Talpa is Goran Juric. A Serbian native, Goran’s unique, groovy, melodic twist on psychedelic trance has been a prominent feature on the Cape Town dance floor over the years. In preparation for his upcoming visit, we had a chat with Talpa.<\/p>\n
Talpa\u00a0:<\/strong> <\/em>Hey hey! Thanks for having me. It all began back in the 90’s, after attending my first trance party. It was something new and super cool for me and I wanted\u00a0to be\u00a0a part of it. Without any knowledge about production or music theory, I began to work on my first tracks. They sounded quite lame!\u00a0The software back then was quite different, and it was much harder to create anything. Of course, there was also no widespread internet, which even made it harder to find samples or anything to related to music production.<\/p>\n The name\u00a0Talpa\u00a0is from the X Files TV Show. The meaning of\u00a0Talpa\u00a0is complicated\u00a0for me to explain in English, but lets just say it’s a ‘monster’.\u00a0After many years working on\u00a0Talpa\u00a0I felt like I wanted to take my music in a different direction. Personally I always liked club music more, I grew up on music like that, but never felt like making it. In 2009 I started to work on my new project The Riddler, which wasn’t focused on any particular style. I like to refer to it as electronic music. It was fun doing it in the beginning, however, I belong to the trance scene. As a result I decided to\u00a0discontinue\u00a0The Riddler\u00a0project.<\/p>\n Talpa\u00a0has always been described as carnival, circus music. Which I guess wasn’t far away from the truth. I always wanted to create music with stories, lots of melodies and simply\u00a0be different\u00a0or unique. I think not everyone\u00a0was fascinated\u00a0by\u00a0The Riddler\u00a0project – it’s more clubby music but with lots of\u00a0Talpa\u00a0influence. In 2010 I actually temporarily stopped producing music for my\u00a0Talpa\u00a0project to focus on The Riddler, however since last year I’ve focused on\u00a0Talpa. As a result, you can hear a lot of The Riddler\u00a0in the newer\u00a0Talpa\u00a0tunes, which I find\u00a0to be\u00a0a winning combination. Some old fans don’t like it, but I definitely have gained many new ones!<\/p>\n I am a very lazy person when it comes to learning new things – so mostly I learnt everything from my own mistakes. Some things took me years to understand. I guess it was the best way to experiment. The way of producing regularly changes every year with new software on the market.\u00a0I personally\u00a0use no hardware, even though I have bought a couple of things, I find software is the best way to express myself. Recently I’ve had a problem with my\u00a0DAW\u00a0since\u00a0I’ve used\u00a0Acid Pro from day one. Unfortunately they stopped updating it so I had to switch to something new. After trying pretty much everything on the market, I decided to continue with\u00a0Cubase, but even after 9 months I still don’t like it and as a result my creativity suffers.<\/p>\n I can’t say much about. I have no idea what’s going on. I don’t visit parties nor do I even play in Serbia. Maybe once a year. I grew up in the city where you could only find Techno music. Even today if I want to go out for a party, I will definitely choose some club music over trance. There have been many trance parties in my life, with a lot more to come, I hope!<\/p>\n Yeah, if you ask me, albums are no longer interesting. You can always keep your music fresh by releasing EPs. Albums take time to create, and some tracks you make in the beginning no longer sound as fresh and good as the ones you make in the end. I can’t remember the last time I heard an album with more than 3 good tracks on it. I decided to release only\u00a0EPs\u00a0in the future – this way people will have my music before it gets old. Previously, all of my albums\u00a0were released\u00a0at least a year after I finished my last track.<\/p>\n TesseracTstudio\u00a0was an idea of a two young people (Zyce\u00a0and\u00a0Flegma) who were releasing their music for other labels. After\u00a0some time they decided to cut the middleman out and release their music by themselves. The idea was to release and promote other artists from Serbia and give them an easier way to release their music without any obligations, papers and what-not. Most of the artists are from Serbia and we know each other very well and are all good friends. Talpa\u2019s music doesn\u2019t quite fit to this \u00a0psy\u00a0progressive\u00a0story but that doesn\u2019t really matters because we all focus on quality music no matter what style we do. Last year we had our first TesseracTstudio\u00a0party which went really good, so we decided to keep this tradition every year and make more and bigger parties in Serbia so that people can have chance to hear all of us at one place.<\/p>\n I can’t say I know much about the South African\u00a0scene. I know of a few projects like\u00a0Artifakt, Sad Paradise, Headroom, Shift and a few others. Most of them I have met around the world and so I have become familiar with their music. But as I said, I know very little about the trance scene and the electronic scene\u00a0as a whole. However, I have heard many great stories and positive things from other\u00a0DJs\u00a0and artists who have visited, so I’m sure I’ll be sharing the same feelings after my visit!<\/span><\/p>\n I am really looking forward to experience South Africa and stomp at a crazy outdoor safari bush party! Do you have lions and stuff? Just kidding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Talpa is Goran Juric. 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How has the sound of each project evolved over the years? How have your production techniques changed?<\/h2>\n
What\u2019s the Serbian scene like at the moment?<\/h2>\n
You\u2019ve released a number of albums, but has it become more\u00a0appropriate\u00a0to release\u00a0EPs\u00a0in the digital age? What are your thoughts?<\/h2>\n
Tell me about your relationship with TesseracTstudio\u00a0and the music they are currently releasing?<\/h2>\n
What are your thoughts on the music coming out of the South African scene? What have you heard about our scene?<\/h2>\n
Thanks for the interview! Anything to add before we finish off?<\/h2>\n