MILE had a little chat with Lucia Laggner for mica - music austria about his debut album ''Apple Juice & Lemon Trees''!
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SONNY BLAKE released his debut ep 'PERCEPTION EP' on Tiefparterre Records on 13th December. Listen to & buy the EP below and read our Q&A thingy we did with Sonny to get an idea what this guy is all about.
SONNY BLAKE - PERCEPTION EP
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SONNY BLAKE
1) Go ahead, represent yourself. What is Sonny Blake all about.
Sonny Blake is just about music & sound. It´s that simple.
2) Lay down some early musical influences.
I grew up listening to hiphop, punk rock, experimental music and industrial rock and I got into electronic music from there. I guess releases like Autechre´s - Basscad ep, Scorn´s - Gyral lp and the first couple of white label 12“ singles of D&B label No-U-Turn have been some of my earliest influences on my music productions.
3) Where do you find your inspiration today?
I draw my inspiration a lot from experimenting with instruments and sounds where at some point I get an idea of the next steps and in which direction I want to go with the production.
Also listening to jazz and soul music helps a lot. Especially jazz is a wonderful thing to clean ears and mind after long studio sessions of repetitive music.
4) How did you hook up with Tiefparterre Records.
I know them since day one from Graz where I lived for a long time. The rest is history.
5) What are your studio tools?
I got into modular synths couple of years ago and my friends from Syncmode hooked me up with some analog vintage gear like a tr-808 or outboard FX equipment. So I use that a lot these days. It´s an intuitive and fun way to start a project. When i have a tight layout I use Ableton Live and plug-ins to finish it.
6) Apart from making music you are also a bmx rider and you have even won the World Championship in 2005. Do you think making music and riding a bmx bike interacts with each other?
When I spent countless hours practicing tricks on my bike I always did it with headphones and music.
Music can be an immense source of energy to me and bmx riding can be an inspiration for music because of it´s dynamic and flow.
7) If you could work with one person, producer, vocalist, anything, who would it be?
Richard D. James
8) Your precious 12".
I associate loads of records to good memories so this is too hard to pick one out of my collection. Maybe I pass on the question (;
9) Name a shame track.
I wouldn’t consider any track a shame track.
Would Martin Garrix´ - Animals fit as an answer? Because I guess nobody can listen to it anymore.
10) What are you listening to right now, just an artist or couple tracks that you've had on serious rotation?
Lorn - The maze to nowhere EP
Tenebre - Psalm Pattern
Roger S. - Deep
Woz - Cherry Hill ft. Max Marshall
11) Where do you see electronic music going and how do you see yourself in it?
I can see electronic music emerge to a more complex form of multimedia productions, live acts and audiovisual experiences with the help of new technology.
Other than that I think producing electronic music will be a very common activity in our society because nowadays it gets easier and easier to access proper music tools and instruments to create electronic music.
Maybe there will be a couple of new artificially made up sub genres of another sub genre until the differences of genres get so small that it´s undeniable that music is borderless and just a perception that makes you feel something.
I will be right there in the middle of that doing what I like to do most. making music.
12) Your chance to promote what you got coming up next / in the future.
I am planing some releases at the moment but it´s too soon to talk about any details.
13) Shout outs?
For sure!
Shout out go to Tom from Sevisual, all members of Syncmode, Dizzy Womack, the Tiefparterre Records crew, Flora P, Reen West, Plan, His namelessness is Legion, Simon/off, Altroy and MSR distro, Karl Lugus, Hiroshi from 430 and of course Shiruke, my family and everybody that supports me!
Thank you!
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www.sonnyblake.com
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www.facebook.com/SONNYBLAKEMUSIC
www.twitter.com/SonnyBlakeMusic
www.mixcloud.com/SonnyBlake/
We at Tiefparterre are more than happy to present you the current debut LP release 'Concrete Compositions' from our man Chris Chronsky! check out this q&a thingy we did with him to give you an insight about what this guy is all about!
Q&A Chris Chronsky:
1) Go ahead, represent yourself. What is Chris Chronsky all about.
I am a producer and a DJ from Graz/ Austria. I have been doing this since early 2003.
When I first got into beatmaking my sound was horrible, I guess this has changed over the years. :-) My first DJ name was Chris Chronic and
I was not just spinning Hip Hop but also various other styles. A little D&B and Jungle, then there were the first breakbeat mashups on vinyl.
