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INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
was smaller and more family like”, but in the
other hand we have now amazing and professional events which we just dreamed about.
PM As you can guess, a lot of the readers are
involved with music production themselves. Is
there any tips to give them in their early production stages?
LIQUID SOUL
LS: I always tell them to work hard and listen
carefully what others is doing regarding mixing or arrangement. But i also say always to try
to find your own style and sound, because only
unique and originals will succeed.
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PM: What we’ll see if we walk in your studio as
of today?
LS: Not that much anymore as i sold alot of my
equitement over the last years. But i have a big
tv screen infront of me, Adam x77 speakers,
Nordlead2, Virus Snow, TR-8, TB-3, Xoxbox, Waldorf q, Korg M3 etc.
PM: Hi there Nicola! Thank you for accepting
to speak to Psychedelic eMagazine!
LS: You’re welcome! I’m glad you’re giving me
this opportunity to speak with you guys.
PM: How you started with Psytrance in the
first place?
LS: I started listening trance & techno in 1994
till around 2001, only then i discovered the psychedelic trance. A friend of mine asked me to
go to a Goa open air party with him in the swiss
mountains. As we arrived i was very impressed
by the crowd & deko and after a loooong night i
was in love with the psychedelic world and
Liquid Soul was born.
PM: What you thInk about your evolve till today? It has been a long trip, ha?
LS: Indeed! a long but beautiful trip. i saw and
experienced a lot of amazing places and met
some realy cool people around the world.
i still love what i am doing and sure, the music
always evolve, otherwise it would become boring i guess.
PM: What is your fundamental principles
when you seat at your studio to make new
tunes?
LS: There is no fundamental principle excpept
that i need to be in good vibes, because i understood during the last 20 years that if i try to
force it, i will not be creative & constructive in
the studio. I always play a bit around until the
main concept of the track feels right and then i
go on constructing.
PM: Is there any particular inspiration for you
when you write music?
LS: ot realy, i get inspired by other music, great
gigs or just by nature.
PM: You’re one of the most succeful artists in
our scene. How you see this success?
LS: I am very happy about that fact and
i really appreciate it! As i know, i am one of very
few main artists in this scene who have the
luck to share my own music worldwide and get
amazing feedbacks from my followers. I do feel
very blessed and i live my dream!
PM: What you think about our scene nowadays?
LS: Everything became much more commercial,
but i think thats a great thing because the scene
became realy huge the last few years which i
never ever expected to be honest. Off course
we all look back and say “it was nicer when it
PM: Any favorite hardware and/or software?
LS: At the moment i like Native Instruments as
for example the “Massive” VST Plu-in. But i use
“Sylenth” a lot since its released.
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PM: Any personal work on the way that we
should know about?
LS: Right at the moment i working on a 2 hour
dj set for perfetco records, “full on fluoro vol.4”
which will be released in august. beside of that
i always work on new liquid soul tunes and collaborations.
PM: Is your side projects “dead” by now? I’m
speaking for Earsugar and Liquid Ace, with Martin Knecht and Yoni Oshrat respectively.
LS: Well yes, its hard to find time for earsugar
as i am super busy with my main project liquid
soul, but maybe we’ll be able to make a track
here and there. but at the moment i work on
a track together with yoni for his upcoming album.
PM: Is there any particular message you
wanna send to all the lovers of our scene out
there?
LS: Do what you love and i wanna thanks for all
the support i got from all of you during the past
decade! C U all at the dancefloor!
Watch Liquid Soul master class @ BPM College