Motion Sequence welcomes Birdsmakingmachine on the A side of their 6th release : ‘Connection EP”. The owners Amadeo Savio, Voltery and E-Tronik take care of the B Side with two electro tracks. We had the opportunity to talk with the three founders about their story, their upcoming music and more… Enjoy !

WWD: Hey guys, thanks for being with us. For those who don’t know about you, can you introduce yourself in a few words and explain how you three met?

Voltery : Hey, we are David, Amadeo and Hugo, producers and djs coming from the east side of France next to the French and German border. Amadeo and I are friends since we were 15 and we started production and djing around the same period, approximately 9 years ago. We met David few years after, we used to go to the parties he organized with his collectif Ephémère back in the days. Intimate parties, really focused on the music by booking rising or legendary artists, with the aim to lure people into new music and with a really really nice crowd. We felt close to the spirit around the collectif and we started hanging out with David quite naturally.

WWD: Can you explain us a bit more about your label Motion Sequence, how is it born and what’s the idea behind ?

Amadeo Savio : Motion Sequence was born 3 years ago, we were thinking about creating our own label a long time ago with Voltery, at some point we spent a lot of time in the studio, made a lot of materials and started creating real relationships with artists from all around the globe. To be honest we were pretty bored with the process of dealing with labels, sending demos etc… We just wanted to have the control over everything, the sounds, the artists, the artwork, the way we communicate on a release…

V : We met David around the same period, we knew his Dj skills but we discovered that he was producing too, he had a whole lot of tracks but wasn’t releasing anything. He is kind of a perfectionist and he was always saying that he could still improve a track, we literally had to go to his studio with a usb stick to force him to give us his tracks (laugh). At first It was just to sign him but he got so invested into the project that he became a part of Motion Sequence.

After these few years the label is now split in two parts, on one side the label, with two types of releases : the main ones (MS0.1/2/3/4/5…) and the sub label Type/5.2, an unknown artist white label where we release tracks from producers who experiment new music styles  appart of their main project. On the other side we have the « Motion Meets », parties that we organize in a private sphere where we are able to book artists we like and that we obviously share the same vision of music with. 

E-Tronik : It’s something really important for us because it allows us to bring the kind of physical/real aspect of music, bringing people together, show the records that excite us at the moment, trying the music we produce or we signed, this is kind of the consecration we need. Over these three years Motion really evolved as a family affair, we developed a real connection with the artists, the pressing and the distribution is made by our friends from Yoyaku with YYDistribution, Amadeo is a graphic designer so he’s doing all the design and we have a good team of close friends we can count on to help us setting the parties.

WWD: You three still have your own personal project and influences, how do you manage to work together to take the good decisions that will work for everyone ? 

E : Being three is kind of a plus actually, compared to being alone or just two, you always have to make compromises but in a good way, for the health of the label. The decisions are easier to take, you always need one to adjudicate the choice when the others can’t find a solution, but for that you have to trust each other artistically speaking.

A : We all come from different backgrounds, both personally and musically, we all have our personal style, but that’s also what makes our strength. It makes us stay open minded when choosing tracks, artists or when we mix together. Of course we have common influences, we all listen to a lot of Jazz, Classic, and all every genre of electronic music.

V : We can’t stay in one genre and I think it’s something you can feel when we play together, it can go everywhere during a set, especially if we have a long time slot.

WWD: We can feel a real diversity in the artists you choose on the label as they all come from different influences or genres, how do you choose them, and how do you make the track selection ?

E : We always have the same process to choose artists, it’s always someone we know in the real life, that we met by playing together at a party etc, someone we have a feeling with and that we share the same vision of music, as I just said we are not focused on a style especially. It’s important for us, we receive a lot of demos, even if the tracks are nice it’s hard for us to sign someone we never met. It’s the only way for us to be really proud of the release.

V : It’s also important for us to ask for tracks the artist already finished, we’re not really into asking for special track for the label because we’re kind of worried that the artist will change his style, way of production, be influenced by the past releases… Having something true to the artist always creates good surprise for everybody, something unexpected on Motion is really the best. Lots of people send us minimal or house tracks but we are really more interested if you send us a demo pack of ambient, we are not confined to a genre…

E : …like Tom Ellis track on the last MS0.5, Charm Offensive belongs to a style we never thought we would release but it’s maybe one of the best tracks on Motion for us right now.

For Birdsmakingmachine on the MS0.6, he sent us three or four tracks he just jammed, unfinished and unmixed and that was what seduced us. It’s organic, minimalistic, alive, true and perfectly fits to the label. We just ask him to finish the mixdown of to two we preferred and it was done, it can be that easy sometime, music or signing don’t have any rules for us it’s always on the feeling.

WWD: You three are taking care of the b side, how did you managed to produce together for this Ep ? 

A : It depends, sometimes we can match our schedule to find a moment to be together in the studio at the same time. We used to have a studio with Voltery where we produced most of the tracks we released together and David’s studio is really close from my place. But these past months were kind of hard to find a moment to be the three of us at the same time at the same place apart from the gig we have together so we just tried a new way to work together : one just starts a project with drum loops or melodies and we just exchange the project back and forth by adding some stuff until we feel it’s over.

V : For exemple for Pouli Shore it was a project I started alone few month ago, with the synth, the acoustic dirty bass sounds and some drums. Amadeo took the project and changed a bit the melody, added a bass and some drums to respond to mine, then we just exchanged the stems to find a production we both like.

WWD: What’s next for you ? 

E : There will be a release of our sub label Type/5.2, maybe a month after the MS0.6, with three tracks by the Frankfurter producer of Sensual records, Patrick Klein. And hopefully an other party of our parties series Motion Meets before 2020 !

Release date : September 30th, 2019. Buy Here

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