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PEOPLE & MUSIC/Artist Interviews
PATCHBAY

Interview with PATCHBAY
by IceElfe @ www.PSY604.com

1. Hi Frederico, tell us a little bit about who is behind Patchbay!
Frederico Drummond, me (hehe), I have been drawing and painting since childhood, acting later and finally playing musical instruments! Art is for me a very basic aspect of being human, like love, evolution or any instinct...

2. What's your musical background, when did you get into (psy)trance?
My musical way started when I was 12 and a friend taught me how to play "Wish You Were Here" on his guitar. From then on it's been my biggest interest!
I played in progressive rock and heavy metal bands for years. Started DJing psytrance and down tempo in 1998. From then on got to play in the biggest festivals in Brazil including Universo Paralello six times!
After cooking experimental electronic music for 6 years with guitars, bass, groove boxes, computers and synthesizers, 3 years ago I started focusing my production on psytrance

3. How/when did "Patchbay" come into existence? Is there a special meaning behind this name?
As I said, 3 years ago I started tuning in-to psytrance as a producer, my first releases came out right after, under the alias DJ Fred. Kept doing it and now got also collaborations in friend’s albums, as IMIX - "ONE".
About the name, those who work with audio should already know about it. It’s this old telephone panel where that gentle lady would plug the cab from your line to the one you want to reach, after you ask her can I Speak to Mr. Drumond please ...hehehe... That is the original format of a synthesizer when it was created back in the middle of the last century. Patch Bays are still used in the big studios as a way to drive signals of sound to the devices you have.

4. What's typical for your sound? What's typical "Patchbay"?
Strong groovy bass lines, deep atmospheres and acid/epic melodies!

5. What have been your performance hotspots so far?
Alex Grey's Art Gallery in New York City, Cosm. Alex was painting with his wife on the dance floor wile I performed live. The picture called Ayuaska, is a vision had in Amazon rain forest years ago that he decided to paint that night under Brazilian trance influence.

6. Are you only working producing as "Patchbay" or do you have any side projects, too?
Lately I have joined other projects like Yubaba, that is gonna play live for the first time in Symbiosis festival (California) in September with PatchBay, Eat Static, Ott, Hallucinogen In dub and many more. It's a lounge/down tempo project I have worked in during my first tour in U.S. this year, with DJ Pedro (Interchill Records-CA).
I also play for one year now, in a Dub band that works on fusions between all the typical Brazilian percussions and the classical dub format. It’s called Rhino Live System, and both this projects will be releasing albums soon. And at last, the Audio Visual show I'm preparing with VJ Matyas who also makes the images for Infected Mushroom's shows, as for Broadway Theatres and Hollywood movies lately.

7. What have been your releases so far? Which one was your favourite?
Under DJ Fred alias:
Eternity (Mandala Records)
Good Fellas (Materia Records)
Amazon (Ajuca Records)

Under PatchBay alias:
Imix - One (Patchmix - Album track 1 - Geomagnetic TV)
Puzzle - The Missing Piece (Album tracks 3 & 4 - Materia Rec)

8. You have joined Reality Engine now. When may we expect your debut album?
By now I am not thinking about it, as I got many different projects going on, and live shows booked for 2007. Reality Engine is and audio visual company that is gonna put out DVDs only so, I'll wait for the moment to do it with a label working exclusively with psytrance.

9. Some words about the actual development of the psytrance scene, what are the main differences about parties in Brazil & Europe?
Trance as I understand is all about changing, adapting, mutating....a rolling stone gathers no moss...(hehe). That's why I like it so much, learning how to deal with constant changes in your environment is evolution, the scene here as in the whole world is changing a lot lately from what I knew as trance back in 98, but I have been learning to love it the way it flows...

10. A world without music would be...
Dead! Life is rhythm.... listen to your heart beats!!!