All Our Childhood We Were Sportsmen.First Sport Was Football,After-Boxing

MusicForever interview

By way of introduction tell us something about yourself, because people in Hungary couldn’t hear too much about.

Hello.We are Michael and Levan Dunamalyans.Armenian guys born here,in capital of Georgia,Tbilisi Michael is elder,he is 24 and Levan is 22. All our childhood we were sportsmen.First sport was football,after-boxing. When Michael get 17 years old,he left boxing and began studying in universuty. At that time Levan was perspective boxer and even became a champion of our country,hehe . When he get 17 years old, he began studying too in the same university. At this days we are just started studying to produce electronic music.:)

You are djs and producers at the same time. Which had started first?

We began producing together the same time.Learn everything by ourselves.The taste was the same,and that’s why we were listening to the same music,and producing the same sound.But dj of us is only Levan (Dj MichaeLevan).Michael started to learn dj-ing just now. For today Levan is a perspective DJ/Producer( with me  ) in Georgia, our progressive sound in tracks brought us respect among many famous DJs and producers .Levan is a resident of Tunnel club; in his sets you can always feel deep dark and melodic sounds of progressive house, which never dies! Also we are often invited to various radioshows all over the world.We were guests at „Immersed” radioshow on friskyradio,”Tronik sessions”on AZ FM,”Dark senses” on Pure fm,”Raining sessions” on ADN fm,”Lacandon sessions” on Jenny fm.Soon on 29 of March we will be guests at russian radiostation „Adam” with show called „Tranceplantation exclusive” .

You are brothers. Tell us, how did it happen you work together?

In 1996 year we were in Moscow.And everything start there.First time we heard the sound of Robert Miles. Miles was first musician who acted on us very strongly.After we decided to produce,make the sound we LOVE.When our father bought first PC,we began searching for any music programms for producing.

What was the main determinative influence that lead you to start producing?

When we were listening to the tracks,we were always searching to the sound we love. It was too hard to find it in Georgia.And when we got the PC,we began producing. Step by step we were coming closer to the sound which we wanted to produce.And at this days i think we reached it,and want to show people the sound which harms our health in perfect case of sense.

What’s the division of labour during music making/producing? We never begin producing together :) One of us begins and the other one continues,and during this job,we help each other.Never conflicting to each other during producing . In life?Ooo yes! Hehe  But we always look for compromiss 

Who are the compatriots that you can thanks a lot to, and helped you, or still support you on your career?

In Georgia we can say thanks to our family,our friend - George Gvindadze which is always with us and helps everytime,David Nucubidze(head of booking team „Local Promotion”)...And we want to say many thanks to Dj Mewell, Snake Sedrick,Tomas Haverlik,Alex Rize,Lokitas and many other djs,producers,people... And we want to say special thanx to the great person.His name is Kintar-awesome Argentinian producer/DJ and superb friend of us,like a real Brother.He is the guy,who helps us with inspiration,promotion,music,mastering,helps also with music quality to sound clearer.In a word-helps us with EVERY THING.Real professional of his job.I wish him all the best and also wish to reach the top places to his label „Sudam”-as he says „our family” .

If I’m right, your first records have some hungarian respects, as they were released at Snake Sedrick’s Tilth Music label. How did you get in contact?

Yes,our tracks„My child on the pictures” and „Digital bird”(ambient) will be out at Tilthmusic. Our friend, Dj Mewell from Ukraine adviced us to send the tracks to Snake Sedrick.The next day we sent the tracks,Sedrick answered and told us that at that moment „My child on the pictures” is favourite tune for him.He asked us not to send that tracks to any other labels:)As we are informed„My child on the pictures”will be released in April with Snake Sedrick remix and may be with Tomas Haverlik remix on Tilthmusic.We have another releases in April too.Two tracks called „Night colours” and „Cosmobird” will present us as artists of „Sudam recordings”.

How is your relationship nowadays with him?

Is very nice.We often write to each other and always keep contact.Snake is real professional of his job.Big respects to him!

Do you keep contact with others from Hungary?

Yes, we know some Hungarian djs and producers.Big respect to all of them.. But don’t know them so close as Snake Sedrick.Sometimes we discuss news and music with great Hungarian producer Retroid too. Hope one day we will be invited to Hungary to play.And it would be great opportunity to acquaint closer with them. Maybe lots of people could interest about how is the Georgian music scene. Would you tell us a few words about it?

Here u can find all the sound u want.But most is electro and minimal.And of course,POP music.It is everywhere.Nowadays,thanx god we have some promotional booking companies,who often invite great djs to play here.

Have you already got chance to appear abroad, or shown your talent only on homefields?

No,Never had that great chance.Levan has played just in Georgia yet.Hope soon we will be invited to play abroad too.May be it will be Hungary first?hehe 

Finally, please tell us few words about your future plans.

We will try to make more killer tracks to show our senses,feelings to the people :) And really hope once we will meet Kintar,Snake Sedrick,Tomas Haverlik,Mewell and other friends to say thanx and spend great time together. Thanks to all of them again and again! We want to say thanx to „Musicforever” too. Big respect for popularization of progressive music!U r great!Keep up!:)

Musicforever (József Holló) www.musicforever.hu