He just remixed Justin Timberlake's Rock That Body and it's kinda proggy. Grandmaster Flash is a big fan of his DJing, believe it or not. He doesn't like to be called 'progressive house'. Outakes from recent interview I did:
"It's kind of hard. I actually think I make club music, I make house music or whatever - it's hard to pinpoint and say, 'OK, this is this or this is that.' "I consider it to be a compliment if people say, 'Well, he might be progressive house, but I do feel that he's got a house influence in there or maybe a bit of techno - a bit of everything... I hope I'm a little bit more diverse. "I honestly would be bored if it was only one specific aspect of dance music. I love the fact that this music has a sort of freedom around it - to me, anyway - and what's more important than actually being able to do whatever you want, within a certain standard, but just flow between different styles and do what you love and you feel? "You've gotta surprise people." "I grew up kind of secluded - I've not really been influenced by a big sound or a scene around me and I also grew up in a fairly isolated part of the Netherlands, which meant that whatever style I was developing, I had to develop it on my own instead of be part of a clique." On doing an album: "In the past I have said in the press that I would be working on something like that, but full-length albums, it's a different kind of process. At the moment I really make club music, but there's not really an album format for club music, it's very one-off. "An album is just a different idea, it's for a home listener, it's not specifically for a DJ - you have to be more versatile and more diverse, look more into different styles, and I guess I'm not ready for that yet. If I were to do something like that, I would wanna commit myself 100 percent and it'd probably mean take a year off and write music and maybe go back to acoustic instruments like I used to play 20 years ago and really just go through a phase and make this album. A full-length electronic album, it's just a difficult concept for me. I love making DJ music, I love making club music, I love making remixes for artists that are used for clubs, trying to do that in full-length, I don't know. I still have to get my head around it." ---------- >From: Kent williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: 313 list <[email protected]> >Subject: (313) sander kleinenberg? wha? >Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 8:16 AM > > I'm from Iowa -- Iowa City, which is a far west suburb of Chicago when it comes > to dance music. What that means is we spit and utter Corsican curses when > we hear the word trance. > > But I have this really wicked record by Sander Kleinenberg "4 Seasons" > who by all reports is known as a trance producer and DJ. So is it just > an abberation that he made a record of elegant, catchy some-where-between- > house-and-techno record? And if he's got any other good records, which ones > should I look for? Lowlanders clue me up! >
