Vol.41Autumn2013

ENTERPRISE

Efi Gousi

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Vol.41Autumn2013

ENTERPRISE

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Roadrunner Athanasios k. Margaritidis

Marivilla Marivi fuentes

What's up Doc? konstantinos letsas

Made By Grey Antonis Hatzimichalis

One Of A Kind irini Michopoulou

Martha Foka

Hong Kong Architecture

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The Architecture of Hong kong fea-tures great empha-sis on Contemporary architecture, espe-cially Modernism, Post-modernism, function-

alism, etc. Due to the lack of available land, few historical buildings remain in the urban areas of Hong kong. However, Hong kong has become a centre for modern architecture as older buildings are cleared away to make space for newer, larger build-ings. it has more buildings above 35m (or 100m) and more skyscrap-ers above 150m than any other city. Hong kong's skyline is often con-sidered to be the best in the world, with the surrounding mountains and victoria Harbour complement-ing the skyscrapers.

EuRoPEaN aRchITEcTuREMeanwhile, the British intro-duced victorian and Edwardian ar-chitecture styles from the mid-19th century onwards. notable surviving examples include the legislative Council Building, the Central Po-lice station and Murray House. one building that has since been demol-ished was the Hong kong Club Build-ing; it was built atop a smaller struc-ture designed in italian renaissance revival style in 1897. the building was the subject of a bitter herit-age conservation struggle in the late 1970s, which ultimately failed to save the building.the first building in Hong kong to be classified as the first high rise was constructed between June 1904 and

December 1905. it consisted of 5 ma-jor buildings, each stacking 5 to 6 stories high. the structures were raised by the Hong kong land com-pany under Catchick Paul Chater-and James Johnstone keswick.Most high rise buildings to be built afterwards were for business pur-poses; the first true skyscraper in Hong kong was built for Hongkong-Bankin 1935, which was also the first building in Hong kong to have air conditioning; however this has since been replaced with the HsBC Main Building, Hong kong of 1985. likewise the few examples of 1930s stream-line Moderne and Bauhaus archi-tecture in Hong kong, such as the-Central Market and the wan Chai Market, are facing imminent demo-litions despite protests from herit-age conservation groups.in the residential sector, multi-sto-ry buildings did not appear until the Buildings ordinance 1955 lifted the height limit of residential build-ings. this change was necessitated by the massive influx of refugees into Hong kong after the Commu-nist revolution in China in 1949, and the subsequent shek kip Mei slum fire in 1953. Public housing estates, originally seven-storeys high with notoriously cramped conditions, public bathrooms and no kitchens, were hastily built to accommodate the homeless; meanwhile private apartments, still tightly packed into city blocks like the tong lau of old, had grown to over 20 stories high by the mid-1960s.the private housing estate began in 1965 with Mei foo sun Chuen.

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the first major private construction came from swire properties in 1972 with the development of middle-class estate of taikoo shing. with lit-tle space wasted on statues or land-marks that consumed unnecessary real estate, taikoo shing's design was the new standard.

coNTEmPoRaRy aRchITEcTuREuntil the late 1990s, the primary de-mand for high-end buildings was in and around Central. the buildings of Central comprise the skyline along the coast of the victoria Harbour, a famous tourist attraction in Hong kong. But until kai tak Airport closed in 1998, strict height restrictions were in force in kowloon so that air-planes could come in to land. these restrictions have now been lifted and many new skyscrapers in kow-loon have been constructed, includ-ing the international Commerce Center at the west kowloon recla-mation, which has been the tallest building in Hong kong since its com-pletion in 2010.Many commercial and residential towers built in the past two decades are among the tallest in the world, including Highcliff, the Arch, and the Harbourside. still, more towers are under construction, like one island East. At present, Hong kong has the world's biggest skyline with a total of 7,681 skyscrapers, placing it ahead of even new york City, despite the fact that new york is larger in area. Most of these were built in past two dec-ades.

