How long have you been djing?
I think the first time I subjected people to what retrospectively seems difficult to label as ‘djing’ was in the Exmouth Student Union Bar on my fourteenth birthday.
How did you start djing?
I bought some CD decks… they came in a carpeted box.
What type of music can we expect you to play?
A selection of tunes that fluctuate between ‘serious play’ (melodic, bouncy, big horns, silly vocal samples, massive kick) and ‘playing serious’ (sparse, moody). I like percussive tracks with: a sense of femininity; cheeky bass lines; fully integrated vocal samples; squelchy, glitchy, metallic, and warm reverberating tones; high production quality;
spaces…
(as less is more); and four/four beats somewhere between 125-135bpm… The simple answer here would have been: ‘techno’.
How did you get into this type of music?
I’ve always been interested in electronic music – probably because I was lucky enough to have access to my Dad’s sequencing programs (such as Cubase and Reason). I also spent hours at home listening to my Step-Dad’s collection of obscure German and Detroit techno, breaks, and early trance albums (before it passed its sell-by-date). I was hearing stuff out at free-parties and festivals as a youngster.
I listened to a lot of techno, electronica like Mouse on Mars, Ninjatune type-stuff, (and had an early guilt-ridden honeymoon period with drum and bass), as well as jazz, punk, rock – anything that appealed to me! My sets didn’t begin to privilege minimal until Ellie (Bunni Splanchnik) and I went to a M_nus party in Berlin’s incredible Arena Club. It blew us away so back in the Southwest we started up a club night called DANZSHLAG as a means of getting ‘our minimal fix’ and hearing the tunes we wanted to play on sound-systems that did them justice.
What has been your most embarrassing djing moment?
Hmm… There was an ‘incident’ at a free-party when I was pretty young where I had to just stop… but I won’t go into anymore detail here!
What has been your best djing moment?
So many! The early DANZSHLAG parties were really rewarding. My Dad and I played together at The Russian Bar – that was undoubtedly special. I played my tunes through Ableton Live and he responded with a Yamaha midi wind controller. The times I’ve played JTC’s dance tent at Aeon have always been nerve-racking but the biggest pleasure and with some of the loveliest, appreciative, and supportive people! I enjoyed playing b2b with Bunni for the first time (relatively recently) because of the intuition we seemed to have with each other despite no prior organisation. Playing on a D.I.T mobile chariot pirate radio transmitter across Hamburg last summer was epic (although my mixing was crappy). A couple hundred of us cycled through the streets as part of an anti-gentrification protest using the transmitter to send signals out to individual receivers attached to people’s bicycles. The result was a kind of swarming orchestra of sonic resistance.
Who is your favourite artist?
Difficult to narrow down, but some are: Onur Ozer, Villalobos, Der Dritte Raum, Luke Slater, Billy Dalessandro, D. Diggler, Minilogue, Magda, Marc Houle, Radio Slave, Amon Tobin, Pan-Pot, Mossa, Boxcutter, Jammin’ Unit, Sidestepper, Format B, Die Vogel, Beats Antique, Renaissance Man, Evolution Control Committee, Thievery Corporation, Dizzy Gillespie, Rage Against the Machine, The Dead Kennedys, MDC…
What is your all time favourite album?
I can listen to Talking Heads’ ‘Stop Making Sense’ over and over again, as well as Magda’s ‘She’s A Dancing Machine’… there are countless others.
Where do you shop for music?
Mainly online at Beatport, Boomkat and Juno.
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