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**Lag** · 01-04-2011, 02:38 AM

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-How did you get into making music? What were your biggest influences? Please give us an example or two .

I got into making music in the early 90's.. my biggest influence i guess was the whole acid house scene here in London in the late 80's, early 90's.
It felt so fresh and exciting.. and at the time i really didn't want to do anything else with my time,
but I guess looking back as i get older.. i realize that probably my biggest influences on the music i make now came from my mother and father.
My father is a musician and my Mother an artist.. so the music i was exposed to was always quite eclectic and cutting edge.
I think maybe the reason I make electronic music is that I lived with my Mother, and at that time she was at Art school and always going to Berlin so therefore we were always listening to music by people like Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japan, Kraftwerk, YMO etc,
well that whole late 70's early 80's post punk new wave scene i guess.. so i am very grateful for that.. also my Dads music is pretty challenging itself
so I blame him for me making techno, lol.. he lived in Germany in the late 60's early 70's so I was also lucky enough to be exposed to the whole UK prog / Krautrock and Freekfunk sounds as i was growing up (Can, Faust, et al)

So although in my early teens i was more active in the Art side of things.. (I used to be a painter doing street art across London and beyond)
by 16 i was firmly hooked on music.. And then I guess it's the familiar story of / records / decks / studio time / equipment / releases / gigs etc.

-What do you use for production? What does your setup look like today, and how is it different (if it is) from your setup when u started making music?

Well I guess the biggest difference is that nowadays I have a computer .. I also used to have a lot more outboard equipment ( compressors, gates etc ),
more drum machines, sequencers and synths.. i have kept the best of the equipment that i had originally.. i sold some of the older classic keyboards about 8 years ago
because the guys who used to maintain them shut their business down.. and lot's of the earlier equipment was going wrong quite regularly, so I upgraded to more boutique equipment.. Hand built machines etc
Although that comes at a cost too as they are pretty specialist machines.. as in not many built. So they can be a bit quirky in the way they work or are not very well supported.
But the main thing is they are very good instruments to play with.. I don't like staring at computers, I like to try and capture a moment in time, so i mostly do audio recordings, not midi nowadays.

-What do you like to do more and why: live PA or DJ?

Well I originated as a dj in London, but when i met Richard Polson and we started working together full time, We were getting a lot of requests for Live PA's,
so I decided that I would concentrate on PA-ing only, as we were working as a team and I felt me dj-ing alone ( Richard didn't really dj ) would be disruptive to our partnership.
Plus I must admit that I love the freedom of playing live and being able to move with the crowd as you have far more control over a live PA than just playing other peoples records.
That being said, after over ten years of PA's I am enjoying playing some of my favorite records alongside my own stuff..
I have been using Ableton since the very first promo copies and I love the fact that it allows me to update and play tunes of any time period, tempo or style, it has total freedom in that sense, and that really suits me.

-What was the motivation behind starting Surface records? What drove you to keep putting out new releases?

Well Richard started Surface after leaving Blueprint in 1997, The motivation behind the label was to release the deeper more experimental side of things.
I met Richard that year at music college and we became firm friends, about a year later he moved near where I lived and thats when we really started to work together properly.
We moved in together, built a studio and started on a few different projects. I guess at the time it was harder edged, but really Richard and I were always into many different styles and on the look out for original music.
So really in essence thats still the drive to keep putting out new releases now!

-Where do you see yourself in the development of the British techno sound seeing as both Surface records and Inceptive gave chance and promoted so many prominent names in the current techno scene?

Well, that's a hard question really.. We always set out to release the most interesting music we could find.. And Inceptive was set up specifically for new talent at the time.
So I suppose it's up to history to judge what our input to the development of UK techno at that time or any other will be. I would like to think that our music will stand the test of time and that has always been the objective.
We were never ones for fads and fashions.. we just wanted to stick to what we were doing.. we always said we would prefer to be shepherds than sheep.
I still have many ambitions for the labels and music in general now.. But generally I am happy with the output of the labels so far,
even if it wasn't as much as some of the other labels around us. To be honest I think this has helped us in the long run, and that's why I am extremely pleased that Richard has a deserved lasting legacy!

We were always of the opinion that if you don't have anything worth saying then say nothing at all!

-You are starting the labels again so we just have to ask: seeing as a lot of the old-school legendary labels have toned it down a bit and some have even made some drastic turns musicwise - is the sound of Surface records and Inceptive going to change in any way?

Of course the sound of Surface and Inceptive will change with time, but with Surface especially, since Richard has passed away. The music just has to be good! I don't want to put limits on what we can or cant do.
The idea is to attempt to make music that will stand up throughout the course of time.. or at least have some historical relevance. I guess you can only hope that people like what you are attempting to do.
With Inceptive the musical philosophy was that it should be playable classic sounding club techno, and I guess it still has that same remit.. but the artists and music have changed so it's just trying to find original works that fit the label

-In your opinion ? what is the most exciting thing happening right now in the techno scene?

