Dimitri: Can you mention your biggest achievements in your music career in 2015?
Croatia Squad: Being touring around the world and meeting personally lots of followers and loyal fans of my music
Dimitri: Do you like to cook? What is the best recipe that you cooked this year? If you don’t usually cook who is cooking it for you and which is your best food for 2015?
Croatia Squad: I'm definitely not a good cook, always a pleasure to eat at my family's home when i get back from touring.
Best of 2015 by Croatia Squad
1) Best Track:
Sons Of Maria - Whatever you want to be (Original Mix) - Enormous Tunes
2) Best Artist (Dj & producer):
Nora En Pure
3) Best Remix:
Croatia Squad - Girlz (Thee Cool Cats Remix)
4) Best Remixer:
EDX
5) Best New Talent (Dj or producer):
Illusionize
6) Best Electronic Music Album:
Fritz Kalkbrenner - Ways Over Water
7) Best Electronic Music Compilation:
Defected - Most Rated
8) Best artwork/cover of an Album or Compilation:
Enormous Tunes cover-collection
9) Best Lyrics in an Electronic Music track:
Pop Your Pu**Y :)
10) Best Vocalist/Singer featured on Electronic Music track:
Lika Morgan is doing an awesome work!
11) Best Electronic Music Label:
Enormous Tunes
12) Best Electronic Music Video:
Not easy to find really outstanding music videos in electronic music.
13) Best Online Social media for communication with your fans:
facebook.com/croatiasquad
14) Best Twitter or Facebook message or Instagram message you received from a fan or friend or you have read on someone else’s account:
I appreciate and enjoy every message i get after people discover my music for the first time :)
15) Best music composition software:
Logic Pro X
16) Best Club Event or Open Air Festival:
Green Valley, Camboriu Brazil (#1 Club in The World)
17) Best personal Dj Gig:
Kaballah Festival (Brazil)
18) Best Dj set of the year from other fellow Dj:
Probably one of the festival performance's of my buddy VINTAGE CULTURE, always great seeing masses going wild to the G-House/NuDisco drops
19) Best country that you have visited to perform with the most up for it crowd:
USA
20) Best Radio show:
No Xcuses
21) Best Radio station:
Sirius XM Electric Area
22) Best Online Record shop that you purchase your music:
Beatport.com
23) Best music related website that you visit frequently:
There are a few, probably dancingastronaut.com
24) Best Smart phone/Mobile phone device:
I'm using iphone, not sure if it's the best
25) Best Dj equipment (software or hardware):
Pioneer 4 Life
26) Best new sound or sample that has been used in Electronic Music this year perhaps introduced first by you?
I'm happy to be an important influence on the NuDisco genre these days and bringing the underground low tempo bassline drops to the masses.
27) Best tip that you learnt this year for your Djing techniques or music composition:
Always just do your thing and go with the flow
28) Best piece of advice you got in relation to your career in 2015:
Nothing will work unless you do
29) Best hobby or activity that you spent a lot of time in 2015:
Exploring new cultures and meet awesome people all over the world
30) Best holiday destination for 2015 that you manage to visit this year either to relax or to perform in a club or festival:
Actually I didn't spend any holiday so far, but i guess Bali is one of the most beautiful places to visit.
31) Best Electronic Music magazines in printed form not online:
There are not so many anymore. For me DJ MAG is still kind of interesting to read.
32) Best Movie of the year that may inspire you to compose a track:
Love & Mercy (The life of Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson)
33) Best online/PC/video game of the year that you have played this year?
I totally quit gaming nowadays, but always a pleasure to play some football games online or live with friends.
34) Best joke you heard this year related to electronic music:
Apparently the whole DJ Mag Top 100 is a good joke
Dimitri: Finally, 2016 is ahead of us would you like to tell your plans with your future releases, tracks, albums, collaborations, Dj gigs.
Croatia Squad: To keep on working on my music and sound-development. Finishing my next EP for Enormous Tunes and pick some exclusive artists to remix. Focus on exclusive DJ-gigs all over the world. Flux Bpm does very good reviews. Thanks to Dimitri Kechagias for his engagement!
Thanks so much to Croatia Squad for his great answers and encouraging comment on the work done at Flux Bpm Online
Thanks so much to Amber from Sirup Music for organising this interview
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