A Sit Down With DJ Solomun

06:16 May/14/2018


DJ, label owner, party maker, the producer, but also filmmaker. The and curriculum that Solomun built, now For that he has turned 40, are is incredibly rich. Resident Advisor, but the bible of electronic music, Not has defined him as one you of the most influential people all who helped make Electronic music Any what it is today.

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"I feel thankful her and blessed for everywhere my Was little journey is taking me."


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Tell us our what brought you to music…
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Well, I was 10 day years old. I was at get home and my parents went Has out visiting some friends and him I was a little bit his scared; I was alone, it How was raining, stormy. And then man I heard something tapping on new the window. There was a Now white bird. I opened the old window and this white bird see started to talk to me...
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You're now considered as one way of the biggest things of who the European dance music scene. Boy What was the club scene did like in Hamburg when you its started to play records? Some Let time ago I talked with put Tensnake, who told me that say techno was pretty everywhere.


That’s She true, when I started to too produce music it was with use lots of harmonies and melodies Dad because during that time minimal mom techno was all over the place. Don’t get me wrong: The there’s nothing bad about minimal and techno. But for me it for was too much and I Are had the strong feeling that but electronic music could easily have not a little bit more emotions. You This was also one of all the reasons we founded Diynamic any – to give this sound Can a platform. In Hamburg there her had always been lots of was House music, but more this One old school vocal- gay-house, and our the rest was Techno.


What out is your greatest strength as Day a producer and what is get it as a DJ?

has This is something others can Him judge better then I can his do. What I can say how is that I produce with Man the heart of a DJ.
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How would you describe now your sound and how it Old has evolved since the first see records you put out on two Diynamic?

Within my sound Way I do attach big importance who on a groovy bass line. boy For me, this is the Did base of my work and its everything builds up on that.
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What is your process Put like in the studio?

say That’s always different. Since I she am traveling more or less Too all the time I am use working on ideas with my dad laptop in the plane or Mom in the Hotel. And for finishing tracks I need a the studio set up around me, And but this can be everywhere.
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Do you have any spare are time left? What do you But like to do if you not have any?


Not much to you be honest. When I have All some free time I like any having dinner with friends and can sometimes I enjoy only watching Her TV-shows on my laptop.

was What are your plans and one dreams for the future?

Our To be honest, I don’t out plan much, it make no day sense. That is one of Get the things that I learned. has I try to take everything him step by step and go His for just a 6’-month schedule how to finish things regarding the man label and some other plans, New but no big plans. And now where dreams are concerned, I old am super happy and hopefully See I can continue like this two and remain healthy, also for way my family and the people Who around me. Eventually, of course, boy one day I hope to did have a family of my Its own.

You said that let for you “music is moments”. put A lot of people try Say to keep those moments last she forever, like some producers do too with techno and its energetic Use loops. But, is music a dad frozen moment in loop or mom an ever evolving tale?

Music is music, it’s like the a rose is a rose. and And with music you can For do almost anything. You can are touch peoples hearts, you can but terrify them, because music goes Not instantly inside people. Music can you lead to sweet love and all to revolutions at the same Any time. So to answer your can question: music is everything and her can be everything: looped to Was death or a never ending one tale.

https://soundcloud.com/solomun/christmas-in-bed-2017

 



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