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030 AUDIO INTERFACE We delve deep with Hessle Audio heads Ben UFO, Pangaea and Pearson Sound as their ground-breaking, scene-shaping label turns 10 years old...
FEATURES 037 FESTIVAL GUIDE 075 I.M.S 037 FESTIVAL GUIDE 2017 Everything you need: Listings, the world’s number one fest, and Southport Weekender’s 30th anniversary...
055 MIAMI MUSIC MARATHON Rounding up all the action from this year’s Miami Music Week...
060 ORCHESTRA IN THE ZONE Carl Craig reveals the details behind his new electro-classical album, ‘Versus’...
065 CATASTROPHE ANTHEMS We catch up with Warp stalwart Clark to chat mild-bending rave music...
068 SAFE AS HOUSE IS DJ Mag talks gender identity with Honey Dijon, DJ Sprinkles, Octo Octa and more...
072 JUNIOR SENIOR 055 MIAMI Rodriguez Jr talks moving to Mobilee and his sophomore LP, ‘Baobab’...
075 REACHING THE SUMMIT Now a decade old, we look at the history and future of Ibiza’s International Music Summit... 060 CARL CRAIG 010 COMIN’ UP D’Julz, HAAi, Franky Rizardo, Lil’ Louis, Redlight, Busy P, Leftfield, Futureboogie, 068 TRANS DJS Daniel Lismore, Mauro Picotto... 094 TIME WARP 088 ON THE FLOOR Losing reality at Time Warp, Underworld get epic, partying in paradise at SXM, Nina Kraviz changes perceptions... 115 MUSIC REVIEWS Jlin, Clark, Shed, Arca, Red Axes, InsideInfo, Actress, Krafty Kuts & Dynamite MC, Forest Swords... 142 TECH DJ Rap, DDJ-SZ2, Roland Boutique, 155 ROLAND BOUTIQUE Sharooz Raoofi, Basslet, Go Pro Hero 5...
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HISTORY IN THE MAKING Chicago house originator Lil’ Louis set to do special show with DJ Mag…
Lil’ Louis, the Chicago house music pioneer best known for his sensual late ‘80s hit ‘French Kiss’, is back. And DJ Mag is staging an exclusive event with him! Louis will be showcasing the results of a decade in the studio at a special show at Ministry Of Sound in London on the night of Thursday 15th June. Billed as ‘Lil’ Louis: Exclusive Worldwide Album Review — presented by DJ Mag’, the night promises to be something special.
An ‘album review’ in the US has a different meaning to what’s thought by the term in the UK. Rather than a critical write-up in a magazine, an ‘album review’ means the exclusive first play of an album. Although this is set to be something a lot more energetic than a regular album playback. Louis himself will introduce each track, and the invited guests and competition winners will be welcome to dance — rather than just consume the tracks passively. The whole thing will be filmed by DJ Mag, edited using innovative new technology, and broadcast a fortnight later on Thursday 29th June via facebook.com/djmagazine
“History in the making… is finally made,” Louis told DJ Mag. “After nearly 10 years in the studio, I am beyond excited to present to you my new music. This is by far my greatest body of work ever. On Thursday 15th June 2017, you are invited to the worldwide exclusive album review at Ministry Of Sound, London — presented by DJ Mag.”
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MAURO PICOTTO, the Italian DJ/producer who album. ‘Flashing (Basun Mix)’ has him crafting shot to international prominence in the late a chugging tribal techno cut, while ‘Organic ‘90s, is back with a new album — his first for Electronic’ is melodic tech-trance in excelsis. a few years. ’A Call In The Club’, released on DJ Mag asks Mauro what he feels about the Alchemy Records, is a real return to form, and interloping sound of EDM that’s dominated sees Picotto primarily return to the melodic main rooms over the past few years. “Luckily tech-trance sound he made his name with back I never had to play EDM, but I think EDM in the day. has been a natural evolution of trance and techno,” he says. “I think the simplistic In the late ‘90s Picotto was a resident at the way that EDM music is made and the simple UK’s Gatecrasher, becoming a firm favourite of melodies made it quickly very catchy, but at With the ‘Crasher kids and releasing ‘Lizard (Gonna the same time also people got bored quickly of Danny Howard Get You)’, which crashed the UK Top 30. This it — that’s why now everyone is moving away from BBC track earned him the nickname ‘The Lizard from it. Man’, a name that some fans still call him today “I also think the crowd that followed EDM Radio 1 (“sometimes people come to the clubs with was very young, and now they’ve grown up banners with that written on it!” he smirks). with their taste. Personally, I think there are Other big club hits and chart records followed, definitely many other genres better than that and Mauro started doing his Meganite parties one to choose.” at superclub Privilege in Ibiza — which have continued ever since. It feels like Mauro So is trance — including tech-trance and HIGHEST DJ SET ON EARTH! disappeared from the international scene in prog — coming back? “If by ‘trance music’ Congratulations to my mate and former mentor, recent years though, although he tells DJ Mag you mean quality melodic music that puts the legendary Paul Oakenfold, for achieving the that he never stopped being a DJ. you in a trance and an emotional state, then I ‘Highest DJ Set On Earth’ accolade, when he DJ’d “I have been busy looking after my family, with would say, ‘Yes it is coming back’,” he replies. to a select lucky few at the base camp of Mount my amazing children,” he explains. “I never “Although I think it never went away. Someone Everest recently. Not one to stand still and let the stopped touring, but I gave the priority to in a clever way, because the bpms were slowing world pass by, Paul’s desire to push himself and being a dad, so I have not been doing many down, called it ‘deep house’ (he laughs). If continue to break records is one of the reasons gigs like I used to do when I was younger. I the melodies give you emotions, that’s trance he’s one of dance music’s biggest ever pioneers. kept working for the passion of music, but not music in my opinion. Trance is melody, it takes Thinking outside the box, not following the crowd, because I needed to. I leave heavy touring you to a magic place.” always one step ahead are just some of the methods schedules to the newcomers.” Trance sounds have been appearing in techno he’s used to stay at the top of his game for 30 years, Apart from Ibiza every summer, he’s been of late, he says. “Even top underground DJs and I’m proud to have worked with him for a number busy releasing other people’s music on his in the last year are playing loops or edits of of years with his wealth of experience and knowledge. label Alchemy, and in 2015 published his old tracks,” he points out. “Trance is back, or ‘Discovering’ Ibiza, supporting the likes of autobiography From Heart To Techno. maybe the people are getting bored of just Madonna and U2 on their stadium tours, creating Mauro says that he was driven to record music loops which stop and go.” the most historic Radio 1 Essential Mix, and now again as he felt dance music “was without conquering Mount Everest… I mean, I thought I a soul anymore. This is what I always like to was killing it when I once did a DJ set at the top do, try to put melody in the music you can of Blackpool Tower, but I’ll let Paul take this one. dance to, but that you can also listen to.” THE BIG THREE From proggy cut ‘The Essence’ GORILLAZ ‘ASCENSION (NIC FANCIULLI REMIX)’ through a Doors-y ’Niuik’ and Just like he did with his Jamie xx remix last year, into an expansive Deadmau5-y Nic Fanciulli has delivered a ridiculous take on the ‘Motion’, the Lizard Man is back comeback of super-group Gorillaz. A mammoth project firing on all cylinders with this that is set to be the comeback of the year requires an equally mammoth remix job, and boy is this big. With a new album on the way this year, this is enough to get me excited for all that original goodness — but for the summer months, I’ll make do with this monster. Straight on the USB stick for those huge festival moments.