Hong kong's best-known building is probably i. M. Pei's Bank of China tower. the building attracted heat-ed controversy from the moment its design was released to the pub-lic, which continued for years after the building's completion in 1990. the building was said to cast nega-tive feng shui energy into the heart of Hong kong due to the building's sharp angles. one rumour even went so far as to say that the nega-tive energy was concentrated on the Government House as a Chinese plot to foil any decisions taken there. the two white aerials on top on the building were deemed inauspicious as two sticks of incense are burned for the dead.one of the largest construction projects in Hong kong has been the new Hong kong international Air-port on Chek lap kok near lantau, which was the most extensive sin-gle civil engineering project ever undertaken. Designed by sir nor-man foster, the huge land reclama-tion project is linked to the centre of Hong kong by the lantau link, which features three new major bridges: the world's sixth largest suspension bridge, tsing Ma, which was built in 1997, connecting the islands of tsing yi and Ma wan; the world's long-est cable-stayed bridgecarrying both road and railway traffic, kap shui Mun, which links Ma wan and lantau; and the world's first major 4-span cable-stayed bridge, ting kau, which connects tsing yi and the mainland new territories.

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Drug-induced sudden cardiac death

Recent data have shown that sudden cardiac death occurs in the absence of coronary heart disease or other cardiomyopathy in about 5-10% of cases. Cer-tain primary electrical dis-

eases such as the long Qt syndrome, the short Qt syndrome, the Brugada syndrome, and the catecholaminer-gic polymorphic ventricular tachycar-dia may be underling cause of sudden cardiac death in this group of subjects without over structural heart disease. Apart from the congenital form of these syndromes, accumulating data have shown that an increasing number of drugs commonly prescribed in rou-tine clinical practice are implicated in acquired forms of long Qt syndrome, short Qt syndrome, and Brugada syn-drome predisposing to sudden cardiac death in the absence of structural heart disease. Drug-induced proarrhythmia represents a great challenge for those involved in the development of novel pharmaceuticals and in the regulatory bodies for drug approval as well as for

Konstantinos Letsas, mD

second Department of Cardiology, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, Greecee-mail: k.letsas@mail.gr

Drug-induced sudden cardiac death

the prescribing clinicians. our under-standing of the mechanisms that un-derlie drug-induced proarrhythmia has grown dramatically over the last two decades. Although, genetic susceptibil-ity underlie drug-induced proarrhyth-mia in certain cases, current data are limited regarding this topic.several cardiac and non-cardiac agents have been shown to prolong cardiac repolarization (Qt interval) predispos-ing to torsades de pointes polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and sudden cardiac death. Antimicrobials and psy-chotropic drugs are the most common non-cardiac drugs involved in drug-in-duced Qt interval prolongation, which in the vast majority of cases are pre-scribed by non-cardiologists. A full list of these drugs can be accessed via the internet (www. torsades.org, www.qt-drugs.org, www.longqt.org, www. sads.org). Advanced age (>60 years), female gender, hypertension and paroxysmal atrial tachyarrhythmias were the most common identifiable pre-existing risk factors. Polypharmacy should also be

considered as a risk factor for drug-induced Qt interval prolongation. the unifying concept of “reduced cardiac repolarization reserve” has been pro-posed to explain the mechanism by which some patients are rendered more susceptible than others to the Qt-prolonging effects of drugs. silent mutations and/or polymorphisms in genes encoding cardiac ion channels leading to a reduced cardiac repolari-zation reserve hold the key to under-standing why healthy individuals will be exposed to risk for Qt interval prolon-gation when taking medication for un-related causes.the short Qt syndrome, a new highly arrhythmogenic syndrome affecting young and healthy individuals without structural heart disease, is associated with a predisposition to atrial fibrilla-tion and sudden cardiac death. limited data exist regarding the incidence and the underlying mechanisms of drug-in-duced Qt shortening.the Brugada syndrome is a primary electrical disease characterized by

