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Half a month ago, I was having a beer at a pub in Stockholm called Olssons video, where I used to go because there was no entrance fee and they played minimal music as well. Sometimes, even people from BPitch Control came to djing there, and knowing how’s the club thing in Stockholm (you have to pay entrance even if you go to the shittiest hole of the whole town), I think that this one was actually a good one. So well, there I was having a beer, when suddenly I realized about the music. It wasn’t the same music I used to hear there, not at all. Instead of minimal and deep house, a complete tour throughout Institubes, Boys noize recs and so on, was happening, and that was the fact that made me become interested about WHO was behind the turntables. Instead of a bloke playing a pair of CDJs, what I found was two guys with a Powerbook, a M-Audio midi controller plugged to it, and the well known Ableton Live running on the laptop. Rapidly I deduced “uhm, it may be a live set”. Yeah, it actually was. What a good surprise I got, you know, instead of being relaxed and having a beer as I thought when I arrived there, I was dancing and enjoying to hell with every single track. At the end, the guys started giving out some stickers with their MySpace address written on them, so I decided to ask them if they were interested on being interviewed by our little blog. Affirmative, so here you all are the result.

First of all, could you introduce yourselves briefly? What are your names, where are you from, how old are you, …?
During the height of USSR Dmitry Fyodorov was a really successful attack player in CSKA Moscow. After an accident on the ice he disappeared without a trace… He has been completely gone until recently when two black magic warlocks from the dark woods of Stockholm successfully summoned his soul in the form of death electro house.

How long have you been doing music together?
Since January, the first track we did was HC CSKA Moscow.

How would you define your music?
Raw and sweaty, the kind of music we want to hear when we go out. It’s like fun and punching dance music.

Which kind of stuff do you use to make music and to play live sets?
We use Logic express and various Audio-units when creating music and Ableton Live when playing live.

What do you think about the new emerging french electro scene?
Really cool, it’s going to get bigger! The new Justice album is probably going to make A LOT of more people interested in that scene. We were big fans of the last wave of french house and it’s cool to see it coming back in a new form.

What kind of music do you usually to listen to?
Lots of different stuff. Both of used to be into hardcore and punk music. These days it’s more electro and techno, you know; all that blog house. We really like guitar music, like Michael Angelo Batio’s stuff.

Are you planning to release anything within a short time?
We have remix coming out on a promo single for Rupesh Cartel soon. We have had some offers from people who want to release our music, but nothing has happened… We probably have some new tracks coming out on myspace soon.

If you had to mention 5 artists that you consider BASIC, which ones would you say?
Daft Punk
S.O.D.
2manydjs
Farley Jackmaster Funk
Slayer

And what about 5 indispensable tracks at the dancefloor?
Buy now – For sale
Voodoo Chilli – Look what you’ve done to me
Kavinsky – Testarossa Autodrive (Them Jeans – My testarossa and my crack!!!!)
Felix Cartal – Moss vs. Tree
Noze – Remember Love

Anything else that you would like to say to the readers of this blog?
Hello Spain! Book us and RAWK ON!

They also have sent us a minisession of 28:32 of length, live from a club called “Hunden, katten, göken och ponyn” at Stockholm. All the tracks of the session have been made by them, so you can get the picture of how they sound. If you wanna hear their tracks not mixes, just have to check their MySpace or Last.fm profile. There you’ll find their complete and not mixed tracks. So well, hope you all like what is happening right now with the nordics, quality and originality, indeed.

Cheers!

>>> Download: Dmitry Fyodorov - Live at Hunden, katten, göken & ponyn (04/05/2007) 28:32 (zShare)
>>> Download: Dmitry Fyodorov - Live at Hunden, katten, göken & ponyn (04/05/2007) 28:32 (YSI)

>>> http://myspace.com/dmitryfyodorov
>>> http://www.last.fm/music/Dmitry+Fyodorov

>>> via: Neonized Magazine