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Zone Magazine Issue 036 - DJs From Mars

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What are your hobbies outside of<br />

work?<br />

Collecting vinyls, watching movies, travelling also<br />

outside of the tour schedule, tasting different local food,<br />

visiting new cities and new cultures, and listening to a lot of<br />

music not for work but for our personal pleasure!<br />

Could you take us through a day in<br />

your life?<br />

Sure, when we’re not touring, we wake up early<br />

like at 8.00 AM, a bit of training, then 9.00 in studio. Work<br />

work work, lunch break, and again work work work in the<br />

afternoon. Dinner, and then we go out with friends and<br />

families, or watch movies at home.<br />

How did you managed yourself<br />

during pandemic?<br />

We were lucky because we arranged home studios<br />

in 2019. So when we were in full lockdown, we were still<br />

able to work and produce music every day at home. Even<br />

more than before, cause we had not tours! So we created a<br />

lot of new music in 2020 and 2021, and most of it is still to<br />

be released, so stay tuned!<br />

Where do you see yourself in five<br />

years' time?<br />

In studio during the week, on stage in the<br />

weekend!<br />

What are some of the considerations<br />

that go into deciding which track to<br />

play next? What makes two tracks a<br />

good fit?<br />

It’s just about vibes and emotions. Sometimes you<br />

really notice that people is not having fun in the club. So<br />

you need to do something, change direction, try something<br />

different. Also we really believe it’s more important to<br />

understand the feeling of a crowd, instead of making a<br />

technically perfect mix. In the club, people is not interested<br />

in a perfect mix, or in which key is the song, but they want<br />

to be part of a musical travel, and that’s what the dj is<br />

supposed to create.<br />

Would you say you see DJing as<br />

improvisation? As composition in<br />

the moment? Or as something<br />

entirely different from these terms?<br />

It’s definitely an improvisation! Exactly 100%. You<br />

cannot have a pre-made list and see that people is not<br />

reacting! So you need to understand the vibes and create<br />

the perfect soundtrack for the situation that you’re<br />

creating. It’s not easy, it’s something you learn playing in<br />

very different situations, and of course you can make<br />

mistakes sometimes, but if you have the chance to<br />

understand people’s emotions, you’ll be able to select<br />

always the perfect next song!

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