Ever occurred to you what the producers/DJ do apart for playing their music out loud? I collect many of the hottest names at the moment to answer this question, in addition do they listen to trance all day? Or they experience with more sounds? Lets find out..

1) Apart for being a producer what is your other employment in your life?

2) What kind of music you are listening to in your free time ?

Adam White:

1) I'm label manager for matt dareys label 'Darey products'. I also DJ around the UK for euphoria and a new trance night in London called 'knowwhere'. I've also recently started a new radio show on ministry of sound radio on Thursdays between 4PM and 6PM UK time.

2) I listen to all sorts to be honest, I love rock music. I'm currently reworking an old pearl jam track. I think to be a great producer you have to listen to all types of music. I was brought up on queen, the Beatles and country music, I studied classic piano, fronted a rock band and now I'm a trance DJ............. its all good in the end though.

Airbase / Mono / One Man Army / Ozone / Rah / The Scarab:

1) A lot of people think that if you release a record on Friday we'll be millionaires by Monday. With trance music, that isn't really the case. The music is still a hobby on the side of my regular full time work. What I do? Well, I design the crap you all get in your mail boxes that you throw away. Not spam, but for the good old snail mail box.

2) A few years ago, I almost only listened to trance or related-to-trance music, but nowadays, when producing trance, djing trance, going thru new trance records all the time, I get a bit fed up with it. At free times I listen to a lot of ambient stuff like Shpongle, Vangelis and Saafi Brothers, but also just as much to Movie Scores like those from Hans Zimmer and John Williams.

DarkMoon:

1) I am a radio and TV mechanic and I have a firm together with a partner, same partner with whom I produce music, just fixing monitors, notebooks and so on.

2) I like many different styles, starting with normal pop music, (Simply Red, Depeche Mode and many others), rock (Guns n Roses), chillout, trance , hardstyle,....also some classics like Chopin.

Darren Tate

1) Well at present all my work relates to my producing and of course DJing. I am director of Mondo Records, Mondo Music Publishing and Angelic Sounds (the production company) and a fair amount of my time is spent managing them. Of course I’m also a part time porn Star!

2)I listen to a wide range of music, from classical through to Indie. I find inspiration in a great deal of old and new music.

Empyreal Sun / Jan Gustavsson / Inzite:

1) "Student, major in informatics."

2) "Chillout, easy listening, classical music and trance."

Envio / Salt Lake:

1) Full time student at Uppsala University Sweden, studying medicine.

2) Rock and House!

Factoria:

1) Basically I work for myself, Doing music production, Sound design and DJ work.

2) In my free time I listen to all sorts, ranging from chillout, to
trance, to chart even to some rock and indie, I like to appreciate
all forms of music. :) though I mostly listen to trance.

Genix:

1) I run TRR (Trance Revolution Recordings)

2) well... I listen to most dance music, progressive, chillout

Manuel Le Saux:

1) I'm a biologist in a hospital.

2) I listen all kind of "good" music :)
When I need relaxing time I like listening classical music (Mozart is my favorite).

Mind One / Vivid:

1) I'm a student of business information technique in the 7th semester. Besides producing I do some programming

2) I'm listening to every kind of music in my free time. to be honest: I prefer non-trance when I'm not producing

Mark Norman

1) I am full time in the Music; (producing, remixing and deejaying) also I am busy with my other company to organise dance events!

2) Rock Music & All kinds of Music!

Nic Vegter / Cyclone / Infernal Machine / The Nickelson / Nicolas Freeman / Sound Of Nature:

1) I'm a part-time video/audio-editor for a big Dutch television company.
Nice, not really my thing, but hey...it pays the bills.
Of course next to that job I have my music and studio that will take care of the additional income and most of all fun!

