I am a graphic designer which likely runs in the family. My father does the same, works for Coca Cola and did design and animation when I was in my teens, which influenced me for sure. In our house design has always been present. I try to see AI as a tool rather then something to be afraid off. I don’t think AI will replace us but it will be a complementary tool. The human touch will make the difference, like with music. Although I never use AI with my music, it’s good for strategy, texts and all that. But I realise it’s different for everybody of course. Yes, isn’t that great? You have to know also that I don’t come from a musical family. My parents mostly listened to radio, Madonna and such. There wasn’t any Daft Punk or Pink Floyd, let alone electronic music. I started listening to that in High School with friends when I was about 14 or 15. I remember ‘Man with the red face’ from Laurent Garnier. But I also listened to EDM, hardstyle you know, like Tiesto and Hardwell. I was doing some dj-ing in software for fun, for myself, but that’s how it actually started. I would edit tracks to a mash up and from there on I started getting interested in producing. When I was 17 I started going to parties. I saw Jeremy Olander and Nick Warren, which had a big impact. And Hernan and Guy Mantzur. Then Guy J and Digweed followed and from there on I was hooked and I felt the urge of making my own music. I started working with Ableton in 2018 and had my first release in 2019. It was really bad, haha…!. But like everything that you put time in it eventually got better and I learned more and more. I released on Balkan Connection which ended up in the top 10 and I finally felt I was going somewhere which got me buying better equipment and speakers. Well, I still live with my parents. Have my bedroom there and I confiscated my sisters bedroom to use as a studio. She doesn’t live at home anymore so that’s a bonus for me. I work from around 11 in the morning till about 9 in the evening for a marketing agency. I do branding, social identity, that sort of stuff. I try to do music first thing in the morning. A lot of things. Progressive rock like Pink Floyd. But also Daft Punk. Dj sets from Digweed and Guy J or going out and getting inspired on the dance floor. I go to work in the studio with an idea and when I am lucky I end up with a 20 second loop that is enough to work on and make a track out of it. I am still trying to find my own style. I really like Simon Vuarambon a lot. He also plays a lot of techno stuff which I like a lot and get a lot of inspiration from. I listen to Spencer Brown, he is an amazing producer. But also Patch Park and older music. I tend to listen to melodic elements that I can use. looking for a feeling. I want to blend styles together and create my own feeling with music. Yes! It was last year in Cordoba. Of course I know people have been playing out my music and I get send video’s and hear it used in mixes but that’s different from being on the dance floor yourself. Last year Hernan played out the release on Melodic (Peter: I do A&R for that) which was very cool. My problem is that I don’t play out much yet. I would love to but I guess it will happen if I just keep putting out good records. But it would be nice to road test tracks before releasing. And of course just being able to dj in front of people. I am young and patient and I am very aware of y own music, it must be good and I am still improving. For now it’s all good and I am happy. I have a great life, love my girlfriend and want to spend time with her and travel. She is an architect so we want to see a lot of buildings, haha. She is into Brutalism and we share a love for culture, and thus visit museums together. Maybe but for now it’s way too early for that. I love Bedrock, the way they reinvent themselves every time and the kind of music they release. There are way too many labels out there without vision which is not good. When I do it, it must be perfect. First I want to go to Europe with my girlfriend. I can basically work from everywhere in the world with what I do. I still want to grow as a graphic designer, get more identity and grow as a person. Yes. In the end that’s what it’s all about. Too many things look the same, people, music, artwork. It’s a struggle nowadays to become an original. AI is nice as a tool with work or private but the influence is too big. District for instance does things different, you guys have a great taste and you are not afraid of doing it different with releases, I like that a lot. So much sounds generic with a lot of labels. And producers. And the fact so much comes out only drives people more to names they already know because they get tired of listening to uninspiring music. The same thing is happening with design and photography/images. It’s all so perfect that it is getting really boring.