FLASHMOB ‘FREAKIN’ BABE’ His modern classic ‘Need In Me’ will always have a special place in my heart, it just gets me every time and I still drop it in my DJ sets all these years later. Flashmob is making his (now solo) comeback this year, and he’s certainly off to a flyer with this little weapon that’s sure to get support from across the board in house and garage. It’s proper addictive this one, and it sounds pretty sweet when you play it out on a loud system…
ELLIOT ADAMSON ‘6PM IN NEWCASTLE’ Aside from being one of the funniest/random people I follow on Twitter, Elliot Adamson is definitely a future star in the making. Already gaining support from the likes of Jamie Jones, Skream, Patrick Topping, Eats Everything and more, he’s about to take over the tech- house scene like a boss! Able to churn out a banger in a matter of hours, brace yourself for what is set to be THE RETURN OF THE LIZARD MAN a conveyor-belt of weapons one after the other. This one in particular is an example of just how good his Mauro Picotto is back with a new album — and production skills are, and the way he works the synths and sounds on that breakdown… well, he’s making it claims that trance is coming back… sound easy. Modulation at its peak… this one goes off!
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01. YOTTO 01. OC & VERDE 01. TUFF CITY KIDS Marisa (Original Mix) Green Rain (Original Mix) Glasgow Underground R-Mancer (Roman Flügel Happy Gerdy Remix) Permanent Vacation 02 JUSTIN MASSEI 02. C OYU, WESKA, KEVIN DE VRIES 02. TUFF CITY KIDS, TUFF CITY KIDS WITH JOE GODDARD Sideways Eight (Ruede Hagelstein Remix) Selador Sun & Sand (Original Mix) Suara Tell Me (Tensnake Remix) Permanent Vacation 03. BONTAN 03. UCHA 03. DANNY DARKO, JAMIE BAILEY The First Time (Original Mix) Hot Creations Nairobi (Original Mix) Underyourskin Records Ajumbu (Original Mix) Oryx Music 04. FABIO GIANNELLI 04. OLDERIC 04. MARK LOWER The Three (Original Mix) Innervisions Pyramid (Original Mix) Connaisseur Recordings People On A Party (Original Mix) Nurvous Records 05. B OG, TIM ENGELHARDT 05. ALBERTO RUIZ 05. SUPERPITCHER No More Words (Original Mix) Innervisions Mod 3 (Khainz Remix) Sbert Records Pocket Love (Original Mix) Hippie Dance 06. B OT, WILL CLARKE 06. BASSEL DARWISH 06. DREEMS, VON PARTY Techno (Not Techno) (Original Mix) Food Music Collins (Original Mix) Habla Music Running Mate (Original Mix) Multi Culti 07. PABLO FIERRO 07. YROR? 07. SUPERPITCHER La Palma (Original Mix) Innervisions The Unknown Jungle (Original Mix) Psymal Records 1984 (Original Mix) Hippie Dance 08. RIVA STARR 08. GAGA, MATEO! 08. NUN O DOS SANTOS Another Dimension (Original Mix) Play It Say It Sewers (Original Mix) Dark Face Recordings Prosa (Original Mix) Something Happening Somewhere 09. BONTAN 09. VICTOR POLO 09. PALE BLUE Personal Question (Original Mix) Hot Creations Haji Memashi Te (Original Mix) Innocent Music Comes Home (Pional remix) Me Me Me 10. KYODAI 10. VENDA 10. BRIAN CID The Clone (Original Mix) Exploited Jealous Sky (Original Mix) BodyParts Pluto (Marvin & Guy Hypnodance Remix) microCastle
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01. FUNTCASE, MERKY ACE 01. LUCAS & STEVE, PEP & RASH 01. BRYAN KEARNEY, WAIO 4 Barz Of Fury feat. Merky Ace (Original Mix) Circus Feel Alive (Extended Mix) Spinnin Records Futura (Original Mix) Kearnage Recordings 02. SERUM 02. BROHUG 02. FERRY CORSTEN, GOURYELLA The Finger (Original Mix) Philly Blunt Records Paparazzi (Extended Mix) Heldeep Records Venera (Vee's Theme) (Extended Mix) Flashover Recordings 03. UPGRADE 03. JUNKIE KID, 4B 03. A CE VENTURA, ZEN MECHANICS Blow (Original Mix) Serial Killaz Love Is Dead (Extended Mix) Revealed Recordings Come With Us (Lish Remix) Iboga Records 04. DC BREAKS 04. KLANGSTOF 04. INDECENT NOISE Step Up (Original Mix) RAM Records Hostage (Sasha Remix) Mind Of A Genius/Warner Bros. War Cry (Original Mix) Outburst Twilight 05. BASSNECTAR, DIRTYPHONICS 05. FLORIAN PICASSO 05. TIM MASON Watch Out (feat. Ragga Twins) (Original Mix) Monstercat Blast From The Past (Extended Mix) Musical Freedom Drifter (Extended Mix) DOORN (Spinnin) 06. AMOSS, FEARFUL 06. DIR TY DUCKS, USAI 06. DAVID FORBES, 2ND PHASE The Bends (Original Mix) Flexout Audio Like This (Extended Mix) Fonk Recordings Pie Friday (Original Mix) Damaged Records 07. LOUDPVCK 07. MUZZAIK, STADIUMX 07. S TARGAZERS, FENNA DAY Gone (Original Mix) LOUDPVCK Music Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (Extended Mix) SPRS Soul From Harm (F.G. Noise Remix) Amsterdam Trance Records 08. MOR TLOCK, CALYX & TEEBEE 08. BR OOKS, MARTIN GARRIX 08. AL Y & FILA Scaramanga (Original Mix) RAM Records Byte (Original Mix) Epic Amsterdam Beyond The Lights (Extended Mix) FSOE 09. CALIBRE 09. SPINROX, HOOX 09. DIM3NSION Enter (Original Mix) Signature King Of The World feat. MayK (Original Mix) Hotune Records Voorpret (UCast Extended Remix) Pure Trance 10. SERUM 10. LA FUENTE 10. HEAVENS CRY Phenomenon, Pt. 2 feat. Trigga (Original Mix) Philly Blunt Records Capitol (Extended Mix) HEXAGON Til Tears Do Us Part (Stimulator Remix) Tidy
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012 djmag.com Untitled-1 1 13/04/2017 14:28 KILLERS This month’s promos destined to destroy the dancefloor... INCOMING Stone Cold KILLER
Tiga Super tag-team TIGA VS AUDION are returning with another sexy collab. ‘Nightclub’ EP is three tracks, including D’Julz ‘Stabbed In The Back’, rumbling warehouse ‘Foxxy EP’ techno with a ‘90s rave stab and ‘Nonstop’, which has a skipping Afro-house vibe... Robsoul Off the back of the extremely excellent ‘Snowhite’ on ‘Love Is Everywhere’ EP, BABA STILTZ is also back, this time with ‘Can’t Help It’, again for Studio Barnhus. This time crossing his clicking percussion and tightly-wound bass with the sound of his own auto-tuned voice and highlife DEEP FRENCH TOUCH master D’Julz is even — of brand-new fans. its most potent, it’s got swing — an strings, the result daintily sits somewhere house music’s equivalent of an Audi ‘Ze Fox’ is a driving groove-house upfront, sassy attitude — and a between the Nordic folk of Erland Øre and (if Audis were French) — smooth, bomb so finely produced that it’s jaunty, playful sense of fun that few the summery melodic Afro-house of Auntie stylish and classy, but always road- guaranteed to send Ibiza terraces producers in this world are able to Flo... Apollonia’s SHONKY is a producer worthy and guaranteed to do the job. absolutely ballistic this summer. muster, and it all comes together who knows how to turn a dancefloor into Celebrating 20 years of his Bass Distilled down to a series of densely to make for a certified serotonin- a wonky, writhing mess, and his latest Culture club-night at Rex Club in Paris worked, perfectly positioned unleashing sunset banger, built for ‘Tyrolien EP’ is another good example of in 2017, he’s clocked up a few miles elements — mind-mangling flange FX peak-time and primed for any set of how he does it. Weaving a swampy ‘Thriller’ along the way too. A selector with an that rise, sexy tinkering keys, cheeky classy tech-house in need of a lift. sample around a harmonic hook and exceptional amount of experience 909 claps and a soulful railroad taut dirty beats, the title track is a dark, when it comes to building and scat sample — all are dispersed On the flip, ‘Big Kid’ is flowery, druggy mind-fuck, while ‘Beat Street’ is a layering a dancefloor groove, it’s as a over a swarming bassline oozing melodic French touch fare and ‘Next’ bleeping minimal shuffle and ‘Torro Rosso’ producer that house-heads really sing with funk and driving four-four, is stripped-back groove-based tech, is weird robotic techno... On ‘Dedication his praises. And his latest EP (‘Foxxy’) which struts purposefully towards but it’s ‘Ze Fox’ (in the box) that’s EP’, Yoruba Records’ jazzy spiritual man for Robsoul, a follow-up to 2014’s a huge breakdown that winds and going to be impossible to escape this OSUNLADE has infused smokey chords still popular ‘Ze Box’, is poised to drops almost five minutes in — to summer, and we’ll all be better off and languid bass into found-sound street score him a whole new set — hordes fist-pumping effect. House music at because of it. samples to paint a vivid musical portrayal of everyday life, which you can dance — or lounge — to... Meanwhile, Berlin duo Premiesku T&P ‘In Sfera EP’ ‘Hail Falls’ 20/20 Vision Feel My Bicep
