Influences: Autarkic

The movie by Assi Dayan describes the fragile Israeli society in a non typical, revealing fashion. Army machoism, racism in terms the whites, the blacks, the arabs and other grotesquely stereotypical characters with personal disorders which mirror the country’s disorders. That tough and beautifull movie influenced me a lot and gave me a will to try and bring a hidden message to my work. I sampled a dialogue from the movie in my track “watch out”.

I started really listening to his work only this past year, but it changed the way I think about sound completely, from being afraid of not mixing in the “right” way I understood that everything can be right. Flooding a kick and a bass line with echo to strange ways to make a stereo image, every track he mixed was done in a beautifully brutal way.

I have a fetish for those items, and I have a good excuse! As I am mainly a live artist, I travel with a lot of expensive gear and I will do whatever it takes to protect them!

One of the things I hate the most doing, except when i’m actually doing it. After a good gig I feel relaxed and happy. After a bad/ok gig I feel motivated to change it and make the next one better and I will put a lot of effort at the studio to make new and better tracks.

When A.J aimed to make the movie “Dune” (and failed) he chose his crew with a specific method : Do they do what they do with pure ambition? Or with a true belief in art?. He named them “spiritual warriors”. I dont make movies and I don’t lead a team but I decided to work with people that believe in what they do, and in the project by giving respect to their creation as the highest goal. I try not to work with people who do only business hiding behind some artificial artistic title. I find them insincere.A good example for a “spiritual warrior” is Neil Cohen who does the artwork for my albums and much more than that.

A bad habit but I just can’t see myself working on my music without it… at the moment.

Stating the obvious but to important not to mention. They taught me an important lesson in production while working on my first EP “Hello to Mrs Blank” and since then I don’t stop to look up to what they do and learn, not only about production but also about Djing and mostly about how they manage it with so much humility.

I started “Club/Hotel Autarkic” almost 2 years ago and it gave me a real drive to find new and old music. Music that influenced me with developing new music styles for myself. Here is an example of my last show with DJ hectik who also responsible together with Asaf Samuel to a lot of music within my collection.