 In 1991 Bastian Brinkcate, 11 years old at the time, received the first "experience" by the prodigy from a friend, the album had an instant effect on him which opened him to oldskool hiphop and breakbeats. in 1995 bastian bought a drum machine and hooked it to his computer and began experimenting, a few years later he met joris. they decided to start a formation called A-Hive " anarchistic hive", joris took care of scratching with dubs, bastian created acid styled beats. The both of them split up against there will, although they never lost contact with each other. Bastian continued experimenting till he decided to link up with old friends, R-Jay and Makuzan in 2000, Makuzan had his own home studio, they took bastian under there wing and taught him producing techniques. Frequently bastian played out at squat raves using a drum machine in company of keyboards and a hardware sampler, he also minded mcing or writing lyrics. In 2005 bastian wanted to find out how the rest of the world thought about the style he produced and he decided to create a demo cd after several non successful attempts of mastering the tunes at home by only using a headset, he got studio time from his friend r-jay. Bastian and r-jay managed to record and master his first demo cd, the tunes were sent to fizx-recordings and they took him under there wing. |
| Q & A with Electric Funk Orchestra Q: Where does your artist name come from? A: the artist name is inspired on my love for electro breaks and old funk music, the orchestra part is a joke Q: Tell us more about your musical roots! A: my musical roots started in the midle of the 80's my 10 year older brother recorded soul and breakbeats in that period, i liked it alot as a young kid in those days, music was always there. And i believe it was a big influence on the style i produce nowadays. Q: How did you start producing music? A: on a old keyboard with sampling mode Q: Are you also a DJ? A: no Q: Do you work together with other artists also? E.g. Remixes? A: I like to jam with other musicians who play other genres of music, it is insperational and a fun thing to do, besides that i work with a few friends from time to time start a project together and see how our minds can combine. Q: Do you have any special musical aims? A: my aim is to give people the same thrills on music i get and had when i first experienced breakbeats. Q: What do you think of the contemporary popular music which is played by normal radio stations? A: in general i think most contemporary comercial minded music is rather shallow, non progresive a in a loop playing thing and that its a part of a certain crowd with a certain vision on things i dont want to be part of. pop wil eat itself..... Q: What have you read recently (book, play, film, etc.) that moved or surprised you? A: james bond in her majesties segret service moved me Q: What is your all-time favorite track? Why? A: sorry but i dont got a all time favorit tune, there are to many good tunes. Q: What's one thing you're a fan of that people might not expect? A: that im a whisky fan? single malt please.... |
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