ROMANIA’S deep tech-house TURNS OUT Tim Sweeney and super trio of Livio & Roby and Lauer go together like Ben & George G, aka Premiesku, are no Jerry’s. As T&P, their delicious strangers, but their latest EP for acid for Feel My Bicep (‘Hail 20/20 Vision is about to raise their profile even higher. Falls’) isn’t a tune, it’s a perfectly produced planet of Session Victim ‘In Sfera’ is sinewy tech-house-funk with a pulsating, sound, made of hollow melodic chords, cosmic synths and rupturing bottom-line, intricately layered, flowing with space-y arpeggios and squelchy 303s. Falling somewhere SESSION VICTIM are again doing what they skippy, jolting percussion, eerie harmonics, loads of weird between the industrial techno of Daniel Avery and Lauer’s do best, laying down lush, deep funky soul druggy energy, a killer drop, plus a vocal sample that pops work with Gerd Janson as Tuff City Kids — not forgetting sprinkled with organic instrumentation off throughout. There’s also a more stripped-back remix remixes from Dark Sky and Hammer — this release is and gorgeously supple vocal samples. by Enzo Siragusa, and ‘Fidelio’, on the other side, is more nothing short of essential. Returning to Delusions Of Grandeur, chunky and full of wholesome techno-funk. ‘Listen To Your Heart’ is their brilliant third studio album and ‘Part 1’ drops as an EP of SNTS Various four tracks on 5th May... JIMPSTER is also ‘Across Another Dimension’ ‘Definitions Volume Two’ on an album tip this month. ‘Silent Stars’ Horo Durkle Disco is forthcoming on Freerange, and it’s oh-so dreamy! ‘Yanza’, a Rhodes house track with DRESSED in black robes, face BRISTOL’S Durkle Disco strings on the LP, could be early FLOATING obscured by a black mask, SNTS imprint is nailing the sound of POINTS but elsewhere there’s Balearic, is every bit the Sith lord of Britain’s inner city youth right jazz, broken beat, Afro, orchestral, soul techno that his dark, brooding now, presenting hybrid bass and shoegazing moments to make for an productions suggest. Delivered via Berlin’s recently productions of the highest calibre each and every. The engaging, intriguing listen that we think relaunched Horo imprint, this latest four-tracker offers up second edition of the label’s ‘Definitions’ series dishes you’ll very much like... Lastly, POINT G, a brutal, industrial soundscape in ‘Origin Of Light’, before up DEFCON One dubstep with a trap-twist by Boycott, aka DJ GREGORY, is also releasing a long- heading into two cuts of driving techno — part gurgling scatterbrain instrumental grime courtesy of Daffy and player (‘The Point G Experience’) but it’s ancient evil, part alien engine of destruction — and finally, Gundam, a minimalist slice from Denham Audio that way more stripped-back and geared for the slowing the pace for a galumphing, clusterbomb closer features subs so heavy they’ve pratically got their own dancefloor — individual tracks you can play that’ll leave you picking shrapnel out of your ears until gravitational field, and screwface-inducing electro-sludge out and a continuous mix you can enjoy. next month’s killers arrive. by Unkey. Wubba wubba!
014 djmag.com HOT SEAT We throw a few curveball questions the way of... REDLIGHT Words: JOE ROBERTS
For those who lived through the so-called ‘post- my friend’s face was melting. not! So let’s do my own party. We’re doing one at dubstep’ years, it was an exciting time merging “I was 12 or 13 when I started going. Growing up Glastonbury, a boat party at Wow on the Sunday, various forms of bass-driven music in innovative in Bristol, there’s Glastonbury Festival just on which has got a whole heap of special guests. It’ll and exciting ways. Emerging from this period in your doorstep. There was another free festival, be a lot of fun, basically.” 2009, Redlight, aka Hugh Pescod, has outlived Ashton Court Festival, and St Paul’s Carnival. the label — and indeed any others — but never Between those three things, and the rave scene You mentioned the ‘90s rave scene. Why didn’t abandoned the restless, constantly morphing which was huge there in the ‘90s as well, it Polydor originally want to release ‘9TS (90s attitude that inspired it. From underground was a massive influence on me — especially Baby)’? They’ve clearly not been into a club hits like the fierce Roses Gabor-fronted ‘Stupid’ Glastonbury. You used to get in for free, then recently... on Digital Soundboy to major label success when we stopped getting in for free we jumped “Majors are a money-making machine aren’t they, with ‘Lost In Your Love’ back to his jungle/d&b the fence or got a ticket. However you’d get in, they’ve got to pay their bills. They’re not there roots, where he started under the name Clipz, you’d get in. to release cool underground music. At the end the Bristol-born, London-based producer and “You’d see all kinds of bands from the Beastie of the day that tune was unconventional when it DJ, who also runs his own Lobster Boy label, has Boys to Massive Attack to Bjork to Goldie — first hit, so they were like, ‘What the fuck is this? remained in constant motion. when he first did his live thing in ‘94 doing We want a chart hit’. I said, it’s a decent tune, the ‘Timeless’ album — to Portishead to Bobby it does what it’s supposed to do. They didn’t Playing the DJ Mag Sessions night at Starworks, Womack to James Brown, Amy Winehouse... so really have the balls to see that. I told them it Wolverhampton, on 28th May, alongside Sonny many people who were absolute legends and was going to blow up whether they released it or Fodera, Shadow Child and Tough Love, this aren’t even alive anymore, and you got that not. Next thing you know, it’s blowing up. Then summer you can also catch him at Hideout, for free on your doorstep. Glastonbury is an they wanted to put it out. That was the end of our Glastonbury, SW4 and more. We tracked him institution. England without Glastonbury would relationship really. But it’s cool. At the end of the down to the top of an Austrian mountain for a be a miserable place, that’s what I’ve realised. day, you don’t sign to majors unless you know catch-up... It’s got another 17 years, which is incredible. what they are. It’s a different mind-frame from They’re doing something really special for this working as an independent label. Sometimes You’re up a mountain. What’s going on? country, which the government and nobody you’ve got to take a bit of cash and deal with the “I’m at Snowbombing. I don’t really ski or else does. They give people three or four days of consequences. I don’t mind, it’s all good!” snowboard, it’s not really my vibe, but I like utopia. You walk through those gates and there’s coming up in the cable car. I’m playing in the an alternative lifestyle. The chance to listen to What’s next for your label Lobster Boy? Is it Igloo with Gorgon City, which should be a bit of a music, have fun with people and forget everyday still giving it all of that? laugh. I came with Heartless Crew and Toddla last woes.” “I started it in 2009 when I started Redlight, night. It’s definitely a good one.” because nobody wanted to release the music. Are you playing there this year? We’re 38 releases in now. I’ve done my album On a festival tip, you met one of Orbital at the “Yes, I do a party called Ice Cream Jungle. It’s on it, a mixtape, we’re just about to do a couple Stone Circle at Glastonbury when you were 14. a concept party, I have loads of inflatable ice more from some other artists — New York Transit That sounds like quite a story for when you got creams. The vibe I’m going for at the moment is Authority and Mak & Pasteman. I’m about to back to school... Which one was it? very sub-line, heavy bass music. I wanted to do release a tune with Champion, I just did a tune “I don’t know their names! It was the bald something about me and what I’m about, rather with Woz, I’ve got an ‘Ice Cream Jungle’ EP one... [laughs] It was a while ago. That’s what than being shoehorned onto other line-ups. coming. I love it. What I’ve released [shows me Glastonbury was like back then. I didn’t even I’m into a really broad spectrum of club music, as] an individual, I don’t follow a formula of this know it was him but one of my school friends, and sometimes people don’t understand that if or that. It’s really important to have a home to who was obsessed with them at the time, was sat you’re on different line-ups. A line-up might be put the music out that I believe in and can play in next to me on acid. The next thing you know, one really house, or really techno, or really bass. Do my sets. It’s worked for me.” of Orbital sat next to us too around the fire and I really fit into any of those categories? Maybe
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FRANKY RIZARDO
FROM: ARNHEM, NETHERLANDS
SOUNDS LIKE: SONNY FODERA, PATRICK TOPPING, LEE WALKER
THREE TUNES: ‘SAME MAN’, ‘GET SOME LOVE’, ‘KEEP MY COOL’
DESPITE the fact that he’s only 28, Franky Rizardo — real name Frank Ketelaar — has been producing music for half his life. Graduating from trance (very much the rite of passage genre for the average Dutch teenager), it was with his old chum Hardwell, who he’d met while briefly studying music production in nearby Tilburg, that he first committed a track to wax, the ‘Soca Funk EP’ on Hardwell’s old label Slized Recordings.
