Belgian producer Push started on his road in electronic music 28 years ago when he discovered bands like Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, and Visage.
"[I] fell in love with the electronic elements they used in their music," he says. "I started as a producer, and the DJ part for me is to bring my music to live audiences on the dance floors, clubs, or festivals. DJing is as creative as being a producer, in my opinion; it’s a craft to bring a journey into their minds and take them on a trip!"
He says that his sound today is hard to define.
"I really blend everything into my sets," he says. "From old school trance where I come from, reworks, techno with a rave touch, as long as me and the crowd feel as one really!"
Push's latest release is "Sonic Infusion," a collaboration with Brazilian producer WEHBBA.
"I've known WEHBBA for some time," he says. "I really love his music and releases he did on Drumcode, and that was likewise apparently, as he used to be a big fan of my older releases he grew up with in his native Brazil. It's always fun to do a collaboration with producers that come from a different generation than you, yet capturing the same emotional approach in music. This was a no-brainer: two tracks that perfectly blend mine and his sound together."
As for gear: "The cool thing for this collaboration was that me and WEHBBA are both hardware junkies, meaning we love working with plugins, and of course we use Ableton Live for sequencing, but most of the sounds were made with outboard gear like synths and drum machines; we rendered them [live recorded into our DAW], and I processed a lot of the stuff in my studio here in New York City with my outboard gear. The perfect blend of using digital and analog gear!"
Looking ahead, Push has plenty planned for the coming months.
"Oh, there’s so much music going on," he says. "Earlier this year I had releases out on Charlotte De Witte KNTX, I did a collab with Reinier Zonneveld, music on Tomorrowland Music, and now I can’t wait to join the Arcane family! 2025 is going to be wild; I can't tell much yet unfortunately."
