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Trikk
Trikk gives us the lowdown on the studio setup behind his new album Fauna & Flora
Since his 2011 debut, Portuguese artist Trikk has carved out a reputation as an inventive electronic musician, inhabiting various musical guises across a miscellany of club-focused EPs for Drumcode, ManMakeMusic and Innervisions. On his latest release, Fauna & Flora, Trikk explores the creative potential of a full-length project for the first time, voyaging beyond the boundaries of the dancefloor towards uncharted stylistic terrain.
Produced in Innervisions label head Âme’s Berlin “hardware wonderland” of a studio, Fauna & Flora channels post-punk’s restless malaise into hard-edged, invigorating electronic music that wears its DIY spirit on its sleeve. We caught up with Trikk to find out more about how the album was made, his unique approach to sampling and his ardent love of FL Studio.
When did you start making music, and how did you first get started?
“My first genuine interest in understanding music happened when I overheard some peers I was sharing a room with playing the djembe. They were making amazing rhythms out of it and I got fascinated by it. At that time I was 11 years old and was living in a juvenile centre due to family related problems – it’s a long story. Long story short, I ended up living with 50 more kids for eight years of my life, and those kids were the reason why I started to make music.