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coved type st-segment configuration in right precordial leads, the absence of structural heart disease, and a high risk of ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac death. there are two principal hypotheses on the pathophysiologic basis of Brugada syndrome: the “depolarization hypoth-esis”, namely right ventricular con-duction delay, and the “repolarization hypothesis”, namely transmural disper-sion of right ventricular action potential morphology, driven by the loss of the spike and dome action potential mor-phology at right ventricular epicardium. An increasing number of drugs have been reported to induce the diagnostic electrocardiographic pattern of Bru-gada syndrome and/or (fatal) arrhyth-mias in Brugada syndrome patients. An-esthetics and psychotropic drugs are the most common non-cardiac drugs involved in drug-induced Brugada syn-drome. the full list of these drugs can be assessed in the following website: www.brugadadrugs.org. Drug-induced proarrhythmia should always be considered as a predictor of sudden cardiac death and should prompt critical revaluation of risks and benefits of the suspicious medication. in clinical practice, adverse effects can be prevented by not exceeding the recommended dose, by restricting the dose in patients with pre-existing risk factors and avoiding concomitant ad-ministration with other agents.

rEfErEnCEs1. letsas kP, kavvouras C, kollias G, tsikri-

kas s, korantzopoulos P, Efremidis M, sideris A. Drug-induced Brugada syn-drome by noncardiac Agents. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2013 Aug 30. doi: 10.1111/pace.12234.

2. konstantopoulou A, tsikrikas s, As-vestas D, korantzopoulos P, letsas kP. Mechanisms of drug-induced proarrhythmia in clinical practice. world J Cardiol. 2013 Jun 26;5(6):175-85. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v5.i6.175.

3. letsas kP, Efremidis M, kounas sP, Pap-pas lk, Gavrielatos G, Alexanian iP, Dimopoulos nP, filippatos Gs, sideris A, kardaras f. Clinical characteristics of patients with drug-induced Qt in-terval prolongation and torsade de pointes: identification of risk factors. Clin res Cardiol. 2009 Apr;98(4):208-12. doi: 10.1007/s00392-008-0741-y.

4. www.torsades.org

5. www.qtdrugs.org

6. www.longqt.org

7. www.sads.org

8. www.brugadadrugs.org

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Efi Gousi

RoSE Mixed media

"i do not like to explain each of my works. i'd rather people have their own opinion or feelings against them. i love meat and meat disgusts me. i obsessively draw the color and the texture of raw meat. i love watching the butchers and market stalls with huge mountains of fresh food placed perfectly like a box of chocolates in question.i need to draw the meat because it calls me and disgusts me at the same time. the beauty of normal and luxury objects, such as food, constantly at-tracts me while i watch every detail of its shape and colors.People need to cook something to relax, i need to draw that food for a living. i like to say that i do portraits of food."

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Mariví fuentes, or Marivilla for friends, has a degree in fine Arts and Master of Art Production for the Po-litecnic university of valencia, spain. since 2003 has participated in numer-ated individual numbers and group national and internationally exhibi-tions showing her plastic artwork and since 2010 she's working like free-lance illustrator from Barcelona for various companies such as Francis montesinos, un día diferente, netoliet and andrea martinez, catalan design-er with currently continues to work in diferents fashion projects.

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''Midsummer night's Dream"directed by Michael Marmarinos,

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''Erofili synopsis'', the space theatre Company, directed by simos kakalas, Athens festival 2012.

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''windstrasse'' from the dance theater X-it, choreographed by fotis nikolaou (photo Alexander niagos).

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Born in thessaloniki in 1984. in 2008, she graduated from the school of Drama theatre of northern Greece. since then, she works in theater as an actress and has di-rected three performances («Me-dea 4.48», «chez Alba», «fuite or the three sisters»). in the last year, deals with photography and film. Her first short film «la nuance bleue du profond rouge» pre-miere on 7th tisff 2013 (tHEss international short film festival).

