yantra Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 Psylosophy: Hi there. First of all, who is Tom, who is Tim and how did you meet? Lani: Tom moons is born August 11th 1976, Tim Kaelen October 7th 1977. We met at a small party close to our hometowns, which are about 10km from each other. Tom was looking for someone who had a studio to start producing psy-trance, Tim already had a live project called Yucon, which was inspired by techno from the good old days. We jammed around for an afternoon and were very excited to work together after that day. Psylosophy: You say you started in techno. What got you into the trance scene? Lani: There was a techno party in an abandonned mine building and the second room was GOA music. I really liked that kind of music and started looking for more music and parties. The technoscene wasn't like the old days, filled with melodies, and I like melodies in electronic music. In those days GOA was all about melodies in Belgium so I started visiting more and more parties, until one day I met Tom and didn't went to techno parties at all anymore. Psylosophy: What are your biggest influences when creating music? Lani: I think we are mostly inspired by how we feel emotionally when we are making music. That's probably why we use a lot of melodies. Psylosophy: Yeah, I noticed all of your tracks are really emotional, is that the product of your Goa influences? Lani: When we started making music, we were both into heavy melodic music and in about 2000 this all stopped, but there still was a big scene in Belgium who loved this melodic oldschool music and we still want to bring that feeling on the dancefloor, but we mix it with the new full on-style. Psylosophy: Are you influenced by the place and the people around you and do you feel like they play an important role in the music making process? I mean, if you write a track in the city will it come out completely different from one you write, say, in the countryside? Lani: I don't think location is that important. When we are in the studio, we forget about the things we see outside the window, we are in our own, musical world. The people around us play a more important role, we see how they react to certain music on the dancefloor when we are DJ'ing and try to recreate the feeling we had the last weekend. We both play very melodic music in our sets and create music that fits in there perfectly. Psylosophy: What does Lani mean? Lani: Lani is hawaian for sunshine. You can check the complete interview at www.psylosophy.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rain Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 short and informative... thanx Lani belongs to my top 5 best fullon releases 2004... There is no 6 after 5 though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmiwinks Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 techno from the good old days ain't that the truth Guess I'm not the only one suffering from nostalgia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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