by Zeljko Vujkovic

For me too !!! I hope to satisfy your questions !

Both names, because Aleph was the name of my first band that make me remembering so many nights spending to work together to create my first songs. Now I'm Dave, the man I believe to be! The man that I know "almost" very well.

I believe in my work, first of all because music is my life and secondly cause music takes me from the early days of my life and I think she'll never leave me ! Never !!

I've never decided to make italo disco music or to become an Italian disco artist, I simply started like a real artist in the 80's to write, sing and produce the music I liked. I was ever attracted by David Bowie, Genesis, Quincy Jones and many others. If you could remember, the name Dave Rodgers appeared for the first time, like a member of Aleph, in the second single called Fly to me.

It was a song we used to play during our live performance... in the middle of different pop rock songs... One day, a deejay, from a famous local disco "Caravel" called Antonio Caranci asked to us to produce our own song for his label.

Fly to me was my real first song !!!! I always remembered nights and nights spending to create this track ! There was a lot of energy... a lot of passion and patience shared with the other members of Aleph. I can't forget of this period a man called Luigi Raimondi ! I remembered that we spent one month to create Fly to me, days and nights, nights and days. I felt responsible to create this kind of sound with the help of Luigi.

I was very young and not so much clever in that period of my life... Anyway I had a mid-good time with them.

I've ever known that Maiolini had a Ferrari and I hoped, one day, to have a Ferrari too working for him.

Woa ! I've never known about 100.000 copies of Fire On The Moon ! I have to call immediately Time Records ! I know very well about 30 millions copies of my records sold in Japan in the 90's but I've never known about 100.000 copies of Fire On The Moon ! Woa !

You've already said "logical step ". The only reason was to be independent and to be responsible of all my actions. In fact I can say that my success was in the 90's more than 80's. I played in front of 50.000 people at the Tokyo Dome, I received some important awards in Japan, I sold million copies of cd produced by myself , what can I say more...

I remembered some song composed and produced with Federico "Fred Ventura" in my studio. I had a very good time with him.

I didn't like to put labels on my kind of music. My will is to create good music and to give something to the people, make them remembering their positive memories... it doesn't matter, the important thing that I have to say is: “I was with them in that's moment".

Fly to me, because it was the first and Fire On The Moon because it helped me to find my way to Japan.

A Beat C is a fantasy phrase and this label was created because I wanted to be independent by starting a new adventure with Alberto Contini, as mentioned before. Yes, it was and I remembered with a lot of pleasure that moment.

I think the direction I chose was the right one, in fact the market rewarded me. Honestly, now I preferred to keep low bpm, in fact in the new album of Nuage, you can find songs with a 135 bpm.

Super eurobeat music started silently but then it exploded with all its excitement. I always remember the first years when I discovered for the first time what means a life full of concerts, interviews, covers, fans, success.

It's absolutely wrong, I don't need any "technological hands" cause I work only with professional artist. If you only could see one of my or my artists, concerts, you could hear with your own ears that's true. I don't know about what the other labels do.

Eurobeat music is so fast that the only way to dance it is "parapara style" where you can see the dancers move a little bit the body but move a lot hands and arms. It's a kind of "mission impossible" but anyway it's not easy to do that. I cannot do that :o)

In fact there is no any difference between them.

Today Super eurobeat is looking for something fresh. My staff and I are working for that and I'll let you know as soon as possible the evolution even though I hope you could hear it before I tell you.

Yes, they call me "king of the kingu", anytime I go to Japan I recharge my battery because my fans give me the energy I need.

Yes guitar is one of my favorite instruments especially when I can have some guitarists as Jannifer Batten, KiKo, Steve Lukather and so on. Yes, surely, if you want to work with professionals artist you need to spend a lot of money.

I've worked with Alberto Contini since 1990 and I believe he is a wonderful person professionally and humanly, in fact we're still working together without any problems.

Domino was my wife. She was one of my fans that's why we met.

Domino was the name we used to call one of my three studios, where we produced a lot of big tracks. Starting from 2000 I changed the name of my studios: the main studio once called "Sound and Vision" is now "A", the second studio once called "Domino" is now "B" and the third called "Attic" is now "C"

Nuage, Manuel and Lolita

I confirmed what I said in that moment...I can say I built something very important and I hope to have given to my audience almost the best I could.

The force that push me creating songs is the possibility to express myself through out the music.

I repeat that music was, is and will be a part of me and of my life!!!

Thanks to you, it was a pleasure and I hope to see you soon!

Best regards,
sincerely yours
Dave Rodgers

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