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SToRyLINEAn ex-boxer, Greg, works for a strong loan shark in Athens, Markos. He and his partner are assigned the difficult project to collect back money and interests from borrowers. they both come across everyday people that have been affected by the financial crisis and they get loans which they have to payoff by deadlines! Greg starts having moral concerns when things go bad and has to choose between his job and starting a new life with an ambitious actress he falls for. But a well kept secret from his past will quickly make him reconsider his life and force him to collide with everyone and everything to make the final payoff.

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starring:Greg terzakisyiorgos Giannopoulosyannis BostanztoglouEleni filiniChris theofilatos

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interview by niki sorogas

one man project Made By Grey (An-tonis Hatzimichalis) is a newborn color on our sky, combin-ing any describable shade of black and

white post-rock aural chroma.“i have written a wicked book,and feel spot-less as the lamb” is the name of the fresh E.P, teasingly a letter in a letter (as we see later on). A musical incep-tion from one dream to another. this passage marking the statement of Antonis Hatzimichalis (ex member of the Autumn leaf science), was ac-complished with the means of any available equipment and the help of friends, individuals and a minimum budget cost. violins,trumpets,vocals,Drums,Guitar,Bass,Piano and Concert Bells are the powerful musical drives used for this recorded creativity with over the top mark quality in sound sophistication. His work is awaiting your full support and lend an ear on bandcamp, so the next album can get in line. the holding moods in the four songs EP are a total noise of a fearless breathtaking dive. A sea of dynamic waves and flowing sound-scapes. its a dejavu.A movie you taught yourself the scenes once and wanted to repeat the monologue of a lost but found searcher. Each time you will bypass a different ethereal thunderstorm of sensual confronta-tion. sweet agony progressions will collide you into talented instrumen-tation and you wont forget those cli-maxes... post rock is alive...a touch-stone for the near future...

lets start with the simple things, where did your project name come from, and is grey your favorite color?

no. i was looking for project name when i was still writing ideas for the demo back in 2011. A friend popped it up as a thought, it sounded perfect to me, it looked beautiful on paper and that’s when i made it actually mine.

your also band member of “The Au-tumn leaf Science”. Was the choice of going solo, intended in this short period of time for a reason, was it somewhere parallel with things in your mind ready to get out? i believe being a band member and having a personal project is the same coin with two complement sides.

yes, i was. we have broken up. the work of Made By Grey, existed as an idea, and as a fact initially the Au-tumn leaf science was an experimen-tal preparation for this project. Along the way, we loved what we were do-ing and captured it as a phase for a band (the Autumn leaf science) and when we stopped diggin it, we stopped playing. speaking always on a personal level, i prefer writing mu-sic alone, even when i find the music experience more complete and pow-erful with a jam, a group recording, the inside jokes etc.

Does the word timing for you have an impact on the choices (in music) we make,or the chances/decisions we grasp for new challenges these dif-ficult times?

certainly

your album's title jitter-ed me with fascination and after a few search-es i came across the passage from, “A letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)” writen by Herman Melville (Moby Dick). Always being curious i want to know the intended use of it and whats the personal mean-ing for you. Do you believe in those secret messages that fans have to dive in and feel some what con-nected?

initially, the album was to be called just “Made by grey”. i changed it the last day... with this phrase of which is so powerful, in order that each and everyone can understand the mean-ing that it has in oneself. in that let-ter of nathaniel, its just a beautiful phrase for me, and nothing more.However, isolated and used as an al-bum title it does indeed have a deep-er meaning to me. i wouldn’t want to spoil your meaning or any one else by telling you mine though. surely im honored and touched with your thoughts, and i like raising the inter-est of a listener that loves searching my music for something..anything..there are always things to search for behind music, there are always interpretations and symbols even when they really don’t exist, that is the freedom of perception, as to the freedom of expression.