DJing local parties in Arnhem and around Holland, he was very much in with the right crowd. One of his birthday parties found Hardwell, Afrojack, Bassjackers, Quintino and Nicky Romero all on the flyer, just before all of them individually made it big. Even by association, something was bound to happen.
Gradually moving away from the more up-front electro-house sound, it was thanks to a run-in with DJ Gregory a few years later that had the dual effect of landing him a remix for the French house don — a deeply percussive take on his track ‘Paris Luanda’ — and grabbing the attention of Defected boss Simon Dunmore. Franky’s been a part of the Defected family ever since. But things have gone pretty stratospheric of late. After Dunmore suggested using the hook from B Beat Girls’ boogie classic ‘For The Same Man’, Rizardo’s track ‘Same Man’ has become unavoidable in recent weeks. He’s had breaks before, but this feels like the big one. “It definitely feels like things are ramping up a bit,” he says. “For example, the amount of remix requests coming in now. It’s just been really cool to see all the reactions from people, tweeting and sending me messages.”
He’s now in the rarified position of compiling the latest in Defected’s ‘In The House’ series, a double- disc mash-up of his own productions, as well as cuts from Darius Syrossian and Doorly, Dennis Ferrer and Coyu, along with some exclusive remixes. All this has combined to make him pretty hot property. Recent tour dates have seen him in India and the Far East, as well as a forthcoming tour in Australia. “Sometimes you really have to pinch yourself,” he says. “That you’re in some really special location, playing music with awesome people. I try to realise that it’s very special, what I’m doing, as often as I can.” BEN ARNOLD
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HAAi
FROM? KARRATHA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
SOUNDS LIKE? ANTAL, MR BONGO, JACKMASTER
THREE TUNES? FIRST TUNES COMING MAY 2017
“THINK RED DIRT, bull ants and scorching heat!” says HAAi about the remote Australian mining town in which she was born. Before landing in the UK five years ago, she also spent years in Sydney and a surfing town near Perth, as well as being in a shoegaze and psyche band as a guitarist and singer. When that group disbanded, she happened to go to Berghain for the first time and immediately fell in love with club culture.
“I was always playing instruments and making terrible music as a kid,” says the woman who was recently installed as Saturday night resident at Phonox after being spotted by the club’s owner playing down the road in Dalston. When she first started buying records, it was early Thai and Indo psyche sounds, as well as Nigerian, Kenyan and Turkish funk and psyche that excited her. To this day, those earthy textures, international percussive sounds and off-beat rhythms still colour her genuinely unique and chugging sets, as do “melon- twisting” synth sounds and hard-hitting techno.
“That sound is like a universe,” she says. “Once you scratch the surface, you can keep digging deeper and deeper for eternity! It was a really primal feeling inside me that got me hooked.”
In order to make these old dusty records fit for modern club sets, HAAi often edits them herself, and promises that right now she is locked away, five- days-a-week, in the studio, working on new beats which will surface in May, and a live show sometime after.
The tunes will come on Coconut Beats, which is also the name of a blog of obscure worldly tunes HAAi regularly updates, and will also turn into a new party at Phonox this summer.
“My pipe-dream is to one day curate a Coconut Beats stage at a festival,” she muses, before speaking about her role as resident at Phonox. “Playing a six-hour set definitely allows you to become more experimental. When you play that long in a night, you build trust from the crowd so they tend to be more open to coming on a journey with you. Anyone can play a banger. Those tracks have been made for that exact purpose, but it’s the stuff in between that makes a night memorable and interesting for everyone.” KRISTAN J CARYL
djmag.com 017 VITAL LABEL Q&A DAVE HARVEY How and when did Futureboogie come about? “The parties started 15 years ago and the label actually started five years ago in April, so we are basically 50 at five years — only just realised that when answering this!”
Who’s involved? “These days it’s me at the helm but Christophe is basically my go-to man to check I am not going mad and of course steering the look of the label, so it’s great to have him behind the 50th release. Nick Harris is our label manager behind the scenes, keeping all the plates spinning, making sure the wheels don’t fall off.”
What does it sound like? “Good quality house music hopefully, lots of disco influences and warmth, plenty of melodies and always — hopefully — a groove.”
Who’s releasing on it? “Mostly lots of friends and family still, plus some new faces: Lauer, Felix Dickinson, Kiwi, Ron (Basejam) & Neil (Diablo), Dreems, Jamie Blanco, Mark E, BASED IN BRISTOL and run under the UK’s most distinguished party Turning 50 after five years of Luke Solomon and Jonny Rock, PBR the wing of local lads Dave Harvey animals. Whether that’s via the DJ service this month, they’re Streetgang.” and Christophe (and Nick Harris robotic bounce of Felix Dickinson, celebrating their anniversary with behind the scenes), Futureboogie is the arpeggiated big-room joy of Kiwi a cracking EP from Christophe Who’s playing it? fucking amazing. or a melodic dancefloor magic man (cunningly titled ‘50’), so it’s about “Always a wide selection of people like Lauer, it’s a label that never fails time we told you why Futureboogie from all over the place musically, A buy-on-sight label for those who to disappoint — especially also when is such a vital label (as if you need to from the disco-not-disco types favour the techier end of boogie. it invades the stages of the world’s be told!). to straight-up house heads It’s a house label with a disco finest festivals (in particular Croatia) — Lovefingers, Tim Sweeney, flavour, and one that’s propelled and, of course, their legendary boat Psychemagik, Rahaan, Sean the careers of a decent number of parties. Johnston — A Love From Outer Space, Maceo Plex, Ewan Pearson, Crazy P, Jimpster, Bad Passion, Felix Dickinson, Groove Armada, Ivan Smagghe, PBR Streetgang, B Traits.”
