Proxy Drives II ✚ Marten Horger
let me start with a question do you have a driving license yes man i have okay good okay we can we can start them [Laughter] hello everybody you are watching proxy drives oh i'm so excited oh that's good i'm excited too wait we got a um perfect day and we have legendary super duper how to say super duper in german super duper is the same right yeah martin horgel yes yes yeah it was good awesome welcome to russia martin horger yes you should make my intro tonight okay to the mic right yes so here's my old friend martin jorger so good to be here all the way from germany from stuttgart right yes so you're from studio yes i always thought you're from hamburg or somewhere it's similar no yeah it's it's it's wild when you when you say to people that you're from germany everybody automatically thinks you're from berlin it's the same it's the same with russia when you tell people i'm from russia everybody's like oh yeah you're from moscow right exactly yeah yeah but i'm not from berlin i'm from stuttgart actually which is um where all the way all the cars are from it's kind of like the silicon valley of germany in a way some where all the engineering is being made porsche mercedes oh yeah i like this car and it's very comfy i like it there cool man so how's life there i mean how's music right there music life is good um there's not a lot of music going on that is similar to my music but it's very close to like a big international airport so um most of my shows are kind of like all over the world anyway and when i come back home i don't necessarily have to live in a place where there's a lot of music going on because i always have that whenever i fly somewhere um yeah but do you have like uh lots of gigs there or like how many locals knows you're from sugar statistically when you look at all the spotify numbers there's many but i haven't but i haven't played in stuttgart in a long time mainly due to corvid i will however start a residency in stuttgart once covered is over so yeah but it's still there it is still there because yeah the pandemic exactly oh okay so everything is still close right everything's closed okay and today at russian style is actually my first gig in i looked like i wrote it down i looked it up this morning check this out i haven't played a gig in 468 days [Laughter] so crazy that's crazy yeah today today is my first gig in 268 days it's gonna be epic yeah you you're gonna love it it's it's amazing crowd there what do you think like will it be over anytime soon in in europe i feel like it's it's almost over but um germany is still germany you know everything you know you've been there many times you understand it's very strict everything has to go by the rules everything has to like be done with the correct paperwork those kind of things so i feel like germany is going to be one of the last places to open things up but nevertheless i think in september october we're going to be back and until then there's so many other amazing places in the world like russia where we can all like tour and party party yeah really hope that germany will be back i played stuttgart like i don't know six times something like that and yeah it's always crazy and the crowd is crazy what do you think about this pandemic does it uh change anything in the music especially in a dance music man i'm wondering the same thing it's a really good question and i've been asking that question to many people around me okay what they say i i think it has changed the music tastes of many people into different ways but it's very hard to predict how the overall public where it's going to shift to because i know that many people stopped listening to big banging music you know yeah because because there's no point right it doesn't work because there is no employees which exactly and you don't listen to banging music on spotify most people don't right yeah so um but does that mean that they're gonna go to chill-out events in the future probably not right yeah i um at the same time i feel like many people started like listening at the same time listening to more banging music back home because they miss it so much yeah yeah and yeah it's it's just so hard to predict so hard but nevertheless i feel like once the pandemic is over we're gonna get into this magic magic decade i hope it's a decade long at least a couple of years where people are going to talk about it in the future as like the magic couple of years you know kind of like the roaring 20s where where everything's going to come back in such a crazy way everybody's going to start going out again everybody's going to be drunk 24 7. clubs are going to be open like every day of the week everything's going to be sold out hands in the air pure ecstasy that kind of thing i see it happening yeah i really hope this will happen it will it will it's a like it's a self-fulfilling prophecy it's not you don't have to say i hope it will it's happening yeah it's a given okay okay okay so we got a proof here on the camera it's official it's happening my words the roaring 20s are back yeah but like like uh what do you think happening with the producers who used to make dance music and it didn't work for like a year during the pandemic so all of us have this battle in the studio when you sit there and like uh trying to understand what kind of track you're gonna be doing next what kind of sound it will be because like after a year of pandemic when everything uh opened it here in russia in moscow especially in moscow i visited a couple of party then dance parties and i didn't find much new sound so it literally started again where it stopped yeah yeah something like this it's so funny because you're asking all this all those questions that i'm constantly asking myself i can tell you what went on in my personal life my brain and maybe maybe we can like then see if that is the same thing that happened to you too okay like i i i started as a dj and djing has always been my first love and then i became more and more a producer dj yep and um but i was still touring so much that i never had time to actually make the music that i wanted to make it was always just between shows and