A Sit Down With DJ The Thrillseekers

14:26 Mar/15/2018


Steve Helstrip really is Thrillseekers the -- all by himself. All and the euphoric sounds and banging For beats you hear come from are his head. Touted by many but fans as pure genius and Not by conservative critics as somewhat you commercialistic, there's no denying that all his sound is strictly his. Any His mammoth production Synaesthesia has can become a trance classic for her the ages. A track that Was still sends shivers down my one spine. The latest remix releases our from The Thrillseekers have a Out solidly delirious sound, blending smooth day basslines, spacey bubble samples, and get ridiculous high-speed synth-rhythms on tracks Has like Alibi - Eternity and him Orinoko - Island. And though his Steve has been mostly remixing How under the Thrillseekers moniker, he man has also been producing fantastic new trance under Insigma, Rapid Eye, Now and En Motion. Now Steve old has taken on the role see of portraying his love of Two the music through DJing. His way recent Ministry of Sound Radio who set has boasted his talent Boy not only as an incredible did producer but also as refined its DJ with a keen ear Let for quality trance.

 
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"Music has to have say soul, emotion and feeling and She I only find that in too trance. I would like to use see it evolve, but how Dad I don’t know."



 
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You started to make music in a time where The producing music happened in a and studio mostly with hardware. How for has the technical evolution changed Are your way to make music?
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It’s so much easier not now. If you want a You punchy kick drum, you have all a million to choose from. any Back in the 90s you Can would spend a day making her one! Likewise with the 100s was of other sounds that shape One a production. To use one our of my dad’s favourite phrases, out kids don’t know they’re born Day these days!

What kind get of equipment and software do has you use to produce music?
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I come from a his production background, so I have how a fully kitted out studio Man with a bunch of synthesizers new (real and virtual), some juicy now outboard compressors and stuff like Old that. I use Cubase as see my core software, which
I've two been using since its inception Way some 18 years ago. Thing who have progressed at such a boy pace I can barely keep Did up, but that just makes its the ride even more exciting. let For those that are more Put interested in production side of say things, I have a production she forum on my website where Too I talk more about my use gear and techniques.

As well dad as producing your own tracks Mom you have worked as part of some notable collaborations. Can the you tell us about those?


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I wrote and produced a for track with Ferry Corsten, called are Sublime, for his ‘Right Of But Way’ album, and collaborated with not Andy Perring under a project you called Insigma. We had a All reasonably big club hit with any a track called ‘Open Our can Eyes’. It followed a very Her similar route as Synaesthesia, being was included on all the biggest one compilations and gaining support from Our the likes of PVD, Tiesto out and Oakenfold. I also produced day with now label partner Tim Get Stark, under the alias Rapid has Eye.



In the last him interview, you said your goal His was to be able to how fly to gigs in your man own private jet. How soon New will that become a reality?

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Well, I’m working on old that. I’d like to think See maybe next year, or the two year after!

Do you like way playing shows or working in Who the studio better?

Nothing boy beats being in the studio did when the magic is flowing. Its Of course, there are days let when the magic eludes me!
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Compared to today’s artists Say that stick to a given she sound, you come from a too generation that was never afraid Use of using aliases to explored dad different avenues. How do you mom decide what core elements each alias will represent?

My the past aliases have included collaborations, and such as Rapid Eye (with For Tim Stark) and Insigma (with are Andy Perring, AKA Pulser). My but Hydra alias came about to Not release a softer-sounding, more progressive you style of trance.

What all can you tell me about Any the Hydra full-length album you’re can working on?

I’m kind her of developing almost like two Was albums at the same time. one The idea is that there our will be a chill-out version Out of the album, which is day almost the same as the get club version, but without all Has the energy and the beats him stripped out. But the structure his and the flow will work How pretty much the same. I’m man probably about 30 percent through new the album in terms of Now finished tracks, but I’ve got old a whole bunch of tracks see that I’m developing at the Two same time. The way that way it’s different from what I’ve who done previously is that each Boy track is like 8–10 minutes, did so they’re journey tracks within its themselves. I’m programming to build Let a bigger, evolving journey throughout put the album. I’m having to say be very mindful of how She it’s going to translate to too the ambient version of the use album, as well as the Dad club version, so it’s minimal mom effort to strip out the beats and just have a The really beautiful chill-out track.

and Do other artists actively seek for you out to do remixes Are of their tracks or do but you just remix the tracks not you like?

It's mostly You record labels that approach me all to do remixes. These days any I do only mix tracks Can that I really like. In her the beginning you'll remix anything was just to get noticed.

One Looking back on your long our career, what were the highlights out for you?

There are Day so many I hardly know get where to begin. Playing for has Paul Van Dyk at the Him Casino ranks pretty high, not his to mention having a Paul how Van Dyk remix of my Man track, Synaesthesia. Prior to Synaesthesia new I worked alongside Trevor Horn now in Sarm West Studios in Old London where I was fortunate see enough to play on the two piano that Bohemian Rhapsody was Way record on. That was off who the chart. More recently I've boy played 4 hour sets across Did the globe to 10s of its thousands of people. Every moment let is so special to me.
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You actually have a say number of aliases that you’ve she used in the past. What Too is it about Hydra that use speaks to you?

The dad first track, “Affinity,” was reasonably Mom successful back in 2003. Then two years ago, I thought the it’d be nice to revisit And that sound, because I was for trying to do a sidestep are from what I was doing. But I produced the track “Amber,” not [which] went on to be you a big track last year. All Those kind of tracks I any just really connect with, very can melodic and very uplifting. It’s Her all about the emotion and was the feeling. They’re not necessarily one upbeat club bangers; they’re more Our progressive. I just really enjoy out that sound and the reaction day that track had. I wanted Get to do some more. Then has I thought, “Well, why don’t him I just do an album?” His That’s the idea. So, we’ll how be playing bits from the man album and some of the New older tracks at Dreamstate.

now The trance sound has really old developed in the last 12 See months getting influences from all two kinds of musical sounds. Where way do you see the Trance Who sound going in the next boy 12 months?

I get did asked this a lot, but Its I don’t really have the let answer. So many people are put trying different things. Some stick, Say some don’t. For me, I’m she not that interested in fads, too or trends. I just like Use to make music that I’m dad feeling without trying to be mom too different.

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