Deep you has become really popular in recent years – is that good or bad for you, who has alway made deep music?
The good thing is that more people know the music and my music. The bad think is that a lot of people use this name just because it is IN, but the music they are producing has nothing to do with real house music. Real Deep House Music came mostly from the US and UK. In Germany there was Playhouse Records from Frankfurt or producers like Soulphiction. Deep House Music from the US comes from Mike Huckaby, Rick Wade, Moodymann, Chris Gray, Theo Parrish, Kerri Chandler just to name a few. For the UK you have Freaks and Herbert. Just to tell you a few names, sorry for the other ones I forgot, I have a huge record collection and there are some producers there just making one or two records in the past and there were making real deep house music too.
You release on many labels from Cocoon to Rumours – do you make different stuff for each depending on who it is?
I start producing music with an idea but most of the time something different will come out. After I make a few tracks I think about on which labels they could fit. Let me explain this, when I make a more deeper house track it wouldn`t fit on Cocoon, because the label sounds stands for more techno music, so when I finish something that goes in the techno direction I send it over to Cocoon or some other label how stands for this kind of sound.
Do you need to release music to get gigs these day? I think thats generally how it works, but how do you feel about that?
To be honest yes you need to do releases to get gigs in different clubs. The promoter needs something from you to hear to find out what kind of dude you are. It feels ok because I love to bring out my music on vinyl.
You have an awful lot of music coming this year – are you always writing or are you just in a particular purple patch right now?
I just finished two new remixes this week. But I had before a 4 weeks break because I was on my world tour (Australia, South America and Thailand). So I was really hot going back to my studio and also I try as often as I can to work on some music.
What else you got coming up/are you looking forward to?
I really looking forward to my next Deep Vibes recordings “The Basic Collective EP Part 5”. It is with Aquarius Heaven who did some great vocals on one track.
I will go in the next weeks in my studio to work on an EP for Third Ear. Which should be deeper House Music.
With a new EP out on Minimood, can you identify what its starting point was? What was the first aspect of the EP that came to you and you built around?
To start with I made three Versions of this Track. I played these to Voltmar (Minimood) in the hotel room when we were playing together at Kugl in St Gallen. He liked them very much and we discussed the Idea of combining these three Versions into one long track.
The idea behind the track was once more to do something really minimalistic with of course really deep, dark and a little bit dirty sounds! In my opinion we found a great remixer “Ion Ludwig” who made an outstanding version of my original track.
What would you like listeners, fans, and newcomer to know about the EP?
At this time the sound goes more into a typical Trelik, Pal Sl, Baby Ford track. The Ion Ludwig is also a really slow-building; dub minimilistic house track.
What is a vital “go to” piece of production equipment for you? What if I asked you that question 10 years ago?
For me right now SE-1 for Bassline is my first choice and even after 10 years it is still one of my favorite pieces of analog equipment to use.