"Detroit might be a bit closer to my heart, with its melancholic moods," Losoul says about his influences, "but I have to admit - when it comes to the beats I can't get away from the jack." The stomping jack grooves of the Windy City are once again an integral element on Losoul's new album 'Care', on which claps and snares feature prominently and jack-typical quarter notes are used to great effect. "Yes, it's that type of energy that I just let happen sometimes," Losoul explains. "The album has also been recorded using quite a few vintage machines, making this specific sound possible. The sound of old gear is something that many people can relate to - not in a concrete sense that people recognize a specific drum machine, but as a certain flavour, as a sound tied to certain times and memories"

'Care' definitely is an album that is conscious of its roots - from its Detroit and Chicago influences to the 90s hip-hop samples that serve as its bookends. In this regard it is as much a true Losoul album as 'Belong' and 'Getting Even' before it. Yet it is being released in quite a different context and time than its 2000 and 2004 predecessors. House music has seen a large increase in popularity since and many of the new producers and labels associated with the trend come right out of Losoul's Frankfurt neighbourhood - Johnny D, Cécille, Oslo. How does Losoul's work relate to the house music resurgence made in Germany?

"Much of the new house music that is released today sounds quite different to what I am doing. Perhaps this is due to the fact that I have been into house music since the beginning and younger producers have to discover it all by themselves. I don't mean to generalise, but a young house music producer might have been socialised by five or six years of minimal techno, and of course this is something that you can't shake off overnight. Some new house productions sound a lot like minimal, only with different sounds. But of course it's cool when young people discover 80s and 90s house music now, just like we discovered early disco back then - I think this is very positive."

Is this affection for musical history something that has inspired the title 'Care'? "Well, I started to go out and during the late 80s and I was already very conscious of the music back then. I still have all the records I bought, and certain elements of that music still stand for what I experienced and felt at the time. In this sense I care for this music to stay alive and try to make it accessible to others," he explains and offers us another interpretation: "'Care' also refers to the effort that has gone into the details of the music, to make it sound just like I feel it should. This can be applied to anything really - care about what you do."