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<p><img src="/blog-content/avatars-000002885606-efneir-t200x200.jpg" alt=".crk" width="200" height="200" class="aligncenter"></p>
<p>We got in touch with Hugo de Almeida, the guy behind the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/crkcrkcrk/">.Crk</a> artist moniker. We asked him a few questions about his background and creative process, he was kind enough to answer. He has released 3 EPs with Enough Records to this date: <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/enrmp250__crk_-_dematerializing_sound_theory">Dematerializing Sound Theory</a>, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/enrmp275__crk_-_informal_definition">Informal Definition</a> and <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/enrmp306__crk_-_trojan_horse">Trojan Horse</a>. </p>
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<p><b>Hello Hugo, thanks for agreeing to answer a few questions. Can you tell us how and when did you first got interested in electronic music?</b></p>
<p>Hello, honestly my interest in electronic music began when I had for the first time access to production software, I remember playing with trackers on my first PC I had become completely addicted, since then and regarding the fact that music is something that has always been part of my life, the whole process has been automatic…</p>
<p><b>How old are you now, what do you do for a living?</b></p>
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<p>Currently i do not have any plan. I think this answer says it all. *laughs*</p>
<p><b>What release of yours are you the most proud of?</b></p>
<p>I think Informal Definition EP.</p>
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<p>I got the love for music very early. When I was a kid I was always imagining how my cd&#8217;s would be if I had the chance to make them. I started to record my voice over some music cd&#8217;s i had, at that time I used an mp3 digital recorder. I imported the recording files and pasted them over the music, the program that I used was called Nero Wave, a very basic program. Then I started looking for other programs, until finding the most intuitive to me.</p>
<p><b>I know you don’t release only as Dyman. Can you tell us a little more of the other projects you’re involved with?</b></p>
<p>I was in two metal bands called Dead Phoenix (as singer) and Lendfall (as singer and producer). We have achieved some of our goals but had to end the projects. Now I&#8217;m on my own.</p>

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<p><b>Dyman isn’t really focused on just one genre is it? You seem to shift between different styles on every new release. Can you tell us what your path has been so far?</b></p>
<p>That&#8217;s one of my problems making music, I like so many different styles that I can not define a style of my own. But what gives me motivation to do more is trying to discover different worlds, and trying to produce something that i have never done before.</p>
<p><b>What’s Dyman’s plan for the future?</b></p>
<p>I will make more electronic music for sure. And try to have more listeners.</p>
<p><b>You only played live a couple of times as Dyman, do you have any plans for more concerts in the near future? How does your live setup differ from your production setup?</b></p>
<p>I like to play ambient music live. But in some songs I like having musicians to accompany me. But to be honest, it&#8217;s something that I haven&#8217;t explored too much but want to master in the future.</p>
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<p><b>A lot has changed in the online music world since the first time we met face to face and you handed me your demo cd in 2007. Does the netlabel model (release free for download) still make sense for starting musicians today?</b></p>
<p>Sure. If not for Enough I wouldn&#8217;t have discovered some styles of music that I know today. We got great artists doing excellent music, but they live on the underground, the radio and TV don´t talk about them. </p>
<p><b>Actually, how did you find out about Enough Records at the time? I don’t remember anymore. Was it myspace?</b></p>
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<p>I always loved music in all its forms from the early childhood (my first favorite bands back then were The Prodigy and Nirvana), and one day (when I was still in school), my friend Denis showed me a computer program called “Dance Machine” from Dance eJay (a simple program for creating music) &#8211; and it took from there! Since at that time I didn’t have my own computer, I was visiting him almost every day and was writing something :) After a while, when I got my own computer, I started creating music at home.</p>
<p><b>Can you tell us a little more about your current music production setup?</b></p>
<p>Oddly enough, the very first recordings under the name of First Rebirth (I call it demo albums myself) were made in Dance eJay :) Then I decided to move to a new level and started working in FL Studio. Now I come to consider Sonar and Acid as the most convenient sequencers for me. Plus, of course, I use a lot of different VST-plugins.</p>
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<p><b>Your EP release with us back in 2009 “Last Runaway” was quite dark but somewhat mellow and laidback. Is this your usual style or does it differ from your other music releases? Why these kind of sounds?</b></p>
