I always look for the hypnotic part of a
track the track that sucks you in then
of course if there's a story to it with
feelings and evolvement and all this
this is a bonus but first of all is the
hypnotic thing for me to let the music
be created and to listen to it is very
similar it is letting an experience of
the music take place within you if I'm
playing on a synthesizer and I'm really
there every note I kind of empower what
I'm playing with presence when you
really experience it you cannot give it
life
using electronic music and synthesizers
and drum machines is very perfect
everything is straight exactly and super
tight and that's become very uneven when
you listen to it so we always try to
find ways to make it as human as
possible we've been searching for it for
quite a many years
few years ago we felt that it's time to
make a new love it should be a live
album during this time we also started
to do more freestyle jams just in the
tempo and any key and more random in a
way and we started to feel that in these
games there were moments but we really
got into this flow and then we said why
should we do a live album like we do on
stage let's instead just jam and see if
we find these moments of really great
flow we were cutting out the good parts
and somehow the album took form and it
became bloomin there are different
phases in the workflow we have first a
phase of selecting we choose few samples
we prepare a melody or a drum pattern
and we create options with the equipment
the instruments and we play around a
little bit with them to get comfortable
with them and then we have decided the
opportunities in that phase it can be
very helpful to build a foundation to
stand on I feel secure that is a
preparation phase by creating this
foundational for us when we are together
we created together like we say we want
this feeling or that just sketches how
we should do the jam and what we decided
these rules then we get ready to be free
and Express then we take a break before
we start with the expressing part both
of us feel that it's good to clear all
the thoughts because in the shooting
mode when we beloved rules you think a
lot you lot of head activity using
samples doing this doing that and that
tends to make me forget about the
feeling and if I would play directly
after doing all this choosing I would be
more up in my head then
down in a heart and feel keeping silent
and try to not think about the track
think about something else so you just
don't think at all our new studio is
surrounded by nature and forests and
national parks I feel in an urban
situation is much more wanting there's
much more producing and trying to
reproduce and copy and that trigger me
but to be in the nature and for example
walking in the nature being in nature
whole day and just clouds are there and
trees are here it's very simple and that
helps me to get into this simple state
of being in creativity long suit a
ligand and gene good just a second
portrait photography that I are there I
need a certain grounding and I need a
certain strength to let myself be
without caring of the different kind of
judgment and energies coming towards me
and that's the same in the studio when I
let myself play right wrong or bad or
beautiful or sad or angry or whatever I
let it be then it's the flow is coming
off that leads to flow or whatever so
nature is a wonderful place for kind of
charging the batteries of accepting
myself
you
we're always hunting for this part of us
we're this empty there's no thought
that's just now and feelings the yoga is
great that brings a lot of energy in the
body you become more energetic that can
be opening up to be present but in a
different way and talking and sharing
really what you feel and what's going on
now that's another way so there's many
different tools to work your way into
here and now
next phase is to express we try to leave
this phase of choosing thinking and then
trust that what we know how will help me
to get into flow and let's see what
happened the good thing when I make
music with markers with Jam and we press
record and we can just do it maybe it's
bad or good or whatever give it a go
and suddenly the creative flow together
and Wow
great
it's not easy sometimes when we try to
find this part where it's hypnotic
and there's stuff going on maybe there's
such week in changing and there's a
little bit small changes and then it's
enough then you're in there it's like
for the listener on the dance floor if
you're playing the role on 303 you're
tweaking yesterday bit like slow tweaks
using frequency or something if you're
dancing you can really hear it because
my human touch to it is on this sound
and if Sebastian is doing one more thing
that's enough to listen to for a long
time but many times when we start the
jam it becomes oh now we have to have a
higher and the restlessness inside of me
okay I'll do it with this and it with
that and try to follow all these
movements everywhere and I try to change
for the listener it's going to be the
same experience they're going to get
restless so when we play it's more like
we really try to not let things happen
too much but really be there with what
is happening that's enough that we keep
so much life to the track then is human
a program that makes possible for us to
become here now like yoga or meditation
taking away all the thoughts and be
present it's very important it's more or
less the core of what we want to do we
have these sketchiest loops that will
play we know that this brace drum and
bass line and so on works together these
loops were made in the studio we're
sitting there with the drum machines and
everything and recorded and put it in
samples in Ableton and after many years
of collecting all these samples and put
it into keys and tempo there's a huge
library of loads of bass lines I can
choose a loop in G and maybe I didn't
like this bass line or I want to try
something else
just drag from the sampling archive and
try another one
and Samuel Oh what's this okay not
thinking is going on
you
the computer screen is very visual then
you start to look and you start to think
and that's the dangerous part we want to
get away from making music and
performing live it's not about looking
that much amorous it's about feeling
because sound these vibrations in
resonating side of you and makes you
feel in different ways this K with this
key makes this vibration with the things
that you still can touch I think that's
a good tip to start with the our
controllers yes a computer with a
controller that's a really good start
I have experienced myself that when I
have met people that are really one with
what they're doing and they really
express it and I love it in times when I
was maybe failing with my security which
I do very often I wanted to feel that
what they felt it looked so great and
then I was looking what are they doing
to feel this ah this is answer okay
let's try that but I really feel that
what you do the tool you are using or
the situation you happen to be in is
never the answer
it's how you let it be somehow like we
love analog stuff but that's not
essential you can be in the flow within
a pure digital setup in an environment
and that's perfect and you should try
different things but my biggest advice
is to you have the step of choosing
setting up the frame the foundation to
stand up and then take the next step let
yourself be satisfied don't think if you
have the right to our machine or not to
use it raw machine you have or the
software instrument you use and play
with it just do it
you
I very rarely feel freedom when I try to
get endless opportunities but when I
limited opportunities and I accept that
I can get free with kind of not caring
freedom is not to do whatever you want
but to be free doing what you do