At first when i listened to the album, it seemed like a full band and not a one man show! This is how warm the music feels to my ears. Tell me how did you achieved this kind of sound in the recordings...

first of all i want to thank you for

your warmth..i don’t know if it has been achieved yet or not, but for sure i would have had wanted for it to be successfully achieved. i wanted the project “Made by grey” to have a rock aesthetic and to give a feeling of a full band playing behind it and for it. for this purpose i avoided to use samples of musical organs/instru-ments and wherever it was needed, i would call a session musician to play my arrangements, so i could imprint that “human factor”.

What is your opinion of computer-ized music.Do you believe comput-ers are our friend or enemies, and when you record an album to you have an algorithm or go with the flow...

with a knife you can cut a piece of bread and at the same time take a life.. i believe computers are good tools and for sure if i wrote on reel to reel analog tape, i would have had many more difficulties to overcome. Also, i like some forms of electronic music a lot and a PC is my friend... i don’t like the low standards though, that have been forming in the pro-ductions with the easy use of any sort of samples. i also don’t like the fact, that serious musicians have less work or even no work in the end. Evenmore, i get annoyed by people listening more and more to music from youtube and even worse only from the poor speakers of a laptop. when i record, i have some kind of flowing momentum, that can change, something can change, at any mo-ment. i always have that something on my mind, but there is always a

case when one melody can undo another or perhaps some kind of change in the structure of anything. it doesn’t stop until i feel ok with it. if i don’t feel it, i keep aside the idea and i start with something else.

Sarah Kane. 6 years ago i saw the play 4.48 Psychosis and was burned with the feelings. i find her again today a musical dejavu in your work.you honor her with play, “Crave”, one of my favorites (with thoughts on the Bible and aspiring TS.Eliot). Redemp-tive love, sexual desire, pain ,tor-ture of the soul, physical and psy-chological death are all key words from the monologue-climax in first song “Sunrays will make you see the clouds”. Are we optimists or pessi-mists? Why do we always have to fall into dark abyss to trust a view in the outstanding beautiful side of life. How valuable is Sarah to your insides?

i don’t like the term valuable, but i can tell you that she is a writer that i have been touched by. redemptive love and as many things sarah kane describes in Crave is just a natural query of the times we are in. we all carry some “bad material” in us and are too absorbed in forgetting that it exists (or some forget to discharge it) so much, that we don’t have the vein to look through the eyes of those that are just opposite of us and we don’t have the strength and desire to understand them in depth. Any-way, im a person that loves to live in terms of “happily”. im more creative and fulfilled that way. it does make out (though )that nearly all the tracks

that i have kept, were written in pe-riods of melancholy or worse. for some reason i prefer them.

is there a god? So we create, for that limit of eternal too...and what is your relationship with time as a factor.

the divine is a personal thing for each and everyone. its just like that glass that one finds it half full and the others half empty, even if it exists though, its surely not the thing they want to force you to believe in ,our worlds religions.My relationship with time is quite bad. so bad actually that i avoid to wear a watch and so bad that i always ask others, because i keep forgetting that i can just look at my mobile for it.

Which musical memory do you recre-ate the most?

the first time i listened to “the wall” of Pink floyd, on a walkman in the first grades of primary school.

is there always a song that “Saves you” and that you play on repeat?

i will dedicate a song to you, instead of answering the question. its “Music wont save you from anything except silence by Piano Magic”.

As for song lucky no.3 “s.i.a (skype is akward) is it a game for c.i.a or does video calling bring us together?

skype is a form of communication. for communication to bring us to-gether it depends clearly on the hu-man factor and not from the tool we use. the things in reality that bring us together is respect, honesty and straightforwardness. the thing i can

and want to tell you for that particu-lar song title as for all the titles of my songs is what i said before about the album title. Each and everyone to hold on to the meaning it has for himself.

without friends we would be nothing. Do you believe in that? How could they help with the album?Ι believe in friendship. i find myself to be in the lucky group, where they have a few but substantial and trust-ed ones.As for the production of the album, there were substantial friends that were by my side one way or an-other...

your a Diy kind a guy. We love the word freedom. Tell me, can we transfer the word Diy in other things in life so we can be Human after all?

