Virtual Underground

Podcast #78 with AKWIST @akwist

Virtual Underground : From where do you draw your inspiration?

Akwist: Most of my inspiration is coming from personal feelings or situations of the real life. I recently noticed that lived experiences can help a lot to produce and dump the bad or positive energies I can have.

Link to full interview on FB: https://www.facebook.com/virtualundergroundtechno/posts/843144366038980

Presenting Code27 (@11xxx27)

Co-owner of INFIDEL BODIES (@infidelbodies)

Virtual Underground : From where do you draw your inspiration?

Code27 : I always try to propose something unique.

Music is the fulcrum of my life, it fills me with moments of my day or it helps me to reflect, it inspires me.

Currently what inspires me the most is the place where I live.

Link to full interview : https://www.facebook.com/virtualundergroundtechno/posts/839043853115698

Presenting @stx1

Virtual Underground : Could you tell us more about your track selection and mixing process?

STX : When it comes to my mixing process, my goal is to create intense moments throughout the set. It is something I really value because it excites the physical part of the music, which is dancing. The harder the music, the harder the people dance. Regarding track selection when DJing, I don't fully plan my sets. I just take into consideration the venue, the time slot im playing and what I want to express.

Link to full interview on FB : https://www.facebook.com/virtualundergroundtechno/posts/835073116846105

Presenting @balrogtechno a hard-hitting techno producer and DJ from the UK.

Hailing from the Yorkshire Dales just outside of Leeds, Balrog has supplanted himself in the darker and heavier side of the genre with a focus on heavy unrelenting drums, driving bass and obscure distorted vocals.

Virtual Underground : What inspires your work?

Balrog: I think I’m inspired most by the varied genres of music I listen to. Obviously i listen to a lot of techno but I love Chicago house, DnB, Disco, Rock, Metal. It all influences my productions. Also I love to sample films or elements of films, as is probably apparent from my artist name I’m a huge Lord Of The Rings fan and it often creeps in to my work. One of my latest releases on Yucatech Recordings “I See You” is a classic example.

Link to the full interview on FB: https://www.facebook.com/virtualundergroundtechno/posts/831096207243796

Presenting @tc555

How has this TC555 story started?

Some day tilman brought some of his equipment to my flat and both of us instantly felt this connection.. we wouldn't have to prepare anything, it just worked.

What inspires your work?

Our sets are inspired by the music and sounds we are confronted with every day // TC555

Could you tell us about your selection and mixing process?

Every new session we try to work differently, this creates completely new sounds again and again.

What software/hardware do you use?

When we play together we use ableton and traktor with some korg synthesizers a MIDI keyboard and the machine jam / mikro.

What about your next plans?

Making new tracks, using more analog gear, and organising events that connect techno and art

Follow Tek!Now! on SC : @user-922996021

Virtual Underground : From where do you draw you r inspiration

Tek!Now! : Inspirations: i listen to all style of music.... but inspirations in my heart & life... every day... one moment....one emotion.... one sound !

no method to make mixing... no preparation, no tracklist.... all is make with feelings of the moment.

Link to Interview : https://www.facebook.com/virtualundergroundtechno/posts/825053217848095

"... I do make tracks without a reference track as well. I think about what I want people to hear or feel when they listen to a track, and I try to create a track which embodies those emotions. Emotion is always tricky. For me they’re extremely transient. I’ll feel angry one day and start a track, but then the next day I won’t feel the same way so the track stays unfinished. There are emotions about certain topics that linger because they’re complicated. For example, how I feel about my country. That’s something that has been around for years. I wouldn’t say it’s bottled up because I do talk about it all the time, but it’s something that I can’t sum up in a sentence. Those kinds of emotions are good sources of inspiration, I think."

The Dag

Link to full interview : https://www.facebook.com/virtualundergroundtechno/posts/819788061707944

Follow The Dag on soundcloud : @the_dag

follow Mavka on SC @mavkalisovaa

Link to interview on FB : https://www.facebook.com/virtualundergroundtechno/posts/815648292121921

Follow @piater on SC.

Virtual Underground: Could you tell us about your track selection and mixing process?

Piater.:I usually choose my tracks according to my mood. During the production, 4 tracks run at the same time, because the normal techno, like when you mix deck A to deck B, is too boring for me personally.

Link to full the interview on FB : https://www.facebook.com/virtualundergroundtechno/posts/811518825868201

Follow KAYLAH -> @ghosteemusic

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Virtual Underground: What inspires your work?

Kaylah: Everything really I live in London so just walking around, I try and go to jaded as much as possible which isn’t loads but enough to get inspiration from and to see what’s being played out, also listening to other artists podcasts and new releases.

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Link to complete Interview on FB: https://www.facebook.com/virtualundergroundtechno/posts/807426402944110