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INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
PHOBOS
INTERVIEW
LOONEY MOON RECORDS
coming to their party, instead of aiming to offer
a better product and to improve the whole Italian psychedelic-trance scene.
From Blasting sounds to amazing visuals,
Looney Moon Records is all about underground quality!
We meet with Phobos, Label Head and Label Dj
of Looney Moon for an all inclusive interview!
Thank you for meeting us bro!
F: Thank you for the opportunity!
PM: When did your Trip start with PsyTrance?
F: I met psytrance for the first time in some underground parties in Milan, but my first contact
with a proper psytrance party was in Zurich for
a NYE party 97/98. I was coming from a techno
club scene and a punk scene and I immediately
fell in love with it because I felt psytrance as the
logical evolution of both my previous scenes.
PM: And what brought you to the decision to
start your own label?
F: At the beginning Looney Moon was just a party organization, but after 2004 we started to feel
like spreading around our music idea, because
at that time psytrance mainstream music was
getting very bad, for our music taste of course.
We thought there was a total regression in the
musical research: lots of cheesy stuff , lots of
pop vocal samples inside the tracks , no underground , no new ideas, nothing fresh.
Fog and I had already a precise style of music
in mind, we just tried to keep it alive until we
could finally start Looney moon records in 2008.
Our first release has been the compilation “Visionary System”. This V/A was a kind of an experiment because we put there some different
styles as close as we possibly could to the one
we had in our mind.
PM: As a Dj and label manager you must be
listening to tons of music! How do you sort
it all out, what are the Looney Moon “standards” for you?
F: That’s right. I have to listen to tons of music
everyday . I must say that our “standards” are
not that strict... as you can figure out when you
listen to our music. First of all we look for an
idea and when i say “idea”, I mean a particular
musical point of view: it must be fresh , innovative and it has to fit well with our label style. Of
course we don’t need to have exactly the same
music style from our artists, but we want our
style to follow a specific “music line” , then
we can have some artists who make
music closer to night time and other
closer to morning time, but this
“specific line” has to point in our
direction. Done that, we can
start to look for music quality;
if we find an artist with very
good music ideas , but without quality in his stuff , he’s not
ready for Looney Moon records
for sure. Our music must sound
clear and powerful ...everytime.
PM: A few words about the Italian
psy-scene?
I’ll give you three: too many parties! Everybody
wanna make parties and everybody wanna be
a dj and of course not everybody can do it . Being a party maker or a dj means already having a huge musical background (and not just an
electronic music background, but a wider one!) a
very strong passion, and most of all you have to
be able to control your ego.
If you don’t have these skills, you could be a dj
or an organizer ...but you will just suck at it everytime .
At the end, here in Italy we have tons of parties
every week, but actually you can find just very
few good ones, just 1 or maybe 2 for month .
That’s not good because quantity is not always
quality and therefore organizers often just fight
between each other for just fifty people more
PM: What is your favorite hour for performing and why?
That’s an easy question for me, because almost
everybody knows that I like to play close to
dawn. It feels like the perfect time for the music I play, and in my opinion it is the best time to
bring the dancefloor into my music story. Usually I try to adapt my set to the time, the people
and the venue I play in, b