Beatfactor / Romania

After more than 10 years in the music industry in Romania, as a promoter, journalist, pr, clubber, dance machine, crack nut, pokermon or whatever else you could be in this business, but especially journalist, that if you believe you can associate journalism with clubbing, and let's assume we can because i simply don't want to look for some other terms to explain my everyday work, you get to be face to face or ear to ear with the "big fish" in the industry.
The Chemical Brothers, Dimitri from Paris, Above & Beyond, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Carl Craig, Jori Hulkkonen, Dominik Eulberg and many more i just can't remember now have been under "my spells" in cool (or not) interviews.
In 2010 the first interview i did was with Ripperton.
Almost two weeks ago his press manager sent me the press release for Niwa, his soon to be released album on Green. I have listened to the album once, and said to myself, "yea, ok, will work", i've listened to it the second time and it just felt completely different, and after the 6th play i ended up loving it.
Of course, my feminine curiosity pushed me into goggling his name, just so i could see his face. I needed to know who made this album. After viewing the first picture i said ok, i have to have an interview with him, first of all because he is a very talented producer, and second because he is very cute.
I was a bit stressed before the interview, because even if i was familiar with his work, i always am nervouse before an interview. You never know who's behind the music, and that can be a big surprise. Regarding him, it was the best surprise as i had the chance to speak to a man with positive visions, with great musical taste and with intriguing theories on life, future and humanity. I almost felt bad that i wasn't born in Switzerland.
He is an artist that makes music out of passion, lives in a peaceful country surrounded by nature, raises his daughter and from time to time he offers cool releases, eclectic albums and groovy mixes, keeping himself away from all the ugly and dark things of electronic music. Something to be mentioned in a world where electronic music can be the most boring scene in the whole industry.
Anyway, please do not criticize my very personal presentation of this interview as not every day it happens to not regret the fact that i'm putting my life, my time and all my energy into this job and the only regret that is is related to the fact that i haven't had the time to ask everything i wanted to ask.

audio interview