Five Minutes with Lauer
Five Minutes with Lauer
15-11-16
Cult Athenian party series LaGaSta have already welcomed some phenomenal guests this year, from Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor to Gabe Gurnsey, and the latest artist to join their ranks is one half of Frankfurt-based outfit Tuff City Kids, Lauer. Their debut album Adoldesscent has already been making serious waves since October release, and we can't wait to hear some of the throbbing house tracks on our newly installed Funktion One Soundsystem! We stole five minutes with Lauer to chat dream collaborations, inspiration tracks and plans for 2017!
If you had to trace your DJ career back to one track that started it all, what would it be?
Hard to break it down to one record... But maybe Arj Snoek - I Can People Know
What is the weirdest/best place you’ve ever played?
Recently.. I'd say Folsom Street Fair and Afterparty in San Francisco... Magic!
If you could pick any other artist, alive or dead, to collaborate with, who would it be?
Falco would be cool
If you had a time machine and could go dancing anywhere/when, where would you go?
I'd travel to London - Dalston Superstore on 2nd of December 2016!
Track to rescue a waning dance floor?
Trisomie 21 - Last Song
Favourite track of the year?
Yet to be found... Frequency Illusions from Beautiful Swimmers is on the hot list though...
Can you let us in on any plans you have in the pipeline?
New music here and there.. remixes too. I was thinking about recording a new Lauer LP next year... More stuff coming with Fabrizio Mammarella and Tuff City Kids and Tim Sweeney and Talamanca System as well.
Why do you keep away from all social media? When lately it's sometimes the easiest way to promote/advertise music
There's no policy behind this really... I was on Myspace and when that drowned it was so sad to watch that i was still mourning when everybody went on Facebook .. I might get a profile soon !
Also I'm a guy who records music and plays records.. there are other people who promote things - called promoters and label managers ..
In a restaurant the guy who cuts the onions doesn't wait the tables ;)
On the Tuff City Kids album you have collaborations with Annie, Kelley Polar, Jasnau and Joe Goddard. How do these collaborations come about? While writing a track do you think of someone you would like to sing it?
Not really... We kinda had all of them on our list of people we wanted to work with, and we sent them some music and they made a pick.
Which is the last song you remember yourself singing or whistling lately?
I remember because by coincidence Gerd (Janson) was talking about the track the same day a bit later: Sandra - Maria Magdalena - the Michel Cretu production.
What's the ideal soundtrack of a night ride with your car/on a car
The radio or silence... enough tech house all day! ;)
Catch Lauer at LaGaSta on Friday 2 December from 9pm-3am at Dalston Superstore!
Five Minutes with Lauer