1.Growing Up
We grew up in small towns and started to organise parties. That’s where we got the first contact with music. We can’t play any instruments and are autodidacts when learning how to make music. We discovered our sound by playing around, trying a lot of different things. Our parents always supported us… but sometimes they argued with us because we spent all our money on records.
2.Inspirations
We have a lot of different favourite musicians. We really like Matthew Herbert and his ideas behind the music. We are in love with CocoRosie and Sigur Rós. James Blake is one of our favourite electronic producers and his first album blew us away. The biggest inspiration is our daily life – meeting people, talking to people and travelling gives us so much input.
3.Your Crew
We are in the lucky position to be able to fully concentrate on being DJs, with all the pros and cons. Our team is awesome, it doesn’t matter if we talk about our booking agency, the booker or the label management. They all became friends and part of our family and are doing a great job supporting us and helping us do what we can do the best – make music and have a great time with the people.
4.The Music You Make And Play
The style is mostly depending on the location and the mood of the people. If we can catch them with 115bpm we will do it and groove through the night. But sometimes the energy is so high that the people need 126bpm sound and a clear technoid sound structure.
5.Music, Right Here, Right Now
The scene at the moment is very healthy. A lot of people earn money through it. On the other hand, you have this big bad monster EDM that destroys a lot of the culture. But we are sure that it will die and the creatures behind it will move on to another music genre where they can earn the shit out of people. Our local scene is awesome. We have local clubs, enough young people with energy and ideas and Halle [in Germany] is so small that you know each other very well.
Return To Rio featuring Super Flu, along withCarl Cox & Eric Powell’s Mobile Disco, De La Soul, DJ EZ and more, runsFriday November 11 –Sunday November 13 at Del Rio, Wiseman’s Ferry.
