Miraculix Interview

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Psylosophy: First of all, who is Miraculix?

Miraculix: Miraculix is 24-year-old Thomas Hammarström from Örebro in Sweden.

 

 

Psylosophy: When did you start producing music?

Miraculix: I started playing the Piano and Guitarr while I was very young and then later on, as computer were more and more introduced into society, started playing around with different music programs like ReBirth and Fast Tracker, I'd say Miraculix started around '98 or something as I became more and more interested in electronic music.

 

 

Psylosophy: Who or what got you into the Trance scene?

Miraculix: I can't remember exactly what got me in to the techno/trance scene. It was just good music to listen to. I do remember the time I first heard Goa Trance. It was my older sister on my father's side who had brought me a tape with this type of music on, while She was here to visit us. I must have been around 12 years old or something and I remembered thinking to myself how awesome the music was. In 1998 I visited my first psytrance party which was held up in the mountains in my hometown. The party was promoted by the owner of StoneAge records, Jonas, who had done a'lot of parties up there. The Örebro psytrance era ended in 2002 when a heroin addict visited the party and then later died by an overdose in his own home. The media blew it up to something they called "The first ecstacy related death in Swedish history" and it was all because he had visited that raveparty up in the mountains. The local police felt like they had to do something about it and stopped all coming attempts to threw parties there in the future. The man who died would probably have died in either way after taking that overdose in his home, it was just bad luck he had to visit the party so the media got something to blame it all on. I had many friends who knew this man and that's why I know he was a heroin addict, the news never mentioned anything about that at all. They put it out like he had never touched drugs before he came to that party that night which was all wrong. May he rest in peace.

 

 

Psylosophy: That's a shame... Are you pro or anti drug consumption on psytrance parties?

Miraculix: I'm against drug consumption at parties but there's very little I can do about this so I mostly just "go with the flow". I wouldn't do any drugs myself though.

Psylosophy: It's actually kind of refreshing to hear that...

Miraculix: Never heard that one before, ah?

Psylosophy: Yeah, I have, but the scene seems to be falling towards the direction of mass drug consumption, and so it's always good to hear people who are simply pro-music...

Miraculix: That's me for sure, let the music be your drug!

 

 

Psylosophy: Where do you get your inspiration?

Miraculix: Sitting in the studio playing on the synths is always great but I always end up playing melodies that wouldn't fit in a psytrance track. But as I sit there playing, I constantly modify the sound and before I know it I have created a sound which I'm happy with and seconds later the sound is recorded on to the computer and put in to the sequencer. Many, many hours later that sequencer is turned in to a huge puzzle with sounds all over the arrangement.

 

 

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