So after a few years of playing music, he wanted to learn more behind the craft and began studying audio. “I’ve always been interested in the technical side of production,” he explains. “Previously, I had worked in sound design and film post production and then decided to focus on music. When I was growing up I was always thinking about ways to be totally content – happy. I guess, that meant working in a creative environment. I like meeting new people that resonate on the same frequency – and with that, I enjoy exploring the creative possibilities that music brings me.”
Indeed, he admits that music is his life, his everything, right now. And he continues: “we’re just about to launch a new art and music collective called ‘Plasma Collaborative’ – it includes our label, a studio facility, apparel as well as digital media. We’ve been working on this project for most of the year and there hasn’t been much time for much else really. We’re really excited about the coming months and hope that we can continue to build even more creative energy in our city with it.”
Musically, Safire explains that his influences stem from atmospheric styles of electronic music, given he has always liked the emotive sounds of the spectrum, although he admits that when he is playing live, his sets are usually a little more high energy. “I like intelligent music that’s well produced,” he says. “I always believe we need to come up with something unique and represent our era,” he explains. Because without that, music is simply a rehash of what has been done in the past.
“I’ve always tried to create music that has energy but still maintains depth and feeling; for me music is expression so I try to roll with the vibration of that current moment in life. With that, his debut EP is coming out on the Dispatch imprint in late January 2014. “My Subtitles release just came out a couple of months back too and there is quite a lot brewing up; there’s also a really exciting release coming for us on Plasma Audio called 001. It’s a remix of one of my tracks by one of the favorite artists we’ve worked with over the years.”
Otherwise, he is spend his full week in the studio nowadays, writing music for most of the week and beginning to provide audio services in a new space he’s just finished building this year. Also keeping him busy though, will be Burn Down Babylon – a night created by partner-in-crime Sean. “It’s something new that he’s been working on for most the year,” says Safire. “We’re all really looking forward to the launch actually. It’s at a new venue which we’ve hardly partied at before so its going to be exciting to check it out. Burn Down Bablyon are also doing apparel and have got some other quality stuff coming up – keep locked.” They’re calling it a music and arts collaboration – I’d like to call it a festivus of drum and bass, hip hop, reggae, dub and glitch. You call it whatever you want.
BY RK
