The Brazilian duo of Felipe Lozinsky and Gustavo Rozenthal — aka Felguk — first met in 2006 when they started working together at an audio producing company.
“Felipe was my trainee and we instantly connected based on our passion for dance music,” says Gustavo. “We were both very musical during our childhood and teen years, with a passion for rock music. From there, Felipe learnt to play the piano and I learnt to play the guitar. My hero was Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin; he is not from my generation but I was really into classic rock in my teen years!”
Things have evolved though and as much as Gus admits dance music is a globalised phenomenon, he claims it’s still impossible to overlook the influence their home country has had on them. “We live in a very musical country and we are immersed in a culture that breathes music and rhythm; sometimes this influence crawls into our productions without a conscious awareness, such as in the piano break on the track ‘Dead Man Swag’.
“Also, the scene in Brazil is really exciting at the moment because it’s moving through this kind of expansion; Brazil has definitely joined the dance music revolution!”
Musically, the boys are proud of what they believe is their biggest EP to date, ‘Slice & Dice’, but are already looking ahead. “We have a few tracks on the move and are intending on producing some more, but we haven't decided how to release them yet. We are really looking forward our musical releases on 2014 though.”
This non-committal approach to their studio work reconciles with the fact they don’t necessarily follow a plan – nothing for them is on purpose. Guk continues: “Our base is undoubtedly electro-house, but every once in a while we get really saturated and bored and naturally start experimenting with something outside our comfort zone.
“It’s so enlightening to do that — it makes you grow so much as a music producer. Then after a while the passion for producing good old electro-house returns and we become reinvigorated and stronger!”
Felguk play
17 Jan - Boomtick presents Elite Force and Felguk at Parker Perth (WA)18 Jan - The HiFi, Brisbane (QLD)
24 Jan - Rainbow Serpent Festival,Lexton (VIC)
