DJ T.
Chit-Chat with DJ T.
What's do you love about Yamba?
Oh, there is a lot I love for it. I love the family spirit that’s behind it, its design, the quality of the food and the drinks and its musical orientation. Musically I am more the timeless side myself and I like it when people the guts to not run chasing every trend.
What was your idea when your played this set at Yamba. recently?
Obviously there was no dancing allowed, so I played a lounger set that was supposed to simply create the perfect ethereal and floating soundscape for the beautiful day at the beach. I knew that Disco and soulfulness are strong elements of the music choice usually and that’s what I’m coming from so wherever it’s welcome I play a set like this.
What’s your ritual before a gig?
If you wanna call it a ritual. I always do the following: whenever I come into a venue, a room, I try to feel it. Sometimes that takes only a few minutes, sometimes more. I am trying to intuitively feel into what this room needs to take off. Sometimes this can mean to reset a room at 10bpm lower from the first records to slowly rise the energy again, sometimes it’s continuing exactly there where it is at this very moment and transforming it later. I am also feeling into the question if the room is ready at all for these types of stories I like to tell and sometimes, not often, the answer is a no. And then I just play a set that’s more on the functional side because in the end it’s my job to make the people dance.
How did the pandemic affect your creativity?
I am not joking when I say that I have been thanking Corona every week over the past months. Even if it’s very hard financially. due to the room and space for new inspiration and quality time it gave me to be with myself or friends and/or nature, I had the happiest and most creative summer in Berlin since I moved there in 2005. Since the beginning of the lockdown I am producing in the studio almost every week and I have a lot of tracks ready…
Get Physical label, Monza Club, Groove Magazine, you’ve been pushing the electronic music scene forward for more than 30 year. What are you up to next?
The new stiff I just mentioned is music that is especially produced to be played at Ecstatic Dances. I am following that path to play for these events and the ceremonies since a few years now and it’s where my love and a very strong calling leads me. I am also about to found a new record label only for these styles and launch a new artist persona I will release this music under because it does not make sense for me to keep DJ T. as a name for this field any longer. On the other hand, my love for club music will never die I will keep DJing and releasing for this scene too. My last album “Trans Orient Express” which was the fourth one of my career, has come out last March and the cycle of it’s singles and remix packages will spin until next spring. A lot of good remixes in the pipeline , the one played by Adana Twins for the titile single is actually released today. It’s a big room bomb, excited to see how it will be received out there.