Diy is a form of perspective. i appre-hend to it in my music. you on the oth-er side might have made improvised couches for your home from wooden pallets. its where you turn your anten-nas to see if it has any kind of appli-cation in where you want it to. i think though that the Diy perspective is lim-ited in materials or implementations of things and you cant transfer it in matters such as friendship, love and interpersonal relationships

Some believe that post-rock has left us, are we in the after the post-rock era, has the genre other things to provide? Why do we love those cli-maxes.. i believe you want to get into music for soundtracks, will we be waiting for some new projects to arise?

i think im the first that’s playing meta

modern nu post post rock (just kid-ding!)to be honest it doesn’t concern me. i just want good music to come out and am interested in making that kind of music flow through my ears. Post rock is just a term that was used in mojo to describe the music of Bark Psychosis. others say that Bark Psychosis played slow core.. others talk about post-rock and they put brutal vocals in the group which is really death metal with delay on guitars ( luckily for us they have accepted the term post-metal). i believe that we have to pass this dis-engagement with the genres, and an-ything easily digestible but mainly we have to disengage from this need for innovation. Music has a need for in-spiration and not innovation... as long as there is inspiration, evolution is the only outcome...As for the second question, you will hear soon about a project im pre-paring with “Anadelta” and even sooner about another release from me as “lack of sleep” (my insomniac alter ego). there are other things that are under conversation and not ready to be announced yet...

What difficulties did you come across in the makings of the record and will you need an extra hand of help in the future?

the biggest difficulty i had to over-come, was to tame myself and get or-ganized.. i have a big issue with being organized and Made By Grey project was something that required time and self-denial... to be alone in a studio, can lead you on to a path into many differ-ent things except the one thing that

you really have to do...other difficulties was the small budget i had..im lucky that the musicians involved and all the contributors believed in it and helped in each and every way they possibly could...but it doesn’t stop here. i still have many problems to overcome. in the future i will need to stop being a self- sound engineer, its something that bothers me and makes me tired. Even though its a kind of luxury to be able to make it happen on your own. its different though, when you have a person that’s occupied with all the technical issues, so that you can focus strictly on your music, and a person to say a thought when most needed or just some crap when you don’t and need to loosen up.

Some of your favorite bands from Greece?

i can name my stand outs, “Gravity says i”, “Electric litany” and “i am no hero”. i also like “Drogatek”.

What feeling do you want to share with your listeners in the end...

realization/consciousness of feelings.

Back to Basics, The big Q, what is mu-sic...

this period i realize that music is mathematics, geometry to be more specific.

A wish from the planet Made by Greyto fear less of knowing each other,fear more of our ego.

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roadrunnerinterview by Niki Sorogas

Today we are wearing our cool ears outfit on and are ready to dive into the abyss of Ga-rage music.Presenting Roadrunner (athanasios K. margaritidis) and his

musical life and projects. Roadrun-ner's sounds evolve in a deep ocean of pitch shifted melodies, fantastic vocal samples,warm bass and relax-ing beats with a combination of down tempo and solvent extracted tempos.

Now if you dont know what Garage music is lets make a first statement of it, and you will learn the rest from our guest! Garage peaked in its be-ginning in the uK (1990s-2000s) an electronic music genre,a descendant of house music (chicago,Detroit,New Jersey,Nyc) .If we could describe it with words its a 4/4 percussive rhythm with tingling hi hats and beat skipping drums and a chopping up of sounds.

