[When did you fall in love with electronic music for the first time? Describe!]

As a teenager I was into many things, grunge and hip hop but also breakbeat and jungle. I remember the first Prodigy album, the absolutely mindblowing No Good (Start the Dance) single and Firestarter and the whole big-beat scene. The highlight was Dig Your Own Hole from the Chemical Brothers. These were my first experiences clubbing with my mates, jumping up and down in a frenzy. But my first serious engagement with electronic music beyond the dance floor was Orbital and the album In Sides which was voted no.1 on my favourite music magazine surpassing the now considered historical rock albums like In A Bar Under the Sea from Deus. Somewhere in there I remember being in a nirvana state with the Second Toughest in the Infants album from Underworld. I understood how techno works in my brain.

[When did you fall in love with electronic music for the first time? Describe!]

About seven years ago, in my mid-twenties. I was a performing musician for years already at this point, but I’d lost steam and I wasn’t sure about who I was and what I was into anymore. So for the first time in my life I started listening to my curiosity about clubs and electronic dance music. I did what many have done before me, I went to Berlin. And as soon as I set foot in a club there, was surrounded by people who shared my love of music, and let the beats pulse through me I knew that this was the path for me. It scratched an incredibly deep itch. It was a life-changing experience.

[When did you fall in love with electronic music for the first time? Describe!]

I’m a kid of the 70s. Like most of us, I was drawn to sci-fi movies and TV shows. Never mind the Hitchcock movies no kid nowadays is allowed to watch! And right there, what I’m describing is, the otherworldly sounds of Arp 2600 (Star Wars), Arp 2500 (close encounters with the third kind), and the incredible Trautonium (Hitchcock’s Birds)!