What’s the deal with Germans and trance music?
Well we don’t only like trance – if you go out in Germany, you will find house, drum ’n’ bass, things like that. Germany has always had a good foundation in dance music. There is a thriving underground club scene where promoters can do events all over and even the small towns have clubs playing dance music. It seems normal until you go to places like the US, where people say, ‘It’s all country or rock or hip hop over here – we want more dance nights.’ Have you noticed anything different about individual people abroad? I find that people are the same wherever you play. I don’t know if it’s the dance music or the internet or something that makes attitudes so global, but they are. Maybe in China or Korea they are a little shyer and not so euphoric in the way that people are in Germany or Russia or the UK. But mostly my experience tells me that we are all the same on the dancefloor. Kyau and Albert play at Club Fratelli July 31.
