Growing Up
I guess I have to thank my father. He’s a big music lover and I had the luck of growing up with a lot of good music from Peter Gabriel and Pink Floyd. He took me to a lot of concerts: Phil Collins, Moby etc. It wasn’t a surprise that I became a music lover too. We had a turntable at home and a lot of old vinyl which I could play around with, I treasured my first experiences with these black pieces of gold.
Inspirations
In the mid ’90s we had a radio broadcast called NJR Friday Scene and every Friday I was sitting in front of the radio and recorded hundreds of tapes. That was the beginning of my love for funk and soul mixed with modern electronic music. I recorded also a lot of music I liked and mixed some tapes for friends.
Your Crew
I had the luck that one of my singles being signed by OFF recordings last year and this was for me and also for OFF recordings a gainful collaboration. I live in Dresden and we have a small scene with a few artists and DJs like me but in the last years I’ve worked more and more with other artist from Germany and around the world like Teenage Mutants, Nhan Solo or with house legend Boris Dlugosch. For me it’s always a pleasure to share my inspirations with other music lovers. Now I have a big team of good friends and keen freaks like my booking agent Sebastian or my manager Matt around me.
The Music You Make
Well, I like to mix a lot of styles into my own PDM style. Styles like funk, soul, house and sometimes a bit ’80s glam rock. I always try to experiment with these styles either in my productions or in my dj sets. Particularly in my sets I play often a lot of old funk classics like The Whispers Let the Beat Goes On or Chemise She Can’t Love You. These classics fit perfectly to my live sound and to the new disco/deep funk sound I play. Actually, we also have a lot of good musicians and a lot of good music to play. Artists like Robosonic, Monte, Space Echo or Doorly.
Music, Right Here, Right Now
You can see that the music scene and the sound has changed this year from the boring EDM sound with all their overhyped acts. Every artist sounds like all the others. I miss a bit the unique sound from a lot of these artists but as I see, a lot of things happening at the moment. More and more people are following the new deep house sound and the scene will get bigger and bigger, even in America. It’s good to see that acts like Disclosure and Jungle have a lot of shows around the globe. Not all is lost.
Purple Disco Machine plays at Brown Alley on Friday December 19.
