I remember a time when I received some psytrance in the form of Miraculix. He was a pleasure to listen too. For it’s time I was in awe of the style he had. Many years later, I have the honour to interview the man himself (in the black shirt). Here’s how it went:
1. Where we’re you born and where are you staying now?
I was born in a town called Orebro 200km from Stockholm, Sweden. I stayed there until I was 25 years old and now I have moved to a city a little bit closer to Stockholm to study music production to get a major University degree in it.
2. What do your siblings call you and why?
My sister calls me Crazy because I am and have always been. No but seriously, she only calls me Thomas.
3. What artists are you currently listening to?
I always listen to the trance channel on Digitally Imported radio whenever I’m home. Favorite tracks and artists are:
Tiesto – He’s a pirate
Svenson & Gielen
Xerox & Illumination
4. When and what was your initial influence to Psytrance?
As I was already in to producing music with the help of my computer and synths when I first went to a Psytrance party it only came naturally that I sat down and tried to make it sound just like all the cool sounds I had heard the night before. You might say I sat down and tried to remember what special sounds during the night really got to me.
5. What is your favorite VST’s?
Don’t have one; I always use the Kontact sampler for all my tracks though.
6. What EFX units do you use to gain your effects?
At the moment I don’t have any hardware efx units in the studio. They’re still back in my hometown sitting in the garage with the rest of the stuff I don’t need
7. What are your favorite pieces of hardware in your studio?
My Novation Supernova 2 keyboard and my Yamaha 02R v2 mixer.
8. What was your best experience in front of a live crowd?
I love it when I meet up with Kung-fu Fred a.k.a. Neuromotor at parties. We have such a good time and always try to push each other further during our sets. That man is just so full of life and energy and we both like to totally freak out on stage which makes the audience freak out to.
9. What animal describes your music best?
A 2 year old dog which is still very playful but also has grown up a little bit to be reliable and trusty.
10. If you could do a collaboration with ANY person, who would it be and why?
Stewie Griffin from Family Guy or Homer Simpson. I have a little track project going on with Safi Connection, we’ll see how that turns out
11. From what other artist(s) do you gain inspirado?
All music that makes me feel something is inspiring.
12. Is there any difference in crowds from party to party?
I would say Yes; since people that smoke allot at parties often tend to be more calm which I would say has a negative effect on the dance floor.
13. Where’s you favorite destination to tour too and why?
Japan, I love the people there
14. How would you compare that to the South African scene?
Don’t know, I’ve never been there.
15. You think you’ll ever NOT be able to make Psytrance?
Hopefully I’ll always be able to create whatever I feel like creating. If it’s Psytrance or not, only time will tell but as I feel right now after 8 years of being in the Psytrance scene, touring and releasing music I don?t think I’ll ever stop producing it even though I already produce other genres besides Psytrance. Only thing that keeps me down and that sickens me out is the people who are not open minded to other genres and people. It seems like some people think you have to look in a certain way to be a Psytrance artist, you have to act in a certain way, you have to dress in a certain way. Whatever… I am who I am.
16. How long does it take you to make a track 90% complete?
It can take from 3 full days and nights to 2 weeks and sometimes more.
17. Do you create sounds by a fool proof process or is everything freestyle and tweaking?
Everything is freestyle, always. Of course I have saved the sounds I have previously tweaked on the synths since I want to use them again.
18. Do you have tip or trick you’d like to give us?
Yea, a good one is not to do drugs. Other than that, live full-on
19. When and what can we expect from your new album?
It should be out in the beginning of 2007 and you can listen to samples from it at my myspace site: Miraculixtrance on Myspace.com
During 2006 I have released 2 tracks at digital psionics and 1 more is already signed there and on the way.
Another release is also on the way on a Sin records compilation which has really rocked the dance floor where N3XU5 has played it around the world.
You can check out all releases at the discography site on miraculix.nu. I always put out samples of all the newly released tracks there. http://www.miraculix.nu/disco.html
Thanks!
