Brodinski Exclusive Interview
In the few short weeks we’ve been doing interviews for our blog I’m quite amazed about who’s been up for it and last week whilst trying to bag myself an upfront copy of his new single I thought I’d try it on with yet another Frenchman (no, not like that) and low and behold, here’s an interview with one of our favourite DJ / producers – the man like Brodinski.
Disco Of Doom: You’re new single ‘Manifesto EP’ drops this week on Cajual… what’s the story here?
Brodinski: The label contacted me in October and it was an honour for me when I heard Green Velvet wanted me to do an EP on his label! I love his stuff and I’m a BIG BIG fan of the label too, so I immediately said yes in within the hour I had started to work on it with Yuksek in studio.
DoD: It must be cool to have released a track on a legendary label you have been a big fan of since your early days – Do you think a younger Brodinski say five years ago would have imagined this happening?
Brodinski: Impossible… I still can’t even realise this today! I’m glad labels like R&S and Cajual are coming back from the past and are getting interested about artist like us. I’m more than happy today!
DoD: You’ve become one of the biggest DJs within your genre, do you feel like you’ve achieved all your dreams, if not - what would you plan to achieve in next five years?
Brodisnki: Five years ago I was dreaming about playing in Bugged Out, being DJ as my job, Doing a ‘Suck MY Deck’ CD, playing along with people I’d always loved and now it’s happening. I can’t expect more, the ‘more’ will just be bonus… my life is already like I want it!
QuentinisCue (one of our Twitter friends): Do you realize the influence you have, for example being able to boost artist careers – what are your thoughts on this?
Brodinski: I’ve always wanted to push artists to find more fans. I’m a big big fan of every kind of music, I’m also a ‘digger’, I love to search, to listen and to help most of the artist I love. I’m glad some people are thankful for it! I consider that as my full time job. I’m a DJ before a producer, and DJ’s help people to create more and more music, and that’s what’s need to stay interesting.
DoD: You do a midweek show at Social Club with Mehdi called ‘Let Me Ride’ playing hip hop and R&B bangers – what are your favourite 3 all time bangers? (Youtube links please)
Brodinski: My 3 All Time Crunk Bangers Are :
1. Swizz Beatz – It’s Me Bitches
2. David Banner – Play
3. The Diplomats – I’m Ready
DoD: And three all-time favourite electronic bangers?
Brodinski:
1. CJ Bolland – Camargue
2. Joris Voorn – Incident
3. Cajmere – Brighter Days
DoD: What’s happening in the studio right now and why have we not had a full-blown artist album yet?
Brodinski: I did try to do an album over the last couple of month but it’s not what I want to do now. I’m preparing a series of EP’s with collaboration in it… and some remixes too. I’m glad to be in the studio right now.
DoD: What new producers are exciting you right now?
Brodinski: Djedjotronic is still one of my favourites, really recently I really dig Gesaffelstein, Julio Bashmore, NT89, Steve Starks, JTRP, Krystal Klear & Lex Luger.
Many thanks dude and cheers for sending of single too!
Brodinski ‘Manifesto EP’ Out NOW on Relief.
Electric Rescue Exclusive Interview
Antoine Husson better known as Electric Rescue has been releasing some devastating techno into the world since the mid ’00′s. We came across his sound in 2009 when we heard the killer AFU release ‘Lazy Dog‘ With further releases on some of the biggest labels in the scene including Cocoon, BNR, Sci+Tec, Tronic, 1605 and of course his own excellent imprint Skryptom Antoine’s sound is deep, brooding, really twisted and great to listen to late at night. We caught up with him on a recent trip to London.
Disco Of Doom: You have had some serious releases across many major techno labels – what do you have planned for 2011?
