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INTERVIEW
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PM: Let’s start from the basics, who are you
and where are you from?
IS: My name is Marios Karakasidis, i am 35 years
old and i am from Thessaloniki, Greece.
PM: How you started with Psytrance in the
first place?
IS: My first “connection” with the psytrance
genre started back in 1998-1999 during my studies in the UK. I was invited by some friends to
join them in a psy-trance party and i must say i
got immediately hooked on it. The whole party
atmosphere and vibe had a really massive impact on me and i’ve became a follower of the
music ever since.
PM: What got you into production path?
IS: Like most of the producers of our scene, i
also started as a DJ. Soon after a short bedroom
career, i started playing my first parties in Thessaloniki in 2004 and very soon became friends
with many of the artists performing at those parties. Having a classical music background and
following their tips and tricks made it really easy
for me to start a new, more creative path, i always wanted to follow. I would say it comes as a
natural “next step” into every DJ career to begin
his own productions.
PM: How you define your style?
IS: I would define it as progressive-psytrance,
even though it can be desrcibed in different
terms, depending from which country you
are. From goa-trance to psy-prog to progressive
psy-trance, its all used to describe the same.
OUT NOW!
PM: How you see psytrance scene nowadays?
IS: I can say with certainty that the scene nowadays is far different from what it used to be 10
years ago! I am happy to see that year
by year it gets bigger and bigger! More people
attend to parties and a vast number of new artists appearing in the scene, expanding the music
frontiers to even higher levels! I think in the following years we might see new “branches” and
scenes being created all under the psytrance
genre.
PM: You have a new album out recently. Talk
us a little bit about that.
IS: The album is called “Modus Operandi” and it
was released only a few weeks ago on Iono Music, at June 29th. It is my second personal
album and it consists 9 tracks out of which 5 are
collaborations with some of my closest friends
and fellow artists such as Egorythmia, Time In
Motion, Invisible Reality, Aquafeel and Mind
Spin. It also includes a remix of mine, to one of
E-clips’ milestone tracks “Overload” and 3 solo
tracks. This album took me a lot of time to produce and walked me through some of my life’s
most difficult and also pleasant times, in a personal level. It comes 4 years after my first album
“Terraforma”, also released on Iono Music, and i
consider it as my next stepping stone in my music career. Looking forward to the official presentation of it, next season to parties all over the
world!
PM: Do you have any production tips to give
to the upcoming producers out there?
IS: Some of the tips i have for the upcoming producers are these:
1) There is no fast lane to success. No matter
how good you can get technically, experience is
one key factor that only comes with time.
2) Try to achieve good sound quality rather than
sound quantity.
3) Try to be original in your music. It comes natural for everyone to follow the style of their favourite artists at first, but try to put your signature in
your music.
4) Don’t give up easily! The hardest thing for new
producers is to make the brakethrough from
anonymity to their first releases. There will be
many failures and disappointments along the
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