Germany-based Sebastian Stuetz is the brain and mind behind the well-known music-project “Final DJs”. Besides producing and DJ’ing, he is also into blogging at Nu Disco Your Disco , a prominent base for Nu-Disco around the web. After experimenting with different kinds of electronic music, Daft Punk’s album „Homework“, gained his attention thanks to its sampled and retro-influenced house-music. While playing French-house, disco-house or synthwave for a few years as a DJ, the enthusiastic virtuoso followed up by creating his own music-project.
You have several new musical projects in the pipeline including a synthwave album for Miami nights 1984 label Rosso Corsa and a live Techno act, please can you tell us more about these and when we can expect to see them? I am planning a synth wave album for years now (Laughs) and a few weeks ago I finished the last song for it – which was expected to be a ep first. This album will be my masterpiece after so many synthwave songs and years. Some of the songs are really old, others are brand new – this is a voyage through all the years of the final djs sound. The techno project is just an idea yet….i have to try out some stuff and how I can realize it since I am a techno lover for over 20 years now. Back in the 90s it was the gate to electronic music for me and the music I learned djing to. Maybe a mixture of sampling and live arrangement in a daw via midi controllers. Final DJs productions have at times a very live sound, do you ever see a day when you would tour a Final DJS live show? Definetly not cause I am a studio musician. Its true that I work with many live recordings…from friends or sample packs and of course own stuff. That would only work as a band which is not realiseable when you have people from so many different countries working on it. You have done some great collaboration’s in the past do you have any new collaborations coming up? Yes there is so much going on right now. I am working on a collab with Bright Lightx2 who recently toured with Erasure all over the world. Rod and me are feeling the same vibe and it will be a great disco song. Also uk vocalist Martin Carr is one of the people I am working with on some new material. Yota will definetly be on one of my forthcoming tracks and we will see what happens next. If you could organise a collaboration with anyone in music who would it be and why? Lifelike cause his music is outstanding and inspired me so much. Also guys like chromeo or Oliver are pretty decent. I would love to work with vocalists like Sofie Tukker or Chela cause I really love how they sing and perform on their collabs. What else can we expect from Final DJS in 2018? Many brand new electro funk tracks, some bootleg and official remixes and so many different styles…house, nudisco and synthwave. Stay tuned. Finally please give us 3 places in Stuttgart to visit, one to drink, one to eat and one for dancing. If you want to eat the swabian style I just can recommend the one and only “Ochsenwillly” (laughs)…so great german food for a good price. If you like to chill and drink I would say visit “Waranga”. Its a great lounge and at night you can dance there as well. If you want to dance visit the “Dresden Bar”. Great different kind of music and nice people. Also the “Beef Cake” at Freund & Kupferstecher is a really good place to be, if you are up for some nice nudisco and house vibes.