A Sit Down With DJ Paul Kalkbrenner

08:20 Mar/12/2018


Having rarely listened to contemporary the music since 1996, Kalkbrenner has and assured himself that outside influences For will never over shadow his are own internal creative force. But, but marrying fellow techno force Simina Not Grigoriu in 2012, Kalkbrenner is you never far removed from the all underground community.

 

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"I’m successful because I can always do the same thing her – consistently – and stick Was to that."



 

one You're a live act today our and not a DJ anymore. Out Did the DJ-existence at some day point no longer irritate you? get

My partner Sascha Has Funke and I started hanging him up 16 years ago. And his we wanted to be big How DJs. But then at 18, man where you have to remember new to make some money and Now that did not work, I old made a little dangling. I see worked as a cutter for Two 2-3 years on TV, in way newsrooms for ARD and ZDF, who I took part in the Boy party congress, sat in the did Schnittmobil ... From the money, its which I earned there, I Let bought equipment and made my put first tracks , And there say was already relatively clear to She me: I prefer to play too live.

What do you use think of the evolution of Dad techno in recent years?
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The development is incredible. When I started, in the The 90s, I heard stuff like and "techno is dead" ... And for what about fifteen years later? Are Techno is always on the but rise, and can reach new not heights. You only have to You see the number of festivals all devoted to it.

You any haven't played other people's music Can in so long, do you her think that if you end was up performing this project live One that it will feel like our a completely different experience?

out No, I was always very Day good DJ, technically, when I get was young, but I was has never very good in letting Him the record run and not his doing something. But yeah, I how don't know, I think pressing Man them on vinyl and making new it into a vinyl-only, old now school set would be the Old most probable way to perform see it.

How do you two arrange your music on stage?
Way
All the work takes who place on stage. I have boy broken my songs down into Did parts. It was normal for its me to completely disassemble the let studio and on stage – Put except for a few external say devices – reassemble them. In she this way I did all Too my earlier music. To press use “record” on a DAT tape dad could take the whole thing Mom to a new level. The same way I do play the play live until today. This And is how I learned to for make music. If I would are have done it with a But computer, then I would still not be ok, just only with you a laptop and some controllers, All but staring on the monitor any like a pig onto a can clockwork.

By now you Her are playing headlining at rock was festivals or filling the Berlin one open-air stage Wuhlheide with 20,000 Our spectators. To what extent does out that actually change the music?
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As far as the Get set-up is concerned, basically nothing has changes. Actually, like ten years him ago, I have 16 individual His channels available and screw them how around live. Except that I man am doing this on a New giant stage now.

Knowing your now own tastes, do you ever old create music for your own See personal pleasure? Like an ambient two record, or something more experimental?


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No, no. I have to Who use every second that I’m boy in the music studio for did something to be released under Its my own name. There’s no let time, like when I was put 17, for all this stuff. Say There’s so much touring and she a child at home. I too know what I can do, Use but when I’m there, why dad would I waste time? I’m mom very happy and proud with the way I can do the it.


Playing exclusively as a and live act, something that I For think perhaps you don’t get are enough credit for is that but essentially, you are developing and Not testing out new musical ideas you in a very public fashion. all


I had to be Any very patient about that, but can now we can see at her more and more festivals, there Was are even people recording me one on their phones. For the our visual side of the show Out next year, there will be day less designs, graphics and visuals get and more of a camera Has feed. They’re so small now, him you can put them everywhere. his Tomorrowland, and many other festivals, How are just streamed directly from man their different stages on YouTube. new The more this takes place, Now the more people see what old I do, and maybe see see how little other people do Two there. And they’re the rock way stars of today, EDM artists, who so I think in the Boy next years, people will get did a bit more interested in its who’s doing what on stage, Let and who’s doing nothing.


What put are your musical influences?

say The older I get, the She more I realize how many too folk songs are floating inside use me. Just that kind of Dad music that you have noticed mom early on, even some pop songs on the radio, which, The when they are played today, and trigger something. Music from the for age when you have not Are made a difference, and did but not want to make a not difference. Everything is equally good. You It’s just music.

How all important are the reactions from any the audience?

Of Can course it's great when the her shop rocks, but for me was other things are more important. One Good monitoring, for example. It our does not make any sense out to me if a 3000-man-dandruff Day is upside down, but I get do not hear anything because has the sound is not properly Him picked - I prefer a his club that is only half how full, but where the monitoring Man is clean, where I stand, new so to speak, in my now own juice. If I am Old properly kicked by my own see music, by the pressure, then two the set also gets better Way in terms of content and who art.

Have you changed boy by success?

I can Did already see certain divine features its on me, for which I let would have cut myself down Put ten years ago. For example, say I wanted to postpone the she interviews by three hours at Too short notice, simply because I use would have been better off. dad Then I have to let Mom me know that maybe this is not such a good the idea. And Larmoyanz sometimes comes And in, so a certain inclination for to tearfulness.

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