Out of Orbit – New album & Interview

A second Out of Orbit album “OOO” is here. Again, like with the first album, it feels like a concept project and not your everyday Psytrance album. Tell us a bit about the concept of the album and how it was born. 

I have been deep into producing others in the past few years and than I thought to myself: Why not produce myself?

So I went over all my recordings (from 2005 until today), I am still in the process, and OOO is part of it. Basically, the best recordings of Out of Orbit (according to my personal taste) that have been selected for re-editing & re-production.

To get Out of Orbit – OOO album: https://shamanictales.fanlink.to/OOO

Also when I started doing Out of Orbit it was after stopping LOUD and I got pretty far away from the dancefloors and from that vibe. After 3 years of back to DJing on a weekly basis I wanted to give these recordings another go and see if I can give them a bit more dancefloor oriented interpretation.

Why “OOO”?

OOO is a simplified minimalistic Out of Orbit. This is what the album is about, only what is “a must” stays. 

We feel a very strong influence of the early days of Electronic Dance Music and Acid Trance & Techno, or what people sometimes call proto-Goa trance in the music. And there’s also the remix to the classic Phantasia track. Why do you think this happened? What do you like in that music? 

I don’t know about that. I just play that music a lot in my sets: X-dream, System 7, lots of old school, but also lots of today’s electro etc. I think it may be the raw synths that give that feeling or maybe I just feel that music back then was done with a different passion and focus. You had to work a few years in another job just to save money for equipment, spending your days making melodies in your head waiting for the moment you have a studio.

And when you did get to that moment you were not distracted by social media and such. Today an artist needs to do many things: lots of PR, booking, socials etc. I am sure all these things make the music less deep.

Also, I feel that all the knowledge today and the tutorials can quickly help you find the “best” production tools, giving everyone kind of the same solutions which later becomes kind of the same sound. It is the mistakes and the lack of knowledge that I miss in a lot of today’s music.

The album, just like your previous one, comes out on vinyl, again not something common these days in Psytrance. Why is it important for you to release on vinyl?

I know some people like to collect it and some people like to play only vinyl. I am not a big vinyl collector myself, but I really get people who are. It is a beautiful peace of physical art.

To get Out of Orbit – OOO album on vinyl: https://www.diggersfactory.com/shop/outoforbit

I really feel for both of the covers. 

In Boom 2022 there was a special Out of Orbit live set with Sandman & Gorovich on stage with you. Is that something you are planning to keep developing? 

I am always developing live shows with different people. Boom asked me to do something special. At first, I thought of a visual light show, but I do love playing with people and these two are the people I collaborated most with on Out of Orbit. So it felt like the natural way to continue things. They are both amazingly talented each in their own special way and I learned a ton from them.

Can you elaborate a bit about your work process in writing the album, in the studio and outside of it?

I started by going over all the music I had together with my friends Gal Perez (PRZ) and Ido Ophir (Domestic). Gal sometimes reminds me of me when I was young, he has that DJ energy and wants to rock the crowd. He suggested some more “punchy” 909s and drums that I usually don’t go for. We worked a lot together on the direction it took. I would say he is also the person I collaborate most with (usually on Eitan Reiter stuff). Domestic did his magic with sound later on, and once we all agreed it was over, I was left with the projects and worked on them for 3 more months after the mastering was done 🙂

I went on long walks, runs, and drives, listening to every option I wanted to test in every track

trying to bring all my experience and knowledge into the music and come up with the best results I can.

It was all tested in parties (unlike the first album) every week and this is the best way in my opinion to get your music to its full potential to use the “wisdom of the crowds”.

Can you describe in a few words the journey through the wide spectrum that started with the first Loud album and brought us all the way to “OOO”? What were the key points along the way? What changed and what stayed the same? 

Wow… it is so hard.

I actually played my daughters the first Loud album on the way to school today. I told them the story. When I hear Sundance and Elastic Mood I can still fully connect to most of it, and I hear a lot of things that stayed with me till this album. I think I learned a lot from playing around the world, digging for music, engineering in the studio and collaborating, my career in techno and electronica also… 

But at the end of the day the magic happens when you bring it from the “gut”. We did some really nice things as Loud and at the time we didn’t even understand why they were nice. So I guess my main lesson here is that intention is more important than experience !!

I think Einstein is quoted saying: “Imagination is more important than knowledge”. So I will just try to live an “out of the box” lifestyle and hope it will present itself through the music I create.

So what about Loud? Will there be more Loud music in the future? 

Loud is an amazing project and my first meaningful step into the Psytrance world. We both needed to go on our personal sound experiments on different paths. As for the future, I really don’t know when those paths will cross again. The reason that I never said so much about it is that the music is still alive and always will be, so I never saw it as “an end” in any stage.

Future plans? 

Do more sports & eat healthier!