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Chocolate Puma feat.Colonel Red ‘For Your Love 2011′

Our latest single with Colonel Red. This one was very tricky because we replayed and recreated an old disco sample. It might not sound like it, but this is one of our most complex productions to date.

The Good Men ‘Give It Up’ (2011 Edit) 

We originally made this track as a jingle for Zki’s [Rene] radio show. We made it with really cheap equipment, like this crappy mixer with only treble and bass knobs and a pair of broken speakers, as we didn’t have any money at that time. After we finished it we thought ‘this is not bad, maybe we should release it’. Our record company at that time didn’t really believe in it but after plenty of persistence we eventually got them convinced to put it on a B-side. It ended up being our most successful record ever.

Chocolate Puma ‘I Wanna Be U’ (Rework)          

This was the first Chocolate Puma release ever. It was inspired by the early 2000 2-step garage and the stuff Missy Elliott & Timbaland were doing at that time; those skippy, syncopated rhythms. It features the vocals of Evo, a guy we spotted singing on the streets. The record company didn’t like it (again) so we decided to put it on a white label with just an email address on it. We totally forgot about it, but after a few months we checked the email account and there was this message from a certain Pete Tong asking for a new copy as his one was worn out.

Chocolate Puma ‘Tonco Tone’  

This one almost didn’t get a release as we didn’t think much of it and it ended up at the back of our CD wallet. Luckily Andy Daniell spotted a small YouTube clip of us fooling around in the studio with this track. The rest is history as they say.       

Bingo Players vs Chocolate Puma ‘Disco Electrique’ (Vocal Mix)                             
This was a track we had laying around in the studio for a couple of years. The Bingo Players heard it and suggested they do a version. It ended up being pretty good!

Boris Dlugosch feat. Roisin Murphy ‘Never Enough’(Chocolate Puma 2011 Remix)          

This is one of our favourite remixes. The original track was a bit jazzy, like ‘Sing It Back’. We replaced all of Boris’ music with some simple but dramatic chords giving the track a totally different vibe, and we’ve updated the 2002 remix to a 2011 version.

Jark Prongo vs Franky Rizardo ‘Big Bam Cordoba’ (Chocolate Puma Edit)                              

A fun bootleg we did just for our sets. The reactions on this one were so good that we decided to give it an official release.

Chocolate Puma feat. Colonel Red ‘Back Home’              

This track was made in just a few hours. Sometimes things in the studio just ‘happen’, where other times you’re endlessly tweaking a synth and getting nowhere. 

René Et Gaston ‘Vallée De L’armes’ (Remaster)               

After we got ourselves some money from ‘Give It Up’ we bought ourselves our first proper synth, a Korg Wavestation, and made this track. Inspiration came from the Amsterdam Roxy sound, pioneered by dutch DJ Dimitri and his partner Eric Nouhan. Listening to this track is a bit like looking at old pictures of yourself – a bit awkward, but at the same time it puts a smile on your face.

Chocolate Puma ‘Dub of Boom’ (Remaster)       

This one was a Swedish House Mafia favourite; they used to open every set with this. The chords were made on a Juno 106 synth inspired by Inner City’s ‘Big Fun’. 

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Chocolate Puma ‘Always & Forever’ (Original Mix)        

This one was sitting on our hard drive for 5 years as a mid-tempo broken beat track. After hearing what Gregor Salto was doing with his latin-flavored tracks at that time, we knew what we had to do with it. We still play it from time to time and people still love it.

Chocolate Puma ‘Learning’ (2011 Edit)  

This one never got an official release, but there has always been a buzz around it. We did a little edit for today’s dancefloors and it finally gets a proper release, so it’s a true exclusive to the compilation.

Fierce Ruling Diva ‘Rubb It In 2010′ (Chocolate Puma Remix)

It was quite hard to remix this classic Dutch rave record, but by keeping it simple we think we managed to capture the feeling we had when we played the original version in the early ’90′s, while still making it sound up to date.

