Comfortzone Music is a record label founded by Christina Nemec in 2009, and is based out of Vienna, Austria. It’s a label for experimental and electronic music with a majority of the artists being comprised of female composers. I wanted to find out her perspective on running a label while working as a musician at the same time. Femmecult: Where did you grow up and where do you live now? Christina Nemec: I was born 1968 in Villach which is a small town in the south of Austria very close to the former Yugoslavian (now Slovenian) and Italian border. The neighborhood I was brought up was quite poor and/ or working class. Lots of families my parents age with kids and refugees from second world war as the colony of Untere Fellach was a former camp for forced laborers freed by the allied forces and the UNO who didn’t go back to the Soviet Union countries. My childhood was very exciting, my parents were very liberal, so I can say I had a really good time in this weird environment. At the age of 14 I discovered punk (1982 – way too late) for me as a way of living and I left home as runaway kid to visit squads in Vienna. FC: How did you get into making music? CN: Punk was the promise that anyone can do music with or without training or education. I started to play guitar, switched to bass guitar later. my first electronic works i produced in the early 90ies. first with Atari, later with Apple. FC: Did you have formal musical training? CN: When I was a kid, I started to learn to play guitar – but after one year I gave up – for I was...
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