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INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
Werner van Jaarsveld, the man behind the highly acclaimed project
“Rinkadink” spoke exclusively to Psychedelic eMag. Here’s what we said:
Hi there! Do you want to introduce
your self if there’s any person that
dosn’t know who you are?
Rinkadink: I’m Werner from Cape Town,
South Africa.
PM: We’re finding you in Brazil right
now, correct?
Rinkadink: Yes, i’m playing in a club here
tonight and next week i’m gonna play in
SoulVision Festival.
PM: Let’s go back in time a little bit,
when you started with all this?
Rinkadink: mmm gosh, i started djing
when i was around thirteen-fourteen years
old and i started playing
in parties when i was fifteen.
PM: You started at Cape Town right?
Rinkadink: In Cape Town yea! Cape Town
had a really good rave scene from 1990,
it was really rocking! and they had really
good parties from 1995 already.
PM: And how you started with music
production? How you got on?
Rinkadink: I started with Napster! The old
music sharing program. So what i did is, i
started making music, with the Rinkadink
project i started making tracks around
1998-99, and then they got good around
2000. So i post as a music trader on Napster, and i said “hi, i’m a music trader, i
got unreleased music” because you could
trade only unreleased music with other
unreleased music. The Rinkadink tracks i
had were very bad at the time. But it allowed me to get unreleased music from
other people who were much more advanced like Dino Psaras, Logic Bomb,
Pleiadians, Etnica, all this sort of music.
So i traded my own music as a trader and
i got access to other unreleased music
and from there i could listen to that music
and modulate my music. To get better.
PM: So when was your first stage appearance as Rinkadink?
Okay, i was playing in the Cape Town parties long time but not as Rinkadink, as a
DJ. The first Rinkadink set was at Cape
Town end of 2001 or begging of 2002.
PM: We heard at your profile pages
some new tunes that you’re cooking with more progressive attitude. Is
this a turning point?
Rinkadink: Well no, basically Full-on, the
style of Full-On music is not popular any
more. So all the artists that they used
to make full-on we just slowed our BPM
down and we changed our music style
but we still working for maximum energy! That’s what the Psy-Prog is. It just
another mutation of trance music. So i’m
not sure if it’s progressive just because
it’s slower, but it just a new style. Like
trance changes styles every few years.
This is just the newest style.
PM: what you consider as highlight
of your career?
Rinkadink: its hard to remember particular parties (laughs)
PM: and what you think its your
style? how you would define it? I
mean, back in the early of 2000’s
we’re saying “Rinkadink” and we
knew we’re speaking for a unique
style in psytrance.
Rinkadink: I don’t know how i’d describe
it, i think most producers have their
own unique style. I just want to see the
dancefllor groove.
PM: Okay. Let’s speak about the
present. what you’re up to?
Rinkadink: Now i’m working hard to
make music that people will like and dj’s
will play. I’m djing lots around the world.
Thats all, i’m focussed on this 100 percent.
PM: that’s cool. any new personal album on the way? Releases on
VAs?
Rinkadink: i don’t plan to release albums
any more
PM: What forced you in that decision?
Rinkadink: the main reason is that it
takes a long to make 9 tracks and then
you only have one period to promote
it and then its over. So it makes more
sense to make one track and then release and promote it. Then you can do
the process all over again. Like back in
the days of vynil 12 inch dance singles.
PM: As you said, you started from
promoting your work through Napster etc. and you know you are insparation generally for “young
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guns” out there. What you think
they should care more? You know
its a mayhem today with the internet and overwhelming for some.
Rinkadink: its just the way things are today - i think things like Soundcloud have
revolutionised the way artists and music
lovers relate to each other. I think things
are better now than they were before.
Like before the only way that an artist
would be able to get feedback on their
music would be to read what people
were writing about it on internet forums.
Now they can get instant feedback on
their music thru social media and soundcloud.
PM: Yea that’s true. As you probably
guessing, a lot of people that reading us now, are involved with music
production. What is your studio set
as of today?
Rinkadink: now my studio consists of a
mac running Ableton Live. I use only the
default internal effects and instuments.
Nothing else.
PM: That was actually my next question, “favorite daw at the time”. I
guess Ableton Live! (laughs)
Rinkadink: defiantly defiantly!
PM: Any favorite plugins that you
work?
Rinkadink: i use only the
internal ones in Ableton
Live.
PM: okay cool.
What is your advice
to all the growning
producers out there?
Rinkadink: don’t keep
working on one
project for months
and months.
Start a new one.
You learn from
repetition,
so the more
times you create kick and
bass and then
process it, the
better you will
get.