Bingo Players vs Chocolate Puma ‘Touch Me’ (Vintage Mix – Re-master)

Touch Me was the first collaboration between the Bingo’s (as we like to call them) and us. Bart B More’s remix did great things for it as it ended up at No.1 in the Beatport chart! We think our Vintage Mix didn’t get the attention it deserved so we decided to re-master it and put it on the compilation. We still love the drums on this one.

Chocolate Puma ‘Morning Rain’ (Remaster) 

We were just mucking around with some old school Motown chords when David Goncalves (the guy who also sings on Always And Forever, A Star Is Born & Learning) started to do some singing in the vocal booth. David was just warming up but we thought what he was doing was great, so we decided to use his first take. It might not be perfect, but sometimes the vibe is so much more important than getting all notes right.

Klatsch! ‘God Save The Queer’ (2011 Edit)          

We always loved the gay crowds, and this was our dedication to them. We even put the record in a pink sleeve! Talking about gay crowds, the first time we toured in the USA, like in 1992 or 1993, we did a sound check in this club called The Tunnel. There was this ball room (you know, like at Ikea) so we jumped in to play in it and take funny pictures. Later that night we discovered what was really going on in the ball room! You can imagine those are the funniest pictures ever.

René Et Gaston ‘Merluche Ideale’          

This is us fooling around with our 909 drum machine and Nord Lead synth. When we first released this one, we only sold maybe 300 copies, even though Kevin Saunderson put it on his X-Mix compilation. Years later Sven Vath re-discovered the track and it got picked up by German underground label Artless and it suddenly became a big underground cult hit. 

Jark Prongo ‘Spadet’ (Remaster)             

This is a bit of the same story as with Merluche Ideale. It never did anything when it was first released on our Pssst Music label, but became very hip when it got picked up by Artless years later.

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Jark Prongo ‘Shake It’ (Remaster) 

This was the first ever Jark Prongo release. Back in the days we had so much success with our Fresh Fruit label, that we thought we needed an underground project. So we made ‘Shake It’, came up with this ‘person’ Jark Prongo and pressed it on yellow vinyl with as little info as possible on the label.

Chocolate Puma vs Hardsoul ‘R2G2′ (Remaster)              

We made this track with the Hardsoul brothers Greg & Roog. We were doing the Amsterdam In The House compilation and at the photo shoot Roog came up with the idea to do an exclusive track for the compilation.

Jark Prongo ‘Movin’ Thru Your System’ (2011 Remix) 

This was a huge underground hit. It got signed to Hooj Choons, it came with a remix by Dave Clarke and it got hammered by the likes of Sasha and John Digweed. The track was really an accident as we plugged our 909 drum machine in the wrong input on our patchbay. The 909 kick drum suddenly got our Korg MS20 synth triggered and it started to make all these great noises. Last year we sold the mixing desk this and many other records were made on to a German Death Metal group.

Sole Fusion ‘Bass Tone’ (Chocolate Puma Remix – Remaster) 

This was not easy. Remixing one of our favourite tunes ever, by our favourite beat makers ever. So we decided to stay close the original Masters At Work production while adding some of our own flavour.

René Et Gaston ‘Coupe Brésil’ (Remaster)          

This one was supposed to be the follow up to ‘Give It Up’, but that track blew up and kept going for more than a year. We did not have the patience to wait so we decided to release Coupe Brésil under a new project, René Et Gaston, which are our real names.

South Street Player ‘(Who?) Keeps Changing Your Mind’ (Chocolate Puma Fresh Fruit Vocal Edit) 

Back in the 90’s we licensed this one from Strictly Rhythm for our Fresh Fruit label. A few years back it got picked up by Strictly again and we did a little edit of our original remix to bring it up to date.

House Masters Chocolate Puma is out 11th July – listen & pre-order

1. Hello guys, what are you doing? How did this year start for you?

This year had a good start for us, we did some very good gigs already. We had a lot of downloads and positive comments on our Missy Elliot “Get Ur Freak On” bootleg and our remix for Nouveau Yorican “Chiuso”.
Right now we’re working on a House Masters compilation for Defected to celebrate 10 years of Chocolate Puma and us producing together for 20 years this year.
We are also working a new CP Single and some collabs with Firebeatz, Gregor Salto and Bingo Players and remixes for Kraak & Smaak and others. We’ll also be relaunching our label Pssst Music. So quite busy!

