About Dvine909;
Dvine909 is a hardtrance/techno project with a bigroom sound to it. The man behind the project is Stephan Johansson, also known as Ghostlogiik and Katana&Protektor. When you hear Dvine909 you can expect things like dualthemes, long buildups (easy to mix) and complex soundwalls with maybe an ounce of strings or voices as a finishing touch.
The Ghostlogik nick is more experimental by nature, leaning towards techno, while Katana&Protektor is all about being rough - leaning towards hardhouse and saying fuck you to the establishment. |
-About me-
I'm a classically trained musician, coming from a piano background. I got interested in techno, and trance, early by getting my hands on an early Members of Mayday album. This was great cause it gave me a broad basis of styles and reflections to draw from as I bought every album after that like possessed. Meanwhile I heard music like Ferry Corstens Adagio for strings and other tracks during the great big bang of the 90's but I was never drawn towards music that was ment not to produce feelings (or dancefloors), but money. Cold, hard, cash started to rule the world when trance started to get pop status. It was sad and probably led to it's demise in the end... However, there was always the stream of light - the diamonds in the rough. I remember the first time I heard Trancesetters - Roaches on a dancefloor. I couldn't believe it, that music could be that good. I got reborn that night. With the internet revolution it started to become easy to get a hold of tracks which were a hassle before. Napster and DC arrived, and went, and nowdays it's all about torrents. Music wants to be free.
Some of the teachers that have influenced me into what I am today are; Astral Projection, S.H.O.K.K, Daft Punk, CJ Bolland, Members of Mayday, Timo Maas, The Chemical Brothers, DJ Scot Project, Gabriel & Dresden, Paul van Dyk, Push (M.I.K.E) and Cosmic Gate.
I started of producing music on my own when a friend of mine (thank you Daniel) showed me a tracker program on a Amiga which later grew into me getting fasttracker 2 on my PC486. The amount of channels at hand back then were mindboggling. With the revolution of software studios, and vst's, on the computer I moved in a direction more clearly. It took me some time to get a certain sounds for the Dvine909 project but now I understand it, and myself, better. A 909 is a legendary drum machine for those of you who don't know so the nick is an abreviation of 'divine' and '909' (ment to rhyme!).
Right now I don't know where I'm going with this, but it feels good... I'm studying to be a teacher in Malmö, a city in Sweden, which sadly takes a lot of my time. But then again, the real problem is that I'm quite the perfectionist and keep reworking tracks over and over. Sadly, I lost a great deal of ideas and finished tracks in a harddrive crash a while back so I had to start over but I think the incident just made me stronger and helped me redesign myself and my sound.
"Over&Out!" / Stephan
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