<p>Actually, I don’t like to put myself into frameworks &#8211; there are so many different styles and influences in my music. Everything depends on the mood and on what I want to express. Although I call my style “dark downtempo/trip-hop”, there are such influences as ambient, world music, industrial, idm, etc. &#8211; but these are only stamps and labels. The main thing for me is to express what I feel and what&#8217;s inside me.</p>
<p><b>Most producers don’t usually listen to the exact same kind of sounds they produce, what kind of music do you enjoy listening to? Can you drop us some names?</b></p>
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<p>We got in touch with Robert Verrecchia, indie electronics producer based out of Sheffield, UK. He released 3 works through Enough Records. The <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/enrmp088_rob_rob_rob_-_downtown_ep">Downtown EP</a> in December 2006 under his old moniker Rob Rob Rob, and two EPs as his new alias Ghost Hunter, the <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/enrmp146_ghost_hunter_-_ghost_hunter">self-titled debut release</a> in January 2008 and <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/enrmp190_ghost_hunter_-_in_the_early_months">In the Early Months</a> roughly one year later.</p>
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<p><b>Hei Rob, how’s it going? Can you tell us a little about yourself? What’s your background, what do you do for a living?</b></p>
<p>I’m good thanks. I’m 26. I make music under the name “Ghost Hunter”. Right now I’m based in Sheffield and I work as a medical doctor.</p>
<p><b>I read you been to Ecuador in the past year through your latest demo (which is sounding great btw.) Are you big into travelling?</b></p>
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<p>My Dad has a recording studio at home in the south of England so when I was growing up I often used to mess around with his synths and samplers and tape machines, learning how it all worked. When I moved to Sheffield I started getting more of my own gear and making electronic music more seriously. </p>
<p><b>What drove you to release with Enough Records? How did you find us?</b></p>
<p>It was a long time ago so I don’t really remember. All I know is that you (ps) were friendly and encouraging and seemed like someone I’d like to work with.</p>
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<p><b>Can you tell us how the Sheffield and UK indie electronics scene is like? Do you get much support from local promoters and radios?</b></p>
<p>I’m not at all part of the Sheffield scene. I gig very rarely…</p>
<p><b>You released a 10″ through House Anxiety Records in 2010. How did that turn out? Do you feel physical releases are important to get your name out there on review sites? I remember some of the Ghost Hunter releases free for download were also available as limited edition CDR. How do you see the digital and the physical complementing each other?</b></p>
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<p>Next on our artist spotlight series we caught up with Anders Carlsson from Sweden, more known as <a href="http://www.goto80.com/">GOTO80</a> on the music scene. He shares our background from the demoscene, with releases dating back as far as 1993. He&#8217;s not only a musician but also a research historian of sorts on all things textmode and 8bit. In 2008 we put out a music disk of his ownership on Enough Records, titled <a href="http://enoughrecords.scene.org/#/release/enrmp151">Open Funk Sores</a>, featuring animation graphics by <a href="http://www.raquelmeyers.com/">Raquel Meyers</a>. Was originally released not only as .mp3 but also under the oldschool original .mod format and it&#8217;s own homebrew interface built for the Playstation Portable, later also ported to HTML5, Android and iOS.</p>
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<p><b>Hi Anders, how you doing? Was my description of you somehow accurate?</b></p>
<p>Yes, I think that covers most of it. Could also add that I&#8217;ve been getting more involved in art projects the past years, but mostly with making music anyway.</p>
<p><b>Are you a musician full-time nowdays? Have you been able to make a living out of it?</b></p>
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<p><b>Can you tell us a little about the history of your project Inperfektion? I believe your first release was around 2007? Then in 2009 we had a few of your EPs released through Enough Records leading to a full album out through Hesperus Records. And now you put out the Monsters EP in 2012, both as free for download and paid physical cd album release. Are you working on new material? What are your plans for the future?</b></p>
<p>Well actually our first release was in 2005 with a 4 demo song album called Inperfektion.<br />
Before Inperfektion, me and Charlotte used to play on a gothic rock band called Twilight Garden, and in its ending days we were already using some electronic sounds in the songs. After the Twilight Garden era, we decided to explore more and that&#039;s how Inperfektion was born.</p>
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<p>Since then we have self-released 5 albums, 2 of them as a physical CD. We made all the albums available for download as mp3 and that&#039;s where Enough Records came up. Vulture Among Us was released as a physical CD through Hesperus Records, an independent label from Cyprus and our latest work Monsters is available as a digipack through <a href="http://yourlabel.pt/">yourlabel.pt</a>. We have some new recorded material but I think we are resting a little bit for now. There are some new directions that we are still exploring and we want to make sure that&#039;s the way to go.</p>
