1.After one year you are coming back to play in CZ. Do you remember your last visit here? It was in Ostrava at Antistatic party. Are you looking forward to Czech party people?
PET Duo- We are very excited with the chance to come back to Czech Rep. We have been there only twice, but both times were amazing experience and we had lots of fun with the crowd. We can expect only the best from you!
2.You are a married couple, do relationship crises reflect in your gigs? Has it ever happened that you had an argument before a gig and only one of you went to play and the other one stayed stubborn in the hotel room?
PETDuo – As a normal couple , we do fight sometimes, but it never last more than 5 minutes. Also we never missed a gig because of personal problems, we find peace in music. We only missed gigs when we were very ill, which does not happen very often.
3.Why Pet Duo? Is there any deeper meaning to that?
PETDuo – When our friend asked us to play for the first time at a party in Brasil , he suggested us to find a nickname for our project, this way we would not be related with the Brazilian folk music singers...its because, traditionaly, they perfom as duos, singing with acoustic guitars and using their first names, like, Milionário and José Rico, Tonico and Tinoco, Ana and David would sound just the same. So we ended up with this name. First had a very silly meaning but throughout the years we can say that it stands for the domestic animals or the recyclable plastic PET...By the end it´s just a name.
4.Whats new with Pet Duo? Planning to release any breaking record? Or anything special for the April gig in Benesov? Do you prepare your sets in advance or you improvize on stage?
PETDuo – In this year we celebrate 10 years playing together, and to celebrate, we will launch our own label. For the second part of the year we will make a special tour where we will perform ,for the first time ever, our live p.a..
About our sets, we usually prepare ourselves practicing on the decks during the week and make lot´s of research to find new material. By the time of the party we try to stay calm and connect to the people, make something that suits the mood of the moment, have fun and give fun to them.
5.It is a public secret that many known and respected artists release tracks under there names which were actually produced by other, often unknown authors. I suppose this is not your case. Which of you makes your productions, what do you use? Where do you get inspiration?
PETDuo – When we started to release records we made the tracks with other people, as our friend Nori, from Brasil. After a while we became more confident on our skills and start to make by ourselves, but still there are so much to learn and improve. Here , both of us make music, but David operates the computer most of the time. Nowadays we use mainly virtual studio, softwares Cubase SX, Reason 3, Ableton 6, Sound Forge 8 and many vst and vsti plug ins, also we have some gear, like our sampler Akai MPC 2500 and the Korg Electribe ESX, besides some EFX boxes.
6.Do you take pictures with your fans, sign cards with your photos, play in a brand shirt, throw commercial giveaways to people during your sets or you keep your styl and personality? What is your opinion to underground vs. mainstream?
PETDuo – We do take pictures with fans and sign pics for them, but we avoid do this during our set as we need to be concentrated on the music. We don´t think that doing this is something related with mainstream, or comercial behavior. We do this because we are very thankfull for the love and support we receive from the people. It´s the least we can give back for so much strengh we get from them, to keep doing our thing. We hope that by being ourselves we can reach people´s heart. For us, Underground is an attitude , not a place to be, so even if u are very sucessefull and famous, u can always stay underground if you keep your feet on the ground and remember where you came from. It´s dangerous when the artists starts to think that they are bigger than the music.
7.What is the difference between Brazilian and European dance scene? Or specifically Czech dance scene? Do brazillian techno heads also wear crazy fluffy things and teddy bears instead of backpacks?
PETDuo – The main difference is that in Brasil the main Scene is Psy-Trance. This style dominates the whole country, from north to south. There are lots of festivals for this style going on there. Techno is popular mainly in Sao Paulo, where we both come from..About the crazy outfits, we guess this is something special from Czech Rep and Slovenjia, and we love it!
8.Which three words come to your mind when you say Czech dance scene?
PETDuo – Happy Techno Lovers
9.Do you find anything typical about Czech techno scene?
PETDuo – Czech Rep brings to our mind quality Shuffle Beats Techno, party animals and lots of Female Djs, besides the good beer! : )))
Questions made dj Pluschen
