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keine hessische Ton-Armee, sondern in Einmachgläsern konservierte Grundgesetze,
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The Berlin- based Duo Tonarmee teamed up with me, to create a very interesting artist feature about them. Luckily they felt so free to also mix a bombastic DJ Set exclusively for YOU !
I discovered Tonarmee in october when you played at Kallias Labelnight in Hamburg and I have to admit, that your sound fitted best to my personal taste of music. Your first set was the one I enjoyed most during the whole evening. For all the others out there - can you give a ruff description, what the „Tonarmee Sound“ is like?
It is always a little bit hard to talk about oneselves but i think we are very influenced by a lot of different genres and we always discover new music through our friends, the internet or record stores but i think it is really much in between house and techno. But some things we are really into are maybe strong kick drums , lovely synthesizers, organic percussions and a nice little tent of deepness and energy. And of course there are always those special tracks we are really into for some reasons we don’t know by ourselves. I know that’s not a real precise description but probably the best we have.
Although you haven’t released much until now, you are quite well recognized all over Germany, which might be borrowed to your beautiful DJ Sets.
Am I right, when I say, that you are more into creating long, musical stories then punching out one 6 minutes banger after the other?
That is a thing that has really changed a lot during the past years. When we started deejaying we always had those crowd pleasers in our sets but when you get more and more into music you will realize that there is so much more beautiful music out there, apart from the stuff you have heard from the festivals you've been to and the parties you went to, because you have always seen just a small part of the big music community and just the releases which were up-to date. But we do have to thank our close friend and booker Marcel, who always try to give us the opportunity to present our sets to people around germany.
You are living and working in europe’s capital of electronic music: Berlin.
What does it mean to you, as two young artists, to live in the city with the most diverse influences and best opportunities for creatives, but also with the most powerful competitors?
First of all, I think it is not such a big thing for us to live in Berlin because we have never lived somewhere else. It’s just home. We are really happy how the city changed, we do have some incredible artists here but i think they are more inspiration than competition.
Fortunately, I had the chance to receive a promo of your remix for Bebetta’s „Do Kraja“ EP.
You really destroyed it - in the best way possible!
The original is already quite good, especially the vocals are outstanding, but the highlight is definitely your remix.
Can you explain how the remixing process developed and what the vocals are about?
And - of cause - when is the long awaited released date?
We spend a lot of time with our friend Anika (Bebetta) at the Aerophilia Festival last year and we talked about her first EP on Kallias and she send us the files. After we got the files from her, we were jammin’ around with the samples when we got that catchy house chord and from that minute on we had the groove for that song. We showed it to our friend Anton who is much more experienced in producing music than we are and he helped us out with some mixing and filter issues. The release-date was the 31 of march on the label Kallias but concerning the vocals we got to say that we didn’t lift the secret after the whole time. We always thought that they sounded nice in an exotic way. Sometimes the content can destroy your feelings anyways:)
I guess, you are not listening to Techno and House music all the time.
Please describe your musical way to Techno & House and what do you like to hear, besides that genre?
That really depends on our mood. There is always music in our WG and most of the time the selection is pretty random:) Concerning house and techno we do have our favorite artists but we love to be surprised. Maybe through friends, record-stores or extended youtube-safaris.
Ok, so now the obligatory questions for featured artists at 4/4 International:
How would you describe the scene in your city and where do you think our genre is going to?
Do you like what happens right now, for example Tech-House being in the charts ( Klingerade, Faul or Wankelmut ) ?
I guess what’s really nice about Berlin is that you really can find everything that fits your taste. We do have great record stores, good clubs and some serious independent labels here.
I think the guys in the charts do have their own genre maybe something like customized music but we don’t think that they destroy the Techno-scene. Some of them have never been part of it and some others just have had a song which got really famous. I don’t want to judge whether this is good or not good i think every artist should think about what’s their Intention behind music.
Last question: Why „Tonarmee“ ?
This pun reminds me of these Chinese soldiers made out of clay.
( Ton = ger. for tone/sound or clay, Armee = army )
When we started Deejaying we needed a name. we hardly thought about everything and chose tonarmee. We developed the word from the Tonarm of a turntable when we tried to find the plural word. And you need to know that this was about six years ago long time ago…;)
But this won’t be the last name for us releasing music.
