What is the first thing you do when you get back to your hotel room after a show?ġ4. I produced 25 tracks and decided on 12 for the album.ġ3. This is the key in producing different styles, and it really worked for me. I was looking for a different way of expressing my music, and the best way is to take time and make your feelings speak for you. I was coming out from a little depression after I broke up with my ex. My album took four years to produce because I didn’t want to produce it in one shot, just staying in the studio every day. Your new album took four years to produce. It was François Kevorkian, and it changed my life.ġ2. The first serious club night was in Napoli in 2002. What’s the first dance music show that really blew your mind? But the world makes you understand and learn.ġ1. It’s very special for me to have this strong connection with my hometown. Caserta and Napoli warm my heart and recharge my soul, spirit and body. I grew up in Caserta, my hometown, and then I grew up around the world, because I started to travel when I was 18 years old. What’s distinctive about the place you grew up, and how did it shape you? But when you are close to family and in their hands, you feel much better. I’m trying to stay positive as much as I can, but it’s impossible to stay that positive. Then I started to focus on a lot on production and started kickbox training very hard. I came back to Italy, and I felt happy to see my family. Then I started feeling a little depressed being at home alone in Barcelona. Worried without knowing what was really going on. At the beginning, I was feeling, as everyone else I believe, panic. How are you filling your time during quarantine?ĭuring quarantine it was up and down. The MFA’s “ The Difference It Makes (Superpitcher Remix)“ĩ. What’s one song you wish you had produced? How German Festival Time Warp Became a Global Techno Brand: 'We Are Crazy For Electronic Music, We…Ĩ. I used two records for eight months to play and learn with. It was a very cheap mixer, and I used the hi-fi from my house to play. Then a friend of mine gave me a two channel mixer without equalizing. Then I had another turntable from my grandmother, a hi-fi that had no pitch control.
I was 11 years old, and with that money I bought my first turntable. At the end of the summer he gave me equivalent of what would now be 500 Euros. In the summers after school finished, I used to go help my uncle in the construction company. The fact that just my father worked didn’t allow me the possibility to travel, or to buy gear or records or things to play. My mom was at home to take care of me and my brother, but she used to be an elementary school teacher before she stopped to stay home with us. He was a policeman and retired last year. My father was the only person working in the family. What did your parents do for a living when you were a kid, and what do they think of what you do for a living now? It was Eddie Amador’s “House Music,” and it was on vinyl of course.ģ. What is the first album or piece of music you bought for yourselves, and what was the medium? 20 Questions with Charlotte de Witte: Quarantine Streams, A Love Of Trance & Bringing Her Parents…Ģ.