1.Growing Up
I grew up in a small town in southern Germany called Ulm: it’s between Stuttgart and Munich. My father is a jazz record collector and he’s got 5,000 or more records at home, so I got in touch with music very early. My hobby as a young kid was smashing those old shellac vinyls against the wall and watching them break. I am really glad that my dad was and still is such a music lover. I started learning guitar but after a while it became boring always sticking to harmonic rules, so a friend of mine introduced me to dance music because he was working in a record store. After he showed me several Detroit and Daft Punk tunes it was clear that I wanted do this so I got myself a sampler and started making beats…
2.Inspirations
I really like emotional music: I’m not too genre driven and it just needs to catch me. My biggest influence from the past was The Cure! I love their tunes. I also liked the rough, sampled sound of Daft Punk. Later on, the Detroit heroes influenced me the most. When I heard Masters At Work the first time I was blown away by their house grooves and sounds: from then on I wanted to do groove driven music.
3.Your Crew
After I finished school I wanted to study music and become a producer. So I had to move to Berlin ‘cause that’s where the only production university in Germany is. I moved there and went to the test to get in but I missed it. So I decided to look for an internship and try it again six month later. Luckily I found a studio and started there as an intern fixing cables, tuning guitars, and most importantly, making coffee for everyone. After I proved myself, I got full-time employment with them and stayed for over five years.
4.Music, Right Here, Right Now
You know what? I’ve honestly been on the road so much that I haven’t actually had the time to listen to anything outside the promos that are sent to me! That said, there are a number of new and really exciting artists coming through at the moment like Jacky, Denis Horvat, and Rich Wakeley who I really like.
React by Santé isout now through Black Chrome Records.