Thats a very difficult question..
I like a lot of the newer artists, if you can call them new? Shed, Dettman, 2562, Klock, DVS1, Orphx, Horizontal Ground, Lucy, Deltafunktionen, Conforce, Ancient Methods etc etc
I think these guys have real energy and their dj / live sets cover a wide variety of old and new music ..
but it seems at some parties I have been to lately it could have been the same dj playing all night.. I must point out that it's not generally when new people are playing..
A lot of originality seems to have been lost with the immediate reaction of music lovers on the internet... not that the web is to blame.. lol
Maybe the feedback comes in too quickly, previously you couldn't find out if people liked your records until they were released.. also before the internet a lot of people just didn't know each other personally,
so everyone was busy getting on with their own thing, completely unaware of what each other was doing, unless you went to a record store and then it would have probably been six months out of date anyway.
I guess thats why most of my early heroes in techno are people like AFX, Mad Mike, Drexciya, Plaid / Blackdog, B12, Autechre,Carl Craig, Stefan Robbers, Basic Channel, Jeff Mills plus many more.

I think these people truly made original music and most will continue to do so.. It would be nice to have some more variety in what is getting played at the moment.. but getting back to your original point.
Yes quite a lot of the new music excites me.. but I am always looking for something fresh.. i guess thats why a lot of scenes seem to be merging at the moment too.
Something exciting is definitely brewing, its been over twenty years since the start of the scene now.. and I am sure a group of disassociated youth are waiting somewhere to create a scene that will turn everything on it's head
Who knows? One of life's little mysteries .. lol

-Have you got something special prepared for us this Saturday? Maybe some unreleased tunes?

Obviously I have some unreleased stuff from Surface, Inceptive and my new imprint Inchoate Music.. plus some other interesting unreleased promos from various acts and labels
Also some tracks from the past that are very special to me personally . I guess we will just see on the night what the vibe is and go from there

-Thanks a lot for your time. See you in the club!

No problem ! thanks for your interest ! See you on Saturday

Dakle - vidimo se u subotu!

