Official Italo Dance Fanclub
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Interview With C.Y.T.
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We Have A New Interview After Long Time And Specially For 2008,This Time Is For Good Friend "C.Y.T.",He Is Still Faithful To Classic Italo Dance And Like It,We Know Him From Many Years And Many Places,I Still Love His Fantastic Rmx Version For "Magic Box - If You",Finally I Received His E-mail Yesterday And Here Is Our Interview:
01) Who is C.Y.T.,Your Age And Where Do You Live?
My real name is Dominik Cydlik and I’m 31 years old. I live in Kirchschlag, a village in Upper Austria around 15km away from capital Linz. C.Y.T. is a kind of nick name and my artist name for italodance productions. It has something to do with my last name (= Cydlik) and a nick in my childhood (= CYTI)…it’s a funny word game too: C (see) Y (why) T hehe
02) How Did You Decide To Produce Songs And What Was Your First Song (Unreleased)?
When I was a teenager I started playing around with my electronic organ and recorded my first songs with 2 cassette recorders and a little mixer hehe. I cannot remember the titles of the songs, anyway noone cares cause most of these traxx were just unfinished layouts… my first experiments. 1998 I met a DJ who had a computer and a synthesizer and we both decided to work out some instrumental dance traxx and put them on album CD and sold some copies to friends and relatives. The album was called MIKE MANDERS & DJ CYT “A journey called space”…my first release.
03) What Kind Of Music Do You Listen To, Your Favorite Djs (Artists) And What Is Your First Hobby? Tell Us About Your Dj Friends Too!
I like nearly all kind of music styles, anyway because of my job and to be up to date I mainly listen to dance music especially to italodance…since my childhood music is a big part of my life, I play several instruments and also studied & teach music. My favourite artists and producers are those who are responsible for the great italo hype some years ago…productions of Eiffel 65, Gabry Ponte, Prezioso, D’Agostino, Molella and many more influenced my work…all the writers & producers behind these wonderful projects have my big respect…
04) Well, You Are The Founder Of ARC-Records! Can You Tell Us More About It!?
Not really…many years ago ARC-Records was created by my partner Roland Binder. First of all it was a production studio. 2000 I joined ARC and 2003 we created the label “ARC-Records Austria”, 2007 the publisher “ARC-AUSTRIA”.
ARC-Records unites independent label, production studio, publishing and management in one house. With regard to productions we focus on commercial Dance & Pop (Italodance, Hands Up, Eurodance, (Vocal)trance, Reggae, Radio House) and TV/Radio productions.
ARC-Records is supporting newcomers on their way to establish in music business furthermore we are pushing new ideas meaning “NO COVER” songs. ARC is standing for quality, before a project or even a remix goes out here it’s optimized best way possible…
I’m Creative Director and A&R of ARC-Records.
05) In Which Cities Or Countries Have You Done Live Shows And Would You Like To Come To Asia?
Primarily C.Y.T. is not a live act nor a DJ playing at clubs etc. Anyway besides producing am responsible for mixing our weekly radio show “C.Y.T. presents ARC-RECORDS IN THE MIX”
(for example every Sunday 20.00 – 21.00 @ www.italiandancenetwork.com) or doing megamixes for compilations (for example “Masterplate Vol. 2” or “Best 2006 Vol. 2” for Asia). We prefer to have our artists on stage for example Deep.Spirit or Masterbeat. Also new live acts of Fabrizio e Marco & other ARC artists are planned for the future. Of course it would be a pleasure for us & our acts to perform in Asia! There are a lot of Euro- & Italodance lovers!
06) Do You Think That Dance Music Is Going Through A Bad Time? Do You Have Any Opinion For Correct That! How Do You See The Future Of Italo Dance?
Interesting question and I have to be careful to keep the answer short, otherwise I will write a letter about it hehe. At the moment many things are not like they should be. Music business in general is not in its best moment. MP3 and internet caused a part of the damage and music industry and media realised too late what’s going on and did not know how to react, ignored the signs or reacted wrong way.