Proudest Futureboogie moment? “Blimey — there have been a few, but I think making it to 50 is pretty special. Other than that, any of our boat parties or nights in Barbarella’s in Croatia are when GIMME 5 you know it all makes sense.”
Kiwi and them joining us on the Futureboogie stand the test of time. Nature took the What’s next? ‘Orca’ boat at Love International for the first beautiful original and just worked it out “We have some killer releases lined “Probably our biggest release of the last time this year.” into a truly incredible piece of music — up from DJ Nature, Lauer, Kiwi, couple of years, absolute killer arpeggio goosebumps still.” Ian Blevins and Man Power, plus action from Kiwi. We already have Christophe some others we can’t mention just another release lined up with him, and ‘FBR050’ Felix Dickinson are expecting lots more to come.” “This one is very important as I ‘Burning Flame (Machete Savane yet — label parties at Renate in can’t believe we have made it to 50! Remix)’ Berlin, London and Manchester, Ron & Neil Christophe has been there right from the “Felix is a very good friend of the family stages at Gottwood and Love Saves ‘You Feel It’ start, so it’s great that it’s his music to and this was our first release together. The Day, Love International and “Two of our oldest friends since the take us into the next chapter!” We’ve gone on to do a lot together, so start of Futureboogie, Ron Basejam and this has got a special place for me!” lots of festival dates in general, plus looking at some international Neil Diablo, this one became a bit of an Typesun anthem for us in 2016 and we are looking ‘Last Home (DJ Nature Remix)’ touring action for 2018 already — forward to more incoming from them, “This is one of those records that will just so plenty on the table!”
018 djmag.com Untitled-1 1 13/04/2017 17:00 CHEEKY BUBBLERS Fresh acts rising to the top... CRESSIDA Bubblin’ in Berlin
If Samuel Johnson were around today we’re sure he’d say that when one is tired of techno, then they are tired of life. As if to prove the point, Berlin transplant Cressida has unleashed a number of life-affirming techno cuts upon us of late, his thought-provoking productions picking up support from a number of the scene’s coolest names, with everyone from Dax J to Samuel Kerridge giving his distorted beats a whirl. Set to drop fresh material on wax for VOITAX, LDNWHT, Syncretism and OSF over the coming months, we’re fully expecting this hectic release schedule to catapult the elusive Cressida out of the shadows of the underground, and into the sets and playlists of the world’s foremost tastemakers. Sounding as if his work was forged in the dark heart of a burning star, we wholeheartedly recommend you get to know him now should you wish to be ahead of the curve.
SOUNDS LIKE? Dax J, Regis, UVB
AUTARKIC New wave love songs
‘I Love You, Go Away’; a beautifully contradictory statement that could resonate with us all. It also happens to be the title of Nadav Spiegel aka Autarkic’s debut album on Berlin imprint Disco Halal. The Tel Aviv native’s productions have already travelled the globe with music on New York’s Golf Channel and Canada’s almighty Turbo — the brainchild of Tiga. Nadav took his recent inspirations from a painful love story ending in heartache, and what better way to express it than putting pen to paper. Autarkic is a songwriter first and foremost; an almighty talented lyricist that has developed his own blend of leftfield electronics with a ‘70s punk-rock edge.
SOUNDS LIKE? Hot Chip, JeanGa and George, Red Axes
the stakes with breakbeat percussion; ‘Orbit’ “Detroit: UR, Carl Craig circa early ‘90s, Juan PATRICK CONWAY revolves around fractured beats, acid and IDM Atkins”. Those varied influences are evident in St Patrick’s Day atmospheres, with a joyous remix from Pangaea. his sound so far, and we’ve heard forthcoming We did manage to find out that he considers his tracks ‘Double Viper’ (a sub-bass minimal techno Who is the mysterious Patrick Conway? Nobody music “deep ravey techno”, an apt description, bounce) and ‘Low End Activist’ (a broken garage seems to know. What’s not in doubt is the quality and that he’s influenced by “UK rave: Fantazia, banger featuring Trim), which bode extremely of his debut release, the ‘Sandy Lane EP’, out Eclipse, Obsession, hardcore, jungle, Fabio & well. Whoever he is, Patrick’s got it going on. through Rekids. The title cut is all heavenly Grooverider, Mickey Finn, 2 Bad Mice, Ellis Dee, synth chords, understated counter melodies and UK garage, Moving Shadow, Suburban Base,” SOUNDS LIKE? Carl Craig, Kenny Larkin, thumping kicks, before a second act that raises and “Sheffield bleep and Warp: Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert, Artificial Intelligence series, LFO”, plus A Sagittariun
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LOVRA We Lov Ya
A talented young artist hailing from the German provinces, LOVRA’s home in Berlin is where she honed her craft; a well-known artistic hub for creatives. She’s nailed the clean-cut ‘90s house sound to perfection, with epic drum-laden breakdowns designed for the dancefloor. Her latest is a collaboration with neo-soul singer Tasita D’Mour, whose vocals have graced the likes of Defected and D:vision Records. Classic samples lie in her previous work including Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ and Loleatta Holloway’s ‘Love Sensation’ used to much applaud. She’s currently in the studio readying her next release that will be a perfect soundtrack for the Berlin open-air parties to come this summer.
SOUNDS LIKE? MK, Eli & Fur, Tough Love
CARRY NATION Carry on dancing…
NYC duo Will Automagic and Nita Aviance make up The Carry Nation; also the name of their infamous party series started at Brooklyn’s late-night hotspot The Spectrum. As well as flaunting what they’ve got behind the decks, they’ve released on more labels than you can shake a stick at over the past five years including Batty Bass, Trax, Nervous and DFA to name a few. Their good vibes and boogie-ready productions have taken them around the world in recent years from Berlin, Paris, Chicago, Helsinki and the list goes on. This summer they return to Glastonbury Festival’s famous Block9, and with current cuts doing the rounds on Batty Bass and Classic Music Company, these two will be keeping us firmly in our dancing shoes.
SOUNDS LIKE? Hercules & Love Affair, Severino, Hannah Holland
DUKWA All Night Long
Let us introduce you to Dukwa. You may not know it but you may have already been acquainted — he’s graced the long-running British label Planet Mu alongside good friend Herva as a project named Life’s Track. He also performed live on the Numbers label mini-tour in December last year, leaving us tantalised for his first release on the Glasgow-based label. His ‘Shattered In A Thousand Pieces’ EP doesn’t disappoint. ‘Thoughts’ featuring Mar-G has all the markings of an end-of- the-night anthem, and ‘Illusory Dreams’ laces dusty drums with hip-hop sampled stabs. Dukwa has nailed a perfect balance between gritty lo-fi and dreamy melodic bliss — and we’re hooked.
SOUNDS LIKE? Marco Passarani, Lovebirds, Rimbaudian
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HONORÉE An honour to meet her
Honorée is already a fixture in Switzerland’s thriving underground club scene. This DJ/producer from the city of Basel has played alongside everyone from Carl Craig to Richie Hawtin, while her graphic design has adorned artwork for Running Back, Planet E and Rex Club. It’s her debut ‘Maree Basse’ EP release for Rekids, though, that’s really going to get her noticed. Packing two stripped-back, lysergic house cuts, and a remix from the in-demand Evigt Mörker, it’s a hell of an entrance. ‘Feeling’, with its echoing claps, skeletal beats, bass throbs and trippy wisps of synths, is hypnotic and danceable, while ‘Pearls’ is spacious, airy and flooded with blissful chords. Honorée already has a distinct sound — let’s hope we hear more of it soon.
