| Artist of the Week - 2006-11-30 - Painkiller |
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Interview: FOEM/CJ Renegade: This time we have a producer wich already had several releases on the previous EYVolumes and is really known by tracks as Minus Ten Degrees (EY9) and De Ommekeer (EY10) His style contains twinkling melodies that turns in your head for hours straight suited in a nice jacket of ambient. I mean, if someone says EY9, they say “Painkiller!” So here is from Rotterdam, ladies and gentlemen, Painkiller! FOEM/CJ Renegade: Hi Painkiller! The choice of your artistname gave several people question marks in their heads. Where does your artistname come from and why did you chosed it? Painkiller: Hi CJ, I often start producing music when I’m feeling down. So making my music actually kills my pain, it makes me feel better about life. So a lot my music has the function for me as a painkiller. FOEM/CJ Renegade: True, most people know you from the artistname Painkiller, but I heard some rumors you changed your artistname into Maarten Monster? Why? Painkiller: Well, I searched Discogs.com some time ago and I noticed there were allready 5 other Painkillers… FOEM/CJ Renegade: Oh…that is a nasty thing.. Painkiller…So I had to think about a new name, and Maarten Monster is my real name, so that’s the one who made it. FOEM/CJ Renegade: I use my own name also as artistname now, it sounds so more real then just an imagined name…and I must say your real name sounds very cool (note for not-dutch people that Monster means Monster as well in dutch!) About your real name, does your real individual is attached to any musical roots you have? Painkiller: As a child I allready heard a lot of music around me. My parents used to play classical music quite a lot and my father liked to play organmusic. At the age of 8 my father bought the 2 best-selling Boston-albums: Boston – Boston and Boston – Don’t Look Back. What I liked about it was the twist between Rock and Symphonic music. I think I have played them more than a thousand times in my life. This music has really influenced my musical taste. FOEM/CJ Renegade: And is this musical life been parts of why you began producing? Painkiller: Well yes, at the age of 9 I started to study classical organmusic at a musicschool. But in the time I had to study the music I mostly did a lot of other things. I tried to play popsongs on the organ and after a while I started to make my own melodies. Two years later my father bought our first synthesizer, a Roland JV-50. I have spend a lot of hours behind that machine in my childhood. After 5 years of organplaying I quitte the musicschool. I wanted to make my own music in stead of reproducing musical pieces from sheetmusic. The first sequencer on the computer I ever used to make some tunes was Cubasis 3.1 (very early version of the well-known Cubase). I only used the standard miditones from the Roland JV-50, but after a time I wanted to make my own sounds. At the age of 15 I bought me my own keyboard, a Casio CTK-671 with MIDI-support. Since then I made my music in the way I still do, using Fruityloops as my sequencer. FOEM/CJ Renegade: That’s very nice, are you currently working on an album or project with this equipment? Painkiller: I don’t have very specific plans on making an album. I always have a lot of ideas, but I think the next thing I will make wil be an EP with about five new tracks. FOEM/CJ Renegade: Ashamed for the Painkiller fans, who likes to hear more from you then just the two provided songs on this page! On the other hand, do you also make LivePA´s? Painkiller: I never have been active making LivePA’s, but I think it would be a great thing to do in the future! FOEM/CJRenegade: You should do, it’s good expierence for later…and do you work together with other artists also? Painkiller: Last year I made a track with Ibrahim Reevi, who also has been active on FOEM. I think I have to work some more on that track before I post it again on FOEM. I am also busy doing a project with Christ Saddler under my Sperrmüll alias FOEM/CJ Renegade: Yes, I remember this track. It was called Sourshower not? And that track with Christ Saddler (our other journalist – red) was a heavy track that still beats up my mind…Is this the only area of music which your working in? Do you play in a live band for example? Painkiller: I’ve never played in a band, but I hope that someday I’ll find some people with the same musical taste to play Symphonic Rock with. FOEM/CJ Renegade: That’s pretty cool, I’ve been playing in a band for some time, and I just entered in a band, not as musician, but as composer…but our crewmembers aren’t that good enough to play what I write hehehe…Is there anything that you’ve seen or read lately what you surprised you in a positive way? Painkiller: The last movie I saw was ‘Twelve Monkeys’. I really liked the athmosphere, the story and the music of the movie. FOEM/CJ Renegade: Ah, I don’t know this movie…something complete different…how did you come to FOEM? Where do you found the link? Painkiller: I was used to post my music on the Clubcharts message board. On that board I noticed the topics about the FOEM CD’s. Then I listened to the CD’s and I really liked the style of music. FOEM/CJ Renegade: I think you followed the same way as me, I’ve been on clubcharts too before…after that I found my way in FOEM and I’ve been to a meeting some long time ago in Amsterdam…Do you think you will go to a future meeting if it’s in Amsterdam? Painkiller: That depends on what we are going to do. I’m not such a partyanimal. But meeting musical people is always great. FOEM/CJ Renegade: Well, I didn’t partied back then, there’s always occasion to leave if you want…is there anything you like about FOEM in it’s way of music? Painkiller: I like the way they appreciate music. They are very open-minded for new experimental styles. FOEM/CJ Renegade: I think that’s a must for a successful label. Do you think that FOEM will be successful in the future? Painkiller: I think FOEM has a great potential to grow bigger and bigger, but I hope they will always stay as open-minded for experimental music as they are currently. FOEM/CJ Renegade: That’s what we are aiming for…what are your musical aims? Painkiller: I really want to improve my technical skills in making electronic music. My aim is to create a twist between experimental electronic music and symphonic music. FOEM/CJ Renegade: And with this kind of music, Do you think that it will be your job? Painkiller: I think producing will primarily be a hobby for me, but you’ll never know. FOEM/CJ Renegade: There are still a lot of people making music as their job, What do you think of the contemporary popular music which is played by normal radio stations? Are they doing a good job? Painkiller: Electronic music deserves a lot more attention of the modern radio stations. The are mostly making loads of money with airing easy music. FOEM/CJ Renegade: That’s so true…they even don’t think about it anymore what the artists are making. What do you think about the uprising of netlabels and the conflict between them and that “commercial music industry?” Painkiller: I think netlabels are a great opportunity for starting artists to promote their music on the internet. Hopefully, the commercial music industry will be more open-minded for experimental music. FOEM/CJ Renegade: I think that there must be a point where the listener must think that music shouldn’t be just a basic material to consume the dailey stream…it’s so much more. Like in phrase of more…what more does a fan might not expect from you? Painkiller: The classical works of the french musician Maurice Duruflé. This music really touches my soul. FOEM/CJ Renegade: Oh I listen lot of classical music when I have a producersblock! And last but not least, do you have any suggestions for FOEM in the future? Painkiller: Maybe FOEM can start an internetradiostation to promote the artists even beter. That would be great. FOEM/CJ Renegade: Nice idea! Maybe the crew is already thinking of that hehe…you’ll never know! Have good luck and much fun in your life! FOEM supports you as much as possible! Painkiller: Thank you! |
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