How do you like living in Berlin?

I actually just recently moved here. I lived in a small town. The biggest reason why I moved out is because the German IRS was basically thinking I was hiding offshore money, which I obviously didn’t. It got cleared up. But when one of them said, “You are the only musician in our city. That’s pretty interesting,” I felt like I needed to leave as fast as possible.

Berlin is starting to become interested in video games, but it’s very slow. I think the problem with Germany specifically is that there’s not much funding to be found, so all the video game companies in Berlin are just free-to-play companies or clicker games. Basically games that are sure to make money. If there were funding, I guess a lot more people that would like to do experimental stuff would actually start to emerge. Even though it’s much smaller, the Netherlands has more indie games companies.

How did you get started making music in general? It was your brother that introduced you to it, right?

Yeah, he was always the creative kind but never very good at it. I think when I was 15 I got some software, and said, “Yeah, let’s make terrible music.” And I did terrible music, but it was fun so I didn’t stop and eventually it wasn’t terrible anymore because I learned a few things. Two years in, for instance, I was shocked because somebody told me about mastering. And the concept that different headphones sound different.