SOUNDS LIKE? Move D, Peggy Gou, Mr. G
BARTELLOW Do the Bartman
Bartellow has an obsession with electronics, and it’s his technical mastery that has been turning heads. He first caught ESP Institute’s undivided attention with his productions under the name of Tambien, alongside Public Possession founders Marvin & Valentino. His debut album ‘Panokorama’ on ESP is a fine showcase of his skills — analogue-infused melodies range from the subdued and dreamy tones of ‘W.C.R’ to the more sinister off-kilter oscillations of ‘Amnesia’. Aside from his love of machines, he also runs a label SVS Records alongside German-Londoner Daniel Hermann-Collini; known for exceptional quality records and throwing label parties worldwide. With a Japan tour under his belt already, catch Bartellow rocking his well-versed analogue live set near you very soon.
SOUNDS LIKE? Redshape, Toby Tobias, Awanto 3
PARKER MADICINE Heist’s finest funk
Parker Madicine successfully joins the dots between Milan, New York and Detroit. He gets his kicks from digging in the crates for old school hip-hop and a love of legendary funk and soul musicians; from Miles Davis and Curtis Mayfield to the Beastie Boys and De La Soul. He’s the man behind CT-HI Records, a forward-thinking and classic-sounding label that follows his impeccable tastes. For his latest release on Detroit Swindle’s Heist Recordings think dreamy Rhodes chords and jazzy melody- lines, all the while live-sounding drum patterns keeping his constant groove. A solid release for his trademark sound that has rightfully been dubbed ‘Milan High Tech Funk’.
SOUNDS LIKE? Jimpster, Nachtbraker, Andy Hart
022 djmag.com 2017-05-DjMag-single-page-opening-with-names.inddUntitled-1 1 1 13/04/201713/04/17 15:42 15:21 GAME CHANGER Seminal cuts that altered dance music forever
When awesome ‘90s duo Leftfield recruited the services of punk rocker John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, for ‘Open Up’, they unwittingly opened the doors for dance acts to work with unlikely vocalists. The resultant punky-techno missive was set to top the charts until real-life fires broke out in Hollywood, and the record was effectively blacklisted from the airwaves. On the eve of the re-release of their 1993 opus ‘Leftism’ — once described by DJ Mag as the best dance music album ever — we hear the inside story...
“OUR MANAGER AT THE TIME SAID, ‘You’re not “MTV refused to play it, the BBC weren’t keen,” Neil going to believe this, but there’s been a massive says. “It was a nailed on No.1, so far ahead of the fire in Hollywood’,” remembers Neil Barnes, one game, and then midweek they stopped playing it. half of Leftfield (at the time a duo) on the curious It’s not like we were heartbroken, but it was bizarre coincidence connected with the release of their that happened. The whole song is about not getting track ‘Open Up’. a part in a film. It’s not about burning Hollywood With its “Burn Hollywood burn!” chorus from Sex down, which was so annoying for us.” Pistols and Public Image Limited iconoclast John LEFTFIELD Lydon, ‘Open Up’ was on course to be a huge hit. ‘Open Up’ didn’t fizzle away, though. It hit No.13 in ‘OPEN UP’ But just when it was gaining traction in the charts the UK singles chart, featured on the soundtrack to (HARD HANDS, 1993) and getting radio play, a spate of ferocious forest zeitgeist youth movie Hackers, and had a persisting fires engulfed the same area of California, and the impact upon popular music as a whole. media turned against them. A unique record matching John Lydon’s Middle
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“John is a great singer. It was one of the best studio amazingly complicated synth. This was like seven DX7s in a box. It’s FM synthesis with samples, so experiences I’ve had. John was a pleasure to be with, programming it was near impossible. But now and again, it had some really lush string sounds.” and is a pleasure to be with, most of the time!” “We were still using [software sequencer] Cubase and a lot of midi,” adds Paul. “It all ended up on two-inch NEIL BARNES tape and then went on to DAT tapes for editing. This gave it a certain sound.” Eastern-inspired muezzin wail and memorable explicit line between the outlaw nature of punk and hook with acid bleeps and a thunderous rhythmic dance. FASTER undercarriage, its legacy has continued to blaze. Though John Lydon has a formidable reputation, Of the several iterations of ‘Open Up’, Neil mentions ‘Open Up’ stitched together rabble-rousing punk according to Leftfield, he was a pleasure to work with a strange feature of the album version that appeared attitude with pile-driving house beats, inspiring and to be around. “John was amazing, it was a real on their classic debut, ‘Leftism’. “We did a faster countless others to fuse those genres and take dance honour to work with him in the studio and spend version called ‘Dervish Overdrive’, that has an edit music into a new sphere of popularity. some time with him,” Paul says, while Neil comments: where it jumps faster. The extraordinary thing about It rapidly became the in-thing to get an unusual “John is a great singer. It was one of the best studio the album version is that we edited the ‘Dervish guest vocalist on your track, a trend still evident in experiences I’ve had. John was a pleasure to be with, Overdrive’ B-side, which is on the original single, dance. “I think it drew people who were not into and is a pleasure to be with, most of the time!” onto the vocal side, and what happens is it goes from electronic music at the time into the scene, and I 124bpm to 130 halfway through the track — but no don’t think a lot of them have looked back since,” PUNK one’s ever noticed it before. I only remembered it the says Paul Daley, at the time one half of Leftfield. “It The first demo version of ‘Open Up’ was made at Neil’s other day, when we were putting it together for the was a hybrid of rock and electronics which bridged flat, but it was refined at west London’s Rollover live show.” a gap for some people who didn’t like or understand Studios, a place where Leftfield would come to That live show — now helmed by Neil Barnes in electronic music or the scene.” record virtually all their material. “It had incredible a solo capacity — is back in action this year for a monitors,” Neil says. “There were these enormous, string of sold-out dates across the UK to celebrate ENERGY fantastic-sounding club monitors in the room. It was a new reissue of Leftfield’s 1995 album, ‘Leftism’. Leftfield started out as a Neil Barnes solo project, great to mix in ’cause you could get a clubby vibe It will feature a disc of remixes of every track by with the 1990 house classic ‘Not Forgotten’. Paul in there. A guy called Chris Jones, who engineered some of the best names in electronic music, from Daley joined soon afterwards, and the early single ‘Release The Pressure’, introduced us to the studio Zomby and Hodge to dub master Adrian Sherwood, versions of ‘Release The Pressure’ and ‘Song Of Life’ one night; we went down there and saw him working. Ben Sims, and Matt Edwards’ Quiet Village project. followed in 1992 through their own label, Hard We loved the vibe in there. ‘Open Up’ was done on an Neil singles out Skream’s excellent update of ‘Open Hands. ‘Open Up’ coalesced as a combination of Neil’s epic system, so you could really pump it.” Up’ for particular praise. “The new Skream remix contacts, and love of post-punk, and Paul’s DJing. Assisted by prodigal studio engineer Ollie J, only 16 of it is brilliant, really minimal and dark. He’s done “Some of the records Paul was DJing out at the time at the time, who Neil describes as “still an amazing something new with it.” took samples from the Sex Pistols,” Neil says. “I was producer and engineer”, they set about constructing playing a Renegade Soundwave track the other day the track with an array of different equipment. Neil Neil, who revived Leftfield with the ‘Alternative Light that had a ‘God Save The Queen’ sample on it. There chucked in some guitar samples culled from his punk Source’ album in 2015, is working on new material. were a couple of others. I did like the energy of Sex collection, though he’s reticent to reveal the source But in re-mastering the tracks on ‘Leftism’, one track Pistols, but I loved PiL. John has a unique timbre, of the snippets. didn’t need any additional attention. ‘Open Up’ is there is no one in the world who sounds like him.” “I’ve never said where they came from. You’ll never the tune both Neil and Paul remember as being a A light-bulb went on in Neil’s head. He had the basic know who it is!” he says. “It’s just one of those blast to record, and today they’re still surprised by