Re: Redshape - Live @ Boiler Room, London (14.01.2014.)
[QUOTE][B]Your transition from Sebastian Kramer to Redshape was quite noticeable musically (as well as the new look). How long had you been formulating the idea and the music of Redshape before you started under that name?[/B]
[B]Redshape[/B]: [I]The first, let’s call them “red,” tracks I made around 1999/2000. They were meant to be the counterweight to the more dark and relentless techno I was doing that time. This stuff was heavily influenced by the output of Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins under their different monikers, but always in close relation to the German roots like Tangerine Dream. So the moment I felt I had had enough, or in other words, people seemed to stop caring, I decided to leave loop techno. I started working on “The Playground” during the last of the “techno techno” stuff I made and this became the first Redshape track, more or less. Even the name Redshape was hidden somewhere in that track (musically).[/I][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE][B]Your civilian identity was revealed some years ago. Did you consider hanging up the mask after that or did you feel that the connotation of the mask was a strong enough image in people’s minds for them to associate that with your music more than who are or what you look like?[/B]
[B]Redshape:[/B][I] I wouldn’t say it was “revealed.” It was more like people who just can’t stand the idea of a person hiding in global connected times threw out my name, knowing that this will somehow pull Redshape out of that “silly marketing bubble” into the known and judge-able world. But times have really changed; the audience is different now and that is really a good thing. Aside from what I initially wanted to create with the mask, now the mask kind of developed to its very own thing. It is for sure a “love-hate” relationship I have with it; it competes for attention when I not always want it, or at least not in that way.[/I][/QUOTE]
... for me, is not really that much important... I really like this guy, mmmm how to call it, modern Detroit Techno sound, and that's it !!