![]() ![]() “There's no rules and if someone like me tells you to do something a certain way, question it first and only later see if it can potentially work for you. ![]() (opens in new tab) Trikk's 3 tips for music-makers 1. Trikk’s new album Fauna & Flora will be released 24th February on Innervisions. “I’m working on loads of new and different things at the moment like remixes, different projects I have with different names, creating new music for Trikk with new collaborators and possibly a second album.” The character and feeling for me is the important part, might not be the catchiest track but has to have that feeling we usually cannot put into words.” “After that I start layering sounds and might add a guitar, bass or using a plugin like Reaktor’s Razor to add a melody to it. By now I have a very big collection of samples I've been gathering for a few years from all kinds of sources, tapes, vinyls, and digital. ”90% of my music is based on reappropriating sounds and recording techniques. It could be an obscure ‘80’s Spanish synthwave sample or a rhythm loop from a traditional instrument from Ghana, the source will always be random as long as it is interesting. “I mainly work with samples, so every time I start something, I have to be listening to a sample I just got from somewhere. ![]() When approaching a new track or project, where do you start? “Probably AKG BX-10 or BX-20, EMT 140 or Grampian Reverberation Unit Type 636.”įauna & Flora studio sessions (Image credit: Frank Wiedemann Studio) What dream bit of gear would you love to have in your studio? Limitation is key and optionality can be very detrimental. But in general I tend not to buy too many things. I needed new distortion ideas and found this one and I’m happy with it. ”On the other hand it makes your brain lazy and you cease to look at your own interpretation of the software, and building presets from scratch doesn't seem a thing anymore. On the one hand, once you open it and run through something it's amazing straight away. Their selling point is instant gratification, which can be good and bad. I’m still learning, but it instantly gives you something and that's the way software is made today. What's the latest addition to your studio? The character and life it adds to the music it's quite something, a must have for me.” But I bought an Ibanez Acoustic Bass a few years ago and I cannot leave it alone. What one piece of gear in your studio could you not do without, and why? It's more than a software in the end, if you look at it deeply.” It literally saves lives and gives people a purpose in low income areas specifically. “It gives you a platform, it empowers you, gives you happiness, sadness and all in between. It's so democratic, people that wanted to start making music, had the possibility without money or help to suddenly create something out of nowhere and for me that's one of the biggest things music software gave to humanity. I'm a romantic and this software allowed me to become who I am today as an artist. It's simple, direct and offers great sample editing possibilities. What DAW (or DAWs) do you use, and why did you choose it? ”In the end I had to find a good balance between using my method and being inside a studio like this, I still prefer to make music on my computer only, to be completely honest.” I remember one of those first times I went there to work on the album that I felt so overwhelmed that I just stood still and couldn't really work it out for hours, my mind was overloaded with possibilities. “For the album in particular, I had the opportunity to use Âme’s studio in Berlin, it's a wonderland for hardware, a private museum of amazing instruments. I had the opportunity to use Âme’s studio in Berlin, it's a wonderland for hardware, a private museum of amazing instruments From working in coffee shops in London to hotel rooms in Japan - the simplicity of minimal or physical constraints which on its own are a limitation, free me. I very much enjoy the feeling of freedom you get when you get to make music anywhere in the world and that is something I have tried to hold on to since the beginning. Along the way I bought guitars and basses. “My studio setup has always been the same since I started to make music, my computer. This followed by experimenting with software, when it became a true democratic system - all of a sudden everyone could just download it and start making music and that's what happened to me too.” “Firstly, being introduced to these instruments by them, then playing them together. ![]()
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