Your Name:
Noise Zoo aka Thomas Jacobsen & Richard Gjerdin
Your location(country,city)
Fredrikstad & Drammen, Norway.
Dimitri: Can you mention your 3 biggest achievements in your music career in 2016?
Noise Zoo: 20 projects in 8 months since we started the project in February 2016.
Overall 2016 was a positive, neutral or maybe negative year for you and why?
Noise Zoo: It has been a positive year so far. Starting with our first project which was Spectre. We made it in a couple of days and after two weeks it was sent in as a demo. It has almost reached 350.000 streams on spotify, and that is good for our first tune which we not really was so into when we made it.
Noise Zoo: Sunny Lax & Aneym - Everything Is A lie
2) Best Artist (Dj & producer):
Noise Zoo: Jason Ross
3) Best Remix:
Noise Zoo: Above & Beyond - Alone Tonight (Jason Ross Remix)
4) Best Remixer:
Noise Zoo: Jason Ross
5) Best New Talent (Dj or producer):
Noise Zoo: Sollito & Seawayz
6) Best Electronic Music Album:
Noise Zoo: Sirens of the sea remixed
7) Best Electronic Music Compilation:
Noise Zoo: Anjunabeats volume series
8) Best Lyrics in an Electronic Music track
Noise Zoo: Jason Ross feat. Lauren Ray - Me Tonight
9) Best Vocalist/Singer featured on Electronic Music track:
Noise Zoo: Lauren Ray
10) Best Electronic Music Label:
Noise Zoo: Anjunabeats
11) Best Online Social media for communication with your fans:
Noise Zoo: Facebook
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:
Noise Zoo: That they love Spectre
13) Best music composition software:
Noise Zoo: Studio One
14) Best Club Event or Open Air Festival:
Noise Zoo: Group Therapy Shows
15) Best personal Dj Gig:
Noise Zoo: Book us?
16) Best Dj set of the year from other fellow Dj:
Noise Zoo: Jason Ross ABGT 200
17) Best Radio show:
Noise Zoo: ABGT
18) Best Online Record shop that you purchase your music:
Noise Zoo: Beatport
19) Best music related website that you visit frequently:
Noise Zoo: Beatport
20) Best Smart phone or smart phone application:
Noise Zoo: i-phone
21) Best Dj equipment (software or hardware):
Noise Zoo: Pioneer Decks
22) Best new sound or sample that has been used in Electronic Music this year perhaps introduced first by you?
Noise Zoo: We love Serum
23) Best tip that you learnt this year for your Djing techniques or music composition:
Noise Zoo: It's so many. We can't tell.
24) Best piece of advice you got in relation to your career in 2016:
Noise Zoo: Always pursue your dreams.
25) Best hobby or activity that you spent a lot of time in 2016:
Noise Zoo: Studio One
26) Best holiday destination for 2016 that you manage to visit this year either to relax or to perform in a club or festival:
Noise Zoo: Miami
27) Best Electronic Music magazines in printed form not online:
Noise Zoo: Flux BPM maybe? We don't read so much magazines.
28) Best online/PC/video game of the year that you have played this year?
Noise Zoo: Battlefield 1
29) Best soundtrack for video game of the year:
Noise Zoo: Battlefield 1
30) Best joke you heard this year related to electronic music:
Noise Zoo: Dj Mag?
Dimitri: Finally, 2017 is ahead of us would you like to tell your plans with your future releases, tracks, albums, collaborations, Dj gigs.
Noise Zoo: We are constantly working on new music in form of new originals and remixes. 2017 will be our year with releases.
Thanks to Rory at Enhanced Music for organising this interview.
Additional info:
https://www.facebook.com/noisezoo
https://twitter.com/noisezoomusic
https://soundcloud.com/noisezoo