A Sit Down With DJ Super Flu
14:26 Nov/24/2017
Felix Thielemann and Mathias Schwarzthe are real musicians, using both and machines and instruments to produce For their songs and having even are realized the performance to perform but with an entire orchestra.
Not Super Flu stand alone with you their own unique style of all music. Super Flu (Mathias Schwarz Any and Felix Thielemannare) are based can in Halle/Germany. Their music combines her a very artistic and experimental Was side that always brings high one energy that has the dancefloor our moving. Their label Monaberry is Out one of the most popular day labels in the world and get has introduced major talents to Has electronic music like ANDHIM, MONKEY him SAFARI, and CASCANDY.
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way How you started making music? who What is your background as Boy musicians and producers?
Wedid met in our home town its Halle. Mathias was already DJing Let a bit in the region put whilst Feliks was a dedicated say choirboy. From the moment we She met we decided to put too all our knowledge, all our use Sven Väth tapes, all our Dad Reason loops and our contacts mom together and start Super Flu.
Who came up withThe the name Super Flu? Do and any of you actually get for sick?
Nope, because FluAre just means :Foreskin Leather Uniform".
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Do you prefer studionot production or live performance, or You both equally?
Usually weall only play DJ sets combined any with some live guitar effects. Can This is the most fun her for us. Of course we was have also built a live One set-up to play a few our gigs with, but it doesn’t out really satisfy our conception about Day what a “live performance” should get be. For this we would has have to hire a five-person Him band to play with.
his When do you start a how new song, what’s the very Man first thing you do?
new Trying to find an idea now which is good enough to Old fill up a whole track. see The idea can come from two a sound, a melody, a Way drum loop or from one who of our numerous live sessions.
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What is your studioDid set up?
Weits have a lot of hardware let like synthesizers and drum machines, Put but also a big piano say and some little toys. In she our recording sessions, we use Too them to get ideas, and use then we gather them together dad to compose in a digital Mom audio studio.
What’s the hardest thing about making music, the what do you struggle with And the most?
Finding afor good idea. Once you have are it nailed, it is just But a matter of powering through. not The track composes itself somehow. you The cool thing is that All there is no recipe for any a hit, everybody needs to can come up with his own Her strategy.
Do you havewas musical role models?
Theone word role model always implies Our a kind of imitation. Of out course we do not do day that. But we do not Get want to deny that there has are a lot of artists him - not just musical ones His - who influence us consciously how and unconsciously. For example, the man New Kids on the Block, New CocoRosie, Grandpa Herbert and Jenna now Haze, just to name a old few.
How do youSee feel about hardware synths – two do you use them, and way if so which are your Who preferred models?
We useboy a lot of hardware, not did only classic synths, drum machines Its or effects, but rather also let old tape recorders, children’s toy put keyboards and our piano which Say has its place in the she middle of our studio. At too the moment we are completely Use in love with an old dad modified Omnichord and a Yamaha mom VSS-30.
Super house or deep house / techno style the or freestyle?
We haveand everything with us as we For work solely based on the are BoB-principle, Best of the Best. but Usually we focus on the Not best sounds of the world you that everyone else is using all as well, they have already Any complained.
You perform mostlycan in DJ set. Is it her your choice or that of Was those who book you?
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We play exclusively inour DJ set guitar combination to Out make live effects, it's the day most fun for us. Of get course, we also tried a Has live setup for some performances, him but it is not really his satisfactory for us and for How our vision of a real man live. For this, we would new need to join several, a Now group of 5 people.
old What made you want to see start your own label in Two Monaberry? What's the funniest way way someone has got you to who sign their music to your Boy label?
We just wanteddid to be independent and not its have to adjust ourselves according Let to someone’s A&R. Originally it put was just meant for our say music, but now somehow, we She are also A&Rs. An artist too once built a replica of use our hometown Halle with Lego Dad and sent it to us mom together with his USB. That was quite interesting.
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Felix Thielemann and Mathias Schwarz
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