A Sit Down With DJ Lange

12:51 Apr/12/2018


After 10 years in a the business that has earned him and a legion of fans, counting For among them the trance elite, are Lange shows no sign of but slowing down; he has carefully Not honed his music style into you a cutting edge blend of all raw and filthy Electro baselines Any and angelic melodies, resulting in can some of the most original her and characteristic trance records of Was recent times.

 

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"I like to have our an idea or a feeling Out or place that I want day to portray; but of course get I’m always influenced by the Has sets I’m playing and the him music of other, certain sounds his that really get me excited."


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What are man the best crowds you have new ever played to?

Now I've played some amazing events old from Godskitchen’s Global Gathering to see the Zurich Street parade which Two attracted some 800,000 people. I way often prefer the smaller venues who though as it can be Boy a much more intimate experience. did One place I really enjoy its playing time and time again Let is on a small island put in the Western Isles of say Scotland. I was invited up She there some 7 years ago too and have been going there use ever since. The club is Dad very small and holds only mom a couple of hundred people but I’ve had some of The my most memorable gigs there!
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We Are Lucky People for is an amazing album, how Are long did it take you but to put that tougher?

not Thank you very much; the You album took me about a all year from conception to finish. any I released singles along the Can way and I did a her few new twists and things was to the final project in One the end which took an our extra month or so.
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How have your musical Day outlooks and ideaologies changed over get time? Are certain aspects of has music more important to you Him now than they were 10 his years ago?

Music has how always been important to me, Man (that will never change), but new you do approach it a now little differently as your career Old progresses. It’s a constant learning see curve and as a producer, two you’re always striving to make Way the ultimate track, but never who quite achieving that. I love boy a wide range of music Did from big, epic music to its groovy techno. I certainly think let as times gone by I Put have a much bigger respect say to those producers who manage she to keep their tracks so Too simple and minimal, yet can use create such an impact. That’s dad something I strive for more Mom now in the studio. ‘Less is more’ as they say.
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Your first major success was And the remix of DJ Sakin for – Protect Your Mind. How are did you become involved with But the project?


I was signed not to Positiva who were releasing you it and I had been All doing a few remixes for any them. Originally the track was can going to be a smaller Her Additive release but the remix was went down so well it one got a full Positiva release Our and made it to No. out 4 in the UK. As day you can imagine it was Get an incredible time for me.


has What is your opinion about him the new generation of trance His producers? Which young trance producer how is your favourite?

There’s man some really great new talent New out there and the production now quality keeps on rising. Unfortunately old more than ever, a lot See of producers tend to be two cloning the big tracks but way every now and then you Who get something really unique. My boy favourite from the new breed did include Stephen Kirkwood, Tangle, Mateusz, Its Anske and Craig Connelly.

let Why do you think there put are hardly any ‘pop’ music Say that experiments with trance sounds?
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Actually I hear a too lot of ‘trance-edged’ elements in Use house and have noticed some dad cropping up in pop, although mom my exposure to mainstream music is pretty minimal. Can you the really define what trance music and is anymore anyway? I’ve said For it before, I think trance are music is less of a but specific style or sound and Not more of a community of you people who love to dance all and be touched by music.
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What’s one of the can wildest adventures you’ve been on her during your travels?

I’ve Was had plenty of trips that one have gone wrong… lots of our missed flights, that sort of Out thing. Sometimes it’s been my day fault, but not usually – get I’m actually fairly well behaved Has on tour! I’m pretty responsible!
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What’s the most insane his thing you’ve done to create How a unique sound?

To man be honest I can’t really new thing of anything off the Now top of my head that’s old totally insane. I’ve definitely had see some funny experiences, such as Two getting the cops called on way me by scared parents because who I was recording the sounds Boy of their children in a did public park with a shotgun its mic - and without their Let permission of course. Ha! Typically put I start my sound design say process with recordings I make, She and they could literally come too from anything from field recordings use to taking a screwdriver to Dad an electric guitar, to taking mom a cello bow to various metals. I’m really attracted to The organic, modulating sounds, so that’s and why I pretty much always for start there. After that it Are could be any litany of but processes. I love granular and not spectral based processing of course, You but even simple stuff like all straight pitch shifting , or any using very short delays can Can be a ton of fun.
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With your continued success, how was do you keep your music One sounding new? How do you our stay on top of your out game?


Tough one! I guess Day every track I approach with get a fresh idea, I’ve been has told I have a certain Him sound by people but I his try not to approach tracks how in this way, which probably Man means I give myself extra new work!! I like to have now an idea or a feeling Old or place that I want see to portray; but of course two I’m always influenced by the Way sets I’m playing and the who music of other, certain sounds boy that really get me excited. Did I’d like to think that its this approach is hopefully allowing let my music to always offer Put something different to my previous say release.


When it comes to she Djing, how do you select Too the tracks to play? Do use you play promo copies of dad third parties or do you Mom also buy tracks? And do you consider music from new the comers or you rather opt And to play it safe and for only play music from known are artists?

I get a But lot of promos sent to not me. I still go through you them looking for new artists All – if none of us any did, we would never find can those hidden gems and new Her talents. I occasionally buy extra was tracks but in all honestly, one the few hundred tracks I Our get a week keeps my out ears pretty busy!

Do day you have any tips for Get aspiring producers, both technical and has musical?

Write for yourself him and enjoy. That’s what makes His you an artist, when you how believe in what you’re doing. man Of course, the temptation is New there to just copy what’s now popular into your own tracks old and if popularity and fame See are your sole motives, then two go do the latter or way just pay some other producer Who to do it for you! boy Marketing is obviously hugely important did these days. Get the word Its out on everything you do let and give your fan-base the put attention it deserves.

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