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INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
Z-CAT
and it could be quite failure, but I insisted anyway. So later, when the release date arrived, I
was really surprised when I found out that all
Cds were sold out in the first 2 hours after release announce, so they had to print more.
And I want to say thank you for that amazing energy to all my dear supporters and followers.
Moscow / Russia
Q : Do you record your own vocals?
Z-Cat : yes, all the female voice you hear in my
tracks is mine.
Q : Tell me about your involvement with TLN
Promotion? What does TLN do?
Z-Cat : TLN Promotion is one of the biggest psytrance events organizer in Moscow. I am signed
with them since 2006, and also take a part in the
promotion.
Q : To kick things off, tell me a little bit about
yourself and your introduction to psychedelic trance 10 years ago? How did you decide on
your alias Z-Cat?
Z-Cat : it all started quite trivially, like many others! I just came to my first trance party and I was
so much impressed, that I couldn’t think about
anything else except of what I experienced.
About the name, I choose it because by Mayan
calendar I am the wild cat, and I believe that my
personality very similar to a character of cats,
they are very independent, graceful, beautiful,
but in a same time very funny and cute. Z is the
last letter of alphabet, means the last one! So it’s
kind of “the last cat” !
Q: What made you pick Psytrance over other
styles of music? Was there anything or anyone in
Russia that inspired you?
Z-Cat : as I mentioned before I was impressed
by the atmosphere on the psytrance events, the
crowd there was so friendly, everyone behaved
like if they all were brothers and sisters, people
shared everything, supported each other, got
friends so easy, everyone was in his own beautiful image, and each person played very essential role on the dancefloor. It was 11 years ago,
when the psytrance was not divided on styles
yet, we had only psytrance, that’s it!
Q : Tell us about your upcoming release “Ablaze”
EP?
Z-Cat : EP Ablaze is very inspired by life, 3 tracks
– 3 different emotions: Rush, Sadness and encourage, contemplation. You can pass it though
quite clear while listening, and I believe it’s very
important to insert emotions into the music, so
you can feel ALIVE.
Q : Tell me about your signing with Spanish
based label Dropland Recordings. Why did you
feel it was a good label to represent your music?
Z-Cat : Dropland Recordings was representing
some of my favorite artists, I like the style of the
label. In general I like the way they work, and I
consider my music fits with the label. Also Dropland and my agency Akida Bookings are close
friends, so it was the best for me.
Q : When we contact the MMD Records label,
who released your Debut full album “Reflected”
last year, they mentioned your album did well
online and physical sales. Were you surprised by
the response its received?
Z-Cat : While discussing the release of my Album with MMD, they were convincing me to
make a digital release, because nowadays very
few people would want to have a physical CD,
Q : What advice would you give to up and coming producers, particularly female producers?
Z-Cat : my advise is.. if you really want to make
music, don’t spare the time on it. Because if we
have strong desire, we would find million opportunities to make it, but if the desire is not big
enough, we will get million excuses.
Q : Thanks for the interview!! You have any message to send to the psylovers out there:
Z-Cat : Be open, find your inspiration, and the
thing will come to you itself. Thank you for the
interview too!
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