Corti Organ is a DJ and producing project started by two guys, who want to share their passion for electronic dance music
Influenced by Trance of the mid to late 90’s, the half German and half Croatian DJ duo and residents of Alex´ & Woody van Eyden's HeavensGate radio show started to release their very own interpretation of Trance music – with success! International DJ stars such as Paul van Dyk, Paul Oakenfold and Armin van Buuren are playing their thrilling sounds all around the globe, putting the crowds in ecstasis day by day.
Name: Corti Organ
Location: Croatia & Germany
Dimitri: Can you mention your biggest achievements in your music career in 2014 as dj & producer,label owner,radio host and your personal life if it is something that you wish to share with our readers?
Corti Organ: We really love and appreciate our achievements this year. For example working with Max Graham, getting in touch with a lot of interesting people and with them all the new opportunities we have for the next year.
Dimitri: 2014 was packed with releases from so many different styles, which Electronic Music style you believe is the absolute Electronic Music Style Of 2014 in the mainstream indifferent if you like it or not. Why you believe this style became so successful in 2014?
Corti Organ: There is no absolute style for us. We are glad to see that artists try to re-new older genres. Mixing oldschool vibe with new sounds and trying out some new exciting things. We always appreciate the variety of electronic music.
1) Best Track:
Corti Organ: If we have to pinpoint only one track, we say Cosmic Gate & Jerome Isma-Ae – Telefunken.
2) Best Artist (Dj & producer):
Corti Organ: One of the best producer for us is Thomas Vink. Very deep and organic sound, perfectly suited for warmups.
3) Best Remix:
Corti Organ: Markus Schulz - Remember This (Mark Sherry Remix), a peak time dancefloor essential!
4) Best Remixer:
Corti Organ: Mark Sherry
5) Best New Talent (Dj or producer):
Corti Organ: Dan Thompson, quality tunes like Altitude and Propaganda and a great chap!
6) Best Electronic Music Album:
Corti Organ: Wellenrausch – The Pages of Time
7) Best Electronic Music Compilation:
Corti Organ: Of course HeavensGate Vol. 3 including our track The Golden Age
8) Best artwork/cover of an Album or Compilation:
Corti Organ: HeavensGate Vol. 3
9) Best Lyrics in an Electronic Music track:
Corti Organ: RAM – RAMelia, still the most touching lyrics.
10) Best Vocalist/Singer featured on Electronic Music track:
Corti Organ: 3PM, we are loving his voice.
11) Best Electronic Music Label:
Corti Organ: It's hard to pick one, so here the ones we like most: Outburst Recordings, Vandit and ASOT
12) Best Electronic Music Video:
Corti Organ: Haven't seen any great videos recently to be honest.
13) Best online Funny video related to Dance Music:
Corti Organ: Armin van Buuren in the Studio Fail :)
14) Best Online Social media network:
Corti Organ: Twitter, it's so fast and comfortable.
15) Best Twitter or Facebook message you received from a fan or friend or you have read on someone else’s account:
Corti Organ: We often receive nice messages about our tunes, especially for FYC 2014 and Adria!
16) Best personal selfie of the year, where, when and under which circumstances you took it?
Corti Organ: This one was taken on Ibiza, while we were there for HeavensGate Live From Ibiza. (with Andy Moor, Sied van Riel and of course Woody Van Eyden, great times)
17) Best music composition software:
Corti Organ: Ableton
18) Best Event or Open Air Festival:
Corti Organ: Has to be Nature One!
19) Best personal Dj Gig:
Corti Organ: Therefore Nature One! :D
20) Best Dj set of the year from other fellow Dj:
Corti Organ: Mark Sixma at Legendary Festival @ Butan (Wuppertal)
21) Best country that you have visited to perform with the most up for it crowd:
Corti Organ: So far we haven't visited that many countries, but we'd say Croatia is really good. ;)
22) Best Radio show:
Corti Organ: HeavensGate ;) every friday 20 CET on Afterhours.FM
23) Best Radio station:
Corti Organ: Afterhours.FM
24) Best Online Record shop that you purchase your music:
Corti Organ: trackitdown.net
25) Best Website that you visit frequently:
Corti Organ: freshlysqueezedsamples.com
26) Best Smart phone/Mobile phone device:
Corti Organ: Snapseed
27) Best Dj equipment (software or hardware):
Corti Organ: Traktor Pro
28) Best piece of advice you got in relation to your career in 2014:
Corti Organ: Less is more, keep calm and don't rush things ;)
29) Best hobby or activity that you spent a lot of time in 2014:
Corti Organ: Always liking creative stuff and sports !
30) Best holiday destination for 2014 that you manage to visit this year either to relax or to perform in a club or festival:
Corti Organ: Croatia has to be one of the most beautiful places. You should check it out! ;)
31) Best Movie of the year preferably related to Electronic Music that may inspire you to compose a track:
Corti Organ: Interstellar, with the amazing score by Hans Zimmer.
32) Best online/PC/video game of the year that you have played this year?
Corti Organ: Alien Isolation, great retro sci-fi atmosphere.
33) Best soundtrack for video game of the year:
Corti Organ: Also Alien Isolation, bringing back the movie experience.
Dimitri: Finally, 2015 is ahead of us would you like to tell your plans with your future releases, tracks, albums, collaborations, Dj gigs.
Corti Organ: Well, we have a lot of already confirmed upcoming releases on great labels for 2015. We have been working with a few people we really admire and hopefully 2015 is going to be a great year. Stay up to date with us via www.facebook.com/cortiorgan, www.twitter.com/cortiorgan or our webpage www.corti-organ.com. Also a big thanks to our fans and the great team at Music & Artist Managment.
Thanks very much to Corti Organ for finding the valuable time to reply on this interview.
Thanks very much to Timo at Music & Artist Agency for helping out to organize this interview.
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