Chez DieFrenchies, nous adorons la musique, quitte à virer parfois obsessionnelles compulsives (mais rassurez-vous,on se soigne). Ça tombe bien, nous avons atterris dans la capitale mondiale de l’électro, alors profitons-en. Autant que faire se peut, nous essaierons donc de vous faire partager nos découvertes et coups de cœur musicaux du
moment. Pour ce premier entretien, nous avons eu ma chance de croiser la route de Cumiks, patronyme derrière lequel se cachent deux DJs espagnols à la bouille d’ange. Malgré leur jeune âge, ils sévissent déjà depuis une dizaine d’année, et ce n’est donc pas dextérité ou professionnalisme qui leurs manquent. Déployant une musique qui n’a rien à envier à Art Department, Cumiks s'est lancé à l’assaut de la capitale allemande fin 2012. La preuve irréfutable de leur talent ? Quand votre hôte/boyfriend/whatever, "berlinois de pur souche" se met à dodeliner de la tête sur leurs dansantes mélodies, et balance en fin connaisseur : "c’est qui ça ? Ça m’étonne de toi dis donc, ça y’est, tu t’es achetée des goûts en musique ? Tiens, faudrait qu’on les book pour votre prochaine soirée (oui, tout berlinois qui se respecte organise des soirées)". Vamos !
1 - Origins
Hi guys! So, where does Cumiks come from? How did you guys meet?
The name comes from the combination of Cu+Miks, Alex's name
was Cubic, and for Miki, well... easy to understand! One of Miki’s ex-girlfriends
introduced us a while ago, around 2002 I think, we were so young...
Where did the idea
to create music together come from?
Well, first of all
we started talking about music, loads of talking, we had very similar tastes. And
one day, (while we were a bit drunk) we said to each other almost jokingly:
"why not making music together?". And that was it; we did our first
live set 6 months later (2003).
2 - Style
Your music has a
super present dance rhythm, almost groovy-like, as much as a very subtle and
dark atmosphere. How do you combine those very different elements?
Yeah, for us all
of those elements are absolutely necessary. To be really able to feel what we
do, we need these, all together: the rhythms to dance endlessly, the grove to prevent us from stoping the party, and a dark atmosphere to make the hair stand on end :)... It's a
perfect combination.
Where do you find
your inspiration from?
Inspiration comes
in strange moments, sometimes we are out, we see or listen to something, and
this can trigger the inspiration process. To be honest, most of the inspiration
comes from listening to music, ideas, and other stimulating situations...
How would you
characterize your style?
It's really
difficult to put a label here… We make house music with really deep melodies
and ambient atmosphere; but it is not pure deep house.
3 - Live
What does “live”
mean to you?
For us, live is to
interact with people and to do whatever we want. It's really good when you are
making the live set, playing some old songs, and then you touch the keyboard,
and appears a completely new track... here is live for us!
Is it a very
important and separated part of your work, or do you prefer being in the
studio?
Studio time is
a really necessary and personal part of our work, but playing live sometimes is
necessary as well to see how the songs work together. We need 50/50 :)
Do you improvise
sometimes?
Alex: Of course!
I'm always improvising.
Miki: I need to
have everything under control, but to be honest, nothing never goes as
planned...
What are your best
live memories so far?
Uhmmmm.... Maybe from a set we had in Cordoba (Andalucía). We played in a really huge "Plaza de Toros"
with a lot of people there, until dawn. Was magic...
4 - Berlin
Why did you relocate
to Berlin?
For love :-) We are
currently located between Berlin and Horsens (Denmark)
Berlin is known
for its huge minimal/electronic music scene. Isn’t it hard to differentiate
yourselves from the rest, or is it just great to be surrounded by such an
atmosphere?
Ad you said, it's
really difficult to make your gap in Berlin, but with the Internet there is not
just Berlin, we are playing in a worldwide stage, and to have the opportunity
to be there is really good...
Where would you
like to play in Berlin?
Panorama Bar of
course :-)
Did Berlin inspire
you in anyways? Places, musicians, artists…
Berlin is a really
artistic city, but the most inspiring thing was the winter :-)
What do you prefer
about Berlin? What don’t you like about it?
Uhmmmm the best
thing about it is the people... there are a lot of intersting/ed people here. But
it would perhaps be really nice if we had more light!
5 - End
What are your
plans next?
We're gonna
realese some new stuff in a Berliner label, and we're making monthly
mixtapes... wer'er so glad about that!
What can we wish
you?
Music, a lot of
music, and of course health.
A bit of French
for the last words?
Uhmmm voulez-vous coucher avec Cumiks ce soir?? Merci!! (nous, on dit "ouiiiiiiiiiiiii")
Find them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/CumiksOfficial and on soudcloud at soundcloud.cumiks
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