Ahead of his gig at Tbar for the Shooting Elvis launch, Remute answers a few questions...

1. You describe yourself, as a performer, as being two people. First is Remute, more a kind of alter-ego who screams and makes a lot of noise and mess. Then there's Denis Karimani, who's more reflective and emotional. Do you think these two performers will ever integrate to make one amazing album? Why produce as two basically separate people? --->

In the beginning of my career I strongly separated my two approaches regarding making-music :

One day I woke up and was into doing live-arranged, raw and technically stripped down TRACKS.

As this process was more a kind of emotionally controlled automatism I decided to call this project after my real name DENIS KARIMANI.

Another day I woke up and was into doing completely arranged, highly extraverted and sophisticated SONGS.

As this process was more systematic and a kind of invention of a new side of me I decided to call this project REMUTE.

But lately I've noticed that these two approaches are getting closer and closer to each other.

I don't feel these "rough cuts" anymore when i wake up in the morning.

What I am doing now is something in between my two sides and I am going to consolidate them finally sometime this year on my own label called REMUTÉ.

I will try to achieve an optimal balance there, but will also leave some space for unexpected fluctuations as they are keeping the essential thrill alive!

1a. And secondly, if the two personalities ever had to fight to the death, who would win?
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Draw!
Next round!

Draw!
Next round!

Draw!
Next round!

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2. Why is this only your second time in London?

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We (myself and my manager) were focussing more on Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain and Italy throughout the last years as we felt that my sound has a strong basis there within the scene and the promoters.

But perhaps we were criminally careless about UK, because now I strongly feel that musically lots of cool developments are happening!

New labels with fresh sound, many wicked clubs with excellent soundsystems, many up-and-coming protagonists, massive crowd.

UK and especially London are right now an absolute necessity for us to focus on and I hope that I get the chance to play and to spin more often over there!

3. You've worked on a number of ubercool labels: Traum/Trapez/MBF, Areal , Dial, Weave or Liebe*Detail, and now Num, Smallville, Kompass, Curle and Einmaleins ... who's going to change the world next? What label have we not heard of that we need to know about, and why?

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REMUTÉ will change the world of course. ;)

Besides concentrating on scheduling and planning stuff for my own label, which will hopefully make the world a better place with the help of a wild and explosive mixture of cut-up-disco-techno-madness I will continue doing releases within this year on some of the labels I've already worked with.

Amongst others there will be another Liebe*Detail release called "Decubatio" (remember "Incubatio" ?!) , a new track on Curle called "Melted" (yes... nomen est omen!!!) and also brandnew work for Areal, Sender, Perc Trax and Tresor...

And there will be lots of new remixes too including work amongst others for Chris Fortier, Tiger Lou, Isomer Transition and Tommy Four Seven, who is coming up with his Shooting Elvis label.

4. Detroit or rave?
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Detroit-Hamburg-Belgrade-DISCO-Rave².

+ Uncompromising passion.

+ A sackful of madness.

And never ever forget :

It's all about love³.

5. The T Bar in London is an - er - unique club. What have you heard about it?

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All people I've asked about the T-Bar had a very special, keen smile on their face while answering my questions.

I've also heard about some excellent line-ups they had in the past and that the atmosphere is quite familiar and euphoric.

That was sign enough for me to make a decision. :)

So I'm looking very forward to play a special liveset at T-Bar!

See You!