machines and I started playing around with cut out samples and putting tiny fragments randomly together. I had so much fun with it that I started to progress onto hardware. I got myself an Emu sampler and an Atari ST and began developing, but when you catch production fever, there is this tendency to turn into a ‘gearslut’. You just want more – more synths, more drum machines, more outboard processors – more more more, and there was definitely an element of that – but it was that desire to see the sound in my head rock a dancefloor that really drove me on.
How did the two of you connect up and start to form a partnership PHACE: We’d both been producing separately for a while. We were living about 3 hours apart and didn’t know each other – never met a party even in passing, but came across each other totally by chance on the Dogs on Acid forum. There we were – two guys in Germany – really not so far apart, making a similar style of music – and fate took its course. So we decided to try meeting up at a party in
Mannheim , and ended up having so much fun, and getting on so well, on so many levels, that it was a natural progression to try and work on some music together. And now look where we are – I mean – he’s my best friend. MISANTHROP: It was crazy that all this came through a random meeting online. There was an instant symbiosis when we did first get into the studio – I felt like Florian could pick up a half finished production I was working on, understand it and continue it in a way I felt totally happy and comfortable with. We were completely on the same wavelength, and things took on a speed and a momentum compared to our own individual projects and we’d be finishing stuff incredibly quickly. As Florian mentioned – there was enough physical distance between us to only make weekend meetings every few weeks practical, so we would contribute stuff and listen back to each others stuff through the internet until we reached the point where we could actually be sat in the same studio regularly. But you know – it’s an amazing feeling to work with someone so like minded in so many ways.