Q. How long have you been interested in music? What kind of music scene was there in your home town?

I grew up in a small village in the countryside of Burgundy. There’s not that many activities to do when you’re a kid. Basically, it’s playing soccer or playing a musical instrument. I picked guitar because my mother had one at home. I started learning classical guitar at 10 years old, switched to electric guitar when, I was a teenager.

Due to my work I ended up in Besançon 10 years ago. It’s a small city in the east of France. A small city but with a lot of good rock/metal bands and also an active electronic music scene, (Nao, Horskh and Tetra hydro k to name a few).

Q. How long have you been making music? What was your first opportunity?

I started producing electronic music in 2006. I bought a second-hand Korg Electribe Es-1. It’s a small groove-box with a sampler. To begin with I wrote drum beats as a backing track to playing guitar over.

I then added basslines and I started searching on the Internet how to incorporate other pieces of hardware. And this is how I discovered electronic music, in a sort of reverse process. By the learning gears. It’s how I started 2methyl.

I worked for two years with only hardware before finally switching to a computer. I found it more convenient and less expensive. I still have good nostalgic memories of this era, when midi cables were running everywhere and 10 minutes were necessary to load files from floppy disks before setting my current track up.

Q. You are a really great composer, how did you develop that writing skill?

I think it’s basically hard work. I’m not really good at playing instruments, so I focus more about learning how things work, music theory, synthesis, structure etc. I’ve spent 25 years writing music, so I assume you get better if you practice with discipline and if you keep your attention on details.

Q. You released a record from Ruff in 2010.(with Niveau Zero) How did you meet Peace Off? Did you listen to their releases?

At this time, I was really into Breakcore and Peace-off is a reference. I sent a tune to a friend, R-ictus(from the Speedcore project Mechakucha) he said it was good and sent it to friend of his: Rotator. I met Rotator couple of years after the release.

Q. You mainly created Dubstep from 2010 to 2013. What attracted you to Dubstep? What was the situation in the French Dubstep scene at that time?

In 2010 Dubstep was quite new, I was really attracted to this abnormally slow music with lot of bass. It was a fresh genre where you incorporate what you like, Metal influences, Industrial sounds, Drum & Bass sound design, a new territory to explore. In regard to the Dubstep scene, I don’t really know. I’m not a DJ and not a big fan of all Electronic music, I just know guys who produced music in the same vein of mine, like Niveau Zero and Zeller.

2020.11

MDC Interview#45 "2methyl "