Virtual Underground

Interview :

Virtual Underground : How has this Atdlb story started?

Atdlb : It all started when my friends and I founded a collective called La North in which we organize after-hours underground events in Montréal. I discovered the nightlife here and in Europe and completely fell in love with techno music.

Virtual Underground : Where do you generally draw your inspiration from?

Atdlb : My past experiences, travels, my entourage…

Virtual Underground : Could you describe your music selection and mixing process?

Atdlb : I like dark and melancholic sounds, I’m into pretty fast music at the moment so I try to dig in for never heard before tracks before doing a mix, but I pretty much go with the flow and play whatever song that touches my feelings.

Virtual Underground : Which software/hardware did you use for this set?

Atdlb : For this set I used Pioneer Ddj 800.

Follow Atdlb here @alexia-tourvieille

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Interview :

Virtual Underground : How has this Ømen story started?

Ømen : It started as a hobby and side-project, as I felt the need for a creative outlet to cope with London’s fast-paced lifestyle and have always been passionate about music. I used to play in various bands as a drummer, but electronic music always fascinated, particularly the more experimental and underground scenes. After co-founding MASS, a London based Techno night, my focus and drive to produce and play Techno crystallised.

Virtual Underground : Where do you generally draw your inspiration from?

Ømen : My inspiration tends to come from being mindful of my life experiences, the emotions they evoke, being curious, and always trying to push my limits. Lately, I find myself listening to a lot of raw, aggressive, and occasionally melodic/melancholic tracks. I also have incredibly talented friends that produce great music that I often try to incorporate in my storytelling. Having grown up in Bali, Indonesia, I draw inspiration from the rhythms, mystical prayers, and percussive elements emanating from my youth, while also reflecting the brutal and industrial reality of currently living in a major European capital.

Virtual Underground : Could you describe your music selection and mixing process?

Ømen : I am constantly creating a mind-map of tracks that would go well together as I listen to music daily. However, when it comes to designing a mix or a set, it reflects the mood that I am generally in during that period. Drawing from my ‘mind-map’, I tend to already have a blue-print of how it will start and how it will end, but the rest is relatively spontaneous.

Virtual Underground : Which software/hardware did you use for this set?

Ømen : My mixing set up consists of two Pioneer CDJ 1000 MK3 (still using CD’s), Allen & Heath Xone 23 mixer, and studio monitors. For music production, I use Ableton and occasional external instruments such as synths or drum machines.

@omenlnd

Interview :

Virtual Underground : How has this "Ain't no mercy" story started ?

Ain't No Mercy : First of all i want to say you thank, it’s my first interview. I’ve been listening electronic music for a long time. I always liked it and gradually it became part of my life. Therefore I decided to make music by myself.

Virtual Underground : Where do you generally draw your inspiration from ?

Ain't No Mercy : I think my inspiration comes from love of music.

Virtual Underground : Could you describe your music selection and mixing process ?

Ain't No Mercy : For me it’s a great pleasure, when i play music and create selection. I think it makes me feel alive.But now I’ve frequent contact to Record box because i use it to record my sets.

Virtual Underground : Which software/hardware did you use for this set ?

Ain't No Mercy : As i already said, i am using a record box. I used it now as well.

Follow Ain't No Mercy on SoundCloud @irina-cutkosky

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For Podcast #112 we are happy to present a fresh talent based in Paris @simon-audeguis

Edward Symphony was born in 1999, from an early age he acquires a great interest in the arts and focuses part of his time in the world of cinema and other branches of the audiovisual, so much so that he begins to produce small videotapes and phonographic material for what would be his first steps in this world.

In his adolescence he is greatly influenced by the RAVE culture and thanks to this he discovers the existence of totally new music, which motivates him to experience in the creation process.

He claims to have fallen totally in love with the stage after being behind a booth in a small club in his city in 2018, which generates for several months thoughts of revolutionizing the idea that not only in these places you can enjoy such music.

Then, he has decided to create a collective called NOISE, with purpose to create events in unconventional places intended for people to enjoy comforting experiences that lead them not only to dance, but to feel and remember at fast rhythms and few lights

Interview :

Virtual Underground : How has this Edward Symphony story started ?

Edward Symphony : The figure of Edward Symphony begins to be part of an audiovisual project, since I was very young, I was very impressed to make movies with a small camera.

After all this, at 16 years of age I created sound effects for these "home movies", from that day on I began to think that I could create music for other types of spaces, and in 2018 I saw myself for the first time behind a mixer playing on bar in my city.

Virtual Underground : Where do you generally draw your inspiration from ?

Edward Symphony : This is a very complex question, since when creating phonographic material I take inspiration from the feelings I have, normally my style of representing music is based on melancholy, although I also draw a lot of attention to crispy and heavy sounds.

Virtual Underground : Could you describe your music selection and mixing process ?

Edward Symphony : I like to play very high, from 134 bpm to in many cases 150 bpm, my purpose is to make people who dance to my music free themselves from the stress they accumulate day by day and lose themselves between the rhythms.

Virtual Underground : Which software/hardware did you use for this set ?

Edward Symphony : I love traktor :3

Virtual Underground : How does the underground scene in your city looks like?

Edward Symphony : Unfortunately it is small, but nevertheless it is constantly growing, we do everything we can from our small collective called NOISE.

Virtual Underground : What are your next plans ?

Edward Symphony : I have been working on my first EP for several months, I hope to have it ready soon, and regarding NOISE, we hope to start doing a small national tour and support Colombian talent.

@edwardsymphony

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After years of evolution, BRAIS has found its ideal style in the avant-garde electronic music of an aggressive nature, its sound ranges from a crude and metallic industrial techno to electro, acid and EBM. As a producer he has polished his techniques and expanded his knowledge with prestigious masters such as Tadeo, HD Substance, Lefrenk or Joton and today he has published in national and international labels.

A relentless activity as a dj and producer to which he also joins his work as administrator of the popular Techno Puritano (Official Group) (which today is followed by thousands of lovers of the genre) or his streaming serial and interviews Sanz Room , along with his partner Héctor Sanz, in addition to being a member of the reputed collective 12-INCH.

A worker of underground electronics and always looking for new paths.

He has edited labels such as Taro Records, Vapourtrail, Ecstasy state, etc ...

Interview :

Virtual Underground : How has this BRAIS story started ?

BRAIS : My story began in 2013, in a small club in my town, I was only 18 but I already played my first mixes, from there it was all about not stopping XDD

Virtual Underground : Where do you generally draw your inspiration from ?

BRAIS : My main inspirations were changing over time, it is true that I am now in a more techno-industrial-electro-ebm line, for telling you 2 artists that inspire me today, ansome and scalameriya.

Virtual Underground : Could you describe your music selection and mixing process ?

BRAIS : Well, my mezcal process in a dj set is simply reduced to filtering what I like most about my purchases / promos and of course my vinyl bookshelf, I am selecting the news that I like the most and some older track for them to follow having life

Virtual Underground : Which software/hardware did you use for this set ?

BRAIS : For this set I used 2 technics and an xdj1000

Virtual Underground : How does the underground techno scene in your city looks like?

BRAIS : Now it is improving a lot, but we come from hard times XDDD

Virtual Underground : What are your next plans ?

BRAIS : My next plans are to continue in the production and in the cabin, I have several closed projects that will soon see the light :)

Follow and support @brais1