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Zone Magazine Issue 036 - DJs From Mars

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So tell us how are you today ?<br />

Thank you for your interest. I'm fine working on<br />

alots off new music.<br />

How was your week?<br />

My week was busy and interesting alots off gigs<br />

and new relase.<br />

Were did you grow up?<br />

I grew up in a coastal city in Israel called Ashdod.<br />

Were are you based?<br />

Today I live in Israel in the city where I grew up i<br />

was liiving yin new york And several years ago I returned<br />

to Israel.<br />

What is your first musical memory?<br />

I remember me and several other friends at<br />

the age of 15 going out to hang out in Tel Aviv and<br />

somehow we managed to get into an underground<br />

party in one of the clubs there in the city and there<br />

was a very special DJ there who today is also a close<br />

friend named Assi Kozak and there I just fell in love<br />

with music.<br />

How did you get into music DJ'ing<br />

and production?<br />

Oh, it's a long story, but I'll try to make it short.<br />

<strong>From</strong> that day at the club I decided that I was going to be a<br />

dj. The beginning of my journey started as an assistant to<br />

a dj, more stage management, sound checks and<br />

equipment, and if time had already learned the basics back<br />

then we were still playing on turntables and it was a<br />

completely different experience if the assistant time<br />

became a permanent heater and then I already got a stage<br />

by myself and from there It didn't stop for a moment.<br />

At the age of 25, later I decided to move up a gear<br />

and start producing my own music, of course at the<br />

beginning, as in the beginning, not everything goes<br />

smoothly, but I always say to anyone who wants to start<br />

creating, start first, no matter what you get in terms of<br />

production and sound, that's the only way it gets better if<br />

time learns every day and every time something new And<br />

that's how it is today, especially the music goes through<br />

rapid changes and transformations, but you will always<br />

create something that makes you move.<br />

Tell us about the clubs or scene in<br />

that time?<br />

At the time the clubs were not so different but<br />

warmer. The audience was a regular audience in the clubs<br />

that became friends along the way.<br />

Today there is greater awareness because of the<br />

networks so we didn't have social networks for a good<br />

reason word of mouth today is a real tsunami of<br />

information everywhere.<br />

Can you pinpoint the time you<br />

decided DJ'ing was your future and<br />

you wer going to follow your<br />

passion?<br />

Absolutely, as soon as you are in love with the<br />

music you make, you make the audience love you and the<br />

audience is what pushes you to always bring that<br />

something else that will add value to this world of yours<br />

that you are building, a good DJ doesn't always have to go<br />

with the flow, he dictates the flow and makes the audience<br />

connect with him and that What made me continue to play<br />

and create this construction of experiences for the<br />

audience, "Rome was not built in one day" either.<br />

Were can we catch you out side of<br />

your live shows?<br />

Outside of my shows, in the studio or traveling<br />

and vacationing with the family I'm quite a family man you<br />

could say?<br />

Are you an abelton / reason / logic<br />

or analog guy?<br />

The truth is, I started with Cubase, but I quickly fell in<br />

love with Logic, and from there it's been a long-lasting<br />

romance.<br />

Run us trough your home set up.<br />

A 15 square meter room with a 42-inch screen on<br />

one side, 4 monitors, 2 rokit 5 by krk and two A7V ADAM<br />

Audio monitors, a relatively new Mac Pro computer today,<br />

year 2019, and another Mac Book Pro for viewing data, an<br />

APOLLO X8 Universal Audio sound card, and another one<br />

from Roland 4×4 Komplete Kontrol A25 control keyboard<br />

and korg minilogue xd synthesizer that is synchronized with<br />

The Moog Subsequent 37 synthesizer.<br />

What is your go to software?<br />

MacBook Pro 15 inch with Logic Pro x if I get a<br />

new idea for creation and of course there are two important<br />

software if necessary the Serato software and RecordBox of<br />

course.<br />

Explain your writing process.<br />

My writing process depends on whether the beats<br />

are a track with vocals or a track without vocals. When it<br />

comes to a track with vocals, the connection to the vocals<br />

and the melody is critical. This is what will create harmony<br />

at the end of the process. Of course, one of the relevant<br />

details, in my opinion, is the groove of the drums and the<br />

bass, for each creation.

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