Stormtrooper interview for big bad beats 9

For this first interview before our 9th edition our Le Grand Méchant Beat aka Big Bad Beats party on the 8th of June at Glazart, the long time soldier of the dark side of the force Stormtrooper answers the questions from the Party Uniq team. Enjoy! (Lisez la traduction française ICI)

 

Hello soldier of the dark side. We don’t see you that often in France so can first introduce yourself? How were you recruited by the darkside of the force? Where did it all start for you with the rave scene, parties, music? What was your first « electronic waou » that led you to work at the Deathstar? Is life better on Tataouine (lol)?  

Hello, my name is Peter, 33 years old, and my hobbies are swimming, reading and cycling… no, just kiddin. I am doing music (producing and djing) since 1998. But it all started back in 1993 when I bought my first Thunderdomes and Rave the City CDs. From that time on I was infected, but my first real OMG-Moment was my first rave, March 4^th 1995, Rave City, Airport Munich, 20 000 ravers… from that moment I knew that I wanna be up there behind the decks one day. By the way –Tataouine was pretty boring. Glad I made my way off this gigantic sand ball

 

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Interview with The Outside Agency for Masters of Hardcore

Interview : N-Vitral for the Big Bad Beats 8

Third interview for the 8th edition of our Le Grand Méchant Beat aka Big Bad Beats party on the 6th of April at Glazart, the dutch phenomenon N-Vitral who released smashing tracks on The Third Movement tells everything to the  Party Uniq  crew. (Lisez la traduction française ICI)

photo credit Alexis

Hello, this will be your first performance in Paris. Can you introduce yourself to the French audience ? How did you get to electronic music and hardcore? Do you have a musical background ?

Well, I got into hardcore when I was just twelve or thirteen years old. The scene was at its high point of popularity in The Netherlands back then. Every kid in my street, school or football team was a “gabber”, so it was almost socially inevitable to get into hardcore.

I grew up in a pretty musical family, with, according to my not too trustworthy memory, music playing every day. My mom played all kinds of music like The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Serge Gainsbourg, etc… My dad played a lot of old jazz, big bands and bebop, so I guess that’s where my sense of experimentism is rooted. When I was 8 years old, I got cassette tapes from Nirvana, Metallica, Guns ‘n Roses and Pearl Jam from an older guy down the street and started to get addicted to harder and more energetic music, so the leap towards hard electronic music like The Prodigy and hardcore seemed pretty evident back then.

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The Outside Agency (DJ Hidden & Eye-D) – Exclusive interview for HARDER & LOUDER

Good morning, hardcore crowd! Here’s the exclusive interview for Harder & Louder with The Outside Agency taken at their gig in Moscow. “The disputed kings of industrial” talked about girls, cars, cash and, of course, some popular music.

 

I: Since the Crossbreed genre is developing today can you tell us some names of interesting Crossbreed producers you like except Genosha 175 artists.

Noel: Definitely a good question!

Frank: We really like Deathmachine, who actually is on Genosha 175, we also like Switch Technique, but he is also signed to Genosha 175. Some of new Counterstrike is nice, some new stuff from the DJ Producer is nice, some of the Lowroller stuff is nice, the one Crossbreed track that Angerfist did was really nice, we really liked that one.
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Interview : Sinister Souls for Big Bad Beats 8

For this second interview befor our 8th edition of our Le Grand Méchant Beat aka The Big Bad Beats party the 6th of April Glazart, the crazy dutch duo Sinister Souls gives to the  Party Uniq  crew their most dark schemes. They also made a SuperMinimix for our 3rd Big Bad Beats Podcast you can listen to HERE. (Lisez la traduction française ICI)

Hey, so you’re the two insane guys behind Sinister Souls. Can you introduce yourselves to the French audience? When did it all start with electronic music for you? How? What are your influences?

Bonjour ravers français!

We’re Adriaan de Koning and Fred Huurdeman a.k.a. Sinister Souls.

We were into rock and metal first and because of acts like The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers we slowly got dragged into electronic music. After that it was hardcore, breakcore and drum ‘n bass which got our attention. Producers like Concord Dawn and Technical Itch made us fall in love with drum ‘n bass. And we are not insane, our mothers had us tested…

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Promo interview for Big bad Beats 8

For the 8th edition of the Le Grand Méchant Beat aka Big Bad Beats parties that will take place on April 6th at Glazart, the  Party Uniq  crew continues to provide exlusive interviews of the best hard music artists. And we start strong with a great interview of Dj Promo, boss of The Third Movement label… Don’t miss this one! (Traduction française disponible ICI)

Dj Promo, you’ve experienced the hardcore scene since its very start. Can you tell us how you got there ? How and why you started DJing and music production ? Tell us a bit more about your first parties, musical inspirations?

I started out as a bedroom dj back in 1992. I first spend some years wanting to learn the techniques of mixing records, which i was totally obsessed about. As a kid is was a huge Prince fan and later on artists like The Prodigy and Alec Empire (Atari teenage riot) dominated my musical taste. Especially the breakbeat and rave music in the beginning of the 90′s were a huge influence. Even though i played mostly hardcore music through the years, i bought all styles of dance music that inspired me. Mainly techno and drum and bass were (and are) some of my favorite dance styles. Around 1995 i got into producing music as well. But i always did it for the love of the music, not to become a big dj or producer. In 1996 i send my demo to dj’s Buzz fuzz and The Prophet and they got me a deal with the famous ID&T records. That is where the whole Thunderdome and Promo files era started. The first parties i played at were small parties in my hometown on events like school parties and small clubs. Over the years i got more known and the parties got bigger and i played venues all over Holland and eventually the whole of Europe.

