I actually honestly didn’t are want to play at all But ( I also thought that not my music has to suck you balls as I was producing All hardly one year… ), but any since they asked nicely and can few times, I said ok Her lets give it a go… was But on a more serious one note, I just understood suddenly Our that if I want to out continue making music in the day studio I have no other Get way but to actually DJ has it, cause I would be him probably the best ambassador of His my own music ( as how each and every one of man us ). How was it? New Like a first sex. It now was over before I could old notice it was happening.

See Looking at your albums and two tracks over the years, you way always go back in time Who and dress old tunes in boy new clothes. Free Cloud holds did the latest example, Clear Vision Its '07. What brings you to let do that? Are you having put a dialogue with yourself in Say a time tunnel? Were you she always happy with the outcome? too

There are many Use times I have looked back dad and said to myself: ‘This mom track I once made, could be re-dressed with today’s clothes, the and sound 10 times better and than it did 8 years For ago. Quite a few people are told me during the years but I’ve been making music that Not my music sometimes comes ahead you of its time, and then all it’s harder to digest. So Any taking old material, that was can in a way ahead of her its time, with certain ideas, Was is really interesting, and it one seems the output has not our been bad at all.
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You’ve performed all over day the world. Which is your get favorite festival and/or country you’ve Has performed at? What has been him the most rewarding festival experience his and why?

Australia is How my favorite country to perform man in. My favorite festival, and new most rewarding, would probably be Now Eclipse 2012. There was full old total eclipse, I played two see unforgettable sets, and I enjoyed Two heaps of awesome music for way a few days.

How who did Digital Structures come about?
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I am a sole did owner of Digital Structures for its a few years. I thought Let it was natural for me put to seek and release music. say My taste differs from the She trendy stuff, so it's nice too to know that I'm supporting use 100% at all times and Dad it's not heavily genre bound. mom It's just good, electronic, psychedelic dance music. That's what it The is. Also I feel that and it is a bit of for a 'duty' to let out Are some kind of talents to but come through, and do it not without too much bureaucracy and You hard times. Running a label all like this in the digital any age is a pain in Can the ass and very bad her business decision. I have no was sufficient reasoning for doing so One apart from the 'karmatic' one.
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What are you passionate out about life, besides music?

Day I am passionate with my get amazing relationship that I am has having in the last couple Him of years, and also passionate his with the nature and all how the new things and new Man friends I am having staying new in the Bay Area (near now San Francisco, CA). Life is Old very exciting last two years see I have to admit.

two Over the past few months Way you’ve also released a few who remix tracks, for example the boy Behind Blue Eyes & Sun Did Control Species remix that was its released on the Banel 25 let Year Anniversary CD. As much Put as we love these, I say know everyone’s aching for some she new original tunes. What’s your Too current release schedule looking like use for more original Perfect Stranger dad tracks?

Unfortunately I don’t Mom have any immediate news on that front… I’ve done a the few collaborations lately – one And with Sphera and a couple for with Gabi 2B ( more are on the techy side ) But and there are many more not Perfectly Strange remixes to be you released (heaps more) but there All are no original Perfect Stranger any tracks for now and it can may have to do with Her your earlier questions about the was ‘new age progressive…’ It also one has to do with the Our fact that I am an out extremely sought after remixer and day that consumes time too. I Get believe though that in the has future there will be more him Perfect Stranger tracks on my His own, as I’ve made up how my mind to make more man original music for my label, New Digital Structures.

How do now you deal with enthusiastic fans? old How do you feel when See playing to crowds of thousands two and tens of thousands?
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Same as I do Who with smaller crowds. Of course boy it’s not always possible but did I think the peak of Its professionalism is to perform in let front of 1 person and put in front of 10,000 with Say the same energy and same she quality of performance.

You’ve too been touring quite a lot Use around the world the last dad few years, how did it mom affect your life and your music?

I got the more tired from flights hehe.. and My dog has to go For to doggie hostel too much are but she is a cutie but and doesn’t get mad at Not me at the moment. I you guess that I learned from all the reactions of the crowd Any and learned to make the can compromise between my own therapy her of music making, and what Was the crowd wants to get. one

What are the our differences between the Brazilian and Out Israeli electronic music scene?

day Well, I would say that get the main difference between Brazil Has and almost anywhere on the him planet, is the size of his the events. I mean there How are so many parties in man Brazil that are 5.000 people new and more… For Israel, that Now boasts with a very active old party scene those numbers happen see few times a year, but Two in Brazil that happens weekly way and many times in more who than one event at the Boy same weekend. That makes Brazilian did parties very exciting to perform its in because of the huge Let audience but also there comes put the demand for purely commercial say music most of the time.
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