I started composing the album at the hospital using 2 laptops, a midi keyboard, a couple of Genelec 8010, and some hard disks full of sounds I previously grabbed from analogue machines during the last 9 years of studio works I did.
First thing that I saw when reading about your latest release is that it confronts your fear of time as a unrelenting force. Tell us more about that fear. Is it something you generally accept as your philosophy, or it is a consequence of some events?
Hey guys, a big pleasure talk to you. It all started when I was really young, like I had been always hungry to know what could be the next step waiting for me. This fits well with my interests for time travel and dystopia topics.
The album itself and the label “Chronicles Diary” suggest that you filter the music you make through your emotions and mirror the things you experience and feel. And they don’t sound too happy. Or is it the case when one person says that a track is dark as hell and another one sees a happy and uplifting layer under it?
Time Traveler is a mirror of what happens inside me…happy to have the feeling you got it in a way.
The album comes out of a very dark period of my life, I started to sketch it during a 90 days hospitalization in Switzerland.
This was the last srugery of a series of 12 in the years after a serious car crash I had when I was 18.
All these experiences make you face your inner parts of your personality, I’ve been forced to take a deep journey into my life again and again.
Time Traveler is a mirror of what happens inside me…happy to have the feeling you got it in a way.
There is a clear presence of industrial influence in the album. Also, you are planning to release a cassette, which is more common in the industrial and indy circles where there are expensive collectibles being released in limited quantities and hunted by collectors. It gives a hint that you are pretty much into the big dark musical world, is that so? Who influenced you the most?
Industrial always influenced me, bands like NiN, Skinny Puppy, Haujobb, Korn, Sepoltura, Rammstein and Marylin Manson.
The cassette release is a kind of extra memento I wanted to put available for collectors’ love, exclusively through Chronicles Diary web store.
Do you produce everything digitally, or you use a lot of analogue hardware? How would your live setup look? And who is the dream collaboration you would want to see beside you?
I started composing the album at the hospital using 2 laptops, a midi keyboard, a couple of Genelec 8010, and some hard disks full of sounds I previously grabbed from analogue machines during the last 9 years of studio works I did.
You could hear in the album a lot of analogue sounds: Roland, Moog, Akai, Korg hardwares, some of them found damaged at the street market with their unique, weird sounds… sounds from bent circuits too.
Mixing and mastering are 100% analog too, the digital part consists in some virtual instruments, delays and reverbs for example, and some Omnisphere synths.
The live setup is formed by 2 drum machines, one TR-8 and one NI Machine filled with TT drums samples, one 24 channels digital midi mixer bank (2x Livid Ds1), an iPad for extra controls and fxs, a tailor-made 2 OSC drone machine, some guitar fx pedals, a Roland VT-3 for voices processing.
It would be nice to go deeper with the ongoing collaborations, the artists involved in the remix reports of the album.
Now, after the LP is released, what do you feel? What is the first thing you want to do next?
I feel now just happy to see my album finally released and strong artists I’ve always checked and admired for their works and taste contributing to TT project.
After the 2 remixes EP more TT original stuff is already in the pipeline.
When will we see the next release on “Chronicles Diary” and by whom will it be?
On October 14th the Remix Report I will be out with remixes of selected tracks of the album by Bas Mooy, Black Asteroid, Brian Sanhaji and DJ Hyperactive.
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