Interview – Solarstone talks new album .- – – – Trance Hub (satire) (press release) (blog)

Its been five years since the trance maven last released a studio album. Its fair to say though that his hands have been plenty busy meantime. (Two record labels launched, a hundred releases between em, Electronic Architecture continued, formation of a trance supergroup, yadda, yadda, Oh, and the not exactly trifling matter of a scene-wide mobilization and the 60+ Pure Trance events and 5 Pure Trance mix-comps that stemmed from it).

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Happy to be back! It wasnt planned exactly like you suggest as a surprise but I do prefer to just get on with things and tell the world when they are ready, rather than drip feeding information in advance. I dont see the point in sharing the planning and what is next information with the public, its more exciting to me for projects to arrive with a bang!

Ah-ha, well that would spoil the whole mystery around the project wouldnt it? Using morse in the design , art and campaign for the album is to focus the attention on the music and visual elements, rather than anything else. Personally I always found the sleeve notes, little details etc of an album fascinating, and anyone who follows the Electronic Architecture series already knows that. This is just my way of bringing another dimension to the release.

I have a great many tracks in a halfway-state, but back then in 2015 I was still not 100% on how I wanted the album to feel, hence I didnt complete the tracks. Once I had that little moment of inspiration it all started to fit together. Releasing a new album was not of huge importance for the first few years after Pure there was so much other stuff to be getting on with.

Im not elaborating on that one

She is a real Pro, very easy to work with and she sent me all these wonderful layers of harmonies, canons and other vocal parts to work with a real delight. She wrote the song over a very simple demo I sent her, Ill upload it some day so fans can see where it came from, its quite interesting when you compare those early demos with the finished song!

No, not at all. Pure Trance is my focus and I cant see that changing. .- is an album of Solarstone music, but Pure Trance is a movement which is growing all the time, its my passion because it is the summing up of everything I love about Trance.

Were in a very different place to 5 years ago before Pure Trance, thats for sure. Im really happy that things are heading in the right direction. I like the fact that there are so many new, young producers popping up with a love of this music.

Well firstly its not a franchise! Its 100% me & my colleagues powering this thing. We want to do some larger events this year but we dont want to change the nature of the events. By that I mean that we want to do some shows for a larger number of people but we dont want to compromise on the production or artistic values. My events are about the musical journey, the integrity of the DJs, understated production I dont want or intend to compete with other scenes which focus on confetti-drops, explosions and enormous stages with fireworks! Pure Trance is an underground movement and Im happy for it to stay that way, rather than have some temporary commercial super stardom.

Im not even bloody bald! I started shaving my head when I was 21 when I got the eyebrow piercing, but it was being mentioned as a bald Dj that made me decide to grow my hair to see if I still could! Its a little bit thin but theres plenty of it so bollocks to that question

My first record was called Lifes Not Real in 1993, in fact my entire discography is here on my website if anyone wants to check it out. but my first trance release was probably Dolphin from the Aquanaut EP in 1995. I really had no presumptions or expectations about a career growing up I was told that I should get a proper job by people rather than want to get into pop music but my Mother always told me to go for whatever I wanted to do, she listened to my first ideas and gave me encouragement, she read my crappy lyrics and poems and was patient & kind without her I wouldnt be doing this now. A career in music is tough, its constant ups & downs, no guarantees, sometimes you dont get paid, sometimes you are broke and there seems to be no future in it, other times you are flavour-of-the-month. Only do it if you truly love your art.

I dont agree if you saw the amount of demos I get every week from all over the world youd be surprised! Agreed I dont get many demos from Asia but I never did, its never been a hotbed of trance producers those places you mentioned have always been the main sources of trance music. There has always been a lot of talent in Scandinavia and that is still true.

Thats a funny question & a strange word with which Ive always had a bit of a problem; I dont feel proud of my music, I like it, I like creating it and Im happy that people like it but I was brought up with the phrase pride comes before a fall so Ive always avoided expressing that emotion, probably wrongly but hey, its worked for me so far! I just get on with it.

Co-Founder of Trance Hub, Curator of The Gathering events in India and ALT+TRANCE in Czech Republic. By day, a Digital Marketing Enthusiast with love for Food and Technology. By night, a dreamer who wants to grow the Trance scene in India.

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