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I am definitely Viennese, a Josefstadt kid.
I think you are very much influenced by the place where you grow up.
Compared to other cities Vienna is a bit jollier,
but it's also cozier.
And coziness often goes along with laziness.
I think Vienna's pretty great,
especially the Josefstadt neighbourhood.
It's the smallest district and feels like a village within the city
that has never really been hip or cool.
It's a part of the city that never really changes.
When I start working on a new track
I first collect some ideas on the piano.
These can be chord progressions or a mix of melodies and chords.
If they are worth continuing with
I put them into the synthesizer on my computer,
listen to it, play around with it.
If I still like it then, I add some drums or other rhythmic elements.
If that still works out, I go back to the piano
to see if I can maybe find a second part to it, a theme that goes along
and that's how it starts rolling.
My music is influenced by Jazz through the records that my parents listened to
and that I bought myself.
HipHop is important, too, especially 90's HipHop,
that was a lot about Jazz samples.
For me that was an entrance ticket to Jazz from another side
because the samples sometimes were from the same records
that I've known from my parents, and that completes the circle.
To call Jazz a music genre is difficult anyway.
The bottom line is that Jazz means everything's possible
and that's an appealing idea to me.