{"id":43905,"date":"2019-10-18T22:49:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/?p=43905"},"modified":"2024-01-13T06:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T04:23:58","slug":"deliriant-rsa-exclusive-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psymedia.co.za\/deliriant-rsa-exclusive-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Deliriant (RSA) – Exclusive Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Deliriant is Shane Renew, from Cape Town, South Africa. With a lifelong passion for music, over a decade of DJ and production experience, 3 full albums, a multitude of single releases on a host of local and international labels, and a career as a studio engineer – he is a well-established artist in an ever-changing industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hi guys, thanks for having me. I bought my first mixer and started messing around when I was 14 years old. I discovered psytrance when I was 17, the group was Infected Mushroom and I couldn\u2019t get enough. Two years later I went to my first Alien Safari, the rest is history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a kid I was always interested in making music, but other than my mom\u2019s piano and my yellow toy flute, I didn\u2019t really have the tools or knowledge to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Growing up and discovering electronic music, I knew this was something I wanted to pursue. Once I finished school, I studied sound engineering, and this helped with understanding music production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At first, I started with some basic loops in Reason, but I soon moved over to Cubase, which is the program I still use today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is hard to say as every piece of equipment plays its part, but most likely the Virus TI, an analog synthesizer I have had for more than 10 years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The best thing about it is there are so many updates and new sound banks that come out all the time, so it is continually able to deliver fresh, powerful sounds, which can be difficult to get from a software synth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deadbeat FM is a techno project, which I started with a friend of mine around 2009, back when I lived in Joburg. We loved finding underground tunes that no one had heard before, verging on the psy-tech side of techno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We also produced a few tracks and even managed to win a D-Nox & Beckers remix competition. I moved back to Cape Town a few years later and it became difficult to pursue the project as a duo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It took a back seat for a while, but I am slowly building it up again. It is great to have another creative outlet besides for psy-trance.<\/p>\n\n\n