So I started to make cuts to build bridges from one part of my set to the other.
When I played in 20 I often came to parts of my sets where I was searching a quite specific track that would fit the current mood of the session but never really found exactly what I was searching for. It’s already my sixth album and this time it is a collection of club tracks that I made to have some tools for my DJ sets. Oliver Schories: Well, there is a lot to tell. “Sometimes you can feel at the very beginning of a production when everything fits perfectly”ĮG: Oliver, can you tell us about your last album ‘Paradigm’. I’ll keep my fingers crossed that the clubs and festivals will survive somehow. Then the festival vibes will explode again, even more than the way we know it, I am sure of it. So we have to be brave now, swallow the bitter pill and wait for better times.
For me, every recorded set of a big festival in the past has more fire than a fresh recorded live stream.
And beyond this, how could you transport this vibe through the internet into the living rooms of the dancing people. You can’t create the same fascinating vibe alone. I strongly believe that the future of electronic music doesn’t reside in live streaming, because the fascination is not only about watching a DJ or a live act, it is also about the vibe that we all create together, in a club or a festival. I can play streams as well but it is not the same and I would be a lier if I pretended to be happy to play for a camera filming me. Especially for me as a live act, I need a live concert feeling with a real audience to get into my stage vibe. Maybe now is time to get back to the roots. I have been active in the scene for more than 15 years and the interest, for music and artists, has never been so low in the last years. I think we need to step away from the pure event, where people just go out to a random festival, dancing to a DJ. I hope that a lot of venues will somehow survive the closure times and also hope that everything comes to the core: music. In terms of the scene, it’s difficult for me to predict. Anyway, I think many now have realized this, doing less and better. What started as a good idea fast became a massive overload of bad quality streams, resulting in basically no one watching anything anymore. If something works well, everybody tries to jump on it and take a part of the cake. Oliver Schories: I think what happened with the live streams is what you can see very often in the media. So in my opinion, this one is the fastest production I’ve ever made.ĮG: So this happened in unprecedented times and under the most curious circumstances which we can feel through the lyrics what do you think how will this influence the scene and what do you think about the live streaming excitement we have found recently? But whenever it happens, it automatically makes the following mixing part very easy. These magic moments are very rare in the recording and writing process. The track itself told us what to do next, we only had to follow the instructions the music gave us. But this time, the pieces were already there from the beginning. Very often I think that music production is like a puzzle because we have to try out so many sounds, melodies, or structures until it all fits together. Jan Blomqvist: Sometimes you can feel at the very beginning of a production when everything fits perfectly. Can you please describe your feelings whilst in the process of this single: After all our shows had been canceled due to the virus I asked him again in April and we started working together on it.ĮG: In a former statement Jan says that this is by far his ‘best production’ so he is more than happy with the outcome. I asked him to make a remix when we met in London in late December and he first declined. Basically the version released with Jan is a remix. On June 19th you released the single ‘Packard’ which was already part of Oliver’s album ‘Paradigm’, this time with a new version having Jan as a Co-Producer, how exactly did this happen?
We caught up with them to talk about their collaboration.Įlectronic Groove: Hello Jan and Oliver, thanks for your time today. The release features ‘Packard’ in three versions: ‘Sunrise Mix’, ‘Club Mix’, and a radio edit of the aforementioned ‘Sunrise Mix’. It was only when all concerts were slowly canceled in March this year, that the notion gained traction until it materialized. Ultimately, both artists were tied-up on upcoming album projects and air-tight touring schedules. Despite Jan and Oliver being friends for years now, it was when they both shared the booth at fabric London that the idea of a collaboration came up. Oliver Schories & Jan Blomqvist just dropped ‘Packard’, a gripping and emotion-driven piece, where they imagine ‘what would happen if the world stopped turning for a year’.
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