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Out of Earth EP – Stefano Moretti aka Sender – Phon.o Remix

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1 – How (and when) did you get started in music production?

I started to play music when I was 10 years old. I was a guitarist in the beginning, and after I’m starting to play a little bit of drum, piano, bass. I’m born as a musician, and I start to produce and play electronic music 15 years ago. I’m 34. At the beginning I was to use to play acid techno in the rave parties, and I started to make something more focused in the music business 7 years ago. I worked and produced with different artists and various different projects.

2 – What’s your home base of operation?

I come from Italy, but I’m based in Berlin. I like to produce in Berlin, but sometimes I go to Italy for the mixing sessions. I have a friend with a really nice SSL G+ 72CH, with a bunch of analog and digital multi effects. I really like to mix in real time, moving the faders and add effects during the mixdown process.

3 – Who would you say are your biggest influences in making your own music?

I like to listen many kinds of genre. I think that most important thing is discover tracks with original elements. I guess that my influences are in my feelings during my life experiences, I like to live exactly what I produce.

4 – What are some of your favorite instruments that regularly make it into your productions?

I really like to use a lot of analog stuff, playing instruments without midi, and leave human errors. My first choices are juno60, ms10, nord lead, and sampling and manipulating sound from 909 and 808. I always work a lot to find my personal sound, so I work a lot during the mixing process to make these instruments unrecognizable.

5 – If you weren’t producing techno, what other genre would we be listening from your productions?

I work with differnet kind of music such as acid techno, electro, dark ambient, noise/drone, 8 bit, experimental. I’d like to give you this name: SenderFlos. It’s a trio by 2 not so young guys and me. We have just released our first record, The Eyes, with a nice guest, Laurie Amat from “The Residents”. When I’m using analog synths and drum machines, the others are working on self made sound sources, conventional instruments and different way of processing sound. Samuli Kemppi said: really interesting example of contemporary techno. Hope you’ll have a listen.

6 -You just won a “Make Your Producer Dreams Come True” contest. What is your ideal gig? Where, when, how and what would you play?

In the past years I played in really nice gigs, from club to big Festival, on same stage with Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Bloody Beetroots and many other big guests. For me the most important thing is not to play one super gig, but to build a serious reputation as a producer and artist. But, I never played in the USA, and I’d really like to have some gigs there. I’m really curiously about that. I’d like to travel one month all around USA, playing in small and intimate clubs.

7 – Who would be your favorite producer of all time ( alive or deceased ) which you could have as a mentor and why?

Wow, this is a really difficult question. I don’t know. I mean, there are a lot of people out there that put important changes in music and society. I respect producers that composed original and personal tracks, following own feeling and emotions. You can find that in a lot of genre, so I can’t say who is my favorite.

8 – We skip to the future and your records and shows are selling out everywhere. How would you use your fame and influence to help others?

I produce and play music because it’s a necessity. I use music to grow up, it can make me a man. If you live your life following your dreams, you can respect yourself, your family, your friends, and all things around you. This is my influence.

Out of Earth EP – Stefano Moretti aka Sender – Phon.o Remix is available now.

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