Drop-D: Who are you?

Halogen: I am Adam Janota-Bzowski and I’ve been hiding under the moniker Halogen for just under three years now.

Drop-D: Where are you based?

H: I currently reside very close to the sea in Hove, Brighton, UK in my purple fronted masionette.

Drop-D: IDM is your thing, it would seem? How would you define your sound?

H: IDM, of course, stands for Intelligent Dance Music but I
can’t really imagine intelligent people dancing to my tracks nor do I
know how someone can dance intelligently. In its basic form I guess I
make ambient/glitch but I like to think of it as a surreal cinematic
soundtrack where the film is everything that passes your eyes.

Drop-D: Tell us about your role as a producer and what you might have in the pipeline?

H: I really love working with as many people as possible, I
grew up making music in various post-rock/metal/math-rock bands so that
collaborative approach is in my nature. I’m looking to get a large
collective effort from various musicians to play on an acoustic EP I’m
making for the Fluid Audio label, also getting some collaborations from some singers and MCs on a free download hip-hop EP for net-lab. co. uk. Apart from that working on a bunch of remixes for Tenaka, Iambic, Cloud Ants and hopefully a few others.

Drop-D: What can you tell us about Maternity Media?

H: Maternity Media is the umbrella company that own Maternity and Blood Tribe Records which I co-run and own with Zak Norman (Whipperslacker) and Dave Rzepa (Sick Rebel). Maternity
is a platform for emerging artists (mainly experimental music) to gain
exposure and recognition through our promotional avenues and regular
events that we are involved with. I see it eventually becoming a
growing roster of musicians that bigger labels would turn to as a
reliable source of new talent, and hopefully fund and release some
undiscovered gems. However at present it’s only an archive of free
downloads for my Recycled Broadcasts EP and a track by an amazingly beautiful band, We Yes You No.

Drop-D: Where do you draw your musical inspiration from, given the kind of patchwork textures from your EP?

H: It’s hard NOT to find inspiration in everything I
encounter. I was one of those kids that was more interested in the
radio static in between the commercial frequencies than the actual
radio stations. You can hear snatches of rhythm and melody in things
like radio static or the humming of machinery so I try to compose
things like that into a digestible 4 minute montage. Add that to
listening to a lot of Air and Steve Reich and I guess that’s me.

Drop-D: When's the new album out?

H: I would love to know when the new album is out myself! We
are currently trying to find a distributor to sell the record, I have
it all mastered ready to go with some artwork, if all goes to plan it
should be ready late May or early June 2009.

Drop-D: Any touring plans?

H: Just confirmed a set at the Glade Festival, looking to play some other UK festivals like Big Chill but mainly interested in going out to the States and spreading the sound out there along with our ‘bass heavy’ label Blood Tribe. Changing my set around to be a lot more live and experimental, and have a few gigs lined up in Camden’s inSpiral Lounge, so we shall see what happens."

Link to full interview.