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Thrasher for The Big Bad Beats #7

The 7th edition of our Le Grand Méchant Beat aka Big Bad Beats parties is coming soon, like a thief in the night. This end of the week interview is done by Thrasher. The dutch guy, boss of the famous PRSPCT; label and parties, who has been releasing the finest hardcore drum & bass gives his views to the Party Uniq crew. Enjoy! (traduction française ICI)

Hey man, this will be your first performance in Paris. You are the boss of the label PRSPCT, DJ, Producer, events promoter, etc… What is your musical background ? What got you to drum and bass and hard sounds ?

I started off playing in Punk & Hardcore bands when I was 13/14. Recorded a few records and toured a big part of the world doing this in my younger years. Rock & Roll is still an important part of my life and what I love but after doing this for almost 10 years I was in serious need of something new. Drum & bass and Hardcore were the 2 electronic music styles that I always liked but never really focused on. When I finally started exploring these genres more I was sold and wanted to do something with electronic music. Back then there were a lot of drum & bass events in Holland but I was really missing the harder edge. I was booker at one of the main music venues in Rotterdam back then so I decided to put on my own night focusing on hard drum & bass. This is how PRSPCT and my DJ career (and later also producing) as Thrasher were born. After some years of doing the parties I decided to launch the PRSPCT labels for the same reason as the events. A lot of the guys on the label were not represented properly back then so after a while it felt only logical to also start the PRSPCT booking agency. Now PRSPCT is the best selling hard Drum & bass label worldwide with 4 sub labels; PRSPCT LTD, PRSPCT XTRM, PRSPCT Sub & PRSPCT RVLT. It’s one of the most important agencies in this genre representing artists like The Panacea, Limewax, Counterstrike, DJ Hidden, Bong Ra etc etc… PRSPCT label nights are held all over Europe every few weeks and the list of stuff goes on.. It’s my full time job during the week next to my DJing all over Europe in the weekends.

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Satronica Interview for Big Bad beats #7

First interview for the 7th edition of our Big Bad Beats parties. The american Satronica,  involved in the hard electronic musics scene since the mid 90′s is also best known to sing over our musics renowed for being voiceless. He’s also the first to throw a mix for our new Le Grand Méchant Beat PODCAST (aka The Big Bad Beats PODCAST)… Enjoy! (Version francaise ICI)

Hey Matt, this will be your first time in Paris. I guess people know your voice more than they know you . Tell us a bit about yourself. How you got to hardcore techno being based in NYC, not THE hardcore city. What is you other musical background. Did you live the NYC raves, etc… ?

Hello! I wasn’t so into techno or raves in the early 90’s actually. I was more into EBM/Industrial and this sort of thing. But I went to school with and became roommates with the brother of Oliver Chesler. Oliver, if you remember, as well as being The Horrorist, was a pioneer in the early hardcore scene doing Temper Tantrum and some of the DJ Skinhead tracks as well as many other aliases on Industrial Strength and Mokum. I had played in a lot of bands, and actually had been forced to play piano by my parents since I was young. So by this time I was dj’ing and experimenting with 4 track recorders and computer sounds. When I met Oliver through his brother, he introduced me to Industrial Strength and I immediately fell in love with the sounds of Lenny Dee, Disciples of Annihilation, Delta 9, etc. From there, I started to get into the German sounds of Marc Acardipane, Miro and PCP records, the French sounds coming from Laurent Ho, Torgull, and Manu Le Malin, Italian tracks from Lancinhouse and Jappo (Unexist), and some of the harder classic Dutch tracks like Alles Naar de Klote and those from Ruffneck, Neophyte etc.

It wasn’t long before I started to tour and play live with Oliver under The Horrorist moniker. I met a lot of amazing people during this time: Unexist, Claudio Lancinhouse, Randy, Nordcore, Marc Acardipane, Manu, Miro, Smurf, Scott Brown, Neophyte and many others. I also became friends with Lenny Dee. Lenny and Oliver helped me with my initial productions and Lenny, especially, helped me improve as a DJ.

There were actually a few “hardcore” labels around New York City during this time. My first release was on Black Monolith, a more doom oriented label, and the second was on Apocalypse Recordings, known more for speedcore. Finally after a few years of effort, I was able to release on ISR and the rest is, as they say, history.

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The Outside Agency @ Thunderdome Radio (2/01/13)

Last Wednesday, we visited the Thunderdome Radio studio and did a mix and an interview. Even while we were both either sick and/or very tired, we hope you will all still enjoy the mix and possibly the interview… which is in Dutch.

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End.User Interview @tartine de contrebasse

Hi there, welcome to Paris. Have you come here before ?

Yes, i played in a party, a few years back, but it’s the first time in the boat.

Have you had any feedback on your last album, Even Weight ? Did it sell ?

Yeah, it sold pretty good ! It’s different from most of the releases people make these days, as far as just drum & bass, or just dubstep, it’s got kind of ambient rock stuff, it’s got guitar-bass things, and it also got really hard drum & bass, or downtempo shit, vocals, a lot of vocal stuff… there’s a track with Jarboe from the Swans, you know, so we really went all over the place with it… a lot of my influences, really, have come out over the years, through my records, and now, the more i do, the more i try to grab those influences and say « hey, are you available to work with me on something ? » and usually it’s « when i have time, yes, of course ! », so… yeah, this is one of my favorite records that i’ve done, so i’m happy with it, and, as far as the record sells, Nic [Nicolas Chevreux], you know, i don’t even ask him about that, but he tells me every once in a while that it sells well, so that’s cool for me, and the packaging and everything, the white vinyl, i couldn’t be more happy with it, the package and the sound quality, so…

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