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A friend of mine from Graz told me:
“Hey in Graz there’s this wicked 3 day electronic festival
Graz suits really well because it’s small enough to walk between all the locations
Is this your first time at springfestival?
No!
Yes, we are!
It's one of the best events in Graz, throughout the entire year
I really wanted to see it because I already heard so much about it, even in Berlin!
It is simply THE opportunity of the year because it’s just once a year
that you can see and hear something like this
You are a boy from Bavaria, who grew up on the country side, like real countryside...
You mean almost Austrian?
At the moment I am trying German Schlager music from the 60s and 70s
that nobody knows and nobody plays
at those times everything was orchestrated, real musicians were sitting in the studio to waiting for cues,
since there was no sampling and such...
This is why the DJ thing or the DJ culture will never die,
because there will always be people finding new ways of looking at it
and playing new stuff or searching for rarities, in order to then connect it all and create something new
And in 10 years I’ll be 57 and I could imagine that I still will be playing
and touring and making music in 10 years,
and maybe the people will still want to hear me in Graz when I am 57,
at the springfestival, and then I’ll be back and play!
This is a relatively small system, even if it looks big ….there are much bigger systems
In this system here, I decided to take 4 oscillators,
the oscillators are essential for the sound of a synthesiser,
how and which kind of waveforms I can produce with it,
how many oscillators I have,
how I can mix them,
so to speak...the voice of a synthesiser is the oscillator
I have to grill you musically once again: you are mixing Disco with Italo, Schlager and Rave
I never heard this combination before
I don’t think you are old enough to have witnessed all of that live. The stuff you are producing,
how do you come up with it?
Well tv, internet and radio, but I would say, I just don’t give a *** and do whatever comes out of me
like a zit that you squeeze
What is that? That’s a microphone!
Why?
springfestival exists since 10 years,
that means the generation that first attended spring grew older as well
And for me, having two children, it’s really difficult to go out,
the hangover on the following day won’t just go away,
plus there’s no sleeping in!
How does the tiger go?
And this is a new live style, not to just drops your kids off somewhere,
or doing special activities once in a while,
but to actively involve kids in your everyday life!
As you can see the festival centre is open until midnight, like right now,
so people can come until midnight and buy tickets and there is always somebody here
Well it’s a really cool event, the city is booming, you can hear something everywhere,
and there are so many locations, what is so nice spread all over the city...
Actually we’re students but now we’re awake for 4 days
For me springfestival is something you have to see as a fan of electronic music
And in fact, spring is....?
Wicked!
Everbody says so, don’t they?
Great!
Come on, let’s roll!! (or something like that?!)
That’s it!