These recent years, the under-ground scene became high on main-stream with the acceptance of Ga-rage evolving into Dubstep. Future Garage flowed from Post Dubstep,2 Step, chill Step and is walking now on its own path for some years. Produc-ers and Dj's make the outburst with (Dark Swing/Bass) driven roots fusing it into all different styles (Dub Techno/Futuristic/Detroit) and it becomes a killer modern rhythmic production on the dance floor. Future garage incor-porates a variety of influences into uK Garage. you can call it chillstep. Its more home listening and the name was

passed on by Dj Whistla back in 2009.Zomby,Burial,SBTRKT,Spherix,Joy or-bison for me plusSun Glitters,Phaeleh,Trifonic,Flashbulb,apparat,Plaid,machinedrum from Roadrunner sure must have you go-ing off your feet and out of your speakers!

Roadrunner,there is always a person-al story behind an artist's nickname. Would you like to share your per-sonal book? it also feels like we are running with you too, when listening to your music. Falling in and out of this hype-your escalating thoughts of sound into scenes.

well the reason why i changed my art-ist name from Captaineedle to road-runner was the fact that the first one was hard for anyone to remember and pronounce. the second choice surely is more easy and suitable for pronouncing and to remember. Also, im an amateur trail runner so it rep-resents me well. the stagnation and inactivity which is a characteristic of our times makes us more vulnerable from things that chase us and tear us down.we have to adapt. if you make this change with music on your side then all of this process i believe is just less painful.

Future Garage and the other genres that you work with, well are not com-mon yet in Greece. How did this love outburst and how did you decide to take that leap. Also,with what tools do you develop your music and does living in Kilkis play a role in your pro-

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gress of making or playing music?we have been down this road again from the times we have spoken and we didn’t conclude anywhere. lets give it another try. the underground music scene in Greece is malnour-ished so the same goes for future garage...surely uneducated listeners and surely cliché perceptions from cafe-bar-club owners right down to the customer who doesn't give any extra thought in the music he is listening to. Perhaps several radio stations pro-mote and play the wrong music mo-tifs or just project only them in the end. that way the listener is continu-ally used to searching for the same music at home,in his car while driving ,at the cafe-bar where he will go out to enjoy himself or at the club. on the other hand there are many internet radio stations that promote a wide range of underground music! i con-gratulate them! if we have to believe that as people of the Mediterannean area with sun, warmth and sea the music style that we have are only the uptempo happy ones because we co-agulate with easy going soft modern greek hits,why dont we listen to awe-some house,detroit house,detroit techno,jazz and soulful the other way around that still are in parallel with our climate and feelings. im not against any musical styles.i just want others to shine as well.you see,i left future garage out of it.so its just not the geographical spot that plays a role, its the uneducated ears as well. the way that people make money simple and fast too. Play the songs that have been on chart or hits or

djfor half an hour this kind of music, because people are asking for it or else they will leave the premises and the business falls out from a money turnover.Basically its a vicious circle. A great start would be for whoever streams music online, to pressure themselves a bit and give it a try at listening different genres on the in-ternet and see how that goes.

Being aware of all of these parameters,how did you begin and later on consolidate your pres-ence in this kind of musical genre, have you regretted? Are there any parts of despair or do you believe that your listeners should sum up to quality rather than quantity?Kilkis is your residence for now, how does that affect you in your decisions?

if the second question is not achieved how can i ask from kilkis to listen to fu-ture garage? Ι haven’t consolidated any status for myself. im just an art-ist who expresses himself musically and is trying to find his personal mu-sic style. the needs of our time and life rhythm is a factor that cant guar-antee you that musical expression of yourself right now that can stay like this forever. kilkis is a beautiful,quiet city, a little melancholic i would say (for surely a spot that’s inspirational for artists) with advantages and dis-advantages. i don’t know how big my crowd is. But i would like to thank all that have listened to my music. the rest i would than them after they press play (...laughing).

you tributed your albums to two friends you lost unfairly from this

world. Did these events give you some kind of esoteric motivation as where pain became creativity? And in the end, what is music for you as an artist and a listener.

you cant make friends or develop easily a real bonding with people these days so each and every loss costs deep inside. the loss of a loved one has an affect in musical expres-sion just because music deals with emotions. Music as a listener increas-es the quantity of dopamine in me and that concludes to a positive musical expression and creation as an artist.