2. Maybe some people didn’t hear your music and they don’t know anything about you. Who are the members of Chocolate Puma’s Project and what is his distinctive style? How would you convince them that you really deserve to be heard?

Chocolate Puma are Zki & Dobre and we make music people can dance to.
Each weekend we do a gig somewhere on the planet where we only play our own tracks. You might know us from songs like Always And Forever, Disco Electrique, I Wanna Be U and The Good Men – Give It Up.

3. Why have you chosen this name for your project – Chocolate Puma? What is the significance?

It came out of nowhere, like it was sent to our brains from a brown planet. But we think it fits the music quite well!

4. You are for a very long time in music industry, but you still hold the leading positions, you don’t give signs of being tired. How have you survived over time, how have you reinvented yourself?

It’s just the love for the music that keeps us going. Music, that’s what we do and we’ll always be doing. At the same time it’s very important for us to keep being connected to the dancefloor and new studio techniques, while the young producers out there keep us sharp and inspired!

5. Have you a favorite quote? Something that inspires you?

No, we get inspired by non-verbal stuff.

6. How would you describe your sets? What are the styles you mix more often?

Our sets are for 90% filled with our own productions, remixes, edits and are basically very energetic! We like a lot of different styles of music, so we could throw in anything we like.

7. What tunes are on your playlist at the moment?

Chocolate Puma & FireBeatz – Go Bang!
CP “Tonco Tone”
Nouveau Yorican “Chiuso” (Chocolate Puma Remix)
Drop The Lime “Hot As Hell” (Canblaster Remix)
Firebeatz “Hidden Sound”
Afrojack “Polka Dots (Chocolate Puma edit)

8. Which is your favorite club where you like to mix?

That’s a very difficult question, as the are a lot of good clubs all over the world, but to keep it close to our home: Paradiso and Panama in Amsterdam.

9. If you were to pick some DJ’s who’d had brilliant performances in 2010, which one would you choose?

Definitely Bart B More, but Laidback Luke had a great year also!

10. At what studio projects are you working now?

We’re working on a new Chocolate Puma single, a new Bingo Players vs Chocolate Puma single, and we have new projects with Firebeatz and Gregor Salto coming up.

11. Recommend us some „must listen” tracks

See question 7 ;-)

12. Favourite piece of equipment/gadget.

Anything with an i.

13. Chocolate or ice-cream?

Chocolate Caramel B&J

14. Twitter or Facebook?

Twitter, but Facebook comes close at the second place.

15. Can you caracterize by a single word:

Miami
…..messed up this year.
ADE
….the best for business.
Ibiza
….. here we come!

16. A message for the readers of Music-News Romania.

Watch out for a big year for Chocolate Puma, keep on dancing and protect your ears!

Thank you!

FX – How did the collaboration of DJ Zki & Dobre aka Chocolate Puma first come about and what’s kept you together all these years?

Z&D – We met around 1991 at a radio station where Zki was doing his show. He played me a demo of a track he was working on, and I instantly had some ideas about it. So we hooked up and we soon discovered that putting us in a room with equipment and crazy ideas worked very well indeed. Around the same period we also made a new jingle for his radio show which soon became one of our biggest hits, Give It Up by The Good Men. What kept us together is the mutual respect we have for each other. We both have our strange little things, and we are quite different people, but despite these differences we have always gone in the same direction in how we look at music, fashion or art.

FX – As producers you’ve worked under a number of different guises, why all the different guises?

Z&D – It was just a different time back then. For us it just made sense to use all these aliases, partly because, despite the huge success, we liked it to be underground and let the music speak for itself. But also because musically we were all over the place and we needed all these different projects. Now times have changed and we narrowed it down to just one, Chocolate Puma.

