1. Favourite knob or fader or switch on a piece of gear and why?

The time knob on any analogue delay stomp box, follow closely by the feedback knob.
2. Do you have an ‘almost’ perfect bit of kit? What would you change?
The Elektron Digitone (I). I would change nothing, because it’s the limitations, that make it such a great creative tool.

3. What setup do you bring on holiday or tour or commute etc.?
My Akai MPC Live II. Or my laptop running Logic.
4. What software do you wish was hardware and vice versa?
I’m a big fan of granular synths, so it would be nice to have something like the Tasty Chips GR-1 as a plug in on the AKAI (Force/MPC).
5. Is there anything you regret selling… or regret buying?

It would have been nice to have kept the Roland W30, it has a very gritty 12-bit sound. Maybe I’ll very soon regret not buying a second spare Akai Force, because they are not produced anymore, and I’m not sure they’ll make a Force II.
6. What gear has inspired you to produce the most music?
Well, the list is very long, starting with my first samplers, the one in the Amiga 500 and the Roland W30 way back in the nineties. But the last few years it has been the Elektron Digitone. My latest album (“Wait”) has some tracks that are made entirely on the Digitone. Generally, there is nothing like a good sine wave to get me inspired, so I love digital synhts with nice sine waves, like the Blofeld or the Digitone. I also get a lot of inspiration from stomp boxes, like the Cosmos Drift Station or the Strymon Nightsky.

And of course delay boxes, of which I have a few (my favorites being the Moog MF 104 and the Jahtari rebuild of the Korg Monotron delay).

Oh and I almost forgot the Tasty Chips Granular GR1. I love all things granular…

7. If you had to start over, what would you get first?
An MPC. The sampling workflow is second to none, and the plug in synths are usefull (I use the Juno 106 replica and the electric piano, which can be turned into a sine wave plus noise synth).
8. What’s the most annoying piece of gear you have, that you just can’t live without?
The Digitone. It happens so often that I get completely lost because I accidently change the wrong notes on the sequencer and loose some of the programming (every note on the sequencer can have a different sound set up).
9. Most surprising tip or trick or technique that you’ve discovered about a bit of kit?
The digitone surprises me all the time, I find some clever way of doing something and then the next time I use it, I have forgotten what I did. So I’m sorry: No tips and tricks.
Artist or Band name?
Dub Tractor
Genre?
Sine wave
Selfie?

Where are you from?
Nivå, north of Copenhagen.
How did you get into music?
Spending long summer days inside listening to cassettes.
What still drives you to make music?
Curiosity.
How do you most often start a new track?
Either with a sequence (an ostinato) or with a beat. If I start with a beat, the track never turns into anything.
How do you know when a track is finished?
I never know.
Show us your current studio

The core of the studio: The Force and the Digitone.

Best creative advice that you’ve ever heard?
Listen to your music at very low volume (or from another room).
Promote your latest thing… Go ahead, throw us a link
Dub Tractor: Wait (Touched Music UK, 2023)