Michael Mayer
Kompakt's posterboy on the politics of handing in demos
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People should feel like they’re meeting a friend when they see your record.
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Cologne was an epicenter for acid and techno and there was no club. It was bizarre.
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It felt like giving your music to a factory and you couldn’t touch it anymore. It’s gone. It’s in this machine.
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Schaffel is very inspired by glam rock music, things like T. Rex or Gary Glitter.
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DJ Pierre is God. It’s clear. If he wouldn’t have done these records, I wouldn’t sit here on this sofa.
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We usually don’t do contracts. We prefer to build up a level of trust between our artists and ourselves.
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Interviewer
Torsten Schmidt
A long-time music scribe for leading German club/pop culture gazettes and national newspapers, and one of the founding members of the Red Bull Music Academy crew, Tor has been around since before day one. He's rubbed shoulders on the couch with everyone from Bob Moog to A-Trak, and as if amassing a definitive collection of vintage synths and drum machines didn't show enough loyalty to the cause, he also keeps faith with notorious Bundesliga underdogs, 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
