Podiumix #10 - Chymera - Right where i belong

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Style: Chill Electronic
BeatRate: 192kbps
Size: 102mb
Time: 74min





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Tracklist:
1. Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train
2. Burial - Endorphin
3. Air - Alone in Kyoto
4. DJ Shadow - Stem/Long Stem (Edit)
5. Speedy J - Symmetry
6. Tons of Tones - Sheherezade Reprise
7. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Pieces Form The Whole
8. Lindsay Buckingham - Street of Dreams
9. Kate Bush - The Song of Solomon
10. Chymera - Moment In Time
11. Bat For Lashes - Whats a Girl to Do
12. Ian O Brien - A Midwestern Nights Dream
13. dEUS - The Magic Hour
14. My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
15. Radiohead - Climbing Up The Walls
16. Nine Inch Nails - Right Where It Belongs
17. Dead Can Dance - The Host Of Seraphim

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We asked Chymera few questions:

Where was this set recorded and using what equipment?

In my bedroom/studio with ableton live. Pretty much all of the tracks used I ripped from CD collection and then arranged in Ableton.

Tell us a bit about the idea behind the set. Is there a moment in the set you loved more than others? ?

It started out as a straight up house/techno mix but after 3 or 4 attempts at it, the tracks just didn gel. So I scrapped that idea and instead did something different. I used various types of electronic music mixed with acoustic and electric. Essentially a crossection of some of the music I like to listen to in my free time. I don listen to so much dancefloor stuff at home, but my tastes vary from metal and alternative, through to folk and ambient and lots in between. I thought long and hard about the tracks to include on this one. In fact it was hard whittling it down to the ones that I included. I could have quite easy done a 5,6,7 or more hour mix. Each of the tracks means something very special to me. Either through the mood of the track and/or the artist who made it. I tried to make each segment flow in a proper order, either by matching the texture, the rhythm or the key of the track and all the time keeping an eye on how it progressed. It starts off quite chilled and ambient, then adds in some vocal tracks before moving into more alternative terrain then ending on a blissed out and ethereal outro. Most of it is quite relaxing, towards the end I add in some My bloody Valentine which is probably the most abrasive track on it, but for me its also a really beautiful track.. underneath the distorted grind of the guitars theres a mournful melody. I could have easily included lots of metal on here too but I didn quite want to alienate a lot of people from the mix. The overall feeling is euphoria mixed with melancholy, and I will save the aggression for another mix. Actually I love all parts of the mix, theres no one part that I could single out as being my favourite. That was the fun thing about doing this sort of mix.

Chymera – Why? Where did this name come from?

In 2002 I started making my own music and in 2003 I had my first gig. I had to pick a name the month before the gig so they could promote it and thats what popped into my head. No special meaning for me other than it sounded cool. You can look it up under its proper spelling Chimera and it means various different things. Incidentally I was spelling it as Chimera first and then I checked and found there were several other acts using that so I altered the spelling slightly. However, if I had known I would have made my name outside the Irish shores I would have picked a completely different name to start with...

When did you start djing and what got you to start in the first place?

I started djing during my first year in University in Limerick circa 1999/2000. I was playing guitar up until that point and was frustrated that I couldn find any other musicians who shared the same interest in music as me to form a band. A friend of mine showed me how to play the decks in first year, then through that I got more and more interested in electronic music. I realised that this was something I could do on my own and I didn need to rely on anyone else, so I stuck with it.

Your music is very diverse with melancholic melodies walking hand in hand with Techno dance floor busters. Where do you get your inspiration from and how do you approach a new project?

I can start a track with a view to making a stomping 128 BPM techno banger, and suddenly it will end up a 115 BPM blissed out slice of deepness and vice versa. Theres no set agenda for me when I sit down in the studio. In fact it usually changes radically over the course of the studio session so that it doesn resemble how it started in any way. In fact, my tracks change so much during the course of the session that I could probably make 5or 6 different pieces from the one starting point. However, I don . I just stick to the final, and best iteration. While making a melody or loop, I just keep it looping over and over. If I start getting sick of it while working on it, I alter it, then if I get sick of that I alter it again and again until either I find an iteration that I don get sick of, or I just scrap the whole project. My inspiration can come from many different sources, basically anything Ive heard before. I start with the melody usually, either tapping something out on the keyboard or moving notes around in a pattern until I get a sense for it, then I expand it out. Its just trial, error and experimentation.

