Sander Kleinenberg : as Featured in BPM Magazine
by: David Alexander learn2produce.com
It's Saturday night at Club Avalon, 2000 plus club goers await Sander for the debut of his new residency, and as the Bass Bins rattle the walls I have a chat with Sander before he performs, to discuss his career, collaboration, and mindset.....
Label owner, Producer, and world famous Audio/Video DJ, are just a few of the titles held by Sander Kleinenberg. His latest compilation CD, "This is", is an extension of his successful events and residencies in his native Amsterdam, Paris, Ibiza and Miami as well as an expression of who Sander Kleinenberg is as an artist and taste maker in today's dance music culture. Last years WMC attendees voted Sander European DJ of the year and artists such as Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson have requested remixes by this prolific producer.
Sander Kleinenberg recently took a few moments to talk shop
about his lifestyle, collaborations and favorite T-shirts.
You're a promoter, DJ, artist, label owner and more… which of these do you enjoy most?
I think they are all the same discipline; they are all in service of creating a party, a place where people can forget their everyday issues and pick up some energy for the week ahead. Never the less DJing for me is the icing on the cake. Its what I love most, all the other aspects are in support of that.
There is a certain rhythm that established artists develop in scheduling their tours, studio work and record releases from year to year. Do follow a yearly rhythm in your schedule?
It's funny that you noticed this and the answer is yes, it's a rhythm that you have to have in place after a certain amount of time working in this industry. The same applies to me and my working routine, so there is the regular months off (and the weekend off after a big tour...) recording and development of ideas are a constant process that are hard to switch off, so it's handy to have the little notebook and pen next to your bed to give you some piece of mind, albums and projects come and go and I have till now still not managed to lay that down into a system, I think its partly to do with your own personal creative growth
that prevents to much looking into the future, however I hope one day we will have the template down, just like al those rock dinosaurs!
You intentionally choose a few tracks that are quite different from the others in your sets and your compilations. Is this done based on your intuition of how they will work on the dance floor or do you choose those tracks to shake up the establishment and push the boundaries of the scene?
Listen, I LOVE creative and fresh music and I love new and fresh ideas, its what keeps me inspired and on my toes, in the end it is my only objective when choosing music and directions. But apart from that love I have no intention of shaking up anything except girls asses when I play my tunes.
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