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The Karminsky Experience
We catch up with lounge lovers, longtime Big Chillers and bar regulars - The Karminsky Experience.What's your night called?
The Big Chill Lounge
Who are you?
The Karminsky Experience Inc.
What have you been up to, before this residency?
Producing music, djing and lounging
What's the music policy for your night?
A laid back mix of soundtracks, easy listening and rarities alongside more contemporary tracks from our label, Patterns Of Behaviour.
If money was no object, and you could book any line-up of DJs and bands living or dead, who would play?
That's a tough one. How about starting with Blossom Dearie, Burt Bacharach and Lee Hazlewood and seeing where we end up?
What are your current top 5 tunes?
Linda Perhacs - Porcelain Baked Over Cast Iron Wedding
Rany Sinclair - Wailing Waltz
Antenna - Camino Del Sol
Tunng - People Folk
Soft Rocks - Please Don't Go
What do you think of The Big Chill Bar?
A great traffic free space with cool people and a laid back party atmosphere
What three things would your ideal bar have to have?
Drinks, sofas and good music.
I'm just on my way to the bar - what I get you?
A coke, we're driving.
Ideal evening chilling at home?
Good food and a lie down.
Ideal evening chilling out?
Drinking schnapps in a Swiss chalet on a warm summers day
Favourite places?
Home, London and the rest of the world.
What are you reading these days?
A Guide To Banking Overseas.
What are you working on at present?
The release of our new album "Snapshot" due in the shops and online from March. We're also at the final mix stage for a country soul band we've put together called Junior Bonner. The album "South by Southwest" due later this year.
What would most like to achieve over the next five years?
A good life.
What would you like to see change most in the world over the next five years?
Everything for the better.
Highlight of your life?
Friends and family.
At a festival - tent, B&B, or hotel for you, and why?
It has to be a tent for the night.
What was your Top Big Chill moment?
The first Big Chill Festival in the Welsh Mountains.
Describe the essence of The Big Chill in a few words...
For people to come together, have a good time and chill.
Written: 5th Jan, 07
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