DENIS A REMIX CONTEST

"They must also have looked at me in astonishment when I came to the legendary vinyl shop "Plastic Music" (former Plastic Fantastic) to buy my first hundred records. We are now excellent friends too!"

Your track Heroin is a killer. Heroin is known to be a drug that heavily influenced the jazz and rock scene, but definitely not the the dance scene. Yet - your track manages to capture the heroin atmosphere right at the sweet spot. Why did you pick this theme for a dance track - and how did you manage to get it right?

"I absolutely do not use any narcotic drugs myself. I don't need them because I have a gut feeling and my parents have imparted me with good taste. I can dig up emotions and test all scales of different feelings without additional means. Some people may need stimulators to understand “Alice in the Wonderland,” while others just don't need it. Frequently, I feel the succession of upcoming events beforehand - and musical atmosphere is not an exception.

"The composition was named "Heroin" as such associations and emotions arise at me when I think about this forbidden drug. Judging by the quantity of response I received concerning this track - I have hit the nail on the head!

"Being a more creative type of person, than a commercial one - it is important to me to keep the name of a track in line with my emotions. Though I realise that some people may not support a track because of its name, I don't want to be insincere and choose a name that has better commercial perspective.

"Just to illustrate this, practically all of my vinyl releases reached the first place on the 'Bestsellers progressive house chart' up at Juno

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