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RD: Having been a psytrance artist for many years, what keeps you passionate about the music? Are you inspired by other producers, or by your own potential in the studio?

P: What keeps me going is constant developments in the music technology. New instruments, samples and tools come out almost everyday, and I feel the need to utilize them. Also, different techniques that I develop for myself bring me into different unseen worlds, worth exploring for next several months.

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DC: Give me five is your fifth album - how would you describe the evolution of your style over the five albums?

P: My style has always been evolving depending on the sound creation advancements available at the time of writing, as I tried to bring some new flavors for each release: With Pentafiles it was all about cranking my Virus Indigo and Microwave XT, relying on the emotional drive. With “Fünrai$er” it was more about using raw samples in the context of deeper musical stories with a lot of midi programming. “Horn Please” was the first album I have written in Cubase as opposed to Logic, so a lot of musical language had come out of utilizing its audio editing capabilities along with Native Instruments Reaktor experiments.

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SC: Briefly describe your musical past?

P: I got interested in music after listening to Italian pop stars, such as Riccardo Fogli, Toto Cutugno and Adriano Celentano in the eighties. Inspired by them, I wrote my first song when I was twelve. At the same time, in 1988, I went to musical school in Leningrad, Russia, to study piano, where I was lucky to have a great teacher - V. V. Popov, who's techniques I still use to this day. I moved to San Francisco in 1991, where I played in many punk, rock, and gothic projects with my friends, notably Mitya Panov, Mitya Makarov and Kery Vlasov.

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Penta Live at Ozora 2011