Daniel Wang compiles Balihu's greatest hits

Does this release mark the end of Balihu, or just the start of a new chapter? It is definitely NOT the end, but it is sort of a conclusion of "the first 3 phases." In the first five or six years I was quite unknown, so I had no choice. Balihu was the only way to release my tracks. Now, I no longer feel like my production has to depend on the existence of this label. If the music is good enough, I'm glad to let other people handle the sales and legal aspects. Honestly, it is getting too difficult to sell vinyl, and I don't know if Balihu ought to start releasing CDs... You've been a little quiet on the production front of late. What can we expect from you in the near future? Near future—hard to say! There are several excellent tracks sitting on my hard drive for three or four years now, unfinished. I feel like I've been lazy, enjoying all the travel and parties and the openness of life in Berlin, but that initial hunger which drove me in the mid '90s is long gone. In the future, though, just beautiful songs. I hate to say "more mature," but that's the idea. Vocals from myself a la Tony Bennett meets Amanda Lear? Hmmmm. Your only commercial mix CD was a Japanese-only release and is now quite sought after. Do you have any desire to produce another one in the near future? Yes. MANY people have proposed mix CD concepts to me, but the biggest problem is getting legal licensing for all the tracks I'd REALLY like to compile. The mix CDs have been done in my head a long time ago and keep getting revised, but they're mostly instrumental compilations of my own edits and improvements of rarities from Alec Constandinos, Cerrone, Voyage, Jacques Morali, American jazz and pop... No "electro" or "italo," it's all real strings and guitars—the tracks I play in my sets. Maybe I should just do this illegally because it will never happen in a legal way!