We caught up with Kereni and asked him a few questions before he plays along side J-T Kyrke, Oriel, Stephanie Sykes and Ged Lever on Feb 15th @ Musiquarium in Leeds
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Date published: 3rd Feb 2014
Kereni is actually my middle name, got it from my father African side.
It all started when I was 16, I was living in Italy at the time. I remember listening to lost of old acid techno records with some of my mates. I was instantly hooked and I was thinking in my head: "...I wanna recreate this music!!!". So I managed to get hold of a copy of Fast Tracker and started getting my head around making beats, eventually later started doing small live set/djing around small crowds.
My biggest influences at the time were probably Chris Liberator, Jeff Mills & Carl Cox.
My studio setup is quite simple, Live is my main DAW, inside I run NI Maschine as a vst routing each group/channel through Live, then usually I got a a few midi tracks running Rob Papen Predator and NI Reaktor, that?s about it, don?t use any samples or pre made loops, that?s cheating (only joking!).
I also own a Electribe EMX-1 and a Mochika Atomosynth and from time to time I do integrate them on my productions.
The piece of software I couldn?t live with out is probably the Rob Papen Predator Vst: the possibilities are endless with that synth, love it!!!
My favourite track out of my bunch at the moment is "Fractured Perspective".
Be passionate about what you do, everything else eventually will fall into place.
In 2014 I?ll release my second solo ep for YMN and possibly one for Sub:Circles, also you?ll see me on several remixes (Forte Techno,Trivmvirate, Circular Limited and Hell Beat Limited to name few). This year I wanna slow down though and try to focus on on my main labels such as Forte and YMN.
That's an easy one, early 90's for sure.
Homer Simpson
In no particular order
- James Ruskin - Detatched /Tresor
- The Aztec Mystic - Jaguar / UR - Millsart
- Step To Enchantment (Stringent) / Axis
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