So now you can just try to make the best out of it and use for example the new possibilities of internet in a positive way (for example online shops, promo sites, webradios etc.) Anyway it’s not as easy as it may seem…as label you cannot just switch from single CD & vinyl market to online releases and think you will have the sales you had before hehe. It needs time until business gets used to the new situation and found a better way to deal with it…
Furthermore also the fans have to realise that it’s important to support their loved style by buying the products…downloading a song you love round the corner instead of investing around 1 Euro in an online shop for the version you like best (or a nice 9.99 EURO 1 CD Compi) will ruin producers, artists, writers & labels or force them to change (for example to another style) or stop especially those ones which do underground styles such as italodance…additionally important that fans support new ideas…not version no. 10 of a megahit of the past…this will kill motivation for everyone to invest 5x more time in writing a new song…
Producers, artists, songwriters, labels etc. have to think in another way too…at the moment many of them behave this way: “I get less so I deliver less” meaning “less incomes result in no quality or fast production or cheap cover music of the hit catalogue of the past”. This cannot be a way to fight a crisis but to make things worse.
The keyword for me is ”quality”. If you want that the situation will get better you have to go on and deliver quality…of course you have less budget and cannot pay best songwriter, singer, producer, piano player etc. but you can at least try to deliver the best possible product…a product with a singer who can at least sing a bit, correct lyrics & melodies & pronounciation and a nice production with a bit of love for the detail…
In many italo productions nowadays I do not realise quality anymore and this makes me angry. Many labels just seem to release traxx to release something…medium or poor quality…
Only with quality we can reach that Italodance is recognized again on international market besides other popular music styles…
07) What Is Your Plan And Your New Project For The Future? And Do You Have A New Song (What Is The Name Of It)? Please Tell Us The News Of ARC-Records Too!
Recently we released the follow up singles “SUN KIDZ feat. DESTINY - Wake up” including a Domasi 2008 Bonus Remix of “Lights are on” (ARC049) and a double edition of “FABRIZIO E MARCO – Fly away” (ARC050/ARC051). Then we finalised the debut single of MASTERBEAT which is called “One more try” (ARC052). Last week the new “DJ ZULAN feat. JELYA” single “Musica” (ARC053) and this week “S.T.B.” are back with their follow up “Now with love” (ARC054).
With regard to C.Y.T. news: I finished a special remix together with Bastino for “Fly away”.
The ARC coming soon list is also long: the next weeks we are working to finalise “DJ TORNY feat. MARCO – Now until forever”, “LEVEL 4 meets DJ DEAMON – Still loving you”, new MASTERBEAT singles, “BASTINO – Love you more”,
“DJ KAJJIN feat. MIMI – Take my hand”, Ukraine top 3 chart hit
“SUNRISE ELECTRO – One time”, “MODA PHUN – The secret is…” and many other projects…
Furthermore am also working on a new DANCEFIRE song and other vs Cos…
08) Is There A New Music Video From The Artists Of ARC-Records?
Nowadays for dance projects it does not make too much sense to produce & pay professional music videos since the general incomes are little. Therefore most of the videos are kind of semi-pro for promo or “making ofs”, many of them produced in house or by cooperation partners. Of course we always try to make the best out of every possibility.
For “Deep.Spirit – No cover song” we produced a promo video, also our act Masterbeat has a really nice pro video for their track “Musix inside u”. Known new ARC artists like Dr. Alban of course have videos of the one or other album track. Always check youtube or our website www.arcrecords.at for news. Am sure we’ll find time again to produce special stuff for our fans like “making ofs” or promo spots etc.
09) What Can You Say To Your Fans?
Thank you very much for supporting our work, artists, writers and (italo)dance in general! Your loved style can only survive when you keep on buying, playing & promoting it, also when it’s not in its best moment.
10) And What About My Homepage,What Is Your Rank For It?
Informative website with essential info & news about what’s happening in the italo scene. Done with love & passion. The only thing I would try to fix soon is better Firefox support, a lot of people use it nowadays…
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