Electric Rescue: I really put my large identity with four main label Cocoon, Boysnoize, SCI+TEC, and my own label (which is for me the major label lol), and for 2011 I want to do it again with them. It’s planed that we discuss a third release with Cocoon, Boysnoize Records also would like to release a third one too (they have already taken two tracks) and SCI+TEC for a second release and I also prepare a Skryptom release for spring. I also have a proposition in discussion with Trapez and Harthouse, and remixes for John Lord Fonda, Eric Tarlouf and Psycatron in the pipeline too. If all that projects will come out definitly it will be really interesting year and will bring others cool projects for the future.
DoD: What is the inspiration behind your music?
ER: There are many different things that influence me from the face of the people in the crowd who translate their spirit state during a night, their happiness. But it can also be cinema, or things happen in my life, or many things different as some politics attitude. I can say life inspire me everyday. I’m a big sponge and try to translate my feelings in music. Like all the artists i guess!
DoD: I read recently that Paris’ nightlife is under attack by the government, as a key member of the electronic music scene over there – is this true and if so, is it still possible to have a good night out?
ER: I did not hear this! The actual government is not the one I voted for but they don’t have it in mind. The Parisian scene is bigger and bigger each year, there is new club who try to propose electro. And the city has created a new building for digital culture which is called Gaité Lyrique in the center of Paris. The government from Paris is the other side from the president and they are more into electro music. The government have understood that now young people can help them to be elected so they try to catch them. For example Sarkozy, for his last election he proposed to Martin Solveig to do some of his political meeting and Martin went. It gave him a cool image to the young silly kids, so now they can be repressived with electro. They prefer to help and catch the young minds.
DoD: France has a strong musical heritage – do you have any recommendations for new talent to check out?
ER: For new talent who want to develop their-selves to be unique, original, courageous and to achieve all they can it’s really hard nowadays. To not sound like everyone else but use the different techniques to create their own unique style and that’s what’s working today, to propose fresh and personal talent. For those who want to listen new talent, for me there is some very interesting artist who will appear soon like Remy Maurin and Pierre Delort, Commuter, Traumer (who already worked with umek), Remain, Kreiss and GFP. They have had a few releases already but I feel something strong in all of them.
DoD: What other artists are exciting you right now?
Not so many, because these days in pure techno everybody is doing the same things, but there are some who always interest me like Julian Jeweil, Conde Cero, Danton Eeprom, Len Faki, Dusty Kid, Stephan Bodzin, Strip Steve and Das Glow, Maxime Dangles I probably forget many ones but that’s the ones I remember now.
DoD: What is planned with Skryptom this year?
After the Skryptom 7 from Maxime Dangles, will come Skryptom 8 in February from Psycatron titled ‘The Lurker” EP with a remix from me. We will follow with an EP from Remy Maurin and Pierre Delort, an EP from me and probably a second Maxime Dangles single and a release from Conde Cero later before the summer. But it’s always open to everybody, everything can move everyday we just look for fun and good music .
DoD: Thanks Antoine for taking the time to talk to us and keep up the good work man!
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Teki Latex Exclusive Interview
Sound Pellegrino have been dropping serious bombs since launching in 2009, with a definite ear for killer tunes and a strong design ethic the label has grown to become one of the leading imprints around. Recently launching the Sound Pellegrino Podcast via iTunes every Wednesday label boss Teki Latex and partner DJ Orgasmic deliver a mixture of upfront bangers and humour which have become essential listing in the Offices Of Doom.
We caught up with Teki Latex in between his hectic schedule of touring, releasing and making records, presenting his show and much more. We also found out he used to be part of French hip hop outfit TTC, well you learn something new everyday:
Disco Of Doom: Hey Teki! What made you switch from Hip Hop to more club-based music?
Teki Latex: I think it came naturally, TTC (my hiphop group) was always influenced by electronic music of all sorts, we started getting into it when we signed with Big Dada/ Ninja Tune in 1999, it was an exciting era when ‘indy’ rappers were starting to collaborate with IDM producers. Towards the beginning of the 2000′s as our taste was evolving towards more dance-able club music simultaneously in the areas of hip-hop and electronic music we started getting into dirty southern rap / crunk and genres that were kind of sitting in between, like ghettotech, grime, baltimore, early electro-tech like Dopplereffekt and things like that, and finally more straightforward techno and house. Institubes was founded in 2003 and from that moment on, dance music was a big part of my life and what I listened to.
