Artist: Psysex

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Artist: Psysex

Date: 02-14-01

By: Jeto

 

Q: How and when did you start to make Goa ?

A: Well we go back 5 years ago, Goblin was DJing as a house dj and yoni was a faithful Psy-parties goer for a long time. We met at one of the big parties at that time (there were a lot of outdoor raves before the Israeli police decided to stop them). Goblin was just starting to build his own studio so together we decided to put our love for music to the test and start making it. We formed "CHILDREN OF THE DOC" and our first tracks were quite melodic. Then Avi Nissim from ASTRAL PROJECTION heard our stuff and decided to publish it in ISRAEL"S PSYCHEDELIC TRANCE VOL.1 (the track was "Welcome Friends") and that was the start.

 

Q: How did you come up with your name (Psy-Sex) ?

A: Well Goblin made a track called "4 DAYS OF MADNESS" with Dave Saragosi (KAILUM) 4 years ago, and we had MIDI problems with a JUNO 106 in the studio with the SYSEX (system exclusive-one of the ways MIDI communicates with the synths), so we decided to make another band called PSYSEX. After that track Yoni took over Dave and we were both Children of the doc and Psysex.

 

Q: Do you project to release a new album after "Expressions Of Rage"? When would it be released? Do you think it will be like the first album or a new more minimal style ?

A: We are actually finishing our second album these days, and we hope to release it by April (on the label HOM-MEGA). We think it's different from the first album firstly in the sound department, it's much more powerful (EXPRESSIONS OF RAGE was done using MIDI only while the second album, which doesn't have a name yet was done using midi & AUDIO)' and has a much better quality to it. We also used less samples this time around and its way less melodic so I guess u can say it is more minimalistic too.

 

Q: Why did the change style from the great melodious style from Full on 2,3 (Martian and Police 106) to this typical new Israeli style ?

A: Our style has indeed changed, but we don't think it is more in the typical Israeli style (definitely as far for the second album). When we were doing CHILDREN OF THE DOC tracks we were just beginning to make music and were influenced from the trance scene at that time. Which was mostly melodic and full on. A lot of time has passed since then and our musical taste has changed, and that's what brought us to make the music we're making today.

 

Q: Which of your own tracks do you like the best ?

A: Goblin's favorite track is SURVIVEL KIT and Yoni's favorite is BIONIC-BONG.

 

Q: Your favorite psychedelic Groups & Albums ?

A: We don't really listen to Psy trance these days, but one of our all-time favorites is Deedrah - Self Oscillation. We like Infected Mushroom's work. From the Swedish scene we like Atmos and Ticon too.

 

Q: Where does your inspiration come from when building a typical Psy-Sex track ?

A: It's a bit hard to answer that one, but when we go to a good party we usually get full of energies and run to the studio.

 

Q: What kind of equipment do you use to make your Tracks? What synthesizers are you'll using ?

A: We use a Pentium 3 PC, LAYLA Audio Card, SOUNDCRAFT spirit LX7, AKAI3000XL, ROLAND JUNO 60, ALPHA-JUNO & JUNO 106, 2 PHAT FREEBASS racks, DIGITEC QUAD4 effects processor, ACCESS VIRUS Module, Behringer INTILIGATE gate, LOGIC AUDIO sequencer and lots of plug-ins.

 

Q: Is there any artist you'd like to work with ?

A: No there isn't a specific one we can think of right now. We just did a track with DuvDev from Infected Mushroom called DIRTY 80's. It turned out really well and it's gonna be on the album.

 

Q: Do you play DJ sets? If so, what kind of stuff do you play as DJ in parties ? Is it live ?

A: Yes we are DJing in parties. Especially GOBLIN and of course we also play live. We played in Portugal, Switzerland, Hungary, England, New York and LA, Canada, Japan, Serbia and Greece. In the live sets we play stuff from PSYSEX and CHILDREN OF THE DOC, and in DJ sets we play some INFECTED, GMS, DEEDRAH and of course our stuff.

 

Q: When & where was your best party? And your worst one ?

A: We had a very good party last year in Switzerland, in the mountains near Zurich. It was a 2 days outdoor party in a tent, with the beautiful snowy mountains view, hard rain and blasting energies. We also had a great fully packed party in Porto, Portugal in "HARD-CLUB" which we enjoyed very much. We actually never had a bad party outside of Israel but in Israel itself we had some really lousy ones over the years. That's it for the question part. Anyway we also have a THIRD band, not related to trance but to our other musical favorite genres like Electro, Drum & Bass and general freestyle music. It's called KOOPA TROOPA and we already did two tracks by that name. You can listen to it in our new website which will be online in March. www.psysex.co.il We still can't give you a track list because the cd isn't closed yet. We can tell u that it will feature the track with DuvDev track with GMS (called IMPRINT) and two tracks with a new Israeli artist called PANIC who we believe will be hot soon.

 

Thank You... Hope to hear some new killer stuff from both of you!