Your Name: Reece Smith & Andrew Brown
Your location(country,city): Scotland
Dimitri: Can you mention your biggest music career achievements in 2017?
Smith & Brown: Having the opportunity to put out the 1st release on Rielism's new sub label, Rielism Elements.
1) Best Track from other artists:
Alex Di Stefano - Split
2) Your top 3 2017 personal productions
1. Smith & Brown - Universal Chaos,
2. Smith & Brown - Last Landing,
3. Smith & Brown - Sudar
3) Best Artist (Dj & producer):
David Forbes. This man is currently on fire with his productions and can do no wrong in our eyes. He is possibly a music making robot.
4) Best Remix from other artist:
5) Best Remix that you have produced?
6) Best Remixer:
7) Best New Talent (Dj or producer):
8) Best Electronic Music Album:
Bicep - Bicep. The track "Glue" turned us onto these guys and have been playing the album non stop since.
9) Best Electronic Music Compilation:
Anjunabeats Worldwide 07. We are always fans of the Worldwide compilations but Grum has really went to town on this years.
10) Best Lyrics in an Electronic Music track (it can be your production or from other artists)
David Forbes feat. Emma Gillespie - Shadows. Its not often these days that a vocal captures us as much as this has in 2017.
11) Best Vocalist/Singer featured on Electronic Music track:
Completely based on our vocal pick of 2017 being David Forbes feat. Emma Gillespie - Shadows we would have to say Emma Gillespie. The vocal just sticks in your head.
12) Best Electronic Music Label:
13) Best Online Social media for communication with your fans:
Instagram, we both love the platform and find it to be the most engaging.
14) Best music composition software:
FL Studio, we have both been using this software for many years and love it to bits.
15) Best Club Event or Open Air Festival:
Although we haven't made it out to one yet we would have to say that Luminosity Beach Festival looks outstanding.
16) Best Dj set of the year from other fellow Dj:
Sneijder @ Subculture Argentina
17) Best Radio show or Artist Vlog?:
18) Best Radio station:
Groove City Radio, a little bias but we love this radio station to bits.
19) Best Online Record shop that you purchase your music:
Old faithful..... Beatport
20) Best music related website that you visit frequently:
Trancepodium
21) Best Smart phone or smart phone application:
Tinder (haha). In all honestly we are both trying to minimise the time spent on devices as its eating into our studio time.
22) Best Dj equipment (software or hardware):
We both love our Pioneer DDJ-SX2's linked up to Serato with the 1210's DVS'ed up! We both run the same personal set ups outside the studio.
23) Best tip that you learnt this year for your Djing techniques or music composition:
Finish every track even if its not what you planned to do
24) Best piece of advice you got in relation to your career in 2017:
Stay humble, its something we have lived by since day one.
25) Best hobby or activity that you spent a lot of time in 2017:
San but most of 2017 spare time has been spent locked in our little rave cave of a studio.
26) Best Electronic Music magazines in printed form not online:
Mixmag, been reading this for years.
27) Best online/PC/video game of the year that you have played this year?
Destiny 2! Hands down.
28) Best soundtrack for video game of the year:
Forza but not 100% sure if this is a 2017 release lol
29) The saddest electronic music news you heard this year and still makes u cry:
The death of Robert Miles, i'm sure a lot will say the same. We still remember buying Dreamland on tape at a very young age.
Dimitri: Finally, please tell our readers your plans with your future releases, tracks, albums, collaborations, Dj gigs.
Smith & Brown: We have already locked in some releases for early 2018 and our personal plan of action is simply to keep riding the wave and see what happens.
Thanks to Sied van Riel for arranging this interview
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