Posts Tagged ‘Erol Alkan’

Rauwdouwers te Tivoli bedankt! Dankzij jullie waanzinnige gekheid tijdens afgelopen Rauw gaan de beelden ervan de hele wereld over. Het eerste filmpje is bijvoorbeeld terug te vinden op het wereldwijd welgelezen Boys Noize Blog en de tweede op t alom gerespecteerde Panoramix Blog .

Zonder jullie zouden deze filmpjes nooit de impact hebben gehad die ze nu hebben, dus nogmaals Tivoli bedankt voor die knettertegekke nacht.

Het was ‘t afgelopen weekeinde druk backstage in de Melkweg. Niet alleen wipten de TRUANTS voor een praatje met Brodinski aan, er kwam ook nog een KoolKid bij Erol Alkan op de thee. En omdat thee nou eenmaal als spraakwater werkt op de Engelsman, ontstond er al snel woordenstroom van Erols kant.

@KoolKidJelmer wist het allemaal op te tekenen:

How is it to be back at Rauw?
It’s nice. I really think Joost is a credit to Amsterdam. He’s the promoter, who’s brought many people of the same musical spectrum to Holland. If he wasn’t here, I don’t know who would do that job. He has put me here in 2003 for the first time. I have played here now like 10-11 times or so.

What were the most influences for you in the past decade?
The main influences for me where a part from old music, stuff I discovered like a lot of Krautrock and Psychedelic music. The hybrid of music that came to life between UK, New York, Berlin and Detroit. You had in the UK Trash and Optimo, in New York you had DFA, and in Berlin you had International Gigolo and stuff like that. All those things came together and made a family. Because I was involved in that slipstream, it came as something that was very influential. It’s not just your friends making records, but also networks of people. It was a very special time.

What do you think 2010 and so forth will bring?
I don’t like to try to predict what will happen. You just have to keep your eyes open and try to discover things. You don’t know what will happen. You really have to wait to be surprised, excited and inspired by something. More to think that it’s going to be Disco, Dubstep, House or Techno. It takes just one person to do something that’s going to inspire you. I’m hearing records that are made by people that were from Dubstep or Indie or House, and they’re all doing something special. I’m just trying to bring these things together, into something that will make sense and inspire people for the next step. It’s not good to say that one sound or person or country will do something that influences everyone else. It now changes faster than ever.

What will 2010 bring for you personally?
The music that I’ve discovered, that I genuinely love, I’ve been fortunate enough too been involved into. I’m releasing a record by a guy called Conan Moccasin, who has made the best album that I’ve heard in a long time. I’ve been very lucky to introduce him. That’s something that is in my world, and something that’s in front of me. Outside of that I don’t know what will come; I’m waiting for something to come, something that has excitement.

You don’t have any plans?
I already have made music with Alex (Boys Noize), I’m making a Beyond the Wizards Sleeve album. I’m making some original music for my own. My thing is I don’t want to feel like “I need to go make an album or a record and deliver it”. For me it’s, if you make one great track, and put it out, it’s one great track. Don’t get caught into something that “you have to make a single, a single and then an album”. It’s not like that anymore. Now that we’ve released Waves and Death Suite, that’s something alone. That has happened, some kind of effect or influence. Not something that will get you into a campaign or routine.

That’s why you don’t like to make own productions?
I do make my own productions, but it’s a funny thing. The reason for me that nothing comes out as Erol Alkan is a psychological thing. I don’t know who Erol Alkan is. I don’t want to make copies. I’m making a Beyond the Wizards Sleeve album at the moment which is just live instrumentation and songs with lyrics, words and stuff. I play bass and guitar, keyboards. I do vocals. I play drums. Different things. But I don’t know what it is I need to do, what’s  just me, that I feel enough to be me. Lees verder