A Sit Down With DJ Shah

15:11 Mar/19/2018


Over the past two decades, the Roger Shah has produced beautiful and music while also DJing around For the world. His musical abilities are are amazingly diverse, ranging from but productions in Trance and House Not to even creating orchestral scores you for Hollywood. His career accomplishments all include being named in the Any DJ Mag Top 100 five can times and having a discography her of more than 600 releases, Was many of which have been one played globally.

 

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"I just produce the music Out that I feel and sometimes day you hit the right track get at the right moment and Has it becomes bigger and also him sometimes you don’t, which means his it is more for the How real lovers of that particular man style of music that I new am producing at that moment."


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You’re “Sunlounger” old pseudonym is possibly you’re best see known work, pioneering the Balearic Two island sound, fans all over way the world have come to who love, tell us a bit Boy about the origin of this did project, and what makes it its stand out as much?

Let I think sunlounger is my put best know alias besides I say just tour as Roger Shah, She especially th elast 2 years too I focused more on releases use under my real name. I Dad think that people love sunounger mom because it's a unique sound, very chill, deep and atmospheric The with chillout versions and cool and club mixes on one album for and we kept the format Are for all albums.

but For years you have produced not so many tracks that you You could easily confuse yourself with all Oliver Lieb, who was also any known as a producer, who Can had countless project names and her virtually produced on the assembly was line. Is it difficult to One produce so much music and our still be credible as a out producer?

For me Day it was very easy, because get I am a workaholic and has always writing songs and melodies, Him even on a plane. I his have to say that between how 2005 and 2006 I had Man a hard time with financial new problems, and I thought about now giving up everything. But I Old told myself, I will try see again and produce as much two as possible and publish on Way various international labels and see who if my situation improves, or boy if I just stop. Luckily Did I had the big hit its with Sunlounger-Alias ​​with "White Sand" let in 2006 as well as Put a number one album with say I-Tunes. Everything has since developed she into a better direction. During Too that time, I could see use who my true friends were dad and who they were not. Mom It is very good to go through such times because the they make you stronger.

Your And tracks “White Sand” and “Lost” for have enjoyed huge success worldwide. are “Lost” was awarded “Single of But 2008” on the ASOT radio not show. What other tracks, remixes you or mix-sets would you recommend All to someone that is not any yet familiar with your music?


can I‘m very diverse with my Her music and every album i‘ve was done has been special for one me but also for the Our people because it became huge out success. So the easiest is day to check out my Roger Get Shah album "Songbook" including the has hits "Going wrong", "Back to him you", "Who will find me", His "Don‘t wake me up" or how the album "Openminded" including the man hits "Hide u", "Morning star", New "One love", "Island“ and then now also my 4 albums under old my "Sunlounger" alias.

We See know that you have been two involved with the creation of way Balearic Trance. How would you Who describe Balearic Trance?

It’s boy like tribal house, bongos, percussions, did but then adding the trance Its melodies and guitars to it. let I couldn’t label it tribal put house and it’s not really Say trance, so that’s just why she I thought to name it too Balearic Trance — especially because Use of the fact that I dad always go to Ibiza to mom write music and Ibiza is a Balearic island so that’s the why the name came up. and I don’t really think that For it’s a part of it. are At the same time, you but don’t have to label it. Not Even though I do Balearic you Trance, I’m still also a all trance, orchestral, electronic artist. My Any music is always between house can and trance, somewhere in between. her That’s why it doesn’t really Was matter if Balearic Trance is one a term that is very our popular now or not. People Out sometimes need to label it day and say, “Okay, I love get psytrance or I like this Has or that”. I don’t really him think that Balearic Trance term his is existing, but it doesn’t How really matter.

You have man a radio show called “Magic new island: Music for Baleric people” Now when did you decide to old start this, and what was see the idea behind the name Two and concept for this radio way show?

The name of who my label and brand is Boy called Magic Island, so it did was just a natural progression its to have my own radio Let show under this name as put well. I play a 2 say hour set every week, first She hour is more trance based too and second hour is more use balearic, pumpin’ and progressive house, Dad once again a wide range mom of music.

