We reached out Shed just before his debut album release via e-mail - and "unshaded" some facts about him to know who's responsible for the best album of the year 2008.We've known Shed for 4 years already, though in 2008 you finally started to speak loud. What was your first approach to OstGut Ton, and did something considerably change since you have become part of this influential community?
I'm very pleased to get the chance to release my debut on Ostgut Ton. It is a very, very pleasant and personal environment and I can not imagine a better place for my music - beside of my own label of course. The first time I played at Berghain was in 2004 and since then it is still the best club I've ever seen. The crew is real - no snobs, no busybodies - music plays the main-role. Beautiful.
Berghain revives the techno sounds of early 90s, you also turn us back to the music we might forgotten. But if "shedding the past" is your personal motto, do you think that "the past" may become a good impulse to create new forms of electronic music, or is it an evidence of a crisis? In other words, don't you think that there's nothing new to invent?
Techno is history. The good time of Techno-music is over and I don't have any illusions that it will come back. But that is ok. It is always the same. Old dads are still playing country-music or Rock-music and look like "schnaps-zombies". Horrible! I don't want end like them. Shedding the past means to me: Progress. It was all very nice but it is over. Lets get on.
It seems to me that you prefer to be single-handed and stay aside of any community - you have a label of your own, only for releasing your own music on it, and an EP titled "egotism". Do you feel more comfortable moving on alone?
That is the best way. You are your own chief. You are responsible for everything - nobody is interfering in what you do. But the possibilities are very limited. Therefore the label is still on a very low level. And generally the label is sleeping this time. Only the sub-label is still active. 2 new records by various artists are coming up. I enjoy right now the advantage of having a booking agency, a label manager, a promotion agency. It is so funny…
By the way, who does the artwork for soloaction?
Myself.
How did you feel yourself involved into the Holland-based Delsin label, where you released two of your EPs? It seems like they don't have merely one music concept, and you never know if their next release is going to be quite average or really worth hearing. Are you planning to continue releasing at Delsin?
I'm not so into it anymore. My records were not the best selling items. I'm still in contact with Marsel (Mr. Delsin) and we are good friends. A new release isn't planned but I'm sure something will happen - someday.
Some producers from Holland are responsible for so called neo-Detroit, what's your opinion about the genre?
I hate it. That is so ridiculous. It is none of my doing. It is so boring that somebody tries to create a sound like people already did 20 or 15 years ago. I mean up to a specific point it is comprehensible but someday is something reached where everything is exhausted. That was ten years ago. What I do is Techno. Not more not less. It is not new but it is what I feel.
Was the happening around Detroit your main influence as well?
Detroit - for sure but I think my main influences are to find on a island that is called United Kingdom. UK-Hardcore, Network, Peacefrog, Rephlex and many more - that is what influenced me. And beside of that here some name-droppings: Disko B, Cheap, Labworks/Overdrive, Rotterdam-Records, Djax Up Beats, Trope, Magnetic North...
And what about German techno producers of mid 90s and the story with Chain Reaction and Basic Channel - can we say it's the basis that made this new wave of German techno possible?
This is not German-Techno. This is Berlin-Techno! Berlin is the base - Hard Wax the headquarter. Deep as deep can be.
How did you get an opportunity to remix Substance for his Relish reprint?
Mr. Substance is a college of mine at Hard Wax. We did a remix swap. Very simple. But it was an honor, to "try" a re-mix of Relish which was one of the big hits in the Chain Reaction catalogue.
I really love the not-for-dancefloor stuff you do ("Ostrich-Mountain-Square" is hypnotic, aerial, totally crazy!) - what influenced you on this side?
Thank you. That track is a kind of field recording. I was hanging out the mic of my window and record what happen on the street. That’s it. I love to play with sounds and technical devices. Always having a 4 to the floor drum makes me bored. There is more than that.
Are you planning to release some remix ep's on tracks from the debut album?
Nothing is planned. We'll see what happens. I guess a lot…
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