{"id":19075,"date":"2020-02-25T19:52:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xceed.me\/blog\/?p=19075"},"modified":"2023-05-18T08:57:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T06:57:55","slug":"interview-with-steve-bug-not-the-best-decade-for-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xceed.me\/blog\/en\/interview-with-steve-bug-not-the-best-decade-for-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Steve Bug: \u201cCompared to all the decades before, this was not the best for electronic music\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The concept “evergreen” is used to refer to something that always seems current, even though it was published months or even years ago. A clear case is “Loverboy”, one of the most enduring tracks in the history of electronic club music. Steve Bug<\/a> produced it 20 years ago. It was the first release on Poker Flat<\/a>, a label he himself created at the time. Two decades later, Poker Flat is in great health and “Loverboy” still sounds fresh, current and perfect for many situations and dancefloors. So much so, that two big names like Catz N Dogz and Acid Pauli have been encouraged to remix it. In the midst of the celebrations, we managed to steal a few minutes from the main protagonist of this story, the German producer and DJ Steve Bug.<\/p>\n

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A decade just ended. What main highlights do you see when you look back to it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really like to look backwards, neither too far forward, I am living right here, right now.\u00a0 But as far as I remember, it has been a terrible decade for electronic music. Greed finally, almost completely won over creativity. The success in social media played a way too big role on who\u2019s booked and who\u2019s not. Festival line ups looked pretty much the same all over the place. There were barely any tracks that stood out. Compared to all decades before, this was the worst for electronic music. But I have high hopes that things will change for the better.<\/p>\n

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It is much older (it was released in 1999), but I guess \u201cLoverboy\u201d is also one of the main highlights of your artistic career. Some people call it an \u201cevergreen track\u201d. What is it that makes it so special, unique and perdurable?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It definitely is a classic, and it\u2019s still playable, so it might be right to call it evergreen. Why it\u2019s like that, I am not 100% sure of, but I think it is because it stands out from the rest. It has a very nice, un-quantized groove, and even though it has just a very few elements, you immediately recognize it. At the time I was working mostly with a sampler only, I sampled a lot of stuff, turned things backwards, stretched things, and put them together like a collage. \u201cLoverboy\u201d was actually put together out of the samples of two other tracks, that I haven\u2019t been able to finish.<\/p>\n

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When producing it, did you ever imagine that it could become such a big track?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When it was finished, I knew it was special, and I knew it would work on the dancefloor. I had the feeling it could become something bigger. But our distributor wasn\u2019t so sure about it. I remember playing it out for the first time at a party in Hamburg, and it blew the roof off. After that, even our distributor was convinced.<\/p>\n

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