RS: Do you prefer DJing or producing?
EC: Could not choose. I love to execute both the same especially because I play one way when I DJ but I produce many styles.
RS: There are several singers who have worked with Dynamix - Nina Eve, Tina Ann, Inda Matrix - do you choose the singer for a song you have written or vice versa?
EC: Our first singer, as I said was hired by KULT Records and then sent to the studio. The follow up, "Never Get Me" was written for her after she co-wrote the first song "Don't Want Another Man". So first we started from the artist and then came the two songs written with and for her voice .
On behalf of a sudden but happy pregnancy, the singer decided to put her career on hold to be a full time mom. That's when Tina Ann and Nina Eve where hired to re-record the two songs which were left for release. Tina Ann had to cover the performance of the original singer of "Don't Want Another Man" faithfully due to the fact that the record was already out and available and becoming a big success. Nina Eve recut her new take of the first singers of "Never Get Me" and sung it in a higher key with new lyrics where that added for the release.
With Inda Matrix it was almost like Nina Eve in that we had the demo and then got the singer, but this time we were looking for more than a voice, we wanted a larger than life club persona and she definitely has that stage presence. She took our demo of "Love Dominates" and rocked it on her own terms, adding a lot of her own vocals and taking it much further than our original writing just by her ad libs on the spot.. Her forthcoming single "Bodyfly" also was renewed by her original sensibility. She came in the studio and nailed it in 2 hours.
RS: What other vocalists have you worked with for Dynamix?
EC: We are putting together an album and we just cut a demo with Deborah Cooper entitled "How Deep" and have a project with Janice Robinson entitled "Everyday Faith" with both demos written by George Lyter (who wrote for Donna Summer and CeCe Penston) and Yasmin Rashid who is a traditional Indian singer that Beppe had found before he met up with the label.
We have been moving very slow under Dynamix since we both have other things to do . My partner in crime Beppe, this past winter and spring was in his last year of college and he did not have anytime for anything but to study for his finals.
I recut the vocals of Bodyfly with Inda Matrix without him just to get a head and get a demo from Inda Matrix once we decided to have her record the song, but it turned out a good session. And so I did my own mix while he was studying in which I used Beppe's voice (The vocal chord saying "fly fly bodyfly") and some of his keys from a session from a previous unreleased dub mix of the original "Bodyfly".
I am now waiting for Beppe to come back from Italy after his graduation and vacation to do the Dynamix NYC mix together for the commercial release.
RS: Tell us the story of Bodyfly - how did the sought after classic become the current buzz record of clubland?
EC: The fact that we never released it and never became available made this record kind of a big item... plus Beppe wrote a great record! Bodyfly was a big unreleased hit at Twilo and strangely enough, it was inspired by the hardcore Junior fans on the dancefloor of Juniorverse. Bodyfly was one of the demos that Lilla picked up from Beppe that he had already cut with a singer called MB before he met with us in 1999.