FX – Typically what roles do you play when creating a DJ Zki & Dobre production?

Z&D – Basically it’s me behind the controls and Zki giving input. And after all this time making music together we don’t have to use many words anymore to express how we feel about a sound or a drum. It became such a natural process.

FX – Tell us a secret about the way you make music?

Z&D – I think we’re very open for any musical style and sounds. We always keep our ears open for the next generation, as you can learn a lot and get lots of inspiration from young kids making the next big thing. That makes us work harder, as we don’t want these kiddos to beat us at our own game, haha.

FX – What impact have advancements in music technology had upon your production technique?

Z&D – We see it as a constant evolution. Nowadays we completely work ‘in the box’, but we’re still using old school mixing techniques we learned over the years, while taking full advantage of all the possibilities within a DAW. And those possibilities are endless, so you can really lose yourself going deep into details and forget the important stuff, but other than that we love it.

FX – What FXpansion products do you own and how do you use them?

Z&D – We own GURU and we use it in every production. It’s basically the core of our beats, and beats are the most important thing in our tracks. GURU is great, because it’s fast and simple. We also use samplers like Kontakt, but we feel that all the possibilities are a bit too much for us when it comes to laying down beats. We like to work fast, especially with beats, and GURU is just perfect for that.

FX – Do you have any GURU tips or tricks you would like to share?

Z&D – We used to chop up samples with Recycle, but the fun thing with GURU is that it’s kind of unpredictable in the way it slices your samples. So for us it was quite surprising to discover new things in a lot of our old records and samples we’ve already gone through over the years. So, go back to your record collection and your sample library, throw it in GURU and see what happens. Great fun.

FX – What do you do to entertain yourself when you are on tour?

Z&D – If we’re not in a plane reading a book, making a bootleg on our laptop or just feeling miserable of the few hours of (or no) sleep, then we just love to visit all these different countries. I mean, we’ve just been to Azerbaijan, not really a destination you would choose for your holiday, but how cool is it to visit a place like that?

FX – Where do you see yourself in ten years time in terms of making music?

Z&D – Well, we’re making records now for almost 20 years, and we couldn’t imagine all the things that have happened to us. But I think we will still be trying to make the best record we can.

Since this interview took place Zki & Dobre have been getting down with Geist (GURU’s successor) and find it to be even faster and more intuitive than GURU! :)

Never shy to stick the ends of their tongues firmly into the sides of their cheeks, the video to Chocolate Puma’s new single ‘Tonco Tone’ is typically off-the-wall and displays the kind of humorous outlook the Dutch production duo are well known for. We caught up with them via email to have a quick chat about the single, the inspiration behind the video and their forthcoming appearance at Defected In The House at ADE.

So guys…’Tonco Tone’…what’s the track about?

It’s basically about having fun and not taking things too seriously. And trumpets.

And the video? What’s the idea behind it?

We heard the nephew of our favorite bartender playing our tracks and we were blown away. So we asked him to feature in our video. Luckily he said yes!

The star of the video bears a striking resemblance to Curt Smith from Tears for Fears…do you have an particular affinity for 80’s soft-rock groups?

Urgh, soft-rock. Although one of us really is feeling the Curt Smith hairdo.

You’re playing for Defected in a couple of weeks for ADE…are you looking forward to it?

It’s the holy trinity, Miami, Ibiza, Amsterdam, so yes very much! And playing in our home town is always fun.

Is there any upcoming material you’ll be testing out that we should keep our ears open for?

Yes, we’re working on a remix for The Beathiefs which is shaping up nicely. It still needs some dance floor testing though.

You’re in the enviable position of being able to play only your own material at gigs…when and why did you make that decision?

About five years ago. Actually we had a little break from DJ’ing, but at some point we felt the time was right to get behind the decks again. Instead of ‘just’ playing other people’s records we wanted to do something that would set us apart from other DJ’s, and by playing our own productions we think we found it. Also for us as producers it makes so much more sense, as the connection between the dance floor and the studio gets stronger and stronger.

