Liquid Soul Interview

Psychedelic Magazine: Hi there Nicola! Thank you for accepting to speak to us!

Liquid Soul: You’re welcome! I’m glad you’re giving me this opportunity to speak with you guys. 

Psychedelic Magazine: How you started with Psytrance in the first place?

Liquid Soul: I started listening to trance & techno in 1994 till around 2001, and only then I discovered psychedelic trance. A friend of mine asked me to go to a Goa open-air party with him in the Swiss mountains. As we arrived I was very impressed by the crowd & deco and after a long night I was in love with the psychedelic world and Liquid Soul was born.

Psychedelic Magazine: What do you think about your evolution till today? It has been a long trip, ha?

Liquid Soul: Indeed! a long but beautiful trip. I saw and experienced a lot of amazing places and met some really cool people around the world. I still love what I am doing and sure, the music always evolves, otherwise, it would become boring I guess.

Psychedelic Magazine:  What are your fundamental principles when you seat at your studio to make new tunes?

Liquid Soul: There is no fundamental principle except that I need to be in good vibes because I understood during the last 20 years that if I try to force it, I will not be creative & constructive in the studio. I always play a bit around until the main concept of the track feels right and then I go on constructing.

Psychedelic Magazine: Is there any particular inspiration for you when you write music?

Liquid Soul: not really, I get inspired by other music, great gigs, or just by nature.

Psychedelic Magazine: You’re one of the most successful artists in our scene. How do you see this success?

Liquid Soul: I am very happy about that fact and I really appreciate it! As I know, I am one of the very few main artists in this scene who have the luck to share my own music worldwide and get amazing feedback from my followers. I do feel very blessed and I live my dream!

Psychedelic Magazine: What do you think about our scene nowadays? 

Liquid Soul: Everything became much more commercial, but I think that’s a great thing because the scene became really huge in the last few years which I never ever expected to be honest. Off course, we all look back and say “it was nicer when it was smaller and more family-like”, but on the other hand we have now amazing and professional events which we just dreamed about.

Psychedelic Magazine: As you can guess, a lot of the readers are involved with music production themselves. Are there any tips to give them in their early production stages? 

Liquid Soul: I always tell them to work hard and listen carefully to what others are doing regarding mixing or arrangement. But I also say always to try to find your own style and sound, because only unique originals will succeed. 

Psychedelic Magazine: What we’ll see if we walk into your studio today?

Liquid Soul: Not that much anymore as I sold a lot of my equipment over the last years. But I have a big tv screen in front of me, Adam x77 speakers, Nordlead2, Virus Snow, TR-8, TB-3, Xoxbox, Waldorf q, Korg M3, etc.

Psychedelic Magazine: Any favorite hardware and/or software? 

Liquid Soul: At the moment I like Native Instruments for example the “Massive” VST Plu-in. But I use “Sylenth” a lot since its released.

Psychedelic Magazine: Any personal work on the way that we should know about?

Liquid Soul: Right at the moment I working on a 2-hour DJ set for Perfecto Records, “full on fluoro vol.4” which will be released in August. Besides that, I always work on new liquid soul tunes and collaborations.

Psychedelic Magazine: Is your side projects “dead” by now? I’m speaking for Earsugar and Liquid Ace, with Martin Knecht and Yoni Oshrat respectively.

Liquid Soul: Well yes, it’s hard to find time for Earsugar as I am super busy with my main project, but maybe we’ll be able to make a track here and there. but at the moment I work on a track together with yoni for his upcoming album.

Psychedelic Magazine: Is there any particular message you wanna send to all the lovers of our scene out there?

Liquid Soul: Do what you love and I wanna thank you for all the support I got from all of you during the past decade! C U all at the dancefloor!

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