Hello peeps, we are ending this year and, as we said previously, we thought Cio D’or album “Die Faser” was the most valuable of 2009! So we wanted to know more about it and for that we had to engage with Miss Cio D’or for the proper interview. Here it is:

Mnmland: Hi Cio D’or First up, let us congratulate you for your excellent album on Prologue. We’ve already said in our feedback that it was one of the best albums of the year; can you describe it to our readers?

Cio D’or: Thank you***! Music and fabric have perplexing similarity. Both are sensual and emotional. A “Faser” in German means a single String, like a single sound in music, that’s the basic material that is the origin of any fabric. The analogy here is the track structure, which is then made into a piece by adding dramaturgy and structure. The coloring of the material then finally creates the mood of the piece. That’s very similar in music, it’s created from single notes and tones, which in their unique combination with other sounds ( woven in with other facets ) becomes its on form. Arranging a track is analog to designing a piece of fabric in that sense. This album is impression, emotion & vision, closely connected to a small part of my life between 2008 and 2009.

Mnmland: In Die Faser you show two sides completely different in you, one more subtle and passionate that we can listen in tracks like “Angora” or “Seide” and the other one completely directed to rough underground deep feelings like in “Brokat” or “Pailletten”. The question is, will we be able to listen this both sides in your sets? We sure hope to.

In my sets & mixes I love to start with an ambient or experimental track. At my gig in Tokyo @ Mariananight/Warehouse 705 a DJ named Craig/C_Olvrin, was playing 1 hour of amazing, only Ambient &tripped Music, so it was just perfect and easy for me to start ambient & looping “blubbs&bleeps”&other trippy sounds up to more powerful Techno. I just played 125bpm – the Crowd was dancing all the time and recognized betwhile building up the set more the “powerparts” in my Set. Techno can work in a sensitive way, too! But it depends of course also how much open-minded a crowd is! So..yes, you can hear both or also more sides in my sets.

Mnmland: How long did it take you to create this album?

I was working a long time on some melodies (for Goldbrokat) or sounds (Pailletten/Brokat/Organza/Mohair) before I started the mainly creation of my album. I spent 3 month every day from the morning 10 o’clock until the night. Good food, some friends or running into a wood were the only activities on the side. At the end of producing, I was working ca 4 weeks on “fine mixdowns” after my friend Emanuel Geller heard it with his “golden Masterears”! After the music was done, it took also a longer time to find the perfect Label for my Ideas how to present the Idea (with Remixes, Vinyl& Ambienttracks) & Prologue understand luckily this vision. Also to combine and to talk to the Remixers, Promoter Pullproxy Team and about the Visuals for the Videos from VJ Heiligenblut (Goldbrokat), Mo / Aiko Okamoto (Seide/Tränensalz) and Ateate (Wildseide) took a while and not to forget the Graphics from Jun Frogosa and all the Website Work from Wolf/Wolfgang Pöhler. Altogether this “Album work” it is a very long process like ca. 6-8 month!

Mnmland: Do you consider this your best installment till this date? And do you feel totally satisfied with it?

For me it feels like a time document &… when I stop to create a track: that means: it’s finished…for this little story and time only, but I am never finished , always in progress and never satisfied. I am not looking to long to what I did yesterday without forgetting the past. I have already some new ideas & wishes in my mind, but it’s quietly growing until I will find the perfect time to start a new creating time. A track is like a small story, an Album a little book & the whole work at the end of the days like a serial of life. I can’t say, what was my best track until today, because every track, that I did have a special feeling for a special moment.

Mnmland: “Goldbrokat” or “Cotton” are fabulous grooves that will have a tremendous effect in the dancefloors. But what are your favorite tracks of the album? What were the ones that gave you the most pleasure to produce?

My personal favorites are in this moment Pailletten, Goldbrokat, Mohair & Organza, because I was working very excited on these sounds. But I created every track with all my being! The ambient tracks I loved to do, too….because I was very interested to give emotions only & to create sounds for my visual minds and visions, too.

Mnmland: We’ve read that you are used to sample everything… can you tell us a little bit more about that process, and give us one or two examples of where you used those samples in this album?