How do you feel when ADE rolls into the usually fairly relaxed city of Amsterdam? Do you think it has changed the rest of the world’s perception of the city?

Although ADE has put Amsterdam on the map as one of the dance capitals of the world, we think the world still has this perception of Amsterdam of coffee shops and scantily-clad ladies behind windows.

Which parties – other than the Defected one of course – would you recommend as worth checking out?

Definitely Bart B More‘s ‘super secret hush hush nobody knows where it is’ party featuring his French friends from Sound Pellegrino.

What does the future hold for Chocolate Puma? Will you continue to do what you do indefinitely?

Till we drop.

Anything else you’d like to tell us about…?

Everyone visiting Amsterdam should try a broodje kroket.

Tonco Tone (including MFS) is out 20th October on Defected – click to listen & pre-order

You know a Chocolate Puma track from the first moment it knocks you around the head with its absurdly punchy beats. A ridiculously catchy vocal will follow soon after and that’s it; it’ll be in your head from when you first hear it, throughout the rest of the day or night and probably for a few days afterwards. You’ll either love it or hate it (although we’ve found most people sit firmly in the former camp) but regardless of which it is, it’ll bounce round inside your head for a considerable time.

Now, the Dutch duo have dropped a new track that’s set to follow in the addictive footsteps of its predecessors and attach itself to your brain like a house-loving limpet. We caught up with them to find out more…

Guys..this track is banging! What’s it all about?

For us this track was about taking our classic Chocolate Puma sound to the next level; making it tough and powerful but still trying to have as much soul and funk in it. And a bit of nanana, naturally.

Tell us about the vocalist Colonel Red…

We got introduced to Red by the guy who featured on our Dub Of Boom track. He is an amazing soul/jazz singer, originally from the UK, currently living in Rotterdam, Holland. You might know him from his Sweet Liberation album and his own Ruff Language label. The cool thing is that he is a genuine soul/jazz guy but at the same time knows everything about acid house, clubbing and Robert Owens.

You have a very distinctive, punchy sound…any production tips you’d like to share with us?

Choose the fattest sounds you can find. Use sounds with different characters and layer them. For example, using an analog synth sound, combined with samples from an old scratchy record, and live recordings from your kitchen ware gives you much more depth than just staying ‘in the box’. Also don’t think you need much equipment. ‘Cause you don’t. We just use Logic and use the standard plug-ins. That’s all. Oh, and good ideas don’t hurt either. Also, we just started giving production tips on our website chocolatepuma.com. We already got some features about eqing and compressing, so you definately should check that out.

The artwork for the single is also fantastic…who did the design?

The artwork is done by Dutch multitalented artist Marc Sokpolie aka Zwazi. We had a cool brainstorm session with him about all kinds of things we’re digging. After a few weeks he came up with this great illustration of us floating in space, with in the background the debris of the ring of Saturn replaced by wrecks of all the cars we like. The artwork for this single is actually a fragment of this bigger illustration. We even have made t-shirts!

When is the happiest you’ve ever been to be ‘Back Home’?

We love playing all over the world, and being at all these exotic is great. But at the same, being away from your loved ones is not always the easiest thing. Especially when we were stranded at Sao Paulo airport for a million hours due to a strike. Coming ‘Back Home’ from that trip made us quite happy indeed.

What can we expect from you for the rest of the year?

We made lots of bootlegs over the last year and we will share some of them with the rest of the world in the next few months. Also, we’re re-launching our label Pssst Music, which will be our little playground for tracks that won’t fit in the Chocolate Puma/Defected picture. Demolishing clubs and causing mayhem at the summer festivals is also on our to do list.

Anything else you’d like to tell us about..?

One of us is going on a holiday to Iceland. No kidding.

Back Home is out now on Defected Records.

