D-Sens interview by Chris Honnery during his Australia tour

D-Sens interview by Chris Honnery during his Australia tour

10 March, 2009 | 1.19AM

• Written by: lunaspice
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French producer Mat Delepau, AKA D-Sens/Lunaspice, is recognized as a forward-thinking force in the underground dance scene, dividing his time between different production projects, overseeing his record label and playing at some of the world’s biggest festivals alongside the likes of Josh Wink and Thomas Schumacher. Currently in the middle of an Australia tour which included the closing set at the Deep As Fu*k Pirates Of The Underground II boat party and will culminate with a slot at the notorious Rainbow Serpent festival, Mat is enjoying bringing his sound to a fresh audience.

“The boat party was amazing… it’s a great tour,”
he says.

His affinity with Australia can be linked to his strong relationship with the Sydney-based label BEEF Records.

“I was honoured to be on Beef’s first Prime Cuts compilation,”
Mat affirms.

“We work together quite often for remixes or bookings, and it’s a pleasure to work together as we have many things in common in terms of our taste and life perspectives.”

While releasing as both D-Sens and Lunaspice, Mat explains the distinction between the two monikers.

“As D-Sens I’m geared towards a trippy techno sound, mixed with minimal and proghouse,”
he says.

“Lunaspice is a fresh progressive live act that was created in 2000 with my partner Steven. We decided to join our ideas to create progressive trance music that wasn’t simply fast, aggressive or overly melodic music. We released an album and have had many tracks featured on compilations over the past few years, but I found I needed to express myself more freely and be able to produce tracks from many different styles that did not suite Lunaspice, so I created my alter ego ‘D-Sens’, which is a bit more minimal and twisted without style boundaries.”

Mat is also one of the organisers of the well-known Arcadia Festival, which is fast developing a reputation as one of France’s leading electronic music festivals. It has now run for five years, and he is clearly extremely proud of the annual event.

“We try to join nature with electronica and people and create a dance party that celebrates an alternative way of living,”
he says.

“The music is a good excuse to bring people together and give them a nice, comfortable and colorful playground.”

While formerly running Submachine records with DJ Natas, Mat has recently launched his own label, BUS Records.

“With Sub Machine we reached a point where we’d done what we wanted to do and finally got stuck in a ‘style box’ and couldn’t really go out of this box… many of us had different needs and tastes and were going in different directions. Bus records had no style limitations and no boundaries, we just want to release good music and promote fresh artists by remixing them with top-notch producers.”

Most recently the label experienced huge success on Beatport with the Cubic Loop EP, which included a remix from D - Nox & Beckers, and Mat has plenty of reason to expect further success in the New Year as well.

“I have started working on a new album for Lunaspice, the last one was in 2004 so it is probably time now,”
he says.

“Progressive trance has taken a new turn and I quite like the new direction.”

Mat also emphasizes that D-Sens will remain a more personal and fluid outlet.

“With D-Sens I’m focusing more on remixing and preparing a few singles, I really want to keep the project free from any specific styles and don’t want to bow to requests from inside the music industry to release an album.”

Interview by Chris Honnery

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