What follows are excerpts from the interview with Filo & Peri done by TranceSphere writer Ryne Tyme. The entire interview transcript can be read, and the recording in mp3 format downloaded, in The View section of TranceSphere Radio's website. The interview was recorded on March 11, 2004 - but because of technical difficulities wasn't available until now. Cheers and Enjoy!

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Ryne Tyme: You guys have a great website, www.filoandperi.com that has a biography and tells a lot about your past, but in case nobody has read that yet, give me a little history about what inspired both of you guys to get involved in productions and how you ended up as filo and peri

Dom: From a kid, I always wanted to be involved in music in some way. In the 80s I always wanted to be a rock star, I played the guitar in the 80s and the piano as well. I was in bands in high school and college and when I kind of figured out that wasn’t going to work out, I got introduced into the club scene and started making electronic dance music. My first productions weren’t really much of trance, I am not sure what you can call it, if you can even call it electronic music. It just went from there and I actually started listening to real trance in 2001 and from there I kept going up until I was making something that sounded like trance.

Bo: My story is a little different, I grew up with electronic music my whole life. My dad was a really avid fan of early pioneers of electronic music: Tangerine Dream, all those guys, so I grew up listening to that and it really got me started. Then about 4-5 years ago I downloaded Fruity Loops, and started making music on my computer, kept saving up for gear, building up a small studio. I kept making tracks until I met Dom, it hasn’t even been a year; we’ve known each other for about 7-8 months. We met online through a friend, and just met up one day and came to the studio and after the first week had a track signed to Armada. It worked and here we are.

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Ryne Tyme: What is your favorite memory, like what will you take from this conference and remember the most?

Dom: For me it was seeing Tiesto play Niagara. Maybe I am kind of exaggerating but I felt it got the same crowd response as when Tiesto played Traffic. I was down there and I wasn’t expecting him to play it, but it was overwhelming when I had 50 TAs coming up to me and saying nice job. The crowd reaction was great, the lights were really good, Tiesto was jumping up and down, to me, it was just really cool. In the past, when Armin played the tracks, I never saw the crowd reaction in the same way as when Tiesto played that particular record.

Bo: I don’t know, it was my first time, so I got to see everything such as Ultra, for the first time. The whole experience, I was a little worried about the whole state of trance in general in the states. In New York it is a pretty weak scene in terms of trance, but going down to Miami, especially at Ultra, seeing all those people going crazy, it was reassurance that …

Bo/Dom (in unison): Trance is still alive!

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Ryne Tyme: Yeah it has really been affecting by shutdowns, Sound Factory recently got shut down by drugs and stuff like that, the Rave Act; what changes do you guys think you’ll be able to make to the scene, coming from New York?

Bo: I feel like trance in general lost the party aspect of it over the years. It is just a bunch of guys listening and analyzing the mixes. When I go to a party at least, there really is no party aspect of it. When we were in Miami, everyone was going nuts and everyone was having a good time. We sort of want to bring the party back into parties I guess you could say.

Dom: The other thing we want to do, coming from New York, I know a lot of the European guys feel that the American producers can’t make trance. Gabriel & Dresden and Markus Schulz were some of the first guys to really show that the American producers can make trance. Here we are, two guys from New York, and we want to make trance just as good as these guys from Europe, and that is the big thing that we want to do being from New York, because there isn’t too many people in the states that do it.

Bo: It is kind of ironic, ya know, trance coming out of the Bronx.

Dom: Yeah especially coming out of the Bronx.

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