then the pandemic happened and my first thing my first thought wasn't necessarily that it's going to be a bad thing i was more like man i'm going to have so much time to write all this music now yeah yeah yeah and i had so much positive energy in me that was like that was like held back for so many for so many months almost years that i couldn't get out because i never had the time that for a year straight i just sat in the studio mate banger after banger because it had to it had to get out of here one after another right yeah yeah and now i'm at the point where i'm like okay i'm kind of it's it's out of me now i'm ready to either do something new or start touring again get inspiration in and so now i'm at this point where i need the shows again to be able to make banging dance music again and it came back just in time yeah two weeks ago i was like i don't really know what to write now and then i was like okay maybe i'll just chill out for a bit and work towards this gig yeah and that's happening in my life that's my brother that's cool if you look straight you will see the i think it's a gagarin the first oh and first man in space something like that so i'm like getting you i'm trying to i'm trying to be a nice guy as well i was i was walking around moscow for the first time in a very very long time for the first time ever actually taking it all in you know looking at it with time oh yeah and uh i mean i'm sorry this is not your first time in moscow no okay but i um the first time we actually have time to look at things okay okay so yeah when was the first time i had a few music careers before my career now okay and i used to make break beat and break this yes the brick bit yeah that's cool man i think i know the story from autodeduct oh yeah that's from stuttgart yeah yeah man it was called boogie army boogie it was in the big days of breakbeat and um it was this like international awesome thing we had like touring and playing a lot of shows in russia as well when it was probably 10 years ago and you visited russia yes i played a lot of gigs in russia in england in australia and then later on in in the us and i did that for a very long time in my life longer than i've been making house music i think i've been to moscow like two or three times before okay but um i've been to saint petersburg a lot all the time yeah and i've been to places where i don't remember the names yeah yeah yeah like small places or places but like uh far away east side yes now it is korea i'm very focused and very uh professional and very i know exactly what i want in my careers earlier on partying was a lot more important so so i i don't necessarily i don't say i don't i don't necessarily have a very clear memory of all my times coming to russia okay no problem house to be a base house dj base house producer living in germany german stereotype is uh all german listen to techno yes all the time and and german rap and german rep i'm very used to doing my very own thing and not caring too much about making music necessarily for a certain scene or a certain city so because i made break beep and break it was very unpopular in germany and i still had a very amazing career flying around the world being able to like make a really good living out of everything and being very happy i'm used to that you know and now base house is becoming a popular thing in germany and it makes me very happy but it's not something that i desperately need but can you play in berghain not not there but there's there's still there's still so many other places boots house house yeah this house is amazing yes when i played there it was it was incredible and uh the city that i was born in ravensburg i played there and i started i actually started playing a lot of german cities now and it's always packed it's always full of incredibly awesome people and it makes me very grateful and 2020 was supposed to be a really big festival here in germany for me i i had lots of really big stages booked in germany but then as you know the world just yeah yeah so all those festivals just cancel it or or postpone postponed to this year cancelled this year oh okay there's no festivals yeah sure unlucky yeah yeah anyway russia welcomes you thank you thank you i'm very excited about tonight to actually see it yeah yeah so the better way is to film this upper party but like but like you're on schedule and um yeah i think tomorrow you'll live to your sense business work right isn't playing russian style it's actually uh in beat we trust uh lydia works yes exactly and already works many years yeah and she's a very good old friend of mine from back in the days when i used to run brick beats okay yeah she's playing breaks all the time like yes past i don't know like 15 years or so yes yeah that's cool that's cool i didn't know that so you have to say hi to her how my world for me yeah she's awesome what was your uh number one gig ever like super duper number one which you remember you want to come back there you want to play there again i think that there will never be a single number one gig because there's many gigs that are that will stay in my memory forever for different reasons i remember playing at burning man a burning man yeah and that was special because it's such an incredible incredible place and i will never forget the experience of actually going to burning man seeing it all taking it all in the gig was just the cherry on top but everything else made it made it incredible for me you can fly into burning man there's like a helicopter or i had like a um i had like my own airplane they sent me a pilot and an airplane oh cool and they picked me up in in reno and i went into burning man and landed on the festival and then played my gig and got onto the airplane and left again yeah that's that's cool man and i'm probably the only person ever who went into burning man with white sneakers and came out with white sneakers fair enough so that was that was incredible and then um when i played my first show at boat's house was incredible because um you know i told you the story about how germany's is mainly techno yeah but then coming to a place in germany and having a crazy crowd like