Well…sometimes on journeys I am very inspirited from sounds around me, so I sample them & for some tracks I used them. I started with an MPC 2000 it is one of the optimal machine for samples! It was a shame in Japan:I heard that many interesting sounds around me, but I didn’t had enough space to bring my micro & minidisk to the trip. My Album is primarily made of sounds i developed myself, and melodies i performed,and recorded. On top, in some tracks i’m using synth samples to add depth and space to the music, for example in “Zellulose Wind, Goldbrokat, Mohair (2Samples by Gabriel Ananda), Brokat or Cotton.

Mnmland: You started doing music pretty young in a Jazz Band. What got you into techno then?

It’s a longer process I went more & more into electronic music for my own dance_choreographies. Classical & electronic Music gave me the optimum for inspiration for this kind of Graham Modern Dance Techniques. Also I was more interested to create a whole creation of a track than just to learn one instrument. I learned a bit of guitar, piano, flute, kalimba, kongas, but to hear just one instrument all the time bored me after a while. For this I adore Jimi Hendrix or Miles Davis!

Mnmland: What would you prefer, Playing for 50.000 people that would swallow anything you would give them, or playing for 100 people that would absolutely murder you for the mistakes you (could) make during a set? (We are not taking any sides here)

I love to play for open minded people & on a great soundsystem! I can be the same glad with lots or less people, it depends of the people.

Mnmland: What artists, producers & labels are inspiring you at the moment?

I am inspired mainly from sounds. But also this inspiration can change from time to time! It depends what I am looking for! & I am nearly sure, that I will forget to list many artists or sounds (also from the past), that I love! But exactly in this second I think about:

Sir Simon Rattle Film musicians

Xhin (Stroboscopic Artefacts), I love especially his Experiments & I am looping some sounds for my Set.

Milton Bradley (Do not resist the Beat/Prologue) did a Remix for my Organza Track (will be released in February on Prologue) & there are some Sounds inside, that it´s the future for me.

All Sounds from Artists on Prologue (Giorgio Gigli, Donato Dozzy, Dino Sabatini&Modern Heads, Milton Bradley, Obtane, Claudio PRC, Iori, Juho Kahilainen, Samuli Kemppi)

All Artists on Sandwell District Monolake on Monolake Sleeparchive (nearly all Tracks&Remixes) Zzz

Former Plasticman & Richie Hawtin Records

Some Troy Pierce Records BVDUB (nearly all tracks)

Basic Channel

Some Tracks from Jichael Mackson

Hubble

Mike Parker

Nuel

Pendle Coven

Xyramat

Kevin Gormann

Echospace&_cord

Jens Zimmermann

Modern Love

Son. Sine

Mnmland: We take you as a quite mysterious person! Who are you outside the music? In what do you like to spend your time?

For the outside of music isn´t that much time, but in these times I love to be very private within: Silence, diving and snorkeling, running in unknown forests, brilliant dinners, friends, colors & forms, architecture, nature, films & documentations and Design, reading, writing.

Mnmland: Some quick questions now… What are the places you enjoy playing the most?

All venues with a good soundsystem, an open minded crowd, sympathic Organizers, interesting rooms and beautiful Visuals (like Heiligenblut or Mo) were amazing & it´s always a cooperation between the crowd, all surroundings & me, if the night is great for all of us! This year I remember some very special moments also @: “Mariananight/Warehouse 705” in Tokyo/Japan “The Office” in Stockholm/Sweden “G” in Okinawa/Japan “Klickklackklub/Artheater” in Cologne/Germany “Fusionfestival” in Lärz/Germany

Mnmland: Analog or Digital?

I played 10 years Vinyl only& switched to Tractor Scratch Pro at New Year 2008/2009 @ Klickklackklub/Artheater Cologne. I was very nervous, but it´s working very well and I found many features, that makes sense to me. I was always dreaming to play the best moments of a track only (some tracks are perfectly allaround for me of course,) & for these ones, that I just like a part of … I just loop that favorite part! But I will love forever the haptic feeling with vinyl, too! For producing I was dreaming always from a analogue Studio: all in one…and I started with the MPC 2000! To this time I am working on a computer with Sequencer Programms. At the End I love the best Technic but less as possible, because to much Programms and equipment could keep you away from creating & ideas.

Mnmland: Favorite record of all time?

In this moment: Plasticman _ Consumed

Thanks a lot for the interview, minimaland.com wishes good luck to you and your productions. Bye

Read More about “Cio D’or – Die Faser”, our album of the year, here!

