Category:Karim Sahraoui

New man, new life, new music.

“It’s like a mission for me now, it’s like a calling, I would say, to bring light into the darkness. I don’t make music anymore just to please people, or just to play, I just try to understand who I am exactly…”

Says the man previously operating under the pseudonyms, Djinxx, Soul Monkey and Electronic Resistance. Today he’s working under his real name and restarted not only his own career, but was also responsible for the Eternal Life EP that put Derrick May’s iconic Transmat back on track with the symbolic catalogue number MS200 after two years of silence from the label.

This is a true renaissance for the Frenchman who had put his career on hold to pursue new horizons in Asia. However, it was during this time that two elements intertwined to change the course of his life.

The first was spiritual. Away from his normal environment and western habits, Karim embarked on a spiritual journey that has profoundly affected his music. The DJ and producer finally found answers to questions he had long initiated about his faith, the nature of his music and the electronic music scene.

The second was musical and the landmark encounters he has had with Derrick May : they met in Singapore in 2010 where the iconic author of Strings of Life enquired about Karim’s ‘journey’; and again two years’ later - just as Karim was at the point of giving up - Derrick got back in touch, full of admiration for his new tracks (Karim released Mr Teleportation and Nightflow in late 2012) and keen to sign him to his label.

“Derrick understood that I had to travel far to create these new pieces. The result is that my music is much more free and I worry less about it because I feel as if I have less to prove”

The French DJ and producer has created a dizzying discography including releases on Cocoon, Ovum, Delsin and Bedrock and has helped to discover musicians such as Chymera and Elias Landberg (Skudge). 2018 will see yet another huge milestone in the career of Sahraoui with his first ever release on one of the planet’s most revered labels: R&S.

Karim Sahraoui has a new momentum, fed by the same dynamism for which he is known and using the know-how and inspiration which has singled out such epic works as Stella or Nightflow.

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