Anthony Marinelli interviews Colin Wolfe, musician on 90s NWA, Dr. Dre, and others:
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Here is a very long and nice interview with Deepyoon (Paul Yoon).
He uses Ableton stock instruments for DAW. And for DAWless music he uses Digitone&Digitakt, Roland Aira series.
Unlike in the past, I rarely use VSTs outside of Ableton Live’s default instruments, only occasionally incorporating one or two for mastering purposes.
For DAWless production, I center my setup around the Digitone and Digitakt, along with the full Roland Aira series. Working DAWless helps keep my focus on the music rather than the computer screen.
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Interview with Hannes Bieger.
“What I love about modular is how you can incorporate ‘happy accidents’ in the workflow, especially when tossing around patterns on the analogue sequencers,” Hannes shared. “I love the physicality of the process, actually standing in front of this big instrument rather than sitting in front of a computer screen. Finally, there is a sonic world difficult to achieve with conventional synths."
Ess, what a talent, incredible.
And Cuckoo… he should be hosting a late show. Pure charisma.
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Thundercat on playing some Cosmogramma with Flying Lotus live.
It’s embarrassing how often I get lost playing anything live with friends. Kind of relieving to hear it from pro musicians too.
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I don’t think i listen to his music but I found this part interesting:
I haven’t recorded anything in maybe, maybe it’s close to six months, because I just want to practise and just play and not just loop everything,” he confirms. “Because, you know, when you’re recording now, you’re in Ableton, you just loop everything, and you never get any practice time in on any instrument.”
Saadiq says that, as well as taking piano lessons, he’s also been learning to play some of his favourite songs, and he believes that his music will feel the benefit in the future.
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Kevin Saunderson on EDM:
Just because a record is a hit or is big doesn’t mean that every record should sound like it
This is true for every genre I think. You go listen any top 10 on beatport and you will notice how similar they sound. Not that I am totally against it. But if the goal is to make similar sounding tracks, then it’s being done…
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A very long and detailed interview with Joran van Gremberghe and Stefan Paul Goetsch (hainbach) - Joranalogue.
You can tell how passionate they are about modulars! There is also a large section about Collide 4. The prototype and even some early drawings of modulars.
As in any work, there are people that like “just use Omnisphere.” Just use this. I just use this. Took me, like, five minutes, and there’s a certain pride in that, that it only took five minutes. I was like, that’s boring! I don’t want to take just five minutes. I’m happy. And really, I mean, I’m happy to spend a week on one cool sound, if it’s really, oh, and there’s a story behind it
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Really nice in depth interview with Robert Henke
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Loved hearing this. I’m still a little obsessed with this song.
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I posted about Darude and Sandstorm before. There is another recent interview with him.
As most people can remember this track was HUGE and still is iconic. He talks about how he’s struggling to control to keep the melody/sound under his control etc.
Here’s an (another) old interview with Jeff Mills.
Today’s artists don’t take the opportunity to really explain themselves because they’re too much caught up in that whole process…
Of becoming popular?
Right. Making meaningful music is not something that will get you on the cover of a magazine. The discussion doesn’t even get that far! It’s mainly about how many people are following you on the webpage or Facebook or whatever. A lot of producers, a lot of DJs, they’re not even duped! That is really the case in this industry.
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I liked this bit especially:
My impression is that “DRUQKS” is straightforward, sentimental or without pretending to be bad. At the same time, for this album you seem to imagine one-to-one communication with listeners. Was it your intention?
I wish it was straight forward to make, I sweated years of very hard work over it. I’ve no intention of communicating anything with listeners, just myself, obviously it will say things to people but its not my plan.
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Coming to Max soon - sure to have lots of interviews
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I have started up an interview series casually talking about process with like minded electronic music folk. Done 3 so far:
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Another Skunk Baxter interview. Just started listening, so don’t know yet if Rick asked him about Yacht Rock - the web series, not the pseudo genre. It’s a topic nobody has brought up yet in previous interviews. Yacht Rock painted him as the Doobie Brothers leader who threatened to fire Michael McDonald if Mike failed to write a new hit song for the Doobies.
Mystery drum machine used for “It Keeps You Runnin” revealed to be a Roland “R-77”. I would think he meant TR-77 but I could be wrong.
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This was a great one to read. Skee Mask interviews seem rare these days.
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Cold Gettin’ Dumb is possibly the best beat ever…
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I found another Dave Clark interview in the 1999 August issue of Muzik Magazine (it’s free online)
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