Steppas Choice: Interview with THIRD

Because we never do Interviews in the show I decided to do some Interviews for the Steppas Choice Blog. So here is the first with the unknown man they call THIRD! So here we go:

C4TR: Name?

Third: THIRD

C4TR: Representing?

Third: ONE UNION

C4TR: Based / Home?

Third: Somewhere in the dust of Suburbia Zurich in an old chemical industry complex near the toxic waste in a little shelter

C4TR: How did you get into music?

Third: …don’t know… all of a sudden she was there and told me what to do… since that day I’m her slave

C4TR: What’s your story?

Third: In the beginning there was a shadow… ahhh no I think I skip that… arrm let’s continue her and then there was this incredible hunger for more bass… and all of a sudden I found Dubstep… and my obsession started… since then I’m spending the nights with playing on my drumset made out of old Oil and chemical stuff tuns and also my rhythmical section made out of plastic bins and cardboard boxes. Everything is hooked up to an old industrial computer by a ton of fisher price children microphones. The computer is also connected to my old VHS Player. So I’m sitting in the dark in deep meditation listening to some beats and watch some old videos, which were once disposed of here by some heavy truck.

C4TR: How long have you been producing music?

Third: Since I emerged here in this old factory

C4TR: How long have you been djing?

Third: nope… I’m not Djing… no talent and my old gramophone won’t be a good thing to do it with…

C4TR: Biggest tune so far?

Third: “Do something” with a man like UNFINISHED and a Thing called THIRD behind the buttons. Was nice to meet this guy and spend hours behind all the machines. But I don’t know if you can call it big… and “4 3 2 1”

C4TR: What inspires or influences you?

Third: Ideas, Thoughts, Shadows, Whispers in the Dark, anything can be an Influence! Inspiration is my surrounding… the waste of a lost generation… the rust of the old glory days…

C4TR: What track would you most like to have written?

Third: …gosh! A lot! Anything from Mala, Kode9 & Kromestar…or some of the tunes Youngsta plays in his set, where I don’t even know who's done it… but actually it’s good that they did it… and I’m happy with what I do…

C4TR: Who is your favourite DJ / Producer and why?

Third: Too many… Mala is definitively in top list also Kromestar, Kode9, Distance, Rusko, Orien, Hatcha, El-B, Horsepower, Silkie, Heny G, Quest, … as I said too many to mention… in general I’m more into the deep - meditation stuff but also all the other styles… always depends on my mood

C4TR: Who has been the most supportive of you or your production?

Third: You should tell me that… no basically you C4TR for asking for my beats and playing them on STEPPAS CHOICE! I don’t know to whom you gave my tracks!

C4TR: DJ Unfinished, Broods, Faustizm, Kolt’, DJ Riddlah, Moonshine…

Third: and did they like it?

C4TR: Well, yeah I think so because they all asked me for your tracks

Third: good to hear… A massive shout out to those guys! Out to One Union! Out to NXT LVL!

C4TR: Weapon of Choice:

Third: Anything that is able to create a sound! And ridiculous amounts of bass pressure!

C4TR: What event would you most like to play at and why?

Third: I would love to hear my tunes at a Night like DMZ or FWD>> or on RINSE.FM! But actually I’m already quiet happy with hearing them on a bigger system or in your Radio Show! I also would like to see people that skank out properly to one of my tunes!

C4TR: Proudest moment to date:

Third: Don’t know… probably right now just some seconds ago when you told me to whom you gave my tracks…

C4TR: What’s the best way to get on in life?

Third: don’t mess with the ghosts living in a deserted factory; smile while struggling and keep your head up! Be conscious about what you’re doing and do the things you do with passion and love!

C4TR: What’s your poison?

Third: Behind my shelter there is a crack in the old wall they built around some kind of reactor. A green substance is leaking out through that crack and mixed with some gin or pure this is the shit! But I’m also happy with that drink you call beer! I also smoke a certain weed that grows during summer near the broken canalisation. It is kind of like your weed but a lot stronger.

C4TR: What’s your ideal night out?

Third: To be honest I don’t leave my shelter often… but an ideal night for me is a night like the night when I first met you: I woke up in a Backyard in Hackney. Found some bread and a brand new cash clipper with eight ten pound banknotes attached to it. So I went and bought some vinyl. It was Friday night and all of a sudden I ran into some old friends and went with them to sink some beers… hours later and in a pretty good condition out to the street again to FWD>> to hear Youngsta and N-Type. Had some beers, listened to the wickedest tunes out there on a massive system and met some good people like you… and I saw a stunning girl that night!

C4TR: What’s the best studio advice you’ve been given?

Third: The women whispering to me all that sweet melody!

C4TR: What’s your best studio advice?

Third: Ideas are worth lot more than expensive studio equipment!

C4TR: What’s next for you?

Third: Chase you little bastard out of my shelter! Haha! No serious… Don’t know… doing some new tracks at the moment… trying to do more… trying to improve my skills… and hope to do some tracks with some of the One Union Mates!

C4TR: Last thing: I give you a word and you tell me what comes to your mind:

Green: and sticky is better than brown and dry

Bass: absolutely necessary to live

Steppas Choice: Wicked Radio Show on a Monday Night: My Tracks get played there! Haha!

Pink: don’t mix them with the yellow ones!

Best Party so far in Switzerland: Hatcha b2b Youngsta with Crazy D at Le Zoo / Usine Geneva

C4TR: Top Five Dubstep Tunes at the moment:

Third:

1. Skream "The Shining" (Forthcoming Deep Medi)
   
2. Unfinished & Third "Do something" (Unreleased)
   
3. Quarta 330 "Sunset Dub" (Hyperdub)
   
4. Doctor and Cotti "Temperature" (Unreleased)
   
5. Mala "Bury da Bwoy"
   

C4TR: Famous last words and shout outs

Third: Big up to Mr. Unfinished! Out to the One Union Gang! Largin'up Mr.Blade and the whole NXT LVL CRW! Out to the Unreleased Kollektiv! Out to Radio Dadio! Out ot Subbus Crew and the Spainzerland Massive! Keep it growing!

C4TR: Thanks for the Interview!