<p>Also I have been focusing in my studio project and, until I have it running the way I want, I need to spent some time on it.</p>
<p><b>Reviews of Inperfektion always seem to mention Diary of Dreams as a comparison band, are they such a strong influence on your sound or is darkwave just so trapped in common sounds?</b></p>
<p>I&#039;ll be totally honest with this one, because these days I doubt there&#039;s a band that is 100% original, at least in this genre. We listen to Diary of Dreams a lot and it&#039;s one of my favorite Darkwave bands, so I would say they were a big influence when we started Inperfektion. I like music to be human, dynamic, emotive, and not only a computer doing some random harsh arps on a 4/4 beat. I suppose this is due to my musical background. Those are some of the things that I feel when I listen to Diary of Dreams and that I value when I&#039;m producing my own music.</p>
<p>There are some pretty good Darkwave bands out there and I think there are still many dark spots to be highlighted.</p>
<p><b>What&#039;s your production setup for Inperfektion? How does it differ from your live set?</b></p>
<p>I use some virtual instruments and some sounds that I create on my keyboard. I tend to use a lot of strings and pads to create that emotional background and I always focus on the melodies. Except for the Monsters songs, I used different drum sets. I like to vary a lot on the sounds so that every song has it&#039;s own personality. Producing these songs can be challenging since I have to look at each song individually and at the same time remain consistent with the whole.</p>
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<p><b>One of the things we always add, when it comes to playing live, is the guitar. It adds that aggressive and human touch to the songs and performance.</b></p>
<p>We are planning to add some new components for our future live sets but&#8230; we&#039;re still working on it. For a start we need gigs and nowadays they are hard to find.</p>
<p><b>Any plans to play live in the near future or take your project abroad?</b></p>
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<p>I like electronic music since my school time, when my elder sister gave my CDs with music of famous artists like Prodigy, Tiesto, Aphrodite and so on. At the age of 16 I started to produce my own sounds.</p>
<p><b>You seem to focus a lot of your work on IDM and electronic sounds, why the focus on this style of music and not something else? Have you ever tried or felt interest in producing other genres?</b></p>
<p>I always try myself in different genres: ambient, dub techno, industrial, downtempo. But I always make my sounds deep and atmospheric. So you can recognize me in any genre but I started in IDM because it is music without any borders. Music is a hobby for me and I always just make it the way I like it. So IDM allows me to do it.</p>
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<p><b>What's your current setup?</b></p>
<p>I tried different sequencers: Cubase, FL studio, Reason, Ableton and Presonus Studio One. I decided to make music in Presonus Studio One. In my opinion it is the best sequencer for producing music. For my live performances I use Ableton Live, Akai ldp8 and iPad with Touchable application. Touchable is a nice application which allows you to control all loops and sounds in your Ableton Live set. But I am going to buy Akai APC 40. I also have a midi keyboard from M-Audio.</p>
<p><b>Most of your releases have been through different netlabels. Why netaudio? Have you ever tried the “traditional” distribution models aswell?</b></p>
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<p><b>Any release you are most particularly proud of?</b></p>
<p>This fall my album Mistral will be released on CD. It is my first physical release and I am very proud of it. </p>
<p><b>Thanks for your time! Any last words?</b></p>
<p>Music is the only thing which make our world brighter.</p>
<p>Music is the only thing which make our world brighter.</p>
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<p>I first began producing music myself at the turn of the year 2000. Prior to this, I had always been involved with music most of my life in having played drums and bass guitar for multiple bands in the genres of Brazilian Reggae, punk rock, and funk.</p>
<p>My first tracks ever produced were actually in Fruityloops (now known as <a href="http://www.image-line.com/flstudio/">FL-Studio</a>), and <a href="http://www.jeskola.net/buzz/">Buzz Tracker</a>. I also always enjoyed collaborating with other producers, instrumentalists, and vocalists. I have also worked on at least 10+ remixes in the past from artists in the genres of R&#038;B, House, and downtempo.</p>
<p>In the following years from 2000 to about 2010 I produced a variety of styles in the range of Breaks, Drum and bass, Downtempo, Glitch, and house.</p>
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<p><strong>Your one and only release with us was back in 2005, that’s 9 year ago, what have you been doing since then?</strong></p>
<p>From 2005 to now, I&#8217;ve produced a few tracks in the range of jazzy/atmospheric downtempo to upbeat funky rhythmic genres.</p>
<p>An album which has included both of these genre realms is &#8220;Fresh Mindstates&#8221; which was released on CDBaby, and is available on systems like <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fresh-mindstates/id274788099">iTunes</a>, Amazon, or streamable on Spotify.</p>
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