Interview: This is the real Sander Kleinenberg

Interview: This is the real Sander Kleinenberg

24 April, 2009 | 11.41AM

• Written by: Kamran Kafi
• Filed under: Music News: little mountain recordings, sander kleinenberg

Sander Kleinenberg is a pioneer of DVJing and is one of the first DJs in the world to have experimented with synchronised visuals in the DJ booth.

With a new DVD album set to be released on Little Mountain Recordings early in the fall and a forthcoming world tour, we decided to catch up with Sander to ask him lots of weird questions (in the style of Bernard Pivot) in the hope of finding out more about this talented artist. We clearly caught him off guard.

This is the real Sander Kleinenberg.

What’s your favorite word?

[long pause] I have no idea, no one has ever asked me this. The first thing that popped into my mind was the word ‘blue’, so I guess I should say that.

What’s your least favorite word?

I’m not a real big fan of the word ‘negativity’.

What turns you on creatively or emotionally?

I like being on the edge, creatively. I don’t thrive very well when my limitations are endless like when I’m being pushed and I don’t have much time, or when I’m limited because of the tools that I have.

What turns you off?

Well...money. I don’t like people who are not true to themselves but do something because of what they have become or for the mere money of it.

What’s your favorite curse word?

Fuuuuuuuuuuuck!

What is your favorite noise or sound?

I love the sound of water, the deep ‘bllluuump’ sort of sound…I love that.

What sound or noise do you hate?

The sound of screeching from a super high pitched screaming woman. Awful.

What profession other than DJing would you like to attempt?

Professional wine taster. That would be fucking amazing, wouldn’t it?

I’d prefer chocolate.

Well no, chocolate gets you fat. I suppose wine gets you drunk, but oh well.

Wine tasting would be amazing, but I would want to be like a ridiculously great wine taster, one of those guys who gets flown first class around in the world so that they can give their opinion.

Sander the wine connoisseur?

Wine is brilliant. I pretend that I know a little about wine and [I want it to be] one of that skills that I achieve by hopefully when I’m 50. I will be able to read a wine list and know what this and that are.

Wine is like life. Wine and its history are amazing if you’re into history. When you take the history of wine and look at it side by side with the development of the modern world, it’s remarkable to see how the cultivation of wine goes hand in hand with the development of modern societies, as we know it.

It comes from Muscat in the Middle East where wine making was developed, hence Muscat, which is a grape from Saudi Arabia where funnily enough alcohol is now illegal, but still, it then went to the Egyptians and they gave it to the Greeks who gave it to the Romans who took it to France, and then they came across Bordeaux and thought fine we’ll do it there. In the new world it’s cultivated in Napa and Chile and South America and Australia, it’s fun.

Wow.

Well there you go.

What makes you angry?

The news...the news and media are run by mass media companies that try to influence people’s thoughts.

These companies have the intention of profit making and I generally think those are not good motives for organizations that are supposed to inform.

If there is one thing I would teach my child it’s that she needs have a filter when she navigates what’s to offer in the world, understand the different factors and motives that are involved in the information presented.

I think it’s important to be aware of what you consume, including the news and not accept what others try to project onto you. It would place things into a different perspective.

I go and DJ around the world in places like Cairo and Indonesia: They dance the same dance, they all want the same things we do, and it’s a little scary to see how on all ends many people are misguided and led to hate each other.

Some very honest and wise words. Let’s get some wine.

We asked similarly strange questions to Lee Burridge recently. Click here to read the interview.

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