Tribal Style Techno
Sun Control Species has graced the Australian dance scene for over a decade and is a project that’s constantly evolving, pushing the boundaries of trance and psychedelic.
You’ve been described as ‘an experiment in progression’; how do you keep the trance scene fresh?
Sometimes I wonder if there still is a trance scene nowadays. It feels like it has been uploaded into the consciousness of the wider world, disseminated across a much bigger spectrum. It’s not a one-off phenomenon... this happens to all underground scenes eventually, especially now in this over-connected world. I reckon it’s how a scene handles this transition that shows its worth. I believe if you just stay still (creatively), the rot sets in.
Musically, where will Sun Control Species be in five years?
Five years? I’ve no idea! I’ve got a lot of music going on that remains separate to the SCS stuff. Maybe by then one of those projects might finally get a front seat. I’m thinking a lot about a new live setup that is very hard to make work with the SCS music style. It’s just not compatible, because that stuff is so heavily sequenced. Personally I hope that fully-cosmic tribal-style techno gets a rebirth in the future, cost that’s where it’s at for me!
If you could collaborate with one other artist, who would it be?
Jimi Hendrix? Well, that might be hard. Maybe it would have been cool to collaborate with Juno Reactor back in the days of their album ‘Bible Of Dreams’. They took the words out of my mouth, so to speak!
Over the years you’ve had a myriad of releases, including a second album. Any plans for future recordings?
Yeah, definitely. There was a big break after I finished the album ‘II’, which included relocating to a new studio. But things are moving again, and I have some new tracks due for release on Digital Structures (a collab with Perfect Stranger) and on my home label Iboga ... There will for sure be another album. I really enjoy the album process, the highs and the lows; it’s not something I could ever give up.
SUN CONTROL SPECIES PLAYS ELEMENTS AT THE STEP INN SATURDAY JUNE 11.
