Your Name: Matt Fax
Your location(country,city): France
Dimitri: Can you mention your biggest music career achievements in 2017?
Matt Fax: Clearly the ASOT ADE special guest mix in October. It was a real honor to be there and Armin was so friendly.
Dimitri: Can you mention your biggest personal life achievements in 2017 that make you extremely proud?
Matt Fax: I moved to a new city for a few months and it gave me the opportunity to meet people, work a bit and take a step back on music and come back at it with even more projects.
1) Best Track from other artists:
There's so much, but actually Farius - Echo Chamber and Fatum - Chocolate
2) Your top 3 2017 personal productions
Aura Lusia, Everything and Synopia, all from my album Contrast. Bonus: Landside because it's one of the most profound tracks I've even written.
3) Best Artist (Dj & producer):
Really a fan of Estiva, the guy really went on fire this year
4) Best Remix that you have produced?
It's still yet to come.. :)
5) Best New Talent (Dj or producer):
Farius
6) Best Electronic Music Album:
If all time : Burial - Untrue or mau5 Random Album Title, if 2017 : Eco - Wolves or Solarstone - .----
7) Best Electronic Music Compilation:
I don't listen to compilations but ASOT 2017 was a nice one
8) Best artwork/cover of an Album or Compilation:
ASOT 2017
9) Best Vocalist/Singer featured on Electronic Music track:
Would be Tania Zygar, she's really nice to work with
10) Best Electronic Music Label:
Enhanced Music because whatever people say about them selling out with EDM productions, they're still giving chance to producers like me to do whatever we want.
11) Best Online Social media for communication with your fans:
Twitter
12) Best music composition software:
Ableton 9, v10 is going to be game changer
13 Best personal DJ Gig:
Ministry of Sound in 2016 and ASOT in 2017
14) Best DJ set of the year from other fellow DJ:
Laidback Luke is a damn good DJ
15) Best country that you have played in 2017 and where did you met the best festival/event crowd:
I haven't made so much gigs excepted in Switzerland and Amsterdam so I don't really now, people have been amazing everywhere I came.
16) Best Radio show or Artist Vlog?:
Armin's ASOT and Above & Beyond's Group Therapy
17) Best Online Record shop that you purchase your music:
I download everything on promo.. and Youtube to mp3 as well (that was a joke)
18) Best tip that you learnt this year for your Djing techniques or music composition:
DJ technique : double drops and live mash-ups, Production tips : panning the channels, play on the stereo image, using reverb can help you a lot as well
19) Best hobby or activity that you spent a lot of time in 2017:
Music basically
20) Best Electronic Music magazines in printed form not online:
DJ Mag
21) The saddest electronic music news you heard this year and still makes u cry:
The Chainsmokers actually exists
Dimitri: Finally, please tell our readers your plans with your future releases, tracks, albums, collaborations, DJ gigs.
Matt Fax: New music coming, more quality, less quantity, and hopefully big things to come.
Thanks to Rory at Enhanced Music for arranging this interview.
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