DOD: What’s the story behind Sound Pellegrino?
Teki Latex: We fell in love with house music. Orgasmic and I wanted to have our own little outlet to share the music we loved, maybe slightly more club and DJ-oriented than the stuff that was dropping on Institubes at that time.
DOD: The French have a solid history of delivering killer dance music, is this a conscious thing amongst French artists …as in do you get together to discuss how to take over the world?
Teki Latex: I think you could say that about every country depending on the style and genre, last year there seemed to be a huge UK takeover with Night Slugs, Hessle audio, Ramp and all these guys releasing amazing hybrid tracks between garage, hiphop and house, reinventing the sound of dance music. This year maybe France is gonna step up again, or will it be Germany? it all works in cycles i think.
DOD: The label has established itself over the last few years in terms of a label to trust for quality artists and releases, what helps you decide what is a killer tack to release?
Teki Latex: We try to keep a DJ approach to it. Is it easy to play? does it sound unique while staying catchy? Does it have that “special something” that separates it from the hundreds of demos we get every month? Also it’s a little bit unconscious but we like stuff that’s not too easy to label, music that can be used as a link from one style to another in a DJ set for example. We like Sound Pellegrino releases to bring scenes and styles together.
DOD: What new producers are you currently excited about?
Teki Latex: The Club Cheval boys are obviously running things right now (Canblaster, Myd, Sam Tiba and Panteros666), also french kids like Bambounou and the Youngunz label. Bobmo’s new tracks sound incredible, his new style is very different from what he’s released so far. People like Jacques Greene, Julio Bashmore, J-Phlip, Salva, Myrryrs should have an interesting 2011. On a totally different level we are very much into Tom Trago, deep house producers like Jamie Jones, Soulclap, and Luca Lozano’s label Klasse recordings
DOD: What is the best advice you would give a new producer starting out?
Teki Latex: Take your time and don’t follow trends, don’t copy the “sound of the moment” that gets you excited (the reason why you found it exciting in the first place is because it didn’t sound like anything else, leave it at that), create at least 10 tracks before you start putting music online or giving it out to people you’re not super close to.
DOD: What’s the most annoying thing about DJ Orgasmic?
Teki Latex: His refusal to change hairstyle (i’m sometimes tempted to cut his ponytail while he sleeps in the train). Also i wish he could finish his amazing chris brown edit (and the dozens of edits/tracks/bootlegs he started recently) so we could share it/them with the world!
DOD: ..And the best thing about being Teki Latex
Teki Latex: Sleeping in dope hotels. I love discovering a new hotel room it’s like starting a new life all over again every weekend.
DOD: Dinosaurs With guns was a big release, do you have anymore Teki Latex singles planned?
Teki Latex: I’m working on an EP in collaboration with Para One, we’re almost done. 2 amazing tracks that could be described as halftime-Drexciyan-garage-funk… I’m not sure this one will drop on Sound Pellegrino because in parallel i’m working on the first proper Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team release with orgasmic, hopefully it will drop before the summer, obviously on SP. I also have collaborations with Birdy Nam Nam, L-Vis 1990 and a remix of Canblaster that should drop soon.
DOD: What’s next for both the Thermal team and Sound Pellegrino?
Teki Latex: We have huge releases by Savage Skulls, High Powered Boys and Style of Eye coming up. Our weekly Sound Pellegrino Podcasts are getting bigger and better every week, you can subscribe via iTunes, all the instructions and the tracklistings are on SoundPellegrino.net. Check them out they’re full of exclusives and fun jokes.
DOD: Thanks Teki for taking the time to answer our questions and keep up the really great work!
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