Interview
The Sundowner. Mix #28 comes from French producer Paul Tellimerg aka DJ Immortal. Paul is a young talented Paris based producer we met a couple of years ago when doing an internship for LowMoneyMusicLove, since then he…
The Sundowner. Mix #28 comes from French producer Paul Tellimerg aka DJ Immortal. Paul is a young talented Paris based producer we met a couple of years ago when doing an internship for LowMoneyMusicLove, since then he has been close to the family and we are super happy to welcome him to our Sundowner. mix series. This mix contains only his own original productions and we hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Don’t forget to check the full interview and get to know more about his background and creative process.
Inés: Hi Paul, how are you?
Paul: Hello Ines! I’m doing great, just chilling at my place in Paris, surrounded by plants and feeling groovy.
Inés: Where did you grow up and how did that influence your sound?
Paul: I grew up in a suburban city called Ivry, it’s an old industrial city with lots of abandoned buildings and huge empty areas which makes it very special – rough but also beautiful. There’s this one very mysterious building in my neighborhood called Chinagora, next to the Seine. It looks like the abandoned building in Spirited Away.
Inés: What was it that triggered your interest in producing music?
Paul: Around Highschool my friends and I started organizing raves in these abandoned places and in the woods around there. It was a lot of fun and some of my best memories. That was the moment I knew I wanted to do this. Even now, I can say it’s definitely at these kinds of parties that I had my best gigs.
Inés: How would you describe your sound?
Paul: I like it to be evocative and unsettling, I like music that tells stories with unexpected encounters and switches. If it takes me to places when I make it, then I’ll share it.
Inés: From where or what you get inspiration to create your tracks?
Paul: Movies, a lot of them. Also spending time with the people I love. About the process, sometimes I’d have an interesting sample that I found listening to the radio, or post-punk, Hip Hop and oriental records, then and I’ll try to give it a new direction. Sometimes I’ll have a movement, something abstract like a shape, that I’ll try to recreate with a bass and LFOs, like for a sculpture or a drawing.
