An interview with Reiss

Of course, you’ve joined us before at our beloved Brebl and one of our original A La Playa outings. You’ll now be playing right across the Waal river at Stek, looking out over that particular beach. Are there any specific feelings that come up while thinking back to that special day, and would you care share any tracks that you associate with that Playa feeling?

Aaah man! That was such a special day :). As I recall we had dinner first at the family house of Daaf or Steph, then Brebl and afterwards on that special beach spot. Especially that last chapter was so good! I have a super nice picture and this track by Brian Harden, which I never played before, but felt so accurate at that specific spot.

In the meantime we’ve all been taken on quite a ride considering the downtime we’ve all experienced for the past 1,5 years. Could you possibly illustrate what role music played in your life during these turbulent times?

Hard to overestimate the role music played for me during these times man. Its been my anchor into sanity and my dot on the horizon of joy.

Besides the beautiful events thrown throughout the country since clubculture has partly re-opened. A full reincarnation of actual nightlife has yet to come. Looking forward, what prospects do you have for the near future?

Well in the immediate future there is the reincarnation of ADE to look forward to and actually a lot of European dates that I will be playing. I, however, wont be satisfied until the Dutch nightlife culture returns back to some semblance of normality. I feel there is no rational obstacle left for it  to do so when, even with almost 100k people on the streets with the unmute.us protest, there was no significant spike in the number of infections.