Re: D Kay
Personal
1. How old are you?
24
2. Where are you from?
Vienna, Austria
3. What is your real name?
David
4. How long have you been producing Drum & Bass?
This is year #6, so it s been a while.
5. Do you DJ, if so how long have you been mixing for?
Started djing the same time i started production, when i was 17. bought myself the shittiest pair of decks i could get.
moving to technics was childs play.
6. What are you Drum & Bass influences?
Really depends on the mood im in. at the moment the musical stuff is more my thing, but that can change any day.
Sometimes i hate it all, sometimes riddims kill me, im on and off. its wierd.
7. Do you have any other musical interests?
Im writing some other beats aswell, done some garage remixes with a mate, might do more.
would love to make music for porn movies, i would do some super liquid dnb and jazz hiphop.
fuck with style!
8. How did you become involved in the Drum & Bass scene?
Thru my mate at school, who gave me my first tapes, after that a trip to london to check it all out.
i went thru all the magazines, bought all those tunes and was a happy kid.
when i got back to vienna, i found out that the local record store had the same tunes in stock that i just bought.
bummer! but hey, i got to see london.
9. What did you do before Drum & Bass?
School. also worked as a writer for a couple of companies. good stuff tho, i like creative writing,
its like music. im good with languages aswell, so i might write a book someday.
10. What is the Drum & Bass scene like in your area?
Pretty good, going on strong. growing every year. sometimes u even get too many events on one weekend
so stuff cancels each other out. but other than that its well fat. theres something for every taste and
good djs aswell, u know u you are.
11. 2003 looks to be a good year for Drum & Bass, where do you see it heading?
Musically i cant say, anything can happen. a few people are taking dnb to other markets with their sound, so
expansion is at hand, we ll see. the further we can take it the better, if we stay tru to ourselves and dont bend to the imaginated will
of marketing research results.
12. How did you hook up with Rawfull to form Illskillz?
Met him thru promoting nights in vienna. he showed a lot of interest for the studio so we went in one day
and we done a few tunes, havent looked back yet really. we get along really well. we put out the early ones on x-factor and outbreak, moved on
to freak and dsci4. we re pretty excited about it.
13. Do you have a website?
www.illskillz.at
14. Other than dnbforum, what are your favourite Drum & Bass websites?
Dogsonacid is always a good laugh (good content too), the austrian forum
www.drumandbass.at,
and all the other obvious once.
15. What are your favourite non-Drum & Bass websites?
Dont have any, really.
16. What was the first CD/Record you ever bought?
Hmm hard to remember, some klf tune and the first new kids on the block single. always
went for the vinyl, all the other kids bought cds, i was like, yeah vinyl sounds better. fooos.