16 QUESTIONS WITH… 15 QUESTIONS Cinthie
Berlin-based DJ and producer Cinthie (her real name – there’s nominative determinism for you) Christl has been immersed in the German city’s electronic music scene since forever, not just as a music maker but as a label owner and, right at the opposite end of the scale, working for music software icons Ableton as a day job.
Since being inspired by early electronic tunes in the mid ’90s, she has become an in-demand DJ, touring all around the globe, but her passion also lies in music production and she has built a stunning studio merging the best hardware – described asawidespectrumofsomeofthe most noteworthy vintage drum machines and synthesizers in existence – with the latest plugins available to produce her own unique house and techno tunes.
These have appeared on her own label, 803 Crystalgrooves, while her debut album, , came out on Aus Music in 2020. And her music making history? It all started aged 11 on a Commodore… I’ve always been really interested in music, and when I just started to shape my taste in music as a young teenager, one of my cousins gave me a tape by Sven Väth. That must have been around 1994 and it contained all kinds of
