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Posted : Feb 18, 2005 14:10
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Psylosophy.com recently had the chance to speak with one of the most promising new Morning Trance acts currently in the scene: Lani.
Here goes a bit of the interview for you to enjoy. You can read the full thing at www.psylosophy.com
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While working on their second album, Lani took some time off to chat with us. One of our favorite morning trance projects unveils all their past, their present and their future. Presenting one of the most powerful live acts currently around (it really is live, for a change), Lani present themselves as a gust of fresh air in the current over-done scene of morning psychedelic trance, always with a touch of full-on. Their vibes have been sweeping dancefloors all around the world. Now, with Full Moon 2005 in their agenda and a new album on the horizon, Lani are more powerful than ever.
Psylosophy: Hi there. First of all, who is Tom, who is Tim and how did you meet?
Lani: Tom moons is born August 11th 1976, Tim Kaelen October 7th 1977. We met at a small party close to our hometowns, which are about 10km from each other. Tom was looking for someone who had a studio to start producing psy-trance, Tim already had a live project called Yucon, which was inspired by techno from the good old days. We jammed around for an afternoon and were very excited to work together after that day.
Psylosophy: You say you started in techno. What got you into the trance scene?
Lani: There was a techno party in an abandonned mine building and the second room was GOA music. I really liked that kind of music and started looking for more music and parties. The technoscene wasn't like the old days, filled with melodies, and I like melodies in electronic music. In those days GOA was all about melodies in Belgium so I started visiting more and more parties, until one day I met Tom and didn't went to techno parties at all anymore.
Psylosophy: What are your biggest influences when creating music?
Lani: I think we are mostly inspired by how we feel emotionally when we are making music. That's probably why we use a lot of melodies.
Psylosophy: Yeah, I noticed all of your tracks are really emotional, is that the product of your Goa influences?
Lani: When we started making music, we were both into heavy melodic music and in about 2000 this all stopped, but there still was a big scene in Belgium who loved this melodic oldschool music and we still want to bring that feeling on the dancefloor, but we mix it with the new full on-style.
Psylosophy: Are you influenced by the place and the people around you and do you feel like they play an important role in the music making process? I mean, if you write a track in the city will it come out completely different from one you write, say, in the countryside?
Lani: I don't think location is that important. When we are in the studio, we forget about the things we see outside the window, we are in our own, musical world. The people around us play a more important role, we see how they react to certain music on the dancefloor when we are DJ'ing and try to recreate the feeling we had the last weekend. We both play very melodic music in our sets and create music that fits in there perfectly.
Psylosophy: What does Lani mean?
Lani: Lani is hawaian for sunshine.
Psylosophy: Ok, let's talk a bit about your album now. It's pretty obvious that you put a lot of effort into it. How long did it take you to finish it? Did you just go with the flow or were you on a "deadline"?
Lani: Actually we worked on the album about 1.5 years. All the tracks started out as pretty simple melodic music and during that one-and-a-half year it changed constantly, adding layers, finetuning basslines and creating our own sound. We don't really have a deadline because, together with DJ Kairon we run our own label and decide for ourselves what and when to release something. That's the fun thing with Kairoo Records.
Psylosophy: Why the name "Our Way to the Sun"?
Lani: After the first live gig someone said it was like he was on a sunny beach... and in Belgium it rains all the time, and we want to let the sun shine just by playing our music and doing the live act. We hope it takes us to all the sunny places around the world. It's also for people who don't feel sunny on the inside, when you feel bad you can listen to this. No dark feelings for us or the listener, the world is more then dark enough these days.
Psylosophy: Deffinitely, and this is a really great morning album.
Lani: Thanks 
Psylosophy: Which makes me wonder: are you planning a second original album anytime soon?
Lani: We have seven new tracks in the live act and started finishing the tracks about a month ago. Two are finished so far and will be released on 12" vinyl soon on Kairoo recors. We hope to have the new album finished by the summer - before the Full Moon festival, that's our goal. Our music has evolved a lot over the last year and is more powerful than Our Way to the Sun, but still is the tipical positive music we bring. One of the new tracks is also licensed on the new chaishop compilation for the trancers guide magazine - our 4th compilation so far.
Psylosophy: This album deserves all of people's attention, however the trance scene seems to be evolving in the direction of the minimalist full-on thing, instead of the melodic style it started as. Do you see this has a huge leap towards the scene's decadence?
Lani: We think the scene is splitting up into two different scenes: the dark and minimal side and the 'morning' trance side with artists like Protoculture, Vibe Tribe, Electro Sun, Ananda Shake and old artists like Yahel, MFG, Passenger... So we don't think there's a decadence of the scene, but the birth of a 21st century melodic music scene, inspired by the old goa.
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There's much more on our website, so be sure to check it if you're interested in this Morning act: www.psylosophy.com
  Ed (Delusional)
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