Vinyl, CD, or MP3? Explain why…

Formerly Vinyl up until 2006. Then I moved to Costa Rica for a year and owing to the fact that theres not a record shop for a few thousand miles or so I became a digital DJ. When I DJ out I play CDs. It doesn matter to me at all what format anyone chooses to play, but it still gets so many people worked up so I just don bother even trying to argue about it anymore.

You e originally from Cork, Ireland. How would you describe nightlife over there?

Cork itself has only a few clubs. There are some great nights down there, for instance Fish Go Deep have had an extremely long running night called Go Deep (formerly Sweat) which looks after the house and techno side of things. But the problem in Cork, as with the rest of Ireland is the prohibitive licensing laws which sees the clubs closed between 2 and 2.30 AM. Its just a joke at this stage to be honest. Its so hard to maintain a successful night when you only have 3 or 4 hours in which to cater to people. Ive got nothing but admiration for the promoters in Ireland who are there week in week out working their asses off. But I don see myself moving back anytime soon unless the laws are relaxed and the club industry has a chance to blossom. On the other hand, Cork has the best pubs in Ireland in my honest opinion and I always make sure to do a relaxed pub crawl with my family and friends whenever Im back.

Do you honestly believe in the hype that the Berlin music industry has created? Would you call Berlin the most productive stop so far, after staying in Barcelona and Costa-Rica?


I take all hype with a pinch of salt. I moved to Berlin because it seemed like a logical choice for me. I speak decent conversational German and its cheap and it has a good music scene. Whether its the most productive stop so far, I will have to wait and see. I have had my head down in the studio since Ive been here and the result is a string of releases and remixes which are all coming out between now and 2011. Overall Barcelona was probably my least productive stop but that was due to several other factors, so Im enjoying the relative boom over here. Whether or not I will stay here long-term I don know yet. I am still young and single so the world is my oyster. If or when I get sick of the place, I will move on. Im here only 6 months to far. When I get to a full 12 months I will re-evaluate and decide if its somewhere I want to live longer term.

Ireland has been suffering major economical turmoil in the past couple of years. Does this domestic issue affect you and your music making process as an international artist? What do you feel when you visit Ireland and play your music there?

It doesn really have so much of an effect on me at all because I don live there. Also in the 4 years since I left Ireland, virtually all my close friends and family have left the country for various reasons. Once again the Irish diaspora have spread themselves around the world. Admittedly it is a grim situation at home and it is getting worse every day, but now that I don live there I don like to think about it. Theres no point worrying about those things, you just have to focus on your own direct environment. The gigs though are always fun in Ireland. That was my former stomping ground so its a pleasure to play there.

When you Dj or play live what do you believe is the most important aspect of the gig? What (if anything at all) scares you most when playing and facing the crowd?

The most important aspect of the gig is that I am there to entertain the crowd and to build or maintain the atmosphere. The promoter and the public have paid good money to see me play, therefore it is my job to do my utmost to entertain them. Now, that doesn mean Im going to start doing backflips and eating fish from a bucket but I am going to try and play to the very best of my ability, to adapt enough within my range so that I keep the flow and energy from dissipating. Most often it works out great, sometimes it doesn and I can be very critical about myself. Despite that theres times when I know Ive played to the best of my abilities but unfortunately the crowd is just not with you, and theres nothing you can do about that. I do get nervous before most gigs. It helps if I have played in that venue before so that I know what to expect from the crowd.

Imagine yourself 10 years from now and describe that image.

I live at the most 1 month in the future.. The here and the now. Im a firm believer that things always work out in the end and if I look back on my life so far theres nothing I would change about the decisions Ive made to get me to here, therefore I will just wing it and see where the road of life takes me. I would of course hope to have a victorias secret model on my arm...

In a previous life I was probably _________ (fill in the blanks)

drunk

After a couple of visits to Israel, can you point at a specific memorable moment there? What would you say to the Israeli crowd?

Yeah I had a great time playing there both times. I was struck by the friendliness of everyone I dealt with, and its always nice having fans come out specifically just to see you play. I was brought into a food place in Jerusalem, can remember the name but apparently quite well known. The owner asked if I was famous, and they said I was a DJ.. so he took his picture with me and put it on the wall.. up beside Tiesto!!! I don know if thats really something to be proud of or not ;)
Shalom!! :) … Mmm... and more hummus please...



http://www.myspace.com/chymeramusic


http://www.chymera.org/


http://soundcloud.com/chymera


http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chymera/21363179760



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