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Atyss and music specialist Patrick Rognant (if you’ve been in Paris in the 90s it’s impossible not to hear about his famous “Rave Up” shows) had one of the hottest DJ duos in European psy-trance in the late 90s. Nowadays, and on its own name, Parisian DJ, producer and label owner Atyss is one of the main activists of the French psy-trance. We invited the founder of Sonic Motion Records for the third incursion of Mindstream, and we spoke with him about music, parties and his work for cinema.
You’ve been around for years in the French scene. What major changes you see from late 90s trance scene in Paris and today?
Yes I’ve been around since 1995, starting to be old now! Ahaha Well back in the 90′s Paris was a hub for the international trance scene, they were 3 or even 4 parties every Saturday night with 2000 to 6000 people in each one, in incredible sites with amazing line up with great international djs & live acts, fire dancers, ice sculpture, animations, ‘Les nuits blanches’. There was a real culture which developed with records shops, fashion shops, bars with trance, Bastille & Pigalle were the places where those things happened ‘back in the day’ in Paris, now many of them have closed, there’s only one records shop ‘Techno Import’ that sell trance cds.
In the same time on Saturday beginning of the night a radio show ‘Rave Up’ on Radio FG hosted by Patrick Rognant “my dj partner” updated people with party’s agenda, interviewed artists, and let them play their music on air.
During the week there were many club parties, but progressively the scene changed, becoming less underground. It became difficult to find good locations and the government made things more tricky for organisers by making everything official “locations, dj’s, lives , deco & bar”. Then police started to block the roads to parties which led some organisers to leave the scene.
Now parties are less frequent with a maximum of 1700 peoples for indoor and 4500 peoples for festivals, but have stayed true to quality with interesting line-ups, some long term organisation such as Gaia concept have managed to keep on the storm and new ones have emerged.
What are the french artists that inspired you the most and why?
My inspiration is not coming directly from trance music or even French artists, but Pink Floyd for the psychedelic side; Fela Kuti for the drums; James Brown for the groove; Alpha & Omega for the trippy vibe; Herbie hancock for the synths & atmospheres; Meshell Ndegeocello for the bass and jazzy feeling; Brian Eno for the the pads, ambiances, perfect arrangements and production; and many more, movies also give me some inspiration.
Who is your ‘producer-extraordinaire’ nowadays on the psy-trance scene?
Nowadays in psy-trance, Phatmatix is one of the artists I respect the most for his work, he’s really professional in his way of making music and talented to create atmosphere like a comic opera and industrial rhythms. His music is fluid with breaks and perfect arrangements and without concession.
You’ve created a label recently. What was the main goal for Sonic Motion Records?
Our productions are orientated towards upbeat psychedelic acid trance designed for heavy dance session with a hint of chill out vibes for the late morning. We are also looking to diversify and bring our expertise to other fields (ambient, audio-visuals illustrations, electronic-psychedelic). We are constantly searching for new talents, have a look at our website www.sonicmotionrecords.com.
You have a background in sound design for cinema. You’ve worked for movies like “Entre Chiens Et Loups” or “Camping Sauvage”. What is the main pleasure for you to work with image and sound on a professional level?
Sound design or music with a film is the best way to create, because you rebuild a world & give an emotion to sequences, sound design is more fun & creative, creating fxs or atmospheres to put people into a world that gives feelings & emotions, it has no limits. Creating music on images is more attractive also because the film gives you a connecting thread for how to compose the music to give an emotion at a precise moment.
I am currently working with a team of visuals in sonic motion records called “Homeostasys” they are geniuses in cognitive science. We work together on a audio-video symbiosis project which combine audio & midi which control animation on 3D pictures, as every channels from the track is linked to a movement this make real sense for electronic music.
Tell us about this mix, what did you want to transmit with this?
This mix transports you from the late night mayhem to the early morning vibes, like from 5 to 7am, it s that time that I played at the Boom Festival and it’s the time that I really enjoy playing, most of the tracklist is a mix of our past & our future releases, as well as one of my previously released track.
Last questions, what major projects you have for your label in the next future?
After the last ‘Hypnotwist’ compilation and the album of Noisy Pipes. In June we are going to release Sonic Athmosphere compiled by DJ Shaktipat, coming next Killer Buds album, Toxic album, and my own album where I want to develop this audio video symbiosis project in order to release a DVD in the end of the year.
Tracklist:
1. NOISY PIPES – Crawling, Seeking
2. DIGITAL TALK – Mindcore rmx
3. TRISKELL – Chips’ n’ Twist
4. TOXIC – Mayhem
5. DIGITAL TALK – The Ultimate (Reconstructed By Absolum)
6. PHATMATIX – Punishement
7. ORCA – Hat Madder
8. PHATMATIX – Behind you
9. KILLER BUDS – Kim’s Special
10. NOISY PIPES – Cheers For Fears (featuring Triskell)
11. ATYSS – Room 237
12. ZION LINGUIST – Black Jack
13. EARTHLING – Cycle tour
Websites:
www.sonicmotionrecords.com
myspace.com/atyss
myspace.com/sonicmotionrecords