Bijna 20 jaar geleden begon het allemaal op een zolderkamer in Haarlem. Daar werd door René en Gaston, de mannen achter Chocolate Puma, een van Nederlands eerste en grootste house hits ooit geproduceerd. Tegenwoordig, vele jaren na het eerste succes, staat het duo nog steeds aan de top van de mondiale house. Nieuwjaarsnacht gaat Chocolate Puma haar derde actieve decennium in, met een speciaal optreden tijdens Nightlife Circus in Utrecht. We nemen een kijkje in de past, present en future van het duo.

Past. We schrijven 1992 en de wereld is in de ban van Give It Up van The Good Men. Het is de eerste single van twee enthousiaste Nederlandse housepioniers, René ter Horst en Gaston Steenkist. Enkele jaren later scoren zij wederom een tweede wereldhit, nu met Chocolate Puma – I Wanna Be U. René vertelt over de eerste jaren van housemuziek: “Eigenlijk waren we in het begin overenthousiast. Dag en nacht waren we met bezig muziek maken. We maakten toen zoveel platen, dat het onmogelijk was ze allemaal uit te brengen; tenzij we onder verschillende aliassen produceerden.” De lijst aliassen is dan ook lang, van The Good Men en Chocolate Puma, tot Jark Prongo, René et Gaston, en ga zo nog maar even door.

Present. Tegenwoordig focussen René en Gaston zich op Chocolate Puma. De tijden zijn veranderd geeft René aan: “Vroeger konden we gewoon muziek maken en maar zien wat er mee gebeurde, tegenwoordig komt er een manager aan te pas en moet er veel genetwerkt worden.”
Dat betekent niet dat het nu slechter zou gaan, integendeel, 2009 was een fijn jaar voor Chocolate Puma. “De overstap naar Defected, het fameuze label van Simon Dunmore, heeft ons goed gedaan. We krijgen veel inspiratie en feedback van ze, ook al is onze muziek voor Simon persoonlijk eigenlijk al aan de stevige kant. Het fijne van Defected is ook dat we dezelfde filosofie hebben, het gaat ons om plezier op de dansvloer. Bij Defected kunnen we ons concentreren op het maken van dansvloergerichte muziek en voelen we geen druk een radiohit te produceren.”
De samenwerking met het fameuze Engelse label heeft ook geleid tot het mede mogen samenstellen van de compilatie Defected In The House – Amsterdam edition. Chocolate Puma is hot en lijkt een hoogtepunt te beleven. René ziet dat iets anders: “Ik omschrijf onze huidige fase liever als een fijn punt. Geen hoogtepunt, want het kan altijd beter, en daar streven we ook naar!”

Future. Wat kunnen we in de toekomst dan van Chocolate Puma verwachten? “Het liefst zouden we de Olympische Spelen van 2012 openen”, zegt René. “Dat is onze ambitie. Ik vind dat je ambitieus moet zijn. Ik zou ook graag nog een keer een wereldhit scoren, maar dan wel een typische Chocolate Puma track.”
Typisch Chocolate Puma is een energieke, funky dansvloer track. En die worden niet meer geproduceerd op en kleine zolderkamer, maar in een professionele studio aan huis. “De studio is bij mij thuis, naast de woonkamer” geeft René aan. “Het is een goede graadmeter, als mijn vrouw ‘s avonds een melodietje fluit dan weet ik dat we goed bezig zijn.” Bijna dagelijks sluiten René en Gaston zich op in die studio om te werken aan de toekomst van Chocolate Puma.

Die toekomst begint in het nieuwe decennium. Met een speciaal optreden op Nightlife Circus in Utrecht opent het duo het nieuwe jaar. “Nieuwjaarsnacht blijft een speciaal moment”, besluit René. “We zijn nu al aan het nadenken hoe te gaan openen na het twaalf uur moment. Je wil toch meteen een feestje bouwen en een goede start maken in het nieuwe jaar en decennium!”

