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One of the big highlights was the previous Parklife tour i played in Australia.

Imagine 12000 people jumping and screaming at digitalism´s performance on the last parklife tour. That was really awesome!

Lowlights: I was travelling to Istanbul / Turkey with my greek passport. greeks and turkish were in war many, many years ago but it´s still kind of a strange vibe between both countries. in any case, i entered the immigration border offices. they simply were screaming at me in turkish. I couldn´t understand anything. shortly later they wanted to send me back to Germany where i live and didn´t let me in. no plane was leaving that day back to germany so they took me to a border office with some arabs and indonesian guy. door locked.....

What happened? well, i was in Turkey two days after the Greeks established a new law where only "biometrical" passports are valid, even when the one i had in Turkey said it is valid till end of 2010. Anyhow, there was no exception for me, even when they spoke to the turkish promoter etc. to cut a long story short. i was staying the whole night in this locked border office with turkish movies, cameras all over the place and some little McDonalds food which my airline sponsored (ooooh, nice). anyhow - next day back to germany with lufthansa. than i went directly to the greek embassy and it took 6 weeks for the new passport. they didn´t feel guilty not to inform their greek people that a new passport is needed for travelling and there is also no forms which allow you to fly in between. Ooooh, i love greek democracy. What a nightmare! And this all happened shortly before my last Australian tour where I wasn't sure if I would have passport in time to do the Parklife tour 2007. Thank god it all went well as the tour was awesome.

To come back to the good things as i don´t like to talk about bad things that much as they can happen but life goes on.

I may work on a vocal session on my tune "raven" with Karen of the Australian band Young & Restless.

What has drawn you to visiting Australia again?
I love the country, the vibe, the people. There is a very good understanding towards the music I play.

Aside of that I have a lot of friends and musicians I wanna see again, i. e. Lost Valentinos, Benni of Riot In Belgium, Midnight Juggernauts, Cut Copy, Bandits Posse, Trashbags, The Fuzzy Rockers, Ksubi Crew, Bang Gang, Lick It and all the others.

How are you looking forward to playing alongside Felix Cartal and the Trashbag Posse Dj's at La La Land in Sydney?
Either we´ll cook some hot eggs for you or do wrestling on two record players .... There will definitely be some action. Afterwards drive to Bondi Beach to make a handstand in the water while the sun is rising. Booyakah!

When I am under pressure with deadlines it´s sometimes hard as I can´t manipulate my emotions or a vibe which is needed to create something new.

Therefore much better to produce and write independent from any guidelines. This always brings the best result. This is how I did the "Raven" song.

Joakim did a remix for me, I did a remix for Alex Gopher and/or the big remix I did for Pink Grease "Carlights" (Mute Rec.)..... What now? There are so many musicians I like and respect for what they do. Therefore it´s hard to say with whom I would like to work. It always depends on each song to see what is best for it. What I can say is that I love all kind of music which you can see if you would visit me at my house where i have a record collection with more than 15.000 vinyls of disco, old school early days hip hop (this is where i started dj´ing with), Indie, Jazz, Soul and for sure all kinds of Electronic. In any case the whole collection is really heavy. Don´t wanna move houses again (haha).