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Interview :
Virtual Underground : How has this Melissa D'Lima story started ?
Melissa D'Lima : I started Djing just under a year ago. I was in love with techno music and I decided to teach myself how to DJ for fun. I quickly found my style was the harder and more extreme forms of techno. I was lucky and got a chance to play quite early on. After that, more things came along such as podcasts and through this more people got to see my stuff. Naturally I wanted to have my own productions and so a bit later on I spent time working on producing . I got to work with some really nice labels that represent my style well. I was really lucky for the chances that I got in the start and I am really grateful for them.
VU : Where do you generally draw your inspiration from ?
Melissa D'Lima : really I draw a lot of inspiration. from other artists. there are some people that I think are really instrumental to me and how I developed. WNDRLST, Nico Moreno, Axel Picodot, ØRGIE, Veta.M and many more, I was influenced by them and their music always helped me. I really like the underground scene and going out and being part of it like that, also inspires me so much.
VU : Could you describe your music selection and mixing process ?
Melissa D'Lima : for me track selection is my favourite part and I spend really a lot of time and detail on it. I like to mix tracks that are similar and always I like to have different sections of the set. For example I can start with industrial, and then move to hard techno and later gabber or other hardcore genres. In terms of actual mixing, I like to give enough time to each track to showcase its main parts. but also I like things to be moving fast, to go with the high BPM. I pay a lot of attention to little things really .
VU : Which software/hardware did you use for this set ?
Melissa D'Lima : this set I recorded with Pioneer CDJ-2000NXS2 · Pioneer DJM-900NXS2
VU : What are your next plans ?
Melissa D'Lima : my next plans are to continue to play out as much as I can. in particular I really hope to continue to have my close relationship with jaded. I have been really happy with all of my times there so far and I feel they helped me so much, especially to define exactly my style. I also look to play in more countries and experience the scenes they have there. I am lucky to say I will be starting in Belgium on NYE and also in January, Spain. also I am putting more time into production, I think I know now precisely what I want to produce. I will put my first EP out in the new year. I hope to continue to release on the more independent and underground labels.
