15 questions with…
We spoke with Adam Port, Rampa and &ME of Keinemusik about production tricks, the art of collaboration and the thinking behind their performance-focused hardware brand, TEILE.
1 Tell us about how you first got into music making.
Adam: “I was DJing RnB and hip-hop back in the day and at some point it wasn’t enough and I wanted to express myself better. I got a cracked version of Cakewalk from a friend and then I started to play around with sounds. I had no drum computer or synths so I sampled every kick, hi-hat, and snare from my vinyls. I still use this technique sometimes.”
Rampa: “I started playing drums super early and my best friend’s older brother was a techno DJ with turntables in the basement, so we’d sneak down and play. Then I bought my first 140bpm techno records and also got into turntablism and hip-hop. Recording and producing were parallel to DJing… Reason, Fruity Loops and Cubase in the schulhof.”
“Pretty much everything started with a loopable CD player and a cheap turntable when I was a teenager. I was able to create some loops and tried to scratch or beatmatch some
