You’ve always stuck to your guns with the music you play. Do you feel vindicated now that there’s something of a backlash against the more watered down tech-house/minimal sound?
I’m just happy playing and supporting the music I like and enjoy DJing with. I’m not a jukebox and I certainly wouldn’t start playing something just because it’s popular. If that sound came along that was amazing, mind-blowing and fresh, then great, I’d embrace it with open arms. But the majority of new wave minimal just isn’t that interesting – all the key ingredients of funk, soul, groove, energy… they’re all gone.
Obviously I love the raw, repetitive club tracks, stripped to the bare essentials. They’re perfect DJ tools. I’m a big fan of real minimal techno – Robert Hood, Jeff Mills etc – but aside from a handful of producers who are making minimal-ish music I like and do play (Shed, Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann, Skyscraper, Norman Nodge, Counterpart, Mike Denhert etc) the bulk of it does nothing for me at all and I really don’t understand the fascination with it. Maybe I’m getting old – or maybe I don’t take enough horse tranqulizers or maybe it’s just funkless shit!
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Precies hoe ik er zelf over denk!