“The craft of how to properly cut a vinyl record has been forgotten”
As a longtime resident of lauded club Berghain, a former employee of both the Dubplates & Mastering pressing studio and Hard Wax record store, and head of the dub-infused soudsystem party Wax Treatment, Fiedel is a genuine cornerstone of Berlin’s world famous techno scene. As an artist, he’s continuously impressed over several decades with his deep and eclectic DJ sets, and numerous excellent releases, both solo and as one half of MMM alongside Errorsmith.
This year, Fiedel launched Super Sound Tool, his latest label project, releasing all-vinyl DJ tools that are carefully crafted to make sure the physical releases are peak quality. SST releases are cut in a way to increase quality and volume and “improve the signal-to-noise ratio while practically eliminating background noise”.
We caught up with Fiedel to talk about the importance of quality control and the challenges of playing vinyl in 2020.
Why do think vinyl is still so important to dance music?
“For me, I started playing music with cassettes in the former East Germany. I always dreamt of owning some turntables in order to play music on vinyl. I wanted to do all the tricks that DJs could do. In the former East you couldn’t just buy turntables or records,
