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An interview with Seb Mullaert from Son Kite, Minilogue, Kooler etc.

aden
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Posted : Jan 18, 2005 15:31
SON KITE INTERVIEW by Aden (looking back on their recent releases and discussing their forthcoming productions)

1. You are now working on a new Minilogue Album. Minilogue is a more progressive house oriented project, so is Kooler. Does the difference between the two only resides in the fact that Kooler is a more solo project?

SEB: Since the summer 2004 we’ve focused on our Minilogue project since we more or less forgot about it since the Son Kite colours concept took all our time for one and a half year. Up till today Minilogue have been a so called progressive house act but today it’s just electronic music … sometimes slow, sometimes fast, sometimes minimal sometimes not, sometimes housy or funky or cheesy or deep or trancy …. our new upgrade of Minilogue is music and we will try to have a project without having to stay in one specific folder. I know that it’s not easy to do something like that since many people want to place every artist in a folder … let’s see if it will work. We don’t know if there will be a Minilogue album or not (depends on the market and the labels), we are just composing a lot of tracks that could work on an album.

2. Going back to the Kooler Album. Were "Harold&Maud", and "Super Star" (both written by Marcus and Seb), composed at the same creative period as the Colour album?

SEB: Yes!

3. Could have they fit into the Colour album as well?

SEB: Maybe they could but they were meant to be Kooler ….

4. Were they meant to be part of Kooler from the beginning?

SEB: Yes!

5. I find "Focus" quite close in inspiration to the two above mentioned tracks, because of its housey rythmical influence. Could this track have featured in the Kooler album?

SEB: No it was meant to be Son Kite.

6. Is the Housey influence in Son Kite due to Seb taste or is a common concern?

SEB: Both Marcus and I listen to a wide range of music. Since I just recently started to dj dance music (breakz, alternative house and electro) it was more often Marcus who bought all the dance records … so very often his choice of records become inspiration for the two of us (when it comes to inspiration from dance music).

7. One wholly acclaimed characteristics of the Son Kite sound is the specific attention you put on the tone of your percussions. Is it something you both share, or is it a concern that is specific to one of you?

SEB: I think so!

8. For example, there are many tracks which focus on that percussive tone element. Air Play, one example that comes straight to my mind, (published in the Footprint compilation, DS), can be paralleled to Made to Move in the Colour Album, because of its rythmic pattern made of percussion loops (sounding like timbales). Does this aspect correspond to a common sensibility or is it a more individual quality of one of you?

SEB: Both of us see the rhythm and groove as one of the main poles in dance music. Expecially the early Son Kite music had heavy tribal elements, these days we see the tribal elements just as one way to the groove and we don’t use them too often.

9. The blending of stylistic influences Trance, House, Techno etc., is something that is asserted by some of the most creative and respectable artists like Atmos in his last album, Freq for whom you did the mastering, Ticon with its side project NDSA, to name only but a few, and surprisingly, in the “Full on” Trance, is also claimed by artists like Sub 6! Do you think that it is a trend that will characterize the new directions of Trance?

SEB: This is an interesting question. I hope that most artists in all genres have an aim to develop and to be innovative. Marcus and I are all the time trying to do something new and different and we’ve always seen the crossover between genres as a good way to create new and interesting feelings in the music. The last two years this have been very trendy in all dance music … very easy to understand.

10. Isn’t this phenomenon a bit paradoxical at a time when most parties tend to specialize their sound?

SEB: In the early days of the electronic dance culture all genres were mixed … the party phenomenon itself was such a new and interesting thing for the people and I don’t think people were analyzing the music as much as they do today. To analyze, see things in a critical view and to stand for your opinion is all good things but I think people easy forget that analyzing and using your mind easy can block what you can experience in the music … a good balance between the mind and soul is good but I often see the mind taking over which means that people don’t let themselves experience new and for them not familiar music … this is a paradox since it’s the new and not yet experienced that can give you the strongest feelings, both on the dancefloor and in the sofa. I’ve always been “procrossover” for parties and clubs and when I speak with organizers around the globe I get the feeling that they are getting on the same track, I’m crossing my fingers. A really good festival that have always aimed for the crossover is the Fusion festival in Germany, a must for all dance music lovers that are interested to hear something new (for them).
Master Main


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Posted : Jan 19, 2005 16:47
i see u like to make story dont u? haha
its cool
Miss Tick
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Posted : Jan 20, 2005 11:33
NIce one Aden !

very nice too, to discover some french proggy fan !!!!!

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psypox
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Posted : Jan 20, 2005 11:48
short replys

but is all good           www.myspace.com/psypox
aden
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Posted : Jan 21, 2005 16:44
Thanx a lot Miss Tick! Less bpm, more music!! I dig that sound!! See U around!! and check the second part, it's also interesting!!
sherlockalien
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Posted : Jan 21, 2005 21:59
nice, thanks!

Im happy that they are going to release more tracks by minilogue, and maybe even a cd!
Satellite


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Posted : Jan 23, 2005 17:24
Nice interview. It's alco nice to see what are the planes for them in the future
Suspekt
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Posted : Sep 9, 2005 14:03
nice interview, but i think maybe dont ask so many questions that lead back into themselves and you might get better answers...
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Posted : Sep 10, 2005 13:33
Cheers for the Interview...really looking forward to more minilogue tracks or even an album, its great music!!!:D

and as said: less bpm, more music!
Keep it up**
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