FL: What meaning does the history and tradition of electronic music have for you? Do you refer to the past in your music?
If it didn't exist, the music that I make wouldn't exist. The development of electronic music could be called revolutionary in terms of cultural events. It was a rather niche event, but it influenced popular music as well. Many creators – ourselves included – looked throughout history to find ectoplasmic hauntology. For me and Marcina it was worthwhile as a raw source, especially at the beginning. Yet, it's not the sampled material that decides the form and style of music, but the creators. We control it, and can manipulate it at will.
Our song, which we created from samples from PRES, is titled 20 Years Later, 20 years after we started our search. You can hear minimal hip-hop, ambient and some additions of musique concrète. On top of that there's the scratching created on the Serato system. It's a song in the style of Skalpel.
FL: What is your favourite song from the Warsaw studio?
I don't have a favourite, I don't listen to this kind of music everyday. This kind of music has a more important meaning conceptually to me, and it provokes me to thinking. It's difficult, it's not easy to just listen to it. An emblematic track is Etiuda na Jedno Uderzenie w Talerz (Étude for One Strike on a Plate) by Włodzimierz Kotoński – it shows the conceptual nature of music perfectly . It's possible to talk about it, and sometimes, it doesn't need to be listened to.
FL: Which sound from the PRES sample library was the most to your taste?
All of the ones we used in our song. In general, it's a really good sample bank, which I plan to use further.
Interview conducted in Polish by Filip Lech, July 2019; translated by AZ & AZ, August 2019