What are you up to right now? the bunker. Since I left they’ve decided to music from other French artists like Funky that closed down before I was able to go
“I’m in the middle of moving into a new open it out a bit and use the upper floor for Data, Daft Punk and Super Discount.” clubbing myself.”
studio where I’ll be doing a lot of work with studios, musicians and artists. Now there
dplay and Langenberg — they’re both from are lots of producers and bands working What did you like about it? What sparked your initial interest to
Essen. Langenberg and I are doing a live upstairs. “I really liked how simple it was. House is make music?
techno project under the name Riben. It’s “Downstairs they’ve created a small un- simple and it’s fascinating to hear people “There were two friends of mine at school
somewhere between techno and house derground club and it’s one of the few cool making a good track using just a few ele- that I started to go record shopping with
but more techno, and we’re doing a pretty clubbing spots in the city. The club’s called ments. Like a lot of early house and techno, and we’d always talk about music. We used
much improvised live sequenced set with Goedhebunker and me, Langenberg and they only had 16-channel mixers, two sam- to hang out at one of the guys' places
no laptops or computers. It’s just us and a dplay recently started a new bi-monthly plers and a drum machine but they made and he had an older brother who was into
couple of drum machines and samples. night there called the Slow Club.” good music out of that. Now you have lots hard techno. He had a drum machine and
“We’ve just put out our first two records — of equipment to use — Abelton and a laptop we used to borrow that and play around
‘Mined EP’ and ‘Ctrl and Shift’ — on Berlin- What music do you play there? — but it wasn’t like that ten years ago.” with it, programming beats. We mixed our
based label Millions of Moments.” “As the name suggests, we wanted to do first house records with beats from that
something that was a slower alternative What do you use to make your music? machine. Then we started to record these
Your album ‘0201’ contains some deli- to the rougher sounds you usually hear in “Sometimes I do music only on a laptop and beats and do our first tracks. They were very
cious old school house sounds and is clubs. So we play the deeper side of house, other times I’ll use lots of machinery. I’m simple — and very stupid!”
made up of loads of samples. Why the disco and Detroit techno.” always trying to learn new techniques and
switch to a purely live techno band? check out different equipment. I always Which DJs play your tunes?
“It happened by accident. Langenberg and I What’s the music scene like in Essen? want to improve my production skills. I still “It’s always different because I don’t do the
were sharing the same studio, basically this “It’s quite a big area, with 600,000 inhabit- see myself in a learning process.” same stuff. My album is really different from
old World War II bunker here in Essen. We ants, in the middle of a large urban area. ‘Acorado’, the first single I released with
had two separate rooms but then my room It’s the largest urban area in Europe after Are there any good record shops in Freerange. Ben Watt loved that first single
started leaking water from the ceiling so I London and Paris. But despite that there’s Essen? and lots of other deep housey type DJs, but
couldn’t use it. So we shared his room and no real music scene. There are only two or “Not now. But there used to be a huge my album ‘0210’ and the live techno project
thought, ‘Why not do something together?’ three clubs. When it comes to producers, record shop in the 1990s, one of the most are drawing in different people.”
“We stayed in that room for two weeks, labels and distributors, all these people are famous in Germany. It had three main sec-
recorded about 10 or 12 tracks in that time in Berlin, Frankfurt or Munich.” tions — one for techno, one for trance and You’ve been labelled a bit of a dance
and now have four records out of this. After one for house, even though it was actually music prodigy. How do you feel about
the two coming out on Millions of Moments, When did you first get into house only a small room packed with records. that?
we have another one coming on Ovum and music? There were shelves floor to ceiling and that “When it comes to music I don’t think age
another on Mule Music.” “When I was 13 but I wasn’t able to go to was my main source for music. is relevant. I would rather be 50-years-old
clubs then so I used to just hear it on the “Back then Essen was also a better spot for and make better tracks than I am now. You
Did you record ‘0210’ in the bunker? radio or on MTV. Back then there was qual- DJing. There used to be a club called Rote can make a fantastic track when you’re 18
“No, I moved back home when I was doing ity stuff out on major labels from people like Liebe, which brought international DJs like or 19 but if you don’t progress from there
the album. I didn’t feel comfortable in Alex Gopher. I especially liked his stuff and Masters at Work and Josh Wink to play but then what’s the point?”
“When it comes to
music I don’t think
age is relevant.”
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