this sold out so much love everybody's feeling it that was like my my breakthrough in germany basically it was my first gig in germany for a long time and it was a big one and it was a big one and ever since i've been getting lots of festival bookings and stuff so that was emotionally incredibly important for me and i will never forget that and then i used to play um in a place called kazantip you probably know it yeah i played there once yeah i mean but like uh years after when it became uh that city something like that it's a bit different you know like on a russian territory okay already okay tell me about a cousin too yes interesting i was um a lot younger and it was just wild the experience of coming to a place so far away with the sunshine um just the energy will be something that is that is always going to be in me just remembering it just just the raw energy was great and japan my first gig in tokyo um was incredible because i always you know we all of us have these goals right you sit there and think about what what is something that i want to do in my career and i always wanted to make it to tokyo play a gig in japan so i played in japan just before the pandemic happened in february and it was so cool because the place was rammed with japanese kids who all knew and loved my music and i i i hugged like 300 japanese kids like once the gig was over the music was over i was in the dance floor hugging and hugging yeah yeah it was so cool and i would always remember that too and i was there with one of my best friends as well and and there's like there's an endless list of those of those gigs and it's um there will never be a single best one i think of course so many so many russian gigs because it was at the start of my career the first couple of international shows where i had this this feeling of going to a place where i don't speak the language where i can't read anything where it's just so foreign but there's still a love for my music that thing um happened in russia for me for the first time what do you think will happen with the dance music will it be more listenable or it will remain the danceable so it's like i'm splitting electronic music for two parts one is like dance music which works only in the clubs and the second part is like music which you can listen in the car for example i think electronic music is so so incredibly big now that there is room for everything people are so into it and so driven to find new things there is a chance for everything now more than ever if you make something weird you have a very big chance to succeed and make a living out of it should the dance music be more unique i mean sonically obviously like it's always good if things are unique but it's not the main goal of everybody necessarily you know many many producers find find their happiness in just making something that is exactly in the middle of everything and they will always make that because it makes them happy there will always be producers whose single goal is to make something as weird as possible and thanks to spotify the internet everything it's possible for everyone to find his audience and it's a beautiful thing that's cool should the music have its own message if you understand what i mean i guess it's a bonus if if you can if you can put that in there it's it's great but it's not necessarily i don't think it's necessary i feel like every music out there has its right to be there nothing has to be a certain way nothing has to have a certain meaning if somebody had a good time while making it that's good enough that's good enough for me you know then it has a reason to be there i personally in my in my music i try to make people feel a certain emotion i try to make every song fit a certain theme if that makes sense for example i did a song called another dimension and i was like okay so i want to do something that takes your brain to another dimension right okay so so i try to make it um danceable yet so far out and wheeled and grid then it literally takes your brain to another damage right yeah it's very it's a very simple concept i like simplicity i'm very easily confused so i so i tried to keep things simple i did another song called take me high and the chord progression and everything super uplifting the drop is very uplifting so it gives you this feeling of being taken higher there's a message exactly is what i'm talking about yeah and i like like i said i like simplicity so i really enjoy simple messages you know if you especially if you look at your music as a global international kind of thing feel like it it helps if you have a simple message that everybody can understand if you play a song called take me high to um some raving people in india they will probably understand it as well as the amazing people of russia you know yeah i think it's very important to just be you i am similar to many people when they start out when i started out i didn't know who i want to be and what i wanted to make so i always tried to be somebody else you know you always want to be like your heroes so you strive and strive to sound like or even look like a certain hero of yourself like my personal career took off once i stopped doing that once i really looked into myself and became 100 myself suddenly then all those funny enough all those heroes who i tried to copy they turned around and were like oh man we really like what you do you know yeah so i think that is a great way a great thing to work towards nice words guys it's not just an artist thing it's also a personal thing you know once i knew exactly who i am as a person not just as a musician it's a person too i was so hap so much happier and so much more at ease you know yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah cool cool man cool man thank you martin horger martin jorger it was proxy drives uh you can find all the links of martin of me um right in the description subscribes uh smash that bell button blah blah blah do all this stuff please uh yeah and see you next time bye thank you all for watching this i love you russia thank you for having me boom yeah that's cool man that's cool i'm i'm i'm sweating like a kill on this
2023-03-26 09:53