2) I listen to a lot of different music. Always have.
Back in the days I used to listen to Aha, Petshop Boys, Roxy Music, Lenny Kravitz, Radiohead, U2, depeche mode, dire straiths...all kinds of alternative stuff...
These days, with iTunes on my computers and unlimited choices, I really like to listen to Norah Jones, Outkast, DJ Sasha, Katie Melua, Air, Coldplay and still Bryan Ferry.
House or electronic music has always been around. There's just to much to mention. Of great influence of course we're Chicane (the early days), Global underground CD's, Sasha, Bedrock stuff, Tiesto compilations, Fatboy Slim, Funk D'Void, Junkie XL, Laurent Garnier and so on.

Primolux:

1) Well, I work full time in a supermarket in grocery department. I respond that there's enough cooked foods, cold cuts, sausages and other similar perishables for our customers. I have to order them from our suppliers and with help of my work mates, put them out for customers. There's over six hundred product items in my department so usually we need to work briskly so that we can manage to do all the work before working day ends. Though not every item has to be ordered every day, just the most ;). Seasongs like Christmas, New Year, Eastern, May Day and Midsummer day: people buy groceries and almost everything like crazy! No limits! I think there's a lot of overtime work coming soon, heh :o
And there's a lot of other things included in my job as well.

2) Surprisingly: trance ;) Though I listen also breakbeat, ambient, techno, some housy stuff and little experimental, it's all electronic. But I love the trance, so mostly that's the thing.

Robert Gitelman (2 Players / G&M Project / Bubble Fish)

1) Just music! as you know it's also Jaron Martinez and this is big part of our life.

2) Hmmmm everything: rock, chillout, MTV, R&B, but it must to be good and make something for me.

Senses:

1) At the moment I have totally restricted myself to working in the studio 24/7, When I'm not producing music I work on sound engineering projects, make the occasional radio jingle or some music for a TV spot.

2) I don't like sticking to just one genre of music. I believe that every genre in the world has something good to offer. So I would say that I listen to everything from Indian folk music up to quirky EDM.

If trance producers/djs weren't enough, lets see what progressivehouse heads have to say:

Habersham:

1) I have no other employment in my life right now, only producing, DJing and running Blueprint Recordings with Numinous and Lobotomy Records with Dave Preston, Luke Kalish and Phil K. Although in the last year I've done lots of random things from a corporate desk job for industrial exhaust and chimney fans company, carpentry, delivered flowers, and god knows what else lol

2) In my free time I try and broaden my horizons musically. A lot of CDs that are in regular rotation that I've had for ages include some Rae and Christian stuff, BT's ESCM, The Roots - Come Alive, Marvinn Gaye, George Clinton and P-Funk, Cassius, Daft Punk, Aphex Twin and lots more. Lately though, I've been really getting into intense music, and lot of analog experimentation from the 1950's and so on, from Steve Reich to Andrew Weatherall, Squarepusher, Lusine, Brian Anyeurism, Grand National, Joakim and lots of original stuff we've been getting through EDM Digital.com, such as Cortex, Francis DaVilla and Santiago Nino, Phillips, KiloWatts and so on.

Hector Romero:

1) I don't produce or remix so running SAW RECORDINGS is pretty much my full time gig besides DJing on the weekends.

2) In my car I listen to SALSA MUSIC all the time. It's good to break away from the House sound from time to time.

Steve May:

1) I'm a qualified ski instructor when I want to go and play in the snow for a few months in winter seasons (be it Australian or Canadian), I also work for a music company ripping CDs for digital legal downloads.

2) In my spare time I listen to all kinds of music from Progressive, chill/downtempo comps , through to a few alternative bands, indie stuff. I'm pretty open to all things musical.

Subsky / Cervus:

1) Well apart from producing (which I don't make any good money at all from producing) I make my life from dj’ing..I also work in our radio station and studying music at university..

2) Because we run a radio station, I listen to LOTS of different stuff..but mostly techhouse – minimal house – (not too much progressive :)) electro – breakbeat.

Big thanks to all participates...