I was in a quite a difficult situation when I started to write this article because I had to make a report with a guy who has been my good friend for ages.  Krisztián Dobrocsi’s name is familiar among experts, he helped many artists to make their recordings.  He also made good use of his knowledge in different projects and can boast of many appearances.

Pleasant,  a unique sound and rhythm, and lots of emotions are typical of his music. He had a long way from his debut in Le Garage, but his real breakthrough was ’I’ll Never Die’, which is coming out on Plastic City as a 3-track EP.

How did you get into the rolling stream of electronic music? What was the point when you decided to be a musician?

Actually I have never planned it, and don’t think of myself as a  real musician in the classic sense of the word. Since my childhood I have felt a curious affection for the atmosphere of some music. That’s the origin: that I express my mood and feelings with music. You know, some people paint, others write poems or make a statue, all of them create something. And I don’t think they planned it before, it just comes from our soul. I stopped making music in an unexpected emotion several times when I felt it was not worthy, but as you can see, I’m here again in the middle of things.

By the way, I had started with a guitar, then I changed it for a synthesizer when I was around 15. Since then I push and turn buttons, set the effects and try to reach the deepest frequencies.

Slam Jr was the first who played your music. Since then who have found you among Hungarians?

It was a quite slow process, but it’s true, Zsazsa was who found something in my music. And when he spun my track first on a good quality sound system in Pacha, I felt I’ll carry on this style! When my new tracks were made, I began to give them out to my DJ friends and visited their parties, and watched the crowd’s reactions. Nowadays many colleagues play my music like Zsazsa, Dandy, Madox, Toma Hawk, From P60, Lank, Stone, Dave Van N and others. I can’t count them, but have to mention two German djs, Terry Lee Brown – Timewriter, who spun some of my tracks on the last ’I Love Deep’ night.

I received an e-mail yesterday from Neil Quigley, who is Digweed’s warm up DJ in Bedrock, asking me to send some tracks, because he likes my music and wants to play them.

Correct me if I’m wrong: your initial gloomy tracks have disappeared. Recently your music is marked by some pleasant spirit, happiness.

The reason could be that lately I made tracks played in clubs and I create that kind of sound what is suitable for the dancefloor. But I think almost all of my tracks contain some melancholy tune, that I try to offset with different themes.

The tracks and remixes that you made together with colleagues/friends have different spirit than your own music. Haven’t you thought about serious cooperation or establishing a new partnership with any of these guys? 

I got this idea before, but in practice we work together, like changing unfinished tracks and adding something more to them, and usually they are released under both of our names. Remixes are the same.

What about your unreleased music?

They are in my disc-bag, and if they go with the atmosphere of an event, I spin them. But nowadays it seems they are sellable, also the older ones…

…and one day Joachim Keil (Plastic City) was knocking on your door. Any releases in the close future?

I met with him first in Zürich 2 years ago, when we conferred about new releases related to another, different works of mine.We played there with Gero and Virág Keszthelyi at least 10 times over a period of a few months, thanks to our friend and ’fan’. It was a big part of my life!

My present music was sent to a label by my ’administrator’ friend, Thanaszisz. It started with a 3-track EP, and an album is also on the agenda in the future. Last time when 2 German guys played here on Citadella, Joachim came with them and we were talking about the details.

The ’I’ll Never Die’ EP cannot be ordered at music stores yet... I also have an appearance on Terry’s Cafe9 and Dandy’s new mix album. Just as our new work with FromP60 came out now on King Street (New York).

Do you have to compromise with labels, or can you form them at your discretion?

In this sphere of labels the story is different. They allow us to evolve. You don’t have to correspond to the fu**ing trend. They just expect you to take a rhythm with new sounds.

It’s surprising you don’t make an effort to have a DJ career. Is it not that time yet, or do you have any other reasons?

I started DJing to play my own music. I have to be there to watch the reactions. Then I can use these experiences for my new works later. And what a good feeling to see 1500 people dancing to my music!

I approach this situation another way. I try to follow newer sounds, learn about them to make better music. That’s why I also buy records. But I don’t think our scene’s gonna be loud by my gigs! There are already many clubs with their DJs in Hungary, so you have to find the way among them to get in. If my records come out, probably my name will be better known at home, and the number of my gigs will increase, but maybe not.

How do people receive your own tracks at parties? (It was crazy on Strictly yacht!)

Oh, yes, the boat! That set was in the right place and the right time! I was spinning ’Never Die’ for the first time there, and I felt that was ok…

Many times the guys come to me and ask what’s that tune I’m playing… -Well, I did it!

I’m glad because more and more people find or write me to tell they like my music! THX!

You’ve been helping others’ musicial career for ages. How are these projects now?

I was working a lot on my friend’s (Zoli FromP60) first album. Now his second record is coming out in New York and he’s also got appearances on Babak’s and Timewriter’s mix album.

Another friend, Gero, with who I made downtempo music, appeared on several various albums.

I have some other musical works in different styles/genres as well. I like to do these things because they broaden my view. And I also enjoy dealing with video editing as a relaxation.

What do you think, can deep house reform?

Of course!

Since I keep tabs on this genre, new styles evolved and attenuated. I think the alloy of minimal and tech house has a lot of surprise in store, sometimes such sounds come out that people just think, what’s that?...usually made by 20-year-old guys…

New sounds, styles rise, but the origin of all is a deep sound. I think…

What would be that point, when you could say: yes, my dreams came true?

I wanna be an astronaut!

I think, the last answer put the dot on the ’i’.

Have a pleasure in the next mix!

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