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Please tell our readers who you are and what you do?
I'm Another Freak, I'm a music producer/beatmaker & a DeeJay.
I started making music at the age of 6, by playing guitar & I eventually played in a few punk rock bands back in the 90's.
I always been fascinated by musicians.
In the mid-90's I discovered the Dance music & Techno culture by going into Rave & Free parties, it definitely changed my perception of music.
I'm now producing my own tracks which I mix as a DJ set on vinyl Decks (Oldschool yes, but Good School though).
Here's my last track which will be out on every distribution platform on february 2018:
https://soundcloud.com/anotherfreak/provoking-fate
Here's also some tracks I guess you should listen to because they are defining the way I'm making music:
https://soundcloud.com/anotherfreak/the-fall-remaster2
https://soundcloud.com/anotherfreak/whatever
How would you describe your influences and how have they changed over the years?
My influences may actually vary on a lot of stuff :
I'm a big fan of Punk Rock music, I've always listened to bands such as Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Nirvana.
Beside this i'm in love with Detroit techno & more recently with DJ's & Producers such as Stephan Bodzin, N'to, Rodriguez Jr & many more.
Being a dj I've learned to evolve in different styles over the years.
I started to play some kind of Acid techno back in the days then I fell into Electro music in the early 2000's.
Nowadays i'm more into Melodic Techno & Electronica because I feel that playing this special style let me add a lot of other infuences like plugging an Electric guitar & loop some bars to add something more personnal.
I'm also a big fan of Hip-Hop culture so I never hesitate to play with samples to add a flavour that everyone could recognise (but always with my very own touch, it's really not about adding stuff to fill my tracks, i'm more into deconstructing stuff that everyone knows to give it a new life).
Here's two tracks with well known samples to illustrate how I feel I should use samples the good way :
First one is a Piano Track taken from Game Of Thrones, the style is Melodic techno, you can also hear me playing guitar in this.
https://soundcloud.com/anotherfreak/light-of-the-seven
Second one features some Hang Drum samples just because this very special instrument goes just fine with electronic music to me.
What´s new right now?
I'm actually creating my own label (FREEK MUSIC INC.), because Auto-production lets me do exactly what I want & especially because I don't really pay attention about what other Labels want to produce or not, I wanna make music the way I see it into my own dimension, I let people join in if they share the same vision of music than me.
You can follow me there if you like my music :
https://soundcloud.com/anotherfreak
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5diXpzaQ03q2_UNmiAMfQ
https://www.facebook.com/freakj1
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Are you a superfan of anyone? How did you become a superfan? Do you remember how you become a fan and what turned you into super fan? Have you ever thought about why you´re such a fan?
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What was the biggest mistake you made when you started making music and what would be the number one tip you could give to a newcomer musician?
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How do you get gigs? Can you share any tips?
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Do you have good promotion tips for other musicians?
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Do you have insights on how to grow your audience on soundcloud that you want to share with our audience?
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What has been your biggest challenge right now? Have you been able to overcome that challenge? If so, how?
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How do you personally discover new music?
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Once you discovered new music, do you tell others about the new music/artist you discovered? If yes, how exactly?
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What is your number one tip to improve your music production or songwriting skills?
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What is your best tip for those who struggle with finishing their tracks?
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We meet again in one year. What has changed?
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http://soundcloud.com/anotherfreak
http://www.facebook.com/freakj1
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