Op 31-12 staat Chocolate Puma op Defected In The House in Club Rex, Hilversum en op Nightlife Circus in de Central Studios te Utrecht. Meer info: .: NIGHT LIFE CIRCUS 2009 :.

txt Rob de Bruyn
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You guys have worked under the alias of name aside from Chocolate Puma such as ‘The Goodmen’ what’s the philosophy behind this?
We used a lot of aliases in the past. It was just another era. In the early 90′s using different names was very common. We always have been all over the place, and as we have been producing so many styles of music and so many tracks, we figured we needed as many aliases. Now times have changed, we’ve grown up a little, the whole game changed, and it just feel right to stick to one project name. We’re more focused then ever.

Where did the name Chocolate Puma come from?
We used to have a brown goldfish in the studio called Puma. So there you have it.

Since first rising onto the scene, how would you say your style progressed over the last years?
We’re still pretty eclectic, but our sound matured. In the early days we were like young kids in a candy store, trying everything at the same time. Now we’re a bit more focused, while still trying to keep it fresh. Production wise a lot has changed because of the new studio techniques. From cutting tape and using dusty mixing desks, to having your complete studio in a laptop, we’ve seen it all. But in the end we still love to make proper dance music.

What influences you guys when you go into the studio?
Almost everything, from records by young upcoming producers, old skool soul, 90ties house, the weather, punk rhythms, movie themes and vintage car sounds, to new plug-ins, hip hop, fashion hipsters and weird music blogs, you name it.

Have you got any tips for any rising producers out there?
Be original. Be yourself. Work hard. Do it for the music, not the fame.

What producers/ DJs are doing it for you at the moment?

Bart B more, Bingo Players, Baggi Begovic, Prok & Fitch, ….

What are your top ten tracks?
There are 3 tracks that are absolutely setting the dance floor on fire at the moment.
- our latest collaboration with Bingo Players – Disco Electrique,
- our remix for Shovell – Soul Makossa,
- and our remix of the classic Sole Fusion – Bass Tone on Strictly.
Other favorites are
- Sil – Dirty Windows (Chocolate Puma Remix),
- Bizarre Inc – Playing With Knives (CP Bootleg),
- Bart B More – So It Goes (Chocolate Puma Remix),
- Chocolate Puma – Dub Of Boom, Only Love Can Save Me, Morning Rain (Moist Beats)
- and some new trippy futuristic weird untitled demos we’ve been testing out lately.

What do you guys prefer producing in the studio or DJ-ing to a crowd?
We love to do both. When we’re in the studio we can’t wait to test out our latest tracks. And when we’re in front of a crowd we get really inspired by the energy the people give us. It puts the sounds we create in the studio in a whole new perspective. We then can’t wait to get back in the studio to translate that feeling into new music.

What would you say has been your biggest achievement?
After 18 years of producing records still being around.

How does the crowd differ in Holland from anywhere else in the world?
The Dutch crowd is known for being a bit more critical, so you really have to work a little bit harder to get them throwing their hands in the air. But that’s a good thing, it keeps us sharp. And maybe that’s something that sets Dutch DJ’s apart from the rest?

Where in the world is your favourite place to play?
This year’s WMC in Miami has been very good for us. The kids in Eastern Europe are always insane (in a good way!), and Sao Paulo is fantastic!

Your playing at DanceValley, will you be playing any other festivals this summer?
We’ve been known for always playing anywhere in the world, but in Holland. But this year we’re doing a lot of Dutch festivals. For example Free Your Mind, Defected In The House @  Lakedance, and some really nice and cozy festivals like Trix in the Mix, Zomerkriebels and Mattrix at the Park.

Have you got any funny stories from any past festivals?
Well…maybe not funny but nevertheless very memorable. While playing at this massive 40.000 people festival in Brazil, all of a sudden Zki disappeared off the stage. So when I looked down, there he was, laying on the concrete, next to a girl! It turned out that they had these banners behind the 10 ft high stage, but forgot to make a proper fence, and as a result they both fell down. Fortunately they had no major injuries, apart from some scratches and bruises.

Talking of summer what’s your favourite ice-cream flavour?
Chocolate Fudge of course..

Lastly, what do you think you would been doing now if you weren’t a DJ?
Ice cream manufacturer!

Thanks guys, you’ve been great!
Welcome!

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