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Hi guys, big honour for all the hardstylers that we can make the first interview with you. So Sam and Corey you've been working together for a long time, but how did you meet each other? Since when do you work together?Our meeting kinda happened by chance. We enrolled in an Audio Engineering College in Sydney a couple of years ago and ended up in the same class. It was really lucky because both of us was lazy and didn’t enroll in the course starting the semester before in time and Corey wanted to have 3 months off after just having finished high-school. Not only were we the only electronic artists in the entire school, but we also had known each other’s productions via the magic of the internet. We struck up a close friendship while we were in college and started working with each other right away on basically all our productions.
You are already well known in the UK Hardcore scene, how came the idea to write hardstyle music?Because we love it!! Pure and simple. It was a production challenge for us, we are always challenging ourselves in the studio to come up with new sounds, ideas, techniques to better ourselves and once we heard hardstyle and the amazing production behind it, we fell in love with the music. Hardstyle is so big and sonically so full, and we love designing the sounds and putting everything together to make a track sound huge!
The first Bioweapon EP was released on Aussie Hardstyle Recordz, and was something new in the scene. How much time are you working on a track, and from where do you get the inspiration?It can be anywhere from a few days to a few months, it really depends. We try to get inspiration from cinema audio production – everything in the movies is larger than life and epic – we want to put that feeling of depth and immerse the listeners and the dancers with that experience. We like to brainstorm for ideas before we start hitting the studio, coming up with a theme or concept, something different to take the listeners on a journey.
Last week at Decibel the luckiest people have heard your new track 'Move Your Body', this one is very tune suspicion, tell me a little bit about this track.As you know we come from a UK hardcore background so we thought, why not put some of that experience and influence into a track? We started with an old diva-type sample, cut it up and abused it and the song kinda wrote itself. We also wanted to try something more uplifting rather than some of the darker tunes floating about at the moment. After all, when you’re out there dancing, you wanna dance to something fun and energetic!
In Australia the hard dance scene is different than in Europe. What are the differences in electronic music? What do you think about that, hardstyle is going to be bigger and bigger?The first thing is the geography – there’s significantly less people spread across a much greater area and this has a huge impact on the scene. The scene here ebbs and flows with trends, it doesn’t seem to have a stronger foundation like it does in Europe. But that’s not to say that our crowds aren’t passionate – everyone who comes here knows how good Aussie parties are! Now with the support of Q-dance focusing their energy here in Australia, this should strengthen the existing hard-dance scene and hopefully support will grow for more hardstyle!
Who are your favourit Australian artist?Having said all that, our favourit Australian artist has to be Pendulum!
And will you write UK Hardcore tracks as well in the near future?Of course. We love all electronic music. We are running Futurenoize which is a free digital label for our current UK hardcore with the sole aim of providing quality music to everyone for free.
Beside Bioweapon you got another alias in tech trance, BRK3. What can we expect from this project?We’ve been working with a handful of tech-trance/hard trance DJs like Phil York, Kutski and Mark Sherry. We love the quirkiness and the groove from tech-trance, it’s all about that groove! For us, its an avenue to try something on a different tangent. It breaks up our studio time from doing the same music, which is why we work on so much music , besides of course, the fact that we love lots of music! And its not just tech-trance we’re working on either, we also do house as FAKE, but we haven’t had much time to focus on this as we’ve been busy making hardstyle for you guys
What kind of software / hardware do you use for creating music?
Sony Playstation Music 2000, we have a render-farm of PS-One’s in the garage hooked up to and Atari ST which we use to process and sample everything, true story…. LOL!
No, we use Cubase, a handful of plugins and some cool Reaktor patches. Everything is software and we do not use hardware. Hardware looks cool, but the way that it interacts with today’s sequencers is slow and clunky. We prefer to get our ideas down as quick as possible – after all we’ve got short attention spans and it’s not happening quickly, it’s just not happening!!
What do you think, who is, or who are the best producers nowadays?BT – the father of trance. Amazing producer and been in the production game longer than most. His ideas are always fresh, and his production is so clean and innovative. He had ideas and techniques 15 years ago that people still haven’t got their heads around today.
What is your current Top 10?In no particular order:
Bioweapon – Move Your Body
Bioweapon – In Sound
Toneshifterz – Sahara
Noisecontrollers – Attack Again
The Pitcher – Serenity
Bioweapon – How Else Can I Say It?
D-Block & S-Te-Fan – Music Made Addict
Headhunterz & Wildstylez vs. Noisecontrollers – Tonight
Frontlinter – Sunblast
The Pitcher – I Just Can’t Stop
What are you doing in your freetime? (Hobbys, Job, ...)
We don’t have free time. We eat, hit the studio, dj every now and then (book us!!!
) and sleep if we can. We have a stack of aliases going on at the moment with even more to come in some genres you wouldn’t expect us in! Keep in touch!
Geplaatst op 14 sep 2009 19:15 