“I like hypnotic techno, it gives
people this sense of endlessness,
this infinity that trance doesn’t achieve.”

Time for the first album on Prologue ever. There was only one artist they could think about to do that: Cio D´Or. Her sets Emotional, extravagant and charismatic. She doesn´t just play music, she lives it. At 17 she was already playing congas in a 7-person jazz band, and her staged dance choreographies were inspired by the likes of Brian Eno and David Byrne. Encounters with Acid Maria, Electric Indigo ( whom she joined for Female Pressure), Tobi Neumann and Richard Bartz let to her infamous residency at the legendary Munich club „Ultraschall“, while she also started to run her own night „Nachtwind“ in Woandersclub and Harry Klein. Thus began her autodidactic studies of sound technology. She sampled everything and everywhere. Kitted out with minidisk and MPC 2000 she travelled several times to the Sinai. She selects her co-productions according to musical proximity and friendship – Donato Dozzy, Paul Brtschitsch and Gabriel Ananda. Most of the album consists of Cio‘s melodic minimal stylings, with deft but subtle touches of delay and reverb lending themselves to her trippy sound that makes up different kinds of fabric, from Brokat to Pailletten and Wildseide. Prologue also won the lucky draw with upcoming “Die Faser” remixes by Sleeparchive, Donato Dozzy, Milton Bradley, Pendel Coven, Samuli Kemppi, and Claudio PRC. In addition VJ Heiligenblut visualized “Goldbrokat‘. Cio also peppered the debut with three short beatless cuts („Zellulose Wind“, „Angora“ and „Seide“), adding to the drama for listeners who will want to take the album in from start to finish. Cio´s famous encouraging passion united in “Die Faser” creates a deep transparent sound architecture with the right sense of love and creativity for electronic music experiences – as expected – including a breath of ambient feelings and encapsulation into the other worlds. Lie down and release yourself to the touch of our Cio D´Or

Minimaland Feedback: Die Faser starts strong from the start. As I was listening the Intro track i already noticed that this would be a great album. Cio D’or sounds are completely different from everything else. While you’re feeling a great sense of underground music, full of strong basslines and hypnotic samples, you’re also feeling all her love for music. The way she builds her tracks are indistinguishable, and tracks like “Goldbrokat”, “Brokat” or “Pailletten” will be the delight of everybody in the dancefloors, while tracks like “Angora” or “Zellulose Wind” bring harmony to the album. For me the album of the year and a really good surprise!

1. Zellulose Wind (Intro)
2. Goldbrokat Cio D’Or
3. Mohair (The True Blue)
4. Angora (Mystic)
5. Brokat
6. Organza (Transparent Dub)
7. Seide (Tranenensalz!)
8. Pailletten
9. Samt
10. Cotton (La Petite Geisha)
11. Wildseide
12. Pailletten (Bonbonus)

Label: Prologue
Release Date: 7th December 2009
Useful links http://www.ciodor.de/
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Cio+D%27or

Paul Brtschitsch is a Berlin resident and has been producing since 1997. He is one of those genuine German producers that we so much appreciate! He had some great releases during the past years, most of them on Frisbee Tracks, one of the greatest labels ever in this kind of music.
In this release he teamed up with Cio D’or, a young talent that has already had some references in our blog due to some nice productions. Her first steps in music were playing congas in a jazz band at 17, from there she started to develop a refined taste in music and soon she appeared among the German techno scene. From there on she became one of Germany finest Djs and now she has been showing some production skills.
Aroma Ep – released on Broque – shows all their skills. This release presents some of the finest music i listened for a while. It starts with “Safran”, a pure underground track with that kind of rhythm that can’t make you stop, the bassline is up to level and the neurotic synths in the back makes it perfect. Also a reference to the construction, the sounds keep entering in the right place, just adding more and more to it. Amazing performance! Next “Ginger” appears showing up another kind of flow. This one turns up to deep roots chilling out the moods. Its a nice tune, turns well on sunny morning flavours. Ending up there’s sort of an experimental track – “kurkuma”- with three minutes, a spooky one perfect to a soundtrack.
Highly recommended.

Samples:
1 – Safran
2 – Ginger
3 – Kurkuma

Broque#015
Rls Date: 03.11.2008