Which method do you use to create a track? Does it all come out at once or do you build on any thoughts, and what are your favorite tools in this process?

i don’t operate with some criteria structure. the music builds up on mu-sic that repeats itself (loops)which in their turn multiply into their repeatedly function and not only. various musical themes mean that you have lots of different sounds and ideas. for sure my mac-book helps me for its portability to compose an idea in a warm and beautiful cafe or even somewhere outdoors. At home i work with my favorite virus ti polar, the rme ff 800 sound card and the dy-naudio for studio monitors plus heaps of pluggins.

What is roadrunner in his music pro-duction up till today, and what comes next in the future?

Every artist must find his musical style to express himself better and that identifies his sentimental mentality in

the best way. in the album riverside, roadrunner finds his musical style in which he expands and suits him bet-ter. for the future he will hold on to the future garage elements and ex-periment with new musical colors and more vocals.

is there any “musical colleague solidarity” and how easy is it to have your work lean upon that kind of term. We see everywhere Kickstarter,indiegogo etc projects even for well acclaimed bands. Do you believe that its the future or has the music industry changed for inde-pendent artists out of the system?

i don’t think if there was a “esprit de corps” available before in the artistic expressionism in Greece, but nowa-days the difficult economic situation that we live is surely not in pride of helping out of the box people. in Greece there is a lot of driven pro-motion about specific musical genres. less experimental bars that promote underground vibes rather than the mainstream philosophy that’s eve-rywhere. for sure the music industry has a certain promotional tactic and trend but i believe we have heard everything that they have had to of-fer and its just a hybrid machine of music. i think the problem isn’t in whats considered being promoted and how quickly but the “lazy and uneducated” ears.

What memory or point in your life have you connected with music and that will still be eternal in your heart?

Any everyday momentarily in time im-age that is being escorted with music

and projects an emotion and inspira-tion is a moment of happiness and thus making that memory of the im-age specific and unique.

Name us some artists that you feel are in your soul.Do you believe they have offered you an extra portal, so you can evolve into what you have become? Does music has a space or time latitude?

there are many of them,and i wouldn’t want to mention them all in case i for-get some and surely there are many who arise as new comers that will be

on that list of inspirations. Every artist within his music projects his character in the sounds he creates.Music has no time or space its just a lifestyle. spir-itual growth of a human being and his experiences during his life can be a criteria to the reconsideration of his musical influences.

Where did you enjoy playing this year?this year i presented my musical al-bum in the European Music festival in volos (19-22 June). i was honored by or-ganizers Barmpakis nikos and yannis Adamis for their kind gesture of sup-

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port and for this i thank them warmly.the festival was fantastic with 3 music scenes , many " scoutful " listeners ,a plethora of music producers , djs and generally people with an open mind, positive energy and love for differ-ent music styles . i would also like to thank the family of viM rECorDs and Pale Penguin for my show at Coo BAr in thessaloniki on september 14th in the first musical episode of the com-pany ( many others will follow - stay tuned ) . i had great time in a beautiful underground club with a warm envi-ronment and musically open minded people! i would like to take this oppor-tunity and thank also John overblast of spaceal orbeats records and Alex Xiasou of Bfuzz records , Dj saint of Deep Art records for their confi-dence in my musical strive. the next works of roadrunner will come in col-laboration with his friend and expert on EDM and mastering engineer in orange-studio.gr lyr with apparently a new project name. As noise | in | Dreams so roadrunner and lyr will combine the noise elements together with the atmospheric 2step, future garage and not only musical styles.

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