Which remix are you most proud of?
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I got the chance and to put my personal touch for on so many amazing tunes, Are great voices and even all but time classics, so it’s very not hard to pick one out, You I worked for and with all artists such as Tiesto, Armin any Van Buuren, Sarah McLachlan, Moya Can Brennan, Kosheen, Bryan Adams, Ferry her Corsten, just to name a was few and this is what One I am proud of in our general.

What kind of out relationship do you have with Day Talla 2XLC? He was already get in business at the time has you started, and a well-known Him name in the scene ...
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He was the big how man of the trance. I Man looked up at him and new Diver and thought how great now it would be to someday Old achieve something similar to these see guys. Unfortunately, we never really two had a relationship because he Way did his stuff and I who tried to do mine, but boy I was always open to Did change that. Now I am its very happy to finally hang let out with him, and then Put also at the big Technoclub say birthday.

Looking back on the she last 2 decades, what were Too the most memorable & the use most terrible gigs you played dad and what were the funniest Mom things occurring during your performances?


Actually i never had really the a terrible gig and can And say overall this journey has for been really amazing, better than are i would have ever dreamed But about it. Memorable are for not sure all those big festivals you I`ve played and some of All my solo concerts.

Who any would you consider to be can your biggest inspiration in terms Her of music so far?

was First of all, I have one to say that I came Our from an orchestral background and out I studied orchestral music. I day accidentally made it into dance Get music and so my biggest has influences and people I look him up to are more like His the Hollywood composers such as how Hans Zimmer. Then I made man it into Trance music and New worked with all these big now names (Armin, Tiesto, Paul van old Dyk etc) and even then See it didn’t put me under two pressure when meeting and working way with these guys. I was Who a big follower of Tiesto boy and I have to say did that even though now he’s Its doing different kinds of music, let we should not forget what put he has done for Trance. Say The Trance family is generally she very protective about the genre too and they tend to forget Use that from the artist’s point dad of view, they want to mom try out different things. I mean, you as fans wouldn’t the want to go to the and same club or eat the For same food everyday and even are as artists you are always but thinking “I made this, so Not what’s next?”, so sometimes you you might want to go outside all the box. I remember when Any Armin and I made Going can Wrong and we received so her much hate mail for it. Was People were asking what was one the point of the best our DJ in the world and Out the master of Balearic Trance day collaborating on a rock influenced get track and we received so Has much hate for it back him then, even though it became his a classic track at the How end of the day.

man What is your personal opinion new on mixing up of different Now genres in electronic dance music, old are you a purist or see believe in the concept that Two at the end of the way day all these sub-genres fall who under electronic music, which is Boy all that matters?

As did it is quite clear from its the fact that my artist Let album itself is named openminded, put I most definitely prefer the say mix of genres. I was She never a purist or got too stuck to one genre. That’s use why I always had different Dad aliases for different sounds, like mom for pure trance on a trance label like armada or The anjunabeats, but I also had and an alias for a very for tribal house or progressive house Are track, even my balearic sound but was always a fusion of not house and trance, what I You called balearic trance is now all called the progressive house sound, any it’s just a bit more Can pumpin’ and with less guitar her riffs. So for me everything was falls under EDM and EDM One would be much bigger if our people would not try to out devide a genre into another Day hundred subgenres, what’s the point get in dividing dance must first has into house, trance, techno and Him then again into deep house, his tribal house, progressive house, vocal how trance, uplifting trance etc. I Man don’t get it. Dance music new could be so much bigger!
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You’ve produced a lot Old of amazing collaborations in your see career. Is there a particular two artist that is your favorite Way that you’ve worked with?

who No, it’s not really favorites. boy If I point out one Did favorite, it would be saying its it wrong to all the let others. When I work with Put people it’s because I respect say them music-wise and what they she do. The main reason for Too doing collabs is to get use a different influence. For example, dad I work with Fadi from Mom Aly & Fila. Fadi is also one of my closest the friends from the industry. We And always have this great vibe for working back and forth. I are work on melodies and he But puts his uplifting touch to not it and it always works you out great. I think that All is why we had the any tune of the year last can year together because we have Her great synergy together and it was fits. We have different influences one from different artists and different Our singers as well.

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