CGNY: What or who influences your music especially when it comes to making music? Do you strive for a particular sound?

FT: My music is the result of my musical culture and emotions that characterize my sound being more deep. When I listen symphonic, rock, bossa nova, and of course electronics music, I feel these "emotions" or archetypes that I cannot describe well in words. Musical genre classification is purely a cultural issue and I feel like the son of the electronic culture. My childhood was past listening from Kerri Chandler to Adonis, from Blake Baxter to Larry Heard, from Juan Aktins to Carl Craig, from Sven Väth to Richie Hawtin, etc.

CGNY: Italy has a thriving techno scene – with lots of really good music coming from there. How do you feel the electronic dance music scene compares to other countries? I know you’ve played Sonar in Spain.

FT: I think that in Italy there is a lot of very good music and artistic fervor, but there is not the same artistic intelligence that moves the ranks of the organization of events: I see that Italy is squeezed economically until the bone in favor of "Superstar DJ" and there isn’t chance for talented young Italians.Here in New York I see that this problem doesn’t exist, the organizers of events are often DJs and producers and they make economic and artistic decisions much more meritocratic so this gives room to grow in the art scene. In Spain there is the opposite problem than in Italy: techno music is in supermarkets and on the beach among families with umbrellas and so the music is globalized... There are super organizations of events but if you listen to a DJ is like listening to them all.