Quantic:
Definetely, it`s a wicked opportunity to get around the world, see new places & new people...
When i made "Apricot Morning" I was sitting in my bedroom in a small town, and since I moved to Brighton I`m chilling there and doing lots of work and simply having a lot of opportunities just to DJ in different places, meet different communities or sort of collectives all around the world.

Joscha Creutzfeldt:
You mentioned it - different places, different communities - would you say that you most often meet likeminded people or does it sometimes feel like a job for you?

Quantic:
Actually I just hook up with people I`m friends with or people who are friends of friends, I think that`s the best way because you`re not playing "cocaine-orientated fashion kind of party" with like "20 year old to get in" & stuff... It`s not all that way in client, but I prefer to just play for people who are friends, pretty much everyone I`m playing for right now, like groups of people that are friends really get on with it and that`s a really cool thing ...

Joscha Creutzfeldt:
What I always wonder is: when do you sleep? It`s the old thing, but you`ve done A LOT of remixes, 2 Albums (Quantic Soul Orchestra - Stampede / Limp Twins - Tales From Beyond The Groove), extensive touring with the QSO as well as solo Quantic dj-gigs. How do you manage all this?

Quantic:
Well, in fact I don`t sleep too much... I always made lots of music since I was fifteen/sixteen, always in the evening because I was working in the day for four years and then making music til` four in the morning, it`s like a way of life.
And now it`s wicked because I can actually output it... but maybe, you know, in two or three years of time I won`t have that opportunity but I`ll still be making music all the time, because... maybe it`s a fetish or something, i have to do it...(laughter)

Joscha Creutzfeldt:
Do you use a powerbook when you`re travelling around and making music, just to get down first ideas or sketches for your tracks?

Quantic:
I`m doing stuff on a notebook, but I mostly use it when hooking up with people in other countries, for example when I´m recording a musician in his house.
Actually for writing music I find it quite hard to write straight on a computer, I have to check out some breaks to sample, play out my guitars and different instruments around me, used to be more like that sort of nocturnal experience in the studio... But most tracks I seem to make quite quickly, in a day like "Pushin On" with Alice Russell, from start to finish in a day. A lot of the tunes are really made in a day or two.

Joscha Creutzfeldt:
Then you would describe yourself rather like the "one take guy" than the one sitting in a front of a tune for some weeks, tweaking and fiddlin` around... because "hold it down" from the qso album was also done that quickly ?

Quantic:
Yeah, but that`s also because I´m really privileged to work with Alice Russell, she`s just so quick, I just say:"look i want it like this" and she sings it, there`s no messing around...
Actually with the third Quantic album I have really spent a lot of time going back to tracks after three months and tweakin` them some more, trying different things which I haven`t done normally. Actually I´m quite impatient and want to get em down, get em banned.

Joscha Creutzfeldt:
So we`ve touched the point: the third album.
Do you already have a title, what can we expect?

Quantic:
The name is "Mishaps Happening", that`s when, well, things go wrong, basically (laughter). You can expect a little bit more jazz I would say, but just because I`m getting into listening a lot of jazz, also playing a lot more.
It also got more live instruments, live bass and guitars. I`ve been working with singers a lot...

Joscha Creutzfeldt:
I´ve heard about a track with Spanky Wilson !?

Quantic:
Well, since I`ve been playing records, like five years ago Spanky Wilson songs like "Sunshine Of Your Love" have been classics, killer records, we always played them everywhere. So I was like "make it my thing and try to find her". She was just working in LA, doing jazz-standard stuff with her wicked voice.
Actually it just happened that she was just a really nice person to work with and i got her on two tracks of the album, she sounds sweet.

Joscha Creutzfeldt:
Any release date figured out already?

Quantic:
It`s mastered now and I´ve just received the artwork, it´s cool, so all good to go... Hopefully in may.

Joscha Creutzfeldt:
And will there be any 12" release before such as the Apricot Morning single before the last album?

Quantic:
Yeah, the first 12" will be a track also featuring Spanky Wilson called "Don`t Joke With A Hungry Man", this is a Quantic tune; on the other side there will be a kind of futuristic breakbeat thing called "Furthest Moment", that`s gonna be the next Tru Thoughts thing, hopefully out in march.

Joscha Creutzfeldt:
You recently toured Canada and the USA, have you ever been there before and what was it like ?

Quantic:
I went there a couple of times before, just for small gigs, this was the first major time and there`s certainly a different kind of vibe. In Europe people just get drunk and dance, that`s the formula and an automatic thing. In America it`s more of a "background music" bar thing, more lounging, beeing seen, beeing there and cool, sometimes...
Maybe just the places I played (laughter)

In Europe for some reason you can play downtempo music in a club, and people dance, so it`s no chillout thing. In America, if you`re playing "downtempo" music (I say downtempo but even when it`s housetempo) this is all like lounge music... Which is cool, but just different from here - so you better be prepared.

Joscha Creutzfeldt:
Did people over there know about your productions like the Quantic /Quantic Soul Orchestra stuff?

Quantic:
It`s like working on the torch, because we don`t have very good distribution over there, somehow a fight against the current a little bit.
In some shows you got a lot of heads coming down, dj`s that really appreciate what you`re doing and in some shows you`re playing in the middle of nowhere in America and there are guys, you know, if you told them you came from another country to dj there they`d be really surprised.
And somehow, selling back the funk to the americans is like selling back sand to the arabs, maybe for them it`s not so special because they`ve had so much funk music for so long now. Maybe...

Thank You: Will, Robin&Bruno@Pulver, Cem

The Quantic Soul Orchestra Remix EP
QSO remixed by Faze Action, Nostalgia 77 and Quantic himself + the Accapella of "Pushin`On"-> listen here

The Limp Twins - Elemental 7"
incl. LP Version of Elemental and a heavy funk replay of "Another Day In The Life Of Mrs. Jones" by Bamboo Shack -> listen here

The Limp Twins - Tales From Beyond The Groove LP/CD
Project by Will Holland & Russ Porter -> listen here