structure of a track already prepared, but decided it things, I keep it to myself. It was just chopped up in its success. needed a punk vocal. Rather than sample Lydon, Neil a way that made something new. It was a sample I “On the new version, when we re-mastered it, hardly realised he could go one better. Through a mutual discovered. When I first got an Akai S950 sampler, I anything was done to it,” Neil says. “It was the one friend, he contacted the singer and asked him to used to sit there sampling lots of punk records. I used we were trying to get the others to sound like, as appear on what became ‘Open Up’. to look for guitar bits I could loop up. Sampling was much as that’s possible, without ruining the vibe of “I’d met John when I was 19 and knew him vaguely such a new thing to us. Suddenly it’s really exciting, the original album. through a friend,” Neil says. “John was into Leftfield you have all this control over things. I had quite a big “I can’t deny how excited I was when I heard it on anyway, he’d heard some of the early tracks. We put punk and new-wave collection. I was always looking Radio 1. In those days, I never thought I’d hear a together the proper first demo. That’s what John for possible samples of things like that, and would re- Leftfield record [on the radio]. The first record was heard first.” play them in a very unmusical way on the keyboard, played by John Peel, that was amazing anyway, but which was the way Leftfield always worked!” hearing ‘Open Up’ on the radio was one of the most In counterpoint to the proliferation of house records exciting things I’ve ever experienced in my career. I of the era with diva “take me higher” vocals, Leftfield In addition to the Akai unit’s contribution, and a felt so proud for all of us for achieving that. I still feel wanted to break with tradition. Part of the reason meaty slab of the ‘Amen’ breakbeat, they had several that about the record. I’m immensely proud of it.” they got John on the mic was to shake up the genre, synths, employed for various parts of the track. “We “I knew we had made something good, but I was inject some anarchic energy, “…something edgy had a Waldorf Microwave, which makes one of the quite surprised by the reaction and impact it had,” and powerful,” says Neil. Prior to the “superclub” top-lines in it. I think we had a Studio Electronics adds Paul. “It was a risk really, we just didn’t know era, dance had a reputation as rebel music. To get SE-1, it’s likely the bass came from that. It was our how it was going to turn out, but people seemed to the singer from the Sex Pistols on your track drew an go-to bass. There was a TG77 made by Yamaha, an really like it.” BEN MURPHY
djmag.com 025 OFF THE FLOOR Books, art, movies, etc... Words: KIRSTY ALLISON
Be Yourself Off The Floor catches up with alternative fashion icon DANIEL LISMORE to hear about his new book and journeys through clubland…
DANIEL LINSMORE is bigger than his late be there, when it opened at Art predecessor, the performance artist Leigh Basel, to make the pieces come to Bowery, whose experimentations in clubland life.” expressionism left more than a lasting dent — or inflated body-part — in fashion. But where The launch party for the book at London Leigh Bowery died before becoming part of a Fashion Week was fun. You and I were in larger culture, Lismore, all six-foot four of this two shows together at the Tate, but your ex-model, is very much alive. He’s surfed the work has moved on so much from that underground, aided by Insta-culture, in an era selfie-style early expressionism you where being gay is less likely to kill you. were doing… the production here The pieces of art Lismore has developed is high-end, and it’s great to see through exhibitionism on the dancefloor, run you focusing on this, getting it as a commentary on popular culture, provide all together. What you do isn’t the beginnings of his explorations into form classic gay drag. You open up the and how far he can push himself in art. All conversation way further into the are wonderfully showcased in a splendidly sphere of identity and sexuality, produced coffee table book by one of the best and how we present ourselves to media art publishers in the world — Rizzoli… the universe… “It’s not transgender, and I don’t Daniel, you’re increasingly referred to as a like the word fluidity — it’s just ‘living sculpture’, and there are 32 of your existing as you like. I’ve never ‘sculptural ensembles’ presented in this done a gay party, or a night for book of superb photographs by Colin Douglas drag queens. Anyone comes to my Gray. How did it come about? events — it’s about being yourself.” “I was at that part of my life where I didn’t know what to do, but came up with eight You started modelling at ideas. I went to a Westwood party, and spoke 17, working with Vogue, you with Rafael Gomez, who said ‘Yeah, we should collaborated in fashion with Soropol, do an exhibition at SCAD FASH [Museum Of but first were known as a club-kid, Fashion & Film in Atlanta]’. I said, ‘Sure!’ But by hosting parties in Mayfair, and at he came back saying they love it, and two days hotels… later he’d come to the Midlands and was going “I don’t do them anymore. That through all my things, in my storage space, whole entrapment of identity, it’s all and helped me. He said, ‘Let’s do a book,’ with a spectrum, and I started doing those Rizzoli. I said: ‘Yes, please!’ I said I need to parties in Mayfair, in places where they
026 djmag.com OFF THE FLOOR never let people like us in before — so if they turned one of us away, I would march BIG, BAD & HEAVY out of clubs with 50 people, saying, ‘Right, Big, Bad & Heavy is the story of legendary jungle we are leaving!’ I’d be like, ‘No, I’m not DJ Jumping Jack Frost. It’s the story of “a man who coming back!’ So I put the clubs against lived his life at the break-neck speed of the music each other. he played”, says the blurb. DJ Mag hasn’t procured “I’ve always hired good DJs. Charlie XCX a copy yet — it’s out May 22nd — but we’re working started with me, Jodie Harsh and I did on it. a lot of parties, FKA Twigs and I used to Raised on the tough south London streets of Brixton, work together… Coachella I love. I was in Nigel Thompson was saved from a life of crime and Atlanta for my exhibition, in New York to punishment by music. A pirate DJ on Passion FM, see my publishers, I’ve been having fun when acid house broke down virtually every cultural out in the States. But it started in London, boundary in the UK, Frost was right there at the when I was 15 or 16. I had been out in forefront of the British rave revolution. Then, when Birmingham first, but at six-foot four I got hardcore splintered into jungle in the early nineties, away with things. We had a lot of fun at the Frost became one of the figureheads of this uniquely Ghetto club, but that whole music thing, British phenomenon. the demolishment of Soho, the heart’s been Frost partnered Bryan Gee for the seminal d&b label ripped out, with promoters charging DJs to V Recordings, that first brought Roni Size and, later, play! So finding good places is difficult. DJ Marky to the wider world. “A life of sex, drugs and “People are coming here to find the place drum & bass followed as Frost became established but it’s not here, people are moving as one of the hardest working DJs on the circuit,” Bryan out. DJs need to start their own nights the info continues. “But no matter how hard he Gee, Jazzie B, again, that’s how it started, me and Jodie tried to evade the criminal lifestyle that had taken DJ Ron, Tipper Irie and Harsh. Amy Winehouse was inspired by that many of his friends down, prison, guns and violence many more. scene, she went on the Camden scene, but were never far away. And when his drug use started only clubland allows the next table to hold to spiral out of control, Frost faced a battle that •Frost himself will be reading passages from the a banker tranny, and McQueen on another, threatened to take everything he had.” book and doing a Q&A with DJ Mag editor Carl there are some great things going on, but it We can hardly wait to read this book, which features Loben on Tuesday 23rd May at Work Bar, Chapel is not as great as it was… contributions from Goldie, Roni Size, Congo Natty, Market, London N1 9EZ. “My existence in London has been around the music scene, and styling, working with Azealia Banks, Mariah Carey — Boy George ONE DAY IN THE said you should go and do some music… I said, only with you. To hang out with Steve PROMISED LAND Strange, he was one of my best friends, and RYAN GREENPIKE worked as a clubs editor for years, but it wasn’t was really happy at the end, learning about until he got turfed