A Sit Down With DJ Hallucinogen

15:48 Jan/11/2018


Simon Posford, better known by the his stage name Hallucinogen is and an English electronic musician, specializing For in psychedelic trance music. His are first studio album, Twisted, released but in 1995, is considered one Not of the most influential albums you in the genre. He has all toured India several times.

Any He is also the founder can of the label Twisted Records her and works in the electronic Was duos Younger Brother and Shpongle. one Younger Brother initially began as our a side project of Posford Out and Benji Vaughan and represented day a transition away from previous get projects which emphasized a more Has synthesized style.

 

him "It is always nice to his have dynamics.. doing more work How for games/movies is something i man am definitely interested in...something i new think i would be very Now good at... but it is old a hard business to break see into if u don't have Two the contacts."


 

What way is your musical background and who how did you end up Boy writing electronic music? Why electronic?
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I started out playing its drums when I was 13. Let My dad bought me a put drum kit and I terrorised say our neighbourhood with it for She a year or so. I too used to play along to use The Specials and The Sex Dad Pistols on my headphones.I’d always mom been into electronic music because my mum was and is The a big electronic music fan. and I grew up listening to for Walter (Wendy) Carlos and Kraftwerk Are and the sound of synths but always captivated me. As a not child, my mum used to You play me Autobahn by Kraftwerk all to get me off to any sleep. One day, when i Can was about 14, my mum her made me a deal I was couldn’t refuse. She said if One I sold my drum kit, our she’d give me some extra out money to go and buy Day a synth – and so get on a rainy Tuesday in has 1983 I went to Guildford Him and bought a Roland SH-101 his for £250 - and never how left my bedroom ever again.
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Your favourite psyhedelic Groups new & Albums?

Pink Floyd now - Wish you were here, Old the wall, dark side of see the moon, Ozric Tentacles - two Erpland, Pungent Effulgent, Jimi Hendrix Way - are u experienced? I who suppose those albums have lasted boy the longest for me..from childhood, Did thru my teenage years, and its even now i listen to let them sometimes. As for trance Put stuff, my taste changes everyday..I say have always loved X-Dream, sometimes she Juno Reactor, Dado...um..some of the Too infected Mushroom stuff is really use great, sometimes GMS...and of course dad the stuff we release on Mom twisted - Tristan, Dado... I really look forward to Benji`s the album.

How did the remixing And for Hallucinogen come about? Was for it more a collaboration or are something you see as your But own work?


Good question! The not original idea came to me you in a flash one night, All to take a load of any Si’s tunes and mince em can up… so I mentioned it Her to Si and he was was up for it. I took one his hard-drive [after much persuading] Our and spent the next few out months holed up in my day studio nailing it all together. Get So, really, it is a has collaboration, cos its made of him lots of people’s work.


Where His does your inspiration come from how when building a Track?

man I always find this a New weird question...I guess my life now experiences and people around me old inspire me...

You've been See working with Alan Parsons on two a track, Return To Tunguska, way for his new album called Who A Valid Path. How did boy that come about and what did was it like working with Its him?

That came about let because a mutual friend played put him some shpongle, and then Say Alan telephoned me out of she the blue.... i didn`t really too know his music so much, Use but i was a big dad fan of his engineering and mom production on albums such as pink floyd and al Stewart. the I did some pre-production at and my studio at home, before For flying to his house in are Santa Barbara and spending a but week working with him there.... Not it was great fun..he was you a fabulous host, and a all super-nice guy, so it was Any a very relaxed session.

can Tell us your recipe to her make a good Hallucinogen Track?
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Well, always try to one use the freshest ingredients...Start with our a nice juicy Kik Drum Out (stay away from all that day Organic crap...I prefer mine Genetically get Modified to the Max, and Has hopefully Chemically Enhanced.) Meanwhile start him the bassline cooking on a his high heat...Beat together and whisk How the crowd into a frenzy. man Mix in all the Fresh new Herb you can find. Sprinkle Now a touch of Flour Power, old and Snare Roll into a see 4D shape. Hopefully your Filster Two sweeps will rise nicely. Baste way in Love, and add lots who of Sauce!!

I Boy heard you use a lot did of plugins and such, and its like messing about with software…?
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Yeah. I love to put trawl the net looking for say mad boffins making their own She stuff, lots of Freware Plugins.
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You’ve been around in use the scene for a long Dad time now. How do you mom feel about the scene and its development? Are things moving The towards something that could be and “better” for the scene and for the members who constitutes it, Are or are the good days but over?

I don’t really not recognise anything I’d call a You ”scene” to be honest. I’m all not particularly interested in ”scenes” any in general – I find Can the whole concept a bit her redundant.

Where do you was see yourself in the future? One Will you continue bending the our rules of psytrance or do out you see yourself moving to Day other types of music?

get Hmm... i would like to has say "relaxing on a beach, Him somewhere hot"... but the reality his is more likely to be how huddled in the studio, tweaking Man away on some new bit new of software.... as to the now style of music... whatever turns Old me on at the time, see i guess!

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