01-04-2011, 02:38 AM	#4
Lag Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 596	Re: 29524 & Elektrana: THE 65D MAVERICKS (uk) @ klub Compressor // subota 02. april Jedan od The 65D Mavericks Live PA nastupa mo?ete čuti klikom na ovaj link, a uradili smo i kratak intervju sa Nick Duntonom koji stoji iza ovog projekta! __________________________________________________ ____ -How did you get into making music? What were your biggest influences? Please give us an example or two . I got into making music in the early 90's.. my biggest influence i guess was the whole acid house scene here in London in the late 80's, early 90's. It felt so fresh and exciting.. and at the time i really didn't want to do anything else with my time, but I guess looking back as i get older.. i realize that probably my biggest influences on the music i make now came from my mother and father. My father is a musician and my Mother an artist.. so the music i was exposed to was always quite eclectic and cutting edge. I think maybe the reason I make electronic music is that I lived with my Mother, and at that time she was at Art school and always going to Berlin so therefore we were always listening to music by people like Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japan, Kraftwerk, YMO etc, well that whole late 70's early 80's post punk new wave scene i guess.. so i am very grateful for that.. also my Dads music is pretty challenging itself so I blame him for me making techno, lol.. he lived in Germany in the late 60's early 70's so I was also lucky enough to be exposed to the whole UK prog / Krautrock and Freekfunk sounds as i was growing up (Can, Faust, et al) So although in my early teens i was more active in the Art side of things.. (I used to be a painter doing street art across London and beyond) by 16 i was firmly hooked on music.. And then I guess it's the familiar story of / records / decks / studio time / equipment / releases / gigs etc. -What do you use for production? What does your setup look like today, and how is it different (if it is) from your setup when u started making music? Well I guess the biggest difference is that nowadays I have a computer .. I also used to have a lot more outboard equipment ( compressors, gates etc ), more drum machines, sequencers and synths.. i have kept the best of the equipment that i had originally.. i sold some of the older classic keyboards about 8 years ago because the guys who used to maintain them shut their business down.. and lot's of the earlier equipment was going wrong quite regularly, so I upgraded to more boutique equipment.. Hand built machines etc Although that comes at a cost too as they are pretty specialist machines.. as in not many built. So they can be a bit quirky in the way they work or are not very well supported. But the main thing is they are very good instruments to play with.. I don't like staring at computers, I like to try and capture a moment in time, so i mostly do audio recordings, not midi nowadays. -What do you like to do more and why: live PA or DJ? Well I originated as a dj in London, but when i met Richard Polson and we started working together full time, We were getting a lot of requests for Live PA's, so I decided that I would concentrate on PA-ing only, as we were working as a team and I felt me dj-ing alone ( Richard didn't really dj ) would be disruptive to our partnership. Plus I must admit that I love the freedom of playing live and being able to move with the crowd as you have far more control over a live PA than just playing other peoples records. That being said, after over ten years of PA's I am enjoying playing some of my favorite records alongside my own stuff.. I have been using Ableton since the very first promo copies and I love the fact that it allows me to update and play tunes of any time period, tempo or style, it has total freedom in that sense, and that really suits me. -What was the motivation behind starting Surface records? What drove you to keep putting out new releases? Well Richard started Surface after leaving Blueprint in 1997, The motivation behind the label was to release the deeper more experimental side of things. I met Richard that year at music college and we became firm friends, about a year later he moved near where I lived and thats when we really started to work together properly. We moved in together, built a studio and started on a few different projects. I guess at the time it was harder edged, but really Richard and I were always into many different styles and on the look out for original music. So really in essence thats still the drive to keep putting out new releases now! -Where do you see yourself in the development of the British techno sound seeing as both Surface records and Inceptive gave chance and promoted so many prominent names in the current techno scene? Well, that's a hard question really.. We always set out to release the most interesting music we could find.. And Inceptive was set up specifically for new talent at the time. So I suppose it's up to history to judge what our input to the development of UK techno at that time or any other will be. I would like to think that our music will stand the test of time and that has always been the objective. We were never ones for fads and fashions.. we just wanted to stick to what we were doing.. we always said we would prefer to be shepherds than sheep. I still have many ambitions for the labels and music in general now.. But generally I am happy with the output of the labels so far, even if it wasn't as much as some of the other labels around us. To be honest I think this has helped us in the long run, and that's why I am extremely pleased that Richard has a deserved lasting legacy! We were always of the opinion that if you don't have anything worth saying then say nothing at all! -You are starting the labels again so we just have to ask: seeing as a lot of the old-school legendary labels have toned it down a bit and some have even made some drastic turns musicwise - is the sound of Surface records and Inceptive going to change in any way? Of course the sound of Surface and Inceptive will change with time, but with Surface especially, since Richard has passed away. The music just has to be good! I don't want to put limits on what we can or cant do. The idea is to attempt to make music that will stand up throughout the course of time.. or at least have some historical relevance. I guess you can only hope that people like what you are attempting to do. With Inceptive the musical philosophy was that it should be playable classic sounding club techno, and I guess it still has that same remit.. but the artists and music have changed so it's just trying to find original works that fit the label -In your opinion ? what is the most exciting thing happening right now in the techno scene? Thats a very difficult question.. I like a lot of the newer artists, if you can call them new? Shed, Dettman, 2562, Klock, DVS1, Orphx, Horizontal Ground, Lucy, Deltafunktionen, Conforce, Ancient Methods etc etc I think these guys have real energy and their dj / live sets cover a wide variety of old and new music .. but it seems at some parties I have been to lately it could have been the same dj playing all night.. I must point out that it's not generally when new people are playing.. A lot of originality seems to have been lost with the immediate reaction of music lovers on the internet... not that the web is to blame.. lol Maybe the feedback comes in too quickly, previously you couldn't find out if people liked your records until they were released.. also before the internet a lot of people just didn't know each other personally, so everyone was busy getting on with their own thing, completely unaware of what each other was doing, unless you went to a record store and then it would have probably been six months out of date anyway. I guess thats why most of my early heroes in techno are people like AFX, Mad Mike, Drexciya, Plaid / Blackdog, B12, Autechre,Carl Craig, Stefan Robbers, Basic Channel, Jeff Mills plus many more. I think these people truly made original music and most will continue to do so.. It would be nice to have some more variety in what is getting played at the moment.. but getting back to your original point. Yes quite a lot of the new music excites me.. but I am always looking for something fresh.. i guess thats why a lot of scenes seem to be merging at the moment too. Something exciting is definitely brewing, its been over twenty years since the start of the scene now.. and I am sure a group of disassociated youth are waiting somewhere to create a scene that will turn everything on it's head Who knows? One of life's little mysteries .. lol -Have you got something special prepared for us this Saturday? Maybe some unreleased tunes? Obviously I have some unreleased stuff from Surface, Inceptive and my new imprint Inchoate Music.. plus some other interesting unreleased promos from various acts and labels Also some tracks from the past that are very special to me personally . I guess we will just see on the night what the vibe is and go from there -Thanks a lot for your time. See you in the club! No problem ! thanks for your interest ! See you on Saturday Dakle - vidimo se u subotu! __________________ "Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar."