I am a Danish musician doing electronic music, mixing it with indie stuffs, playing also with a live band. And I've been doing this for the last fifteen years.

What I loved about them was the different aesthetics and the sound they had – it was very different from what I normally used to listen to on the radio. I mean my parents were not really listening to any particular genre, they just put the radio on. And one day Venus in Furs was playing on the radio – such an amazing song! So maybe what stroke me first was that those songs were quite different from what was normally playing on the commercial radio stations.

The first song that I can remember I bought was The Velvet Underground & Nico, cause I thought it was quite interesting, and it was on a tape – that was back in time. But then I was just listening to whatever was on the radio. So I was just listening to a lot of different music. The first live show that I attended... It was Disneyland After Dark, D-A-D, a Danish band. Yeah, that was my first live experience with music. My first own performance was actually with Thomas, my manager now – it was during a birthday party at Copenhagen, many years ago, and it was the first time I actually played electronic music together with Thomas. He was DJing and I was doing the synthesizer. What's funny is that now I am the one who DJs.

I think another one could be Atmosphere by Joy Division, I like the sound of it, especially with the sense going on. It is also something that has inspired me for my new album. I mean I'm always grabbing from everywhere, but what has always driven me is doing it differently every time. Sometimes it took years before finding the inspiration back. Once I almost thought I had lost the ability to write music... 

Yeah, for me all those different boxes aren't that important – they belong to a whole that is music. So I just like to do music without thinking too much if it's whatever it is. It doesn't really matter that much to me what you call it. One of the reasons why I love music is that you can get inspired by so many different styles and sounds – it can be soundtracks, it can be classical, it can be voguing, it can be rock, it can be everything. So I try not to think too much about that when I'm doing music. But for my latest album, I was definitely inspired by post-punk bands from the 1980s, because I grew up with them, you know. But still I didn't want the album to be a nostalgic one, so I also wanted something to look forward to and the big challenge for me was again not to be a copy of The Cure or Joy Division, but just being myself doing my own song – still with the inspirations quite clear in mind. 

It is very hard to explain. Of course I like the more melancholic vibes, and I also wanted it to have some hope and some light so is not all that depressing. Hopefully it’s even a bit uplifting. It has some songs that are quite groovy – it’s not all about feeling blue, but it's also hopefully a journey through different moods. And that's how all my albums are, I think: it's not only just one vibe, but it's a little snapchat of where I am in my life and that shows in every album, so to speak. Just what feels right in the moment – it is not like I really have a plan before I start making a new album or what it should be about. It's something that really appears while I'm in the working process. Then the challenge is to follow a certain sound, or follow a certain root, and see where that leads me.

It is something that I really need because obviously I can not play all the instruments by myself live. And it also just gives the music the sound that I want it to have, because there are live instruments on the recordings, and it just feels right for this kind of music. It would just feel weird to have the guitars and the drums on tape. So it feels right and that's also why I also have Marie Fisker singing live.

I think it's true that live music, in some way, really suffered because los of people go to discos, also for venues it is much easier to hire one Dj rather than a band. But I still think that live music gives something special compared to Djing. I also like the fact that now we are actually combining two different worlds: the electronic world and the rock world – and they don't have to be two different universes, they can definitely melt together. That's also what we are doing live, what lots of new artists are doing. So I don't feel the gap is that big anymore – it was maybe big like ten years ago, but now it's much better. So I don't feel you can say that electronic music has killed rock'n'roll – they are working quite well together, I think. 

Yeah! I truly think it can be found anywhere! In electronic music, in jazz, or in classic music, it is not so much about the music style, is more about what you want to do with your music. So it's something you can find everywhere. It is about the artist behind the music rather than the genre itself.