out of Cream in Ibiza that he got into writing synths, and being around these scenes, I fiction. “It was my mate’s fault, not mine!” he laughs. “I got back, think back to times of Patrick Wolfe, writing couldn’t sleep, popped open my laptop, and wrote a short story — a song about me on my bed. When Gaga and then started writing a lot of stories down in the years after.” copied us: we’d go out, and two weeks Working at Ibiza Rocks for four seasons, Ryan developed a whole later she’d be wearing it, and Kesha used novel — One Day In The Promised Land — set on the White trannies at Wembley, and then Lady Lloyd Isle. Following the fortunes of a variety of characters over a day copied the lipstick…” and a night, it reads like you’re there, and is set to become the cult accompaniment to all sun loungers. He’s putting the book What are you doing next? out himself on Amazon — “Buy it! Buy it! Buy it!” he urges. “The “I’m on set with David LaChapelle at the self-publishing route is a really good way of getting out there. I’d moment! Creative things. Some set-design, defo put it out myself again, you get 70%, whereas you’d get 7.5% I was asked to do an opera house the other with a publisher.” day! The art world is where I believe I Currently based in North London, would Ryan go back to the place should be.” of inspiration? “On grey days, I miss Ibiza terribly… I wouldn’t wanna go back to seasons, but I’d like to go live in a finca in the The power of influence, Daniel… north — I’d love to settle there. I’m married now, kid on the “People are against the elite, but I think way…” go to bed with them. The mainstream media isn’t picking up on arts, because the political landscape overshadows INCOMING! — the media could really help younger generations, and they have the power…” SLEAFORD MODS’ Bunch Of Kunst is trailing with With any clubbing legend who lives as an DJ Mag’s fave film festival, artwork, there is gossip, but roses rise Doc N Roll, and has a through thorns. What’s a quote you live series of pop-ups all over by? the land. They’re also “Edina Monsoon — 'just do your best'.” fundraising for a biog on punk legend POLY STYRENE. And a final message? I Am A Cliché will document “Debbie Harry gave me a quote for the the life of the frontwoman of book, and I’m gonna customise some X-Ray Spex polystyrenefilm. pieces for her, that’s nice. People are more com in the first DJ Mag interested in the commercial value, but live-stream from these it’s the value of the idea — what things are pages, on May 2nd at Work Bar in London, DAVE RANDALL of FAITHLESS, author of the fascinating Sound worth. The content is art, and that’s all System: The Political Power Of Music, will be joined by Off The Floor editor KIRSTY ALLISON, and DANIEL that matters.” RACHEL, author of the new text Walls Come Tumbling Down that documents the rebel scene between 1976 and 1992, which lay many of the foundations for acid house’s mantra of peace, love and unity. There’ll also • Be Yourself, Everyone Else Is Taken is be a super-special secret guest, and more!… And if you’re planning a trip over to Ibiza, take a copy of Ibiza out now. Undead. The zombie film is out now on DVD and download…
djmag.com 027 TAKE TEN Busy P The Ed Banger man and all-round French music mogul tells us all about the tracks that helped make him into who he is today...
01. Kraftwerk ‘The Robots’ “You often speak about the music you hear when you are a kid, and not the music you listen to. I was three years old when ‘The Man Machine’ was released. My mum had a bunch of cassettes at home and one of them was this one, all red — I remember it so well. My brother and I loved it, it was music for us, easy to understand and the voices were weird and fun. Listening to Kraftwerk gave me goosebumps. It’s funny to imagine that 20 years later I will work for two robots (laughs).”
02. Deee-Lite ‘What Is Love’ “Probably the track that started it all for me. I was 14 years old and I fell in love with its repetitive, cold beats. Their first album ‘World Clique’ was the perfect definition of what attracted me to club culture so much. It was all about freedom, fun and respect. We owe so much to the LGBT community and I feel lucky to have been adopted by Paris’ gay scene in the mid ‘90s. The most exciting parties and the best music came from clubs like Queen or Folies Pigalle.”
03. Beastie Boys ‘So What’cha Want’ “The band of my life. I wanted to be the fourth Beastie Boy, probably like a million teenagers around the world. This album was released on 21st April in 1992, my 17th birthday! It was a sign! It was my skateboarding years, skateboarding saved my life! At that time I was already into Run DMC, Eric B & Rakim and Cypress Hill, but I was also into Metallica, Slayer and Led Zeppelin. It’s also the year I went to my first rave party…”
04. Underground Resistance ‘Amazon’ “I first discovered trance and techno in 1992 on Parisian radio FG 98.2 and at Laurent Garnier’s Wake Up parties at Rex club. Since then, I devoted my life to electronic music. We can only respect the work of Detroit producers like Carl Craig, Jeff Mills and Mad Mike. Techno is the spine of our culture. But I must say, I was more influenced by the New York garage and Chicago house scenes.”
05. Voices ‘Voices In My Mind’ “Released in 1994, it’s the first 12-inch of Louie Vega & Kenny Dope that I bought in my life. I own one of the biggest collection of Masters At Work records now. I was addicted to their groove. It was released on Ministry Of Sound, probably one of the first releases, I think. Ministry Of Sound was the ultimate club at that time. Fun fact — a year later I met Daft Punk, who were playing Live at Ministry Of Sound!”
06. Daft Punk ‘Steam Machine’ “In 1996 I started to work for Daft Punk. I’ve choosen this track from usy P, aka Pedro Winter, is one of the most successful people in dance their third album ‘Human After All’ because no one really understood this music — as a DJ, producer, label owner and artist manager. As a record. I loved it. ‘Steam Machine’ is pure backroom music, I can feel the budding DJ in mid-’90s Paris he met a certain French duo, who had sweat and the groove, it’s addictive as hell. I love it when Daft Punk do B started calling themselves Daft Punk. They asked him to manage them, mid-tempo stuff like that.” a beautiful partnership that helped catapult them to international success and continued right up until 2008 — they still remain good friends. 07. J Dilla ‘B.B.E (Big Booty Express)’ In the early noughties he set up his management company, Headbangers “Beat-makers like DJ Premier, DJ Shadow, Alchemist, Pete Rock, Timbaland Entertainment (with a nod to his heavy metal roots), and then his label, Ed and The Neptunes are very important in my musical inspiration. J Dilla took Banger Records, to put out music by some of the artists he was managing. Early it to another level.” releases came from people like SebastiAn, DJ Mehdi, Zongamin, Pedro himself, and a certain scruffy duo who called themselves Justice. The latter’s glitchy 08. Nick Drake ‘Bryter Layter’ electro sound soon brought them international acclaim — Pedro had his second “Sad songs make me happy. I’ve chosen this instrumental one from Nick set of international French superstars on his hands. Drake, it reminds me of classic O.S.T composers Vladimir Cosma or François Many of the other artists on Ed Banger broke through in this second wave of de Roubaix.” French international success, although he tragically lost his great friend, Mehdi, in 2011 in a freak accident. Now, to celebrate the label’s 100th release, Ed 09. DJ Mehdi ‘Tragicomehdi’ Banger is putting out its first compilation since 2013 — ‘Ed Rec 100’ (out now). It “He left us too early, and he is still with me everyday. He was the smartest features exclusive tracks from the bulging artist roster, including efforts by man I knew, a wise man and an incredible music producer. I owe him so Breakbot, Busy P, Cassius, Mr Oizo, SebastiAn, and a remix of Justice’s ‘Randy’ by much. I was lucky to have met him. He is up there with Daft Punk and Boys Noize. The first single from the comp, Busy P’s poppy electro cut ‘Genie’ Justice in the most important chapter of my music and personal life.” featuring Mayer Hawthorne, comes with remixes by Reckonwrong and Flow Machines, with more from KDA and Joe Goddard to come. 10. Isolée ‘Logiciel’ Here are the tracks that made Pedro into the walking, talking, busy music mogul “In order to celebrate my eternal love for electronic and computer music, I he is today... choose Isolée. It was released in 2000, and it sounds like we are in 2050. I love everything about this album.”
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