Virtual Underground Podcast #51 by St0 (@st0hu), Producer and DJ from Humgary + Q&A
Virtual Underground: How have you discovered Electronic music?
StO: As a kid I had my parents buy me some UK hardstep jungle collection during a vacation. I think it was around ’95 when I was 12 years old. That really opened my eyes to all the various electronic music out there. I really got to love some drum&bass tunes (eg. Bassface Sascha, Tech Itch Recordings, Ed Rush) as well as classic jungle stuff.
Also my brother who is 2 years older started listening to some electronic music in the late 90’s like garage, Tech-house, prog house, Techno. Through him I also heard various kinds of electronic music.
VU: What motivates you to do your music?
StO: I love all around science fiction and horror movies. I am really in to dark and disturbing music. I am doing it for my own pleasure, the fact that others like it too makes me even more motivated.
VU: Any artists that inspire your work?
StO: The list would be really long but here are some of my inspirations: Craig Richards Carl Finlow, UMWELT, Drexciya, L.F.O., Aphex Twin, Noisia, Morphology, THE HACKER, Ricardo Villalobos, Dexter, Jensen Interceptor etc. while I also find inspiration in the band Animals As Leaders or Navene K the drummer.
VU: How do you find your tracks?
StO: I listen to a lot of mixes, I am following the new releases of my favorite labels and obviously I am following a lot of artists on Soundcloud.
VU: What software/hardware do you use?
StO: My set of hardware consists of a KORG VOLCA Keys, KORG Volca Beats, Novation Launchkey 49 MK II, a laptop (with a M-Audio M-Track X2 audio interface, a mixer and a turntable. As for software I mainly use FL Studio, Ableton,Soundforge and VST plugins.
VU: Anything to add?
StO:This mix includes some of my favorites as well as two tracks of my own, Hard Landing and Malfunction.
Right now I am working on a mix of my productions only but unfortunately I do not have too much time to spare these days. I have around a dozen finished tracks of various genres (D&B, Techno, Breakbeat, Electro) and I am working on about 2-3 new tracks simultaneously.
Tracklist:
1. Umwelt - Citadel Of The Chaos
2. Adapta - Drapse Harmonic
3. Silicon Scally - Coast To Coast
4. Noob - Sequences
5. Mike Ash - The Beings
6. Sync 24 & Truss - Tri-Gate
7. Randomer - Huh
8. Uprokk - Mechanical Dreams
9. No Moon - Sirens
10. StO - Hard Landing
11. Das Muster - Ready To Rule
12. Crotaphytus - Diving through the Oceans of GJ 1214 b
13. StO - Malfunction
14. The Exaltics - NGC 253
