Tel Aviv duo Red Axes step into the iconic fabric presents series with a 16-track mix featuring A Guy Called Gerald and Random Factor, plus their new single “Time To Take It.” So what makes them tick? We find out.
Why music?
Niv: Music grabbed me young, and I never let go.
Dori: It’s what I love and what I want to make.
If you weren’t making or playing music, what would you be doing?
Niv: In a fantasy, I’d coach football, but probably work in a corner shop or a bookie.
Dori: Coaching tennis.
Best advice you’ve ever received?
Niv: Always be generous with others over small money.
Dori: Choose your battles.
Who’s the next name everyone should know?
Niv: Troll2, a new band on my label Garzen Records.
Dori: Yonatan Daskal and his new album OD.
Best moment in a club or studio?
Niv: Making something with others, letting feelings take over thoughts.
Dori: Playing sounds through the Watkins tape delay.
Worst job you’ve ever had?
Niv: The worst is not having a job.
Dori: Tennis coach.
How do you know when a track is finished?
Niv: Right before it feels overworked.
Dori: When I do the export.
How do you like to finish your sets?
Niv: In a way that suits the room’s vibe.
What was your last day job before going full-time in music?
Niv: Cooking in an Italian restaurant.
Dori: Tennis coach.
Which track do you wish you’d made?
Niv: Join in the Chant by Nitzer Ebb.
Dori: I Feel Space by Lindstrøm.
What’s the easiest way to break into music?
Niv: To love it, be curious about it, and work hard.
Dori: Open a TikTok page.
What’s the worst track or set you’ve ever done?
Niv: I don’t have a worst or a favourite. There were a lot.
Dori: Once we lost a 1k crowd in 10 minutes.
How do you organize your music collection for your sets?
Niv: I have my autistic methods.
Dori: I don’t.
Recommend a film.
Niv: Cables.
Dori: Rumble Fish.
Recommend a book.
Niv: Anything by Viktor Frankl.
Dori: Ingram by Louis C.K..
Favourite internet clip of all time, music or otherwise?
Niv: Are U Experienced by Psychic TV.
Dori: Farting Preacher.
Who or what deserves more credit?
Niv: Truth.
Dori: My bank account.
Who or what gets too much hype?
Niv: Most of it.
Dori: Instagram and media.
What can’t you stop doing?
Niv: Loving my kids.
Dori: Dreaming.
What’s your guilty pleasure?
Niv: FPL – Fantasy Premier League. The amount of time is sick.
What’s your biggest regret?
Niv: Every time I wasn’t myself.
Dori: Not talking to my grandpa enough.
What would most improve your life right now?
Niv: Being more calm and patient.
Dori: Sport.
Collaboration: rich creative experience or pain in the arse?
Niv: An important experience.
Dori: Love it.
What’s the key to a great DJ mix?
Niv: Honesty.
Dori: Read the room.
How do you unwind?
Niv: Sport.
Dori: Cooking.
One bit of kit or software you can’t live without – and why?
Niv: I can live without it.
Dori: Ableton.
Art or money?
Niv: Art.
Dori: Depends how much.
Which DJ / producer taught or helped you the most?
Niv: I learned a lot from Ivan Smagghe. Cosmo Vitelli helped us a lot in the first years.
Dori: Danny Bar was one of my best friends. He was a great person and an amazing DJ.
Favourite sportsperson ever?
Niv: Ronaldo Fenomeno.
Dori: Roger Federer.
Vinyl, USBs or laptop?
Niv: Doesn’t matter.
Dori: USB.
Strangest place you made a track or did a set.
Niv: Can’t remember anything worth the answer.
Must-visit record store or studio?
Niv: I like A1 in Manhattan, NYC.
Dori: Don’t have one.
What’s your biggest frustration in the music world?
Niv: Opinions.
Dori: That music comes last.
Favourite label and why?
Niv: I don’t have a favourite label. I like many labels. When there’s a strong agenda and passion, it should be good.
Dori: I’ll say the label – I know it’s a cliché – the first one to give us attention.
What’s the hardest thing about making or playing music?
Niv: I don’t think that’s the hard part. The travelling and the lack of sleep are the hard part.
Dori: Not giving up on making music when you have no inspiration.
What’s your motto?
Niv: Work.
Dori: Choose family and friends.
Name something timeless.
Niv: God.
Dori: Death.
Drop a quick tip – best production or DJ advice in a single sentence.
Niv: It has to be sexy, groovy, and slightly dark.
Dori: Less is more.
Complete this: At heart, I’m just a frustrated…
Niv: 13-year-old kid.
Dori: Adult person looking at humanity.
If someone heard your music or saw your set in a thousand years, what would it say about our time?
Niv: That these were very weird times.
Dori: 1980 was better.
Can music change the world?
Niv: The world of whom?
Dori: The world should change the music.
What are you listening to right now?
Niv: The Endless Sea by Iggy Pop.
Dori: Baby songs.
What should everyone do before they die?
Niv: Learn to make a solid chicken soup.
Dori: Go to Japan.
fabric presents Red Axes is out now. Listen on Spotify. Buy it on Bandcamp.
Full tracklist:
- 100 Hz – Whisper
- Red Axes & Man Parrish (feat. Roy Garrett) – Hod Rod To Hell And Back
- Queen Atom – Tributemaki
- ID – ID
- James Infiltrate – Chaos
- Red Axes – Clear Beats
- The New Black – Androids Are Sexy
- Red Axes – Time To Take It
- DJ Naughty Presents Silver & Gold – Rojo Caliente
- Red Axes Feat Sal P – Up & Down (Red Axes Remix)
- A Guy Called Gerald – 202
- Ivan & Johnny – Balance No Bass (Red Axes Remix)
- Freak Seven – Nano Kids feat Aniff
- Red Axes – Everywhere
- Sluts’n’Strings & 909 – Past The Gates
- Random Factor – Broken Mirror (Red Axes Remix)
Find Red Axes on Instagram.
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