Alexi Delano A.D.N.Y - Interview

DHN: Your own Corner Shots label, have you had many releases on this label ?

A.N.D.Y: I ve only had one so far but I have five all ready to go.

DHN:What other artists besides yourself have you releases ?

A.N.D.Y: Corner shots is basically all going to be my own productions, ones in a while somebody else s will apear like #4, a vocal track by Universal tounges and DKMA from boston, and it s named shiver me .

DHN: Could you tell us a little more about the label ?

A.N.D.Y: I m trying to combine electronic and organic instruments and throw a litle bit of vocals on top.

DHN: Any plans for other labels ?

A.N.D.Y: Yes, but it s undercover.

DHN: You ve worked with Jesper Dahlback a number of times, are yee old friends from Sweden ?

A.N.D.Y: Not very old.

DHN: How did yee meet up ?

A.N.D.Y: I met him when I was working at the Planet Rhythm record store in stockholm,a few years back, him and adam beyer used to come by alot as they both new Cari Lekebusch whom at that time was working there too.

DHN: Do yee have any plans to work together in the future ?

A.N.D.Y: No...not yet.

DHN: How did the A Quarter of a Century actually work, you being in the states, and Jesper being in Sweden ? Was it difficult ?

A.N.D.Y: No it wasent, he came over to NYC for a few weeks.

DHN: How did the idea for this collaboration come about ?

A.N.D.Y: Just by starting making beats in the studio, we didnt have any plans where the stuff would go,we started bringing in NYC street players,poets and singers and the music started to develop from there.And by the time we where finished we kind of had an idea who to send it to.

DHN:How come you relocated to the states in the Mid-90 s ?

A.N.D.Y: I needed some change, and new insperation.

DHN: Do you think it has helped your career ?

A.N.D.Y: Absolutely.

DHN: Of late deep house from Sweden is really starting to make a name for itself, would you have prefered to stay in Sweden, if you could have forseen this present popularity ?

A.N.D.Y: NO,absolutely not! I dont realy care for that,it doesent matter , I prefer people buying my music because they like it , rather than that it s coming out of a certain country.
Im just developing my own style and trying to work with diferent artist. Just because the music is done in sweden dosent meen that its always good.

DHN: How did you find NYC just after moving there, did it take you long to get into the scene ?

A.N.D.Y: Actualy it went kind of fast, in a matter of weeks I met most of the producers that I wanted to meet.They were all realy open, and happy to tell storys of how it used to be in NYC back in the days.

DHN:You have a new album out now on Plastic City, ADNY presents Leiva, is Leiva just another moniker, or a singer ?

A.N.D.Y: Moniker.

DHN: If it s just a moniker, why the different name ?

A.N.D.Y: The same way I try to have a certain style for the labels I work for, I also like to have a name for that style, and for plastic city it became LEIVA. Leiva is my fathers midle name, he was the first one to push me into music , by putting a guitar in my hand at the age of 2, and teaching me how to play different chords, not that at that age could I even play one, but he tryed.

DHN:Being based in NYC, do you get to meet up with all the well known heads who are producing/djing in the area regularly ?? If so, who would you consider friends ??

A.N.D.Y: Yes I have met most of them and I still do, but not on a regular basis, every one is busy with there on thing.
A and not every one I hang out with is a producer.

DHN:There has been alot of press recently about the amount of excellent UK/European house music that is presently about, any favourite English/European producers/labels ?

A.N.D.Y: I must say that,when it comes to house, one of my favorite is actualy Jesper, I think he has been making some exelent music,I ve also been picking up a lot of the ROTAX DISQUES stuff, and I like a lot of the D.I.Y guys stuff.
Also Jason Robertson,and the Jazzanova guys.There are deffenetly some great producers over there.

DHN: Who would you most like to work with, and why ?

A.N.D.Y: More NYC street players,because most of them has an encredible talent and ideas.And most of them dont have any atitude just great love for the instrument that they play.

DHN:As a producer/DJ do you try to reflect the style of music you make when you DJ ?

A.N.D.Y: Absolutely!

DHN: Have you ever performed live ? And if you have, do you prefer preforming live or Djing ?

A.N.D.Y: I ve only done it ones with Cari Lekebusch in a small club in stockholm,I liked it alot but I prefer DJing.
I consider my self first of all a DJ.

DHN:Where does your schedule take you in the coming weeks ??

A.N.D.Y: I m finishing up producing my friends band and Im also going to do some remixes for some people. And continue to come up with some new music for Corner Shots.

DHN: What do you have planned for the Winter? Any new records coming out? Any gigs you are looking forward to?

A.N.D.Y: I m waiting for the second release of corner shots Ltd and Im looking forwards to spinning in Miami this new years eve with Joe Clausell, Kerri Chandler and Lill Louis (french kiss). also I ll be putting together a compilation of unreleased trax for this canadian label named TURBO that will be out in march 2000. The rest of the time I ll just be making beats and playing tomb raider4 .

DHN: When did you first start DJ-ing ?

A.N.D.Y: When I was about 12. But when I was 15 I started doing it seriously.

DHN: When did you start producing ?

A.N.D.Y: I think 92/93,

DHN: What was your most memorable experience while DJ-ing?

A.N.D.Y: Spinning at the top of a mounten in north of Sweden where the sun never went down.

DHN: What was your worst experience?

A.N.D.Y: I can t remeber

DHN:Do you have any favorite labels?

A.N.D.Y: No not realy but I ve been picking up most of the ROTAX stuff.

DHN: Who are your house mentors?

A.N.D.Y: I dont have any house mentors, but I have a mentor whom tought me everything I needed to know about producing music and that s Cari Lekebusch.

DHN: What other music do you listen to and does it influence your sets?

A.N.D.Y: I listen alot to jazz and latin music.But lately I ve been listening to Bill Laswells album reconstructing cuba . And it does actualy influence my sets and productions.

DHN: What is the one record you will always play?

A.N.D.Y: Don t no. Hopefully one of my own.

DHN: How long does it take you to complete a track?

A.N.D.Y: I work fast, when I start working I never have an idea of what Im going to do, it comes to me as I sitt down and start playing around with the sampler and after 4-5 hours it s done

DHN: What is the one piece of equipment that you could not live without?

A.N.D.Y: Sampler.

DHN:Of all the ppl that have helped you get to where you are now, who would be top of the list ?

A.N.D.Y: Cari Lekebusch

DHN: What would you do if you weren t a musician ?

A.N.D.Y: I d be and architect.

DHN: Who would you most like to work with?

A.N.D.Y: Miles Davis... ore a full orchestra...ore Ruben Gonzalez...ore Sade.. .ore.....so many!

DHN: Current top 5?

A.N.D.Y:
shiver me ADNY RMX corner shots #4
hangin on LEXUS LUTHER test542 #1
under my skin Casey Hogan test542 #2
neonphuture Lawsofmotion rec
come&see me Olivier Gaudin rotax

DHN: Could you give us your studio kit list please.

A.N.D.Y: Pro One sequential circuits,akaiS6000,event 20/20 monitors, mackie 32*8, mackintosch 8600/200 with a g3 card, event-gina audio,roland xp10-teac80-8 reel2reel,dbx566 tube comp,2 dbx 1066 comp,presonus acp88 comp,art tube comp,art parametrique EQ,3 mpx100 efx units,panasonic sv-3800 datplayer.and a electrix warpfactory and thats it.

DHN:Is there anything else that you would like to say?

A.N.D.Y: Happy New Years!!

DHN: Thanks & Respect to Alexi Delano (A.D.N.Y)

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