A Sit Down With DJ Astral Projection
13:23 Mar/23/2018
During their 25 years ofthe work, Astral have developed their and own distinctive sound and style. For They produce multi-layered melodic Goa are trance, rich with sounds and but colors. They have released some Not of the biggest hits of you the 90`s like Mahadeba, People all Can Fly, Kabalah & Dancing Any Galaxy, hits that still get can remixed and played to these her days. Nowadays they are signed Was on TIP Records and recently one released a remix album.
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How is anHas Astral Projection piece made?
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Oh, there are millionshis of ways to do that. How Each song is somehow different! man This can start with a new melody in your head, or Now with a good voice sample old from a movie. But it see can also be the inspiration Two of a great song that way you just heard somewhere - who it can really be anything!
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What was drawing youdid to this music?
its What was drawing us was Let the unlimited freedom a musician put can reach through working in say a midi studio with electronic She equipment. You program a sound too from zero, and the sky use is the limit. The possibilities Dad are huge, opposing standard instruments, mom which basically stay with the same sound character. Another thing The was the possibilities in instrumental and music, which speaks for itself, for without a leading singer.
Are You were one of the but firsts to ever produce psychedelic not and goa trance. Can you You tell us how did it all all started for you?
any Lior & I met at Can the Penguin Club (underground rock, her punk, and new-wave club in was Tel Aviv) in Israel back One in 1985, 31 years ago. our Each of us had his out own band. We met at Day my parents basement in Tel get Aviv one day, and soon has started to produce electronic music Him on a daily basis, under his no genre restriction. Only few how years later we learned that Man the music we produce can new be categorized under a specific now genre. In 1988 we sent Old a track we made to see a Belgian label called “Musicman” two under the alias “SFX”. They Way liked it alot and decided who to purchase flight tickets for boy both of us to NYC Did so we can record it its in a professional studio there. let We Recorded it, sent it Put to them, and about a say month later we got our she first “single pack”, with our Too first track – “Monster Mania”. use We felt like our childhood dad dream is on its way Mom to become a reality. In 1989 we recorded an entire the album as SFX, an album And we released only 10 years for later, as a tribute to are our fans. We recorded another But album as SFX and sold not it to a German distributor you in 1990, and used the All money we got to travel any to Goa, where we always can wanted to visit.
Her What is your opinion about was the British trance scene at one the moment?
In ourOur opinion, there is currently a out lot of confusion in the day British world of psychedelic trance Get music. Artists try many new has directions and experimental ideas, which him is good in itself. Nevertheless, His it is not the trance how we know and feel, and man the main path has not New yet been found.
Didnow Astral's music gone through a old lot of changes in this See last decade? How does that two manifests itself, in musical terms, way in terms of sound, in Who your attitude and feelings about boy it?
The conceptdid of Astral Projection from the Its beginning, since the days of let SFX in 1988, was first put of all music, regardless of Say fashions coming and going. All she along the way we're trying too to preserve the concept of Use very high standards. Production, musical dad ideas, reach imagination, and very mom pedantic control without compromise. We spend many hours in the the studio, about 14 hours a and day, and work on an For album about 9 months (just are like pregnancy…). We don't allow but ourselves to release a product Not that we are no satisfied you with. If you browse through all our computer, you'll find enough Any material to more than 200 can hundred album, that might have her make others content, but were Was not good enough for us. one You can play, for example, our a track we made in Out 1994, and you'll see people day are still enjoying themselves and get dance to it madly, like Has it was made today, in him the year 2000. And this his is actually the main idea, How regardless of time and fashion, man keeping the quality without compromising. new Of course, with the passing Now of time, experience and knowledge old accumulated from album to album, see we added more equipment, in Two order to be able to way make without borders and obstacles, who whatever is on our minds, Boy no encountering technical limitations.
did What were the musical influences its and inspirations that made you Let go that way?
Backput when we started, the scene say didn’t look like it does She today. In fact, the psytrance too scene hardly existed. In the use Pinguin Club we used to Dad listen to dark 80`s music mom and industrial music by bands like Psychic TV, Yazoo, Depeche The Mode, SPK, The Human League, and Kraftwerk, Front 242 and many for more. We can say that Are trance music is the reincarnation but of new wave music and not dark 80`s we liked so You much. Our musical concept is all to create music that both any danceable and something you can Can really listen to. We are her looking to preserve the concept was we came from in the One end of the 80`s and our early 90s, and build on out it. In the early 90`s Day the musical revolution started with get Acid, Acid-house music, Techno, New has beat and more, until it Him was fixed to where it his is today: Trance music, with how its sub-genres like Goa, Psy, Man Progressive etc.
Donew you have hobbies? Or. do now you even have time for Old that?
Our professionsee (the English word "profession" is two much more suitable here) is Way also our hobby! In addition who to the music we really boy have little time for a Did real hobby. And we are its not sports cannons anyway.
let In 25 years, what was Put the most negative experience you say had and the most positive she one in connection to your Too music?
We love touse end in a positive note, dad so the most negative experience Mom we had is the establishment rejection, and it’s inability to the accept this new phenomenon, but And we got over it…And positive: for we saw this scene we are love so much rising and But taking shape in front of not our eyes, to a point you where it is inside the All consensus of the electronic music any scene, both in Israel and can worldwide.
Can you describeHer for me how a track was is made- how does it one start, what happens in between, Our how much time, when is out it clear to you it's day ready?
Track is madeGet by hard work. There's no has such thing as wham bam him thank you mam, and here His we have a track. It's how hard work starting with the man sound programming, a lot of New sitting in front of the now computer, starting from a certain old base that on it you See have a lot of layers two of different roles, that all way along the creation keep changing. Who Sometimes a certain role that boy is created inspires the next did role and the evolving of Its the track. First of all let we create some raw material put that is on the computer Say way before the editing. Even she in the editing stage we too keep changing things, adding or Use changing roles according to changes dad created while editing, every role mom waits for the right time and the right entrance, and the every role gets the respect and it deserves, that's why our For tracks are long. When we are enter the studio to work but on an album, there is Not no chance we will release you something that we don't love all or not content with. Every Any time we go in the can studio to work on an her album we are very excited Was and without this excitement there one is no point for the our whole thing. The mix stage, Out which is the final and day last one, closes the process get of making the track. This Has process usually takes us about him a month. But for us his a track is perfect only How after we checked it in man a party and we saw new the audience respond, the audience Now is for us an active old partner in all we have see released so far.
HowTwo does traveling affect what you way are doing?
Most ofwho our trips are about 2-3 Boy days of work, so the did atmosphere of a place does its not serve us well when Let it comes to influencing us, put but when we are on say vacation we try to "expose" She everything that is close to too us.
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