15 questions with…
Keinemusik
Keinemusik first caught our ear back in 2017 with their ambitious debut album You Are Safe. Since then, the Berlinbased trio have refined their creative process, linking up with a variety of collaborators to produce an impressive sophomore effort that expands their sound while remaining firmly focused on the dancefloor
Photo by Daniel Rérat
> We spoke with Adam Port, Rampa and &ME of Keinemusik about production tricks, the art of collaboration and the thinking behind their performance-focused hardware brand, TEILE.
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Tell us about how you first got into music making.
Adam: “I was DJing RnB and hip-hop back in the day and at some point it wasn’t enough and I wanted to express myself better. I got a cracked version of Cakewalk from a friend and then I started to play around with sounds. I had no drum computer or synths so I sampled every kick, hi-hat, and snare from my vinyls. I still use this technique sometimes.”
Rampa: “I started playing drums super early and my best friend’s older brother was a techno DJ with turntables in the basement, so we’d sneak down and play. Then I bought my first 140bpm techno records and also got into turntablism and hip-hop. Recording and producing were parallel to DJing… Reason, Fruity Loops and Cubase in the schulhof.”
&ME: “Pretty much everything started with a loopable CD player and a cheap turntable when I was a teenager. I was able to create some loops and tried to scratch or beatmatch some music or vocals over the top. Later, when I finally got some VHS tapes from the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, I went from trying to DJ to trying to create some beats with Magix Music Maker and Samplitude… albeit slowly. It took me years to put anything together that I was happy to share with my family and friends.”