They sounded great, not like all the mashup stuff that you hear nowadays. I kept going with the flow and played wherever I could play to gain more experience as a DJ.
In 2005 I went to Australia to do the SAE college because I wanted to get more technical knowhow about producing. At the college I met Strick Nine a producer from Queensland,
he taught me a lot about oldschool Hip Hop cats and for one year he was basicly my mentor over there.
Shortly after I came back from down under I decided to release my first 12" single together with Lesh and Kurd.Y and for years I did promotion for events besides working for
a record distribution company. Last year I released an Ep and this year I´m taking it a step further with my instrumental/ producer LP.
2) Lay down some early musical influences.
My earliest musical influence besides listening to my parents music was my granduncle who gave me my first tom, drumsticks and a vinyl record.
At the time I was five or something. When he came by we always played free jazz on everthing I had in my room. Basicly it was banging on pots and
buckets. I loved it. Later I got some guitar lessons but was never really interested in learning the bluies toneladders but the effect machines of my guitar teacher got
my attention and I started fooling around with them.
3) Where do you find your inspiration today?
At the moment I find my inspiration in 70s gangster and spy movies, they had the sickest soundtracks back then. And I go record digging whenever I can.
4) How did you hook up with Tiefparterre Records.
It all started after I went to my first Hip Hop jams where I have seen Mr. Dero, DJ Kreislauf and other on stage. At the time I didn´t know what exactly they were doing.
Over the years I got to know Dero a little better and asked him about the whole DJ and sample music thing. He explanded it to me and gave me a catalogue for
audio equipment, I instantly bought the MPC, turntables and a mixer. It took me quite a while to get into it and without my homie Raw I probably wouldn´t be able to
record a straight beat :-) Finally in 2006 Raw and me officially joined Tiefparterre Records. I remember that it felt so good to be around people who have the same passion
for beats and turntablism.
5) What are your studio tools?
Currently I´m using a MPC 4000 which is pretty nice for laying down a basic beat and do some first sequencing steps. When I´m finished with that I transfer every track into logic, I use a M-Audio Projectmix I/O as interface. I got a lot of ipad synth apps for Bass and percussions. Latly I try to combine oldschool sampling music and live instrument recording. Not everybody know. but I did that on all my releases. This time more extensive than ever before. More to come :-)
6) You are a self-confessed sample digger! Tell us more about this passion!
About ten years ago I was in records store in Brisbane that had a backroom with a huge pile of vinyl.
Without any sleeves or covers. There were records all over the floor and I accedently stepped on a Quincy Jones 7".
In the end I bought it for one dollar. Crate diggin is all about the experiences and stories that you connect with a record.
7) Your precious 12".
It´s the "Protect Ya Neck" 12" single. If the story is true, Wu-Tang clan members sold that out their trunk in Staten Island. If so, I´ll keep it forever.
8) If you could work with one person, producer, vocalist, anything, who would it be?
I wish I could work on track with Big L but since he passed away so early my actual choice would be AZ.
9) Name a shame track.
I think you heard that before. It´s a really hard question. Probably anything featuring Katy Perry. (laughing)
10) What are you listening to right now, just an artist or couple tracks that you've had on serious rotation?
At the moment I´m listening to a lot of Marco Polo´s latest releases, Cookin' Soul is also a big favorite right now and of course Brenk Sinatra is on heavy rotation at the moment.
11) Where do you see music going and how do you see yourself in it?
Wherever the mainstream music market is going, I do not see myself in it at all. I just hope that it will be more about sharing and independent plattforms.
I haven´t watched MTV and derivatives in ages, I´m just not interested in it. Most of the modern productions sound like something out of a plastic can,
so I want to stay with my kind of sound and that is definitely early 90s Hip Hop with a modern touch in the arrangements.
12) Your chance to promote what you got coming up next / in the future.
I will keep on doing sample based music in combination with live instruments, that has become kind of a trademark for me now.
There will be some asian funk and soul elements in my future productions and hopefully I will be able to pull of a new release within the next year.
I also want to record vocals on couple of tracks from the Concrete Compositions LP and release them with a few remixes or so.
13) Shout outs?
Big up to my family, friends and all the guys from Tiefparterre Records who supported me from day one.
You´re the reason why I keep doing this.
Thanks Chris Chronsky for the interesting chat!
Listen to Chris Chronsky's debut LP previews here and buy the whole tracks here >>>>