Hailing from Bayreuth, Germany and now based in Montreal, Canada, Christian Fial (aka, Infekt) has won millions of fans globally for his energetic and breathtaking tracks. The coruscating Orgalorg, the electrifyingly eccentric Sectumsempra and this year’s pulsating hulk Feedback to name but three.
In the course of his career, Infekt has also been a pioneering figure in the shaping of several subgenres of dubstep – and the linchpin behind redefining the problematically-dubbed ‘riddim’ subgenre to the more apt ‘trench’. With a series of monthly single releases and his new blog encouraging more fans to start producing themselves we were very eager to speak to this wildly accomplished 26-year-old…
1 Can you give us a bit of background on your music production journey?
“It’s kind of a funny story; basically my dad reads a lot of computer magazines. He read one where they were talking about FL Studio, and he showed me the article. He said, “you can make your own music with this”. I tried the trial version and was like, “yeah that’s cool, I’m interested but I don’t really know what to do with it”. Then I discovered dubstep around 2012, and since that’s all computer music it was like a door opened; it was like,‘here’s something you can make’. I tried making that and that’s how I got into it. From there I dove
