Open Labs Exclusive Interview

Kusser

- by Tatiana Ryckman, Open Labs Staff Writer 

Raised on '70s soul and classic R&B, Kusser didn't have his first run-in with electronic music until he was 13 years old. Laughing he says, “One summer I actually got exposed to cable ... I saw this group from the UK, called Renegade Sound Wave, and they were just doing this really weird thing with beats and with bass and it was like nothing I'd ever heard before and I was like, 'What the hell is this?' From that moment on, I was like 'music is great.'” And, he says, being inspired is still that easy. “I can get inspiration from museums or from a movie, or something I see from TV. Or when I close my car door and it makes a weird sound I think, that'd be kinda cool. I mean, I look for inspiration anywhere ...