fullonline: Who is "Triac", where you are from and what is your musical background? Why do you choose this name to the project?

Michael: Triac are Ilan Lanz and Michael Reznik, both from the south of Israel. Ilan is living in Ashdod, and I, in Beer-Sheva. We both have been listening to trance music since the early 90s, when genres were much simpler, and we both focused mostly on what was called "night music". The name Triac is an electronic device, actually a combination of two electronic devices (SCR's) that connected back2back.

Ilan: Our musical background was built upon some late 90s MTV, techno tapes & x86 (pc's!)- We never took any proper music studies.

fullonline: Are you married and/or have kids?

Ilan: Not yet.

fullonline: Can you keep a comfortable lifestyle working only as a psychedelic artist or a second job is needed?

Michael: These days Ilan is working in a Hi-Tech company and I am a student at the university. Yet, we believe in our music, and we think that one day when we focus on music making we can do it.

fullonline: What is on your CD Player right now?

Michael: Mostly Discreet Math, but I switch to minimal electronic music from time to time.

Ilan: Mine actually plays the new Snoop Dogg CD, and when I'm feeling less sexy I guess it's always some kind of down tempo electronics.

fullonline: Which one of your own music do you like the most? Does it have a special meaning to you?

Michael: I'm really attached to 'Mean Between' and 'Fast food' from our album, but our 'oldie' the original version of 'Sink' always brings me good memories from those days when we wrote it.

Ilan: Always been "Sink", one of the first tunes we've made and since the remake we did for the album, I like it even more.

fullonline: What other music style do you listen to?

Ilan: Everything goes as long as it's not cheesy MTV/American Idol stuff.

Michael: I listen to all music genres. If I like a song/track it doesn't matter what style it is, can be songs in Hebrew, MTV stuff, and all the way to minimal electro and even IDM.
Artists that I really like lately are Stephan Bodzin (also Swoop, Electrochieme), Extrawelt and Trentemoller.

fullonline: Is there any equipment you think can help you produce better music?

Michael: I won't mind having one Voyager in the studio.
...And everything that comes with a sexy tube inside.

fullonline: Do you prefer to play at parties at any specific time?

Ilan: I prefer to play when our music fits the most... Mostly it's peak time of the night/early mornings. Middle of the party towards end fits the best.

Michael: Outdoors, I prefer to play at night time and finish just when the sun goes up. I think that our music has this character that fits most to these hours. As for an indoor party it doesn't matter.

fullonline: You’ve been releasing tracks since 2002, but only around the middle of the 2006 your first album "Triac - Mean Between" was released. Why it took this long to released and why you choose this name to the album?

Michael: We started to work together sometime at 2001, but then we both went to the army for three years. When we were in the army we worked only in the weekends and vacations. Actually we could have released an album quite a while ago, but we only felt satisfied with it a few months before it was released.

Ilan: We started to collect the tracks for the album after we were discharged from the army in end of 2004. As Michael said, during that time we tried our best to keep producing some tracks but not until 2005 that we were able to properly do it.
As for the name, "Mean Between" is somewhere a middle, a definition that fits the way we felt "stuck" in the middle of the Israeli musical scene, but at the same time, mean enough to break through.

fullonline: Your album got excellent feedback and some reviewers called it "Techtrance". Are you comfortable with this labeling? How do you call your own music?

Ilan: I think calling it "techtrance" fits in some ways, but what stands out is the way we make it "Israel proof"- we had to make it more intense for the crowd here to adapt, our music got a few roots in techno, progressive & trance, but we just call it Triac.

fullonline: What are your future releases? Any chance of releasing a new Triac album?

Michael: Yep, of course there is a chance to release a second album, but it will take a while.

Ilan: There are tracks under work in the studio, but the first one you will here is the remix we did to Midimiliz's Baxandall, that will be released in the "Passages" remixed album @ Boshke Beats.

fullonline: What do you think makes a good remix? How would you describe a remix? Should we expect a remix from you in the future?

Ilan: A good remix should be the musical/technical characters of the remixing artist that are forged with the original idea of a musical piece from the remixed artist.

fullonline: What do you think about people sharing music through mp3 instead of buying it?

Michael: It hurts the records companies, the artists, and eventually everyone. I think it's ok to download mp3 files, but if you like something and listening to it more than once, buy it!

Ilan: I think that sharing music on-line could be tolerated as long as people realize that mp3 isn't a copy, it's just the preview. Buying music is essential. Supporting artists by buying their music & attending their shows is what keeps them going!

fullonline: You have a personal page at www.myspace.com/triacs, where we can find new music by you. Do you think it is a good promotion and way to test the new tracks? You got feedback on these tracks? What is your opinion about Myspace?

