Dimitri: Can you mention your biggest achievements in your music career in 2015?
Fisherman & Hawkins: That would be the big support on our collab United with Gal Abutbul and our gig in Ibiza alongside other Coldharbour artists.
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?
Isaac: Definitely my home made Spanish pasta. With pennes, tomato frito, minced beef, Spanish pepper powder and lots of garlic.
Rob: Moms spicy food, as long as it burns.
Best of 2015 by Fisherman & Hawkins
1) Best Track:
Sorry, too hard to choose haha, so we give you two:
Eric Prydz – Generate
Markus Schulz feat. Delacy - Destiny
2) Best Artist (Dj & producer):
Markus Schulz has had an insane good year. So many big tracks he has released. The guy has been a machine. Lots of respect!
We also don’t want to forget to mention Eric Prydz again as we love everything he did this year too. He’s on fire!
3) Best Remix:
Markus Schulz – The New World (Fisherman & Hawkins Remix) ;)
4) Best Remixer:
Ilan Bluestone, Fehrplay
5) Best New Talent (Dj or producer):
Not really new, but Nifra has had some nice moments of shine this year. If you hear her play you will agree as she can mix like a pro.
6) Best Electronic Music Album:
Not really an album but we enjoyed Pryda I, II and III a lot
7) Best Electronic Music Compilation:
A State Of Trance 2015, Mixed by Armin van Buuren
8) Best Lyrics in an Electronic Music track:
All of the love we generate
The only thing that carries me on
There's nothing we need that it can't create
9) Best Vocalist/Singer featured on Electronic Music track:
Delacey in Destiny with Markus Schulz
10) Best Electronic Music Label:
Coldharbour Recordings
11) Best Online Social media for communication with your fans:
Twitter
12) Best Twitter or Facebook message or Instagram message you received from a fan or friend or you have read on someone else’s account:
Too many to choose from. We get sooo many cool and nice messages weekly!
13) Best music composition software:
Revealed’s plugin Spire really inspired us this year.
14) Best Club Event or Open Air Festival:
ASOT, Transmission and Tomorrowland
15) Best personal Dj Gig:
Playing after Markus Schulz at Privilege Ibiza was stunning last summer.
16) Best Dj set of the year from other fellow Dj:
Markus Schulz at Electronic Family
17) Best country that you have visited to perform with the most up for it crowd:
Montreal, Canada. That crowd didn’t want us to end at all!
18) Best Radio show:
Global DJ Broadcast and ASOT
19) Best Radio station:
3FM
20) Best Online Record shop that you purchase your music:
Beatport
21) Best music related website that you visit frequently:
wundergroundmusic.com
22) Best Smart phone/Mobile phone device:
Nexus6 by Motorola
23) Best Dj equipment (software or hardware):
Everything by Pioneer
24) Best new sound or sample that has been used in Electronic Music this year perhaps introduced first by you?
That soulful Prydz sound!
25) Best tip that you learnt this year for your Djing techniques or music composition:
How to play the right music right before a big headliner ;)
26) Best piece of advice you got in relation to your career in 2015:
That we have to stay true to our sound.
27) Best hobby or activity that you spent a lot of time in 2015:
Watching a lot of series and play football
28) Best holiday destination for 2015 that you manage to visit this year either to relax or to perform in a club or festival:
Ibiza again please! That island is lovely!
29) Best Electronic Music magazines in printed form not online:
DJ Mag
30) Best Movie of the year that may inspire you to compose a track:
Mad Max
31) Best online/PC/video game of the year that you have played this year:
FIFA15
32) Best joke you heard this year related to electronic music:
People saying trance is dead ;)
Dimitri: Finally, 2016 is ahead of us would you like to tell your plans with your future releases, tracks, albums, collaborations, Dj gigs.
Fisherman & Hawkins: We are working on a few collabs right now with cool people, and our very first vocal track is close to be finished as well. Besides that we have a few new instrumentals coming up that will surely set your dancefloor on fire. On behalf of DJ gigs we have a few nice gigs lined-up which we will announce pretty soon ;)
Many thanks to Fisherman & Hawkins for finding the time to reply to this interview.
Many thanks to Tim at Coldharbour recordings for organising this interview.
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