15 questions with…
ROOSEVELT
After lighting up dancefloors and charts with his slick electronic and vocal productions, Marius Lauber, aka Roosevelt, has returned with his third album, Polydans. Time to talk tech and how to let your plugins fight…
Since 2013, Marius Lauber has been producing a slick fusion of electronic and guitar-laden dance, songs that have lit up charts on albums including Young Romance and his debut, self-titled Roosevelt. This year he returns with Polydans, his third LP which features the single Sign (which has already notched up 600,000 plus YT plays) the video of which also features Marius as part of a modular synth. Which of course we love…
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Tell us how you got into music production in the first place?
Roosevelt: “I started producing my own tracks as Roosevelt when I was around 21, having just moved to Cologne. Electronic music and the local scene became a bigger part of my influence back then. I did, however, try to mix my productions with vocals, guitars and synth melodies. When I play live I am usually performing the recordings as a 4-piece band.”
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When did you start to feel you were getting somewhere”?
R: “I’d say there hasn’t been a definitive moment in my career. However, with the release of my debut album in 2016, I could feel that something changed. We just suddenly weren’t the support act anymore but played our own headline shows around the world.”