Hello my dear Adriatiques, so... tell me all about your mix... How did it come about? Where did you record it, and how?
Adrian: Same as always... we checked the sounds, decided the direction, and recorded it with Traktor in our studio flat. We always would like our mixes to be suitable to be listened to in any situation, not only in your car on the way to the club. More like a radio mix.
For us, it sounds more like you held a cocktail in your hand while getting ready for a nice sundown session on the cruise-liner. Love this image which gets nicely trashed by your photo of you guys in the shopping trolley, really love you guys!
Adrian: Thanks for the flowers.
Must admit that I only stumbled across you recently when checking out your new release with Tyladomid, Feeling Good. What’s the story of this record?
Adrian: Better late than never! Well, we already made this other record with Tyle, the second release Diynamic’s sublabel 2diy4. He came to visit us in Zurich a few times so we ended up producing some stuff together... Feeling Good was one of them.
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This was one of the first records, but it already shone through that you found your direction back then.
Adrian: Well, we are music lovers and DJs for ages and ages and listen to so much music. So when we finally started producing, we came up with soooo many projects... but only after showing our stuff to others, things would start to show. Before the record on 2diy4, we had one or two other releases, but it was around that release that we started to show continuity. In the end, it all went quite quick. We never really had a plan but put in a lot of hard work, and of couse loads of fun and spontaneity. We know for a long time that we love to make, pay and live music.... oh yeah.
How did you get into this, and for how long do yo DJ together? What is it that unites you?
Adrian We met about three years ago, both working as DJs respectively, and hooking up at gigs where we were both booked. We realized that our sets would fit together well, and on a human level, we also clicked, so, it was just happening step by step basically... what most unites us are our differences. This is turning into a healthy dependency at the moment. Meoko: Are you both from Zurich? Adrian: Adrian One is from Basel but lived in Zurich, and I am originally hailing from Austria but moved to Zurich.
Quite symbiotic. Do you sometimes piss the other off or is it always partytime?
Adrian: We piss each other off sometimes, of course. But we know each other quite well by now, this is not going to fail anymore.
Tell me more about the mix... There are quite a few vocal tracks in there.
Adrian: True, true. This wasn’t on purpose, although we like vocals and use them a lot... but we also like it hard and dry. Depending on the mood. Right now, there was just lots of good vocally material. We actually like it quite varied, but with some connection between the elements. As we are two, we complement each other... which gives us more variety.
What’s a good trip for you?
Adrian: Depends on the situation, the club, the festival, the time of night. Nevertheless, it’s a perfect trip when it’s not too direct, not too to the point, lots of detours instead of fast trails, and a nicely placed stylistic rupture. Carrying emotions, in the best case, positive ones. Something that stays with us, a memory. In the end, we both embody the same. It’s evident when people feel us.
By Katrin Richter
