Suara’s latest V/A release is entitled Astral House, and features 13 distinct cuts of genres ranging from deep house to progressive, as well as melodic techno and house.
One of these is a collaboration between German duo GNTN and Oliver Winters. GNTN are an emerging DJ & Production techno duo composed of Marcel and Jan, both of whom grew up around Dusseldorf, and then decided to join forces in 2014 upon realizing they shared equal passion for music production and melodic-influenced techno.
When they met Oliver Winters, who boasts releases on the likes of mau5trap, EIN2 and Timeless Moments, they knew they had found the perfect production partner for a collaboration, giving birth to their track “Pulsar.” They will have the masses grooving to this ethereal track, packed with percussion and loaded with leads, its transcendent energy gives way only to dance-oriented intent.
We decided to have a chat with GNTN to discuss the collab with Oliver Winters and what
Hello lads, nice to speak to you again! How has 2018 been for you since we last had a chat?
Hey mate, thanks for having us. 2018 has been pretty good for us.
We concentrated even more on our production and geared up a little bit to push the boundaries.
Currently, we’re working on our Live Set, which will be launched later this year. We just feel more comfortable to express our sound this way, instead of using CDJ’s. Really excited for this project and can’t wait to hear people’s reactions. We already uploaded a little studio video of it on our Instagram recently, which was featured by Beatport. So we are pretty happy already, but excited what will follow.
Any highlights that are particularly impressed in your memory so far?
We established our event brand Hide & Seek, which was great. We hosted artists like Reinier Zonneveld or Bart Skils. Good to see so many good reactions to it! Release wise Stil Vor Talent, the label of Oliver Koletzki, definitely was one of the highlights for us this year!
You guys are teaming up with Oliver Winters for a forthcoming release… how did you meet in the first place?
We actually send us tracks back and forth for feedback, and at some point, we had the idea to work on something together. From time to time we noticed, that we got a similar taste in music, so it was a natural next step to work together!
How did the idea to make music together come up?
As said above already, at some point we just noticed that we got a similar taste in music and that it would be worth to try and work something out together. The work with Oliver went pretty well and smooth. It was a great experience working with him.
Did you guys work in the same studio or was the collab done separately with online communication?
Actually, it all went online. Oliver sent over some first ideas, which we then used to add some typical GNTN synths to it. It was a constant back in forth of stems, which was pretty interesting. It was a whole different process in comparison to other collaborations we did!
Why do you feel the collab worked so well?
It was just such a natural development and exchanging of ideas, which felt really good actually. So it didn’t take really long at all to finish the track.
The release comes out on a massive label, Suara. How did that come about?
That’s definitely a goal we had on our list for some time already. We were in t