15 questions with…Keinemusik

Keinemusik first caught our ear back in 2017 with their ambitious debut album You Are Safe. Since then, the Berlin-based trio have refined their creative process, linking up with a variety of collaborators to produce an impressive sophomore effort that expands their sound while remaining firmly focused on the dancefloor

We spoke with Adam Port, Rampa and &ME of Keinemusik about production tricks, the art of collaboration and the thinking behind their performance-focused hardware brand, TEILE.

1 Tell us about how you first got into music making.

Adam: “I was DJing RnB and hip-hop back in the day and at some point it wasn’t enough and I wanted to express myself better. I got a cracked version of Cakewalk from a friend and then I started to play around with sounds. I had no drum computer or synths so I sampled every kick, hi-hat, and snare from my vinyls. I still use this technique sometimes.”

Rampa: “I started playing drums super early and my best friend’s older brother was a techno DJ with turntables in the basement, so we’d sneak down and play. Then I bought my first 140bpm techno records and also got into turntablism and hip-hop. Recording and producing were parallel to DJing… Reason, Fruity Loops and Cubase in the schulhof.”

&ME: “Pretty much everything started with a loopable CD player and a cheap turntable when I was a teenager. I was able to create some loops and tried to scratch or beatmatch some music or vocals over the top. Later, when I finally got some VHS tapes from the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, I went from trying to DJ to trying to create some beats with Magix Music Maker and Samplitude… albeit slowly. It took me years to put anything together that I was happy to share with my family and friends.”

2 When and how would you say you became successful, or at least able to make a living from music?