Michael: I think that myspace is a really good promotion tool, user friendly, and you can find information and contact of every artist you wish within seconds.
There are some demos available at our myspace page, and we plan to have more and more goodies there.

Ilan: The Internet became one of the most influential sources for everyone, it's great to interact with more and more people through it. And yes, Myspace is a great place to get feedbacks from the audience about the music. We invite you to come be our friends at myspace!

fullonline: How do you prepare your Live Acts? What you usually change in each different Live Act?

Ilan: We've worked on the Live Act so we could actually improvise on stage, the show is the "Mean Between" album, some of our past materials, special edits/reworks & free-styling parts all along with the mixing desk, our PC laptop & hardware synthesizers. The tracks are split in various ways that allow us to manipulate them, some parts are totally free-style, so it's actually silence without us doing our thing. It took us quite some time to get the achieved results where we have a dynamic live act that works on the crowed as it evolves. This way we can promise a different experience to the crowd every time we play live.

fullonline: You prefer to play a DJ set or a Live Act? Why?

Michael: It depends on the situation and on the party. If it's a festival or a big party I prefer to play live. The connection with the crowd with your original music on a phat sound system, it's the best feeling ever. But for small parties I prefer to play a DJ set.

Ilan: I feel more creative in live acts when we can express ourselves more technically & visually, but I can't say I prefer either one, performing is always great.

fullonline: In your DJ sets you usually play tracks from which other artists? What makes a good DJ?

Michael: What characterizes a good set is a perfect buildup, right track selection, and all this combined in a flawless mixing. A DJ should know to read the audience and generate interest during the whole set.
Another issue is to renew music, try different stuff, even an outboard FX processor could be fun, and mainly just to be creative.

fullonline: What makes a good party? You think decoration is important?

Michael: Decoration is important, but in my opinion the most important thing is the atmosphere and the people. It comes first, then of course a good music, and the sound system.

fullonline: What do you think people should do to make a better scene? Any visions about the future?

Michael: I think people should be more open minded just to go with the flow, and respect each other more.

Ilan: That's a really long issue, but I think that it's a changing environment, the scene and parties will continue to go both ways, some better and the some worse...
The nature of the music and culture is to continue evolving... The future will surely change a lot of things in the outside world, let's hope we will be around to see it happening...

fullonline: In which other psytrance projects you think we should keep an eye?

Michael: Not the most psytrance, but nevertheless I'll mention it: Elegant Universe.

fullonline: How long does it take for you to make a new track, from the ideas and inspirations to the dance floor? Any hint for a person who is starting making psytrance?

Michael: It changes from track to track. There are tracks that we wrote in 2 days (not including editing, mixing, checking, analyzing and mixing again), and there are the tough ones when you can even find yourself thinking about throwing the computer out of the window, and after you threaten the computer a bit the problem gets solved... But as for your question: it can take even more than two months...

fullonline: How each of you participate in the creation process of new music?

Ilan: Michael is making the food, I'm handling most of the beats & while I eat he wraps it up with some technical engineering... Seriously!

fullonline: What is your favorite psychoactive molecule?

Michael: I'm into White oats, I'm CRAZY !

fullonline: We all know that all kind of weird stuff happen at psychedelic gatherings. Can you tell us something different/funny that you saw or happened to you in a party?

Ilan: It appears that in one party we were able to wake up a person who told me that "I haven't been awake in a party for almost 3 years, not talking about dancing, my friends keeps dragging me here... But you got me to dance!" - one of my better memories, it was freezing cold too...

Michael: I was really drunk, and I mean REAALLY drunk (and we are from Russian origins!), I found myself sitting on a Persian carpet in the relaxation section near the chill out stage, with one blond girl in each side of me, I don't remember how I got into this situation, but I didn't ask to many questions, ..I tried to talk... but there was no voice coming out of me... I started to get nervous, but that only increased the passion around... they were looking at me and I was not able to think too much... and just started to do my thing, to get them closer to me and touch their bodies... we started to kiss and one of them started to lick me in the ear, and in that exact second I woke up and found my dog licking me like I'm some kind of a stake... The lesson is: Take a cat!

fullonline: Any last comment, message and/or promotional link?

Michael: Smile ! p.s. And of course check our website and myspace for gooooodies.

Ilan: Happy new years & holidays! And visit our www.myspace.com/triacs page!

fullonline: Thank you!
Respect!