New Desyn interview - restoring the essence of "Progressive" - from LA Times

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Posted by Mr Game+Watch on Sep-25-2009 18:31:

New Desyn interview - restoring the essence of "Progressive" - from LA Times

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoast...yn-masiello-ho/

Some choice quotes:

quote:

Your sound, as I recall it from your mix-CDs, consists of fairly tingly, feel-good electronic music. Has that changed with the global economic downturn. Do you ever play dark and banging? Or does it depend on the venue and vibe?

I do play dark and banging if part of myself is feeling that and people love it too. It moves certain parts of us, but it has to be warm dark, not cold dark. And yes, it all depends on the venue and vibe. Music is very contextual and so is DJing. That's our job -- to feel the atmosphere of the room and the people, and play accordingly.

quote:

You started seeing success based on one mixtape in 1999. Do you think it's possible today for a DJ to make it based on a single mix? How have things changed in those 10 years in terms of making it in the DJ game?

Definitely: I think one mix can still launch someone's career. The music does all the speaking, and if I heard someone's mix that blew my head off, I would tell the world about it. Today though, the amount of music is so much more and the quality control so much less, it might be more difficult to make something that really stands out. I do know numerous up-and-coming DJs though, and they are slowly but surely getting a name. It took me 10 years to get out of my bedroom, and some of these new guys are doing things a lot faster as they have the wonder of the Internet to help them now. So in some ways people have more opportunities.

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Your sound -- melodic, techy, crunchy, funky -- seems to have been ahead of the curve, yet you were never caught up in the trendiness of "minimal." How would you describe your sound? What are your thoughts about the rise and fall of minimal?

Minimal music means to me not huge string lines, or melodies, but more restrained compositions and a lot more spaces between the sounds. It's about making what's there sound as good as possible, and concentrating more on the percussion side of things: We still need to dance to it. I think everything new becomes a fashion to some extent, and you get a lot of people cloning the sound like sheep, but the pioneers of it and a few others will probably continue evolving. There is a lot of trumpet sounding tracks and Chilean goat farmer chanting going on at the moment in some of the more minimal tracks, and this stuff is absolutely awful: Anything taking minimal in that direction will be its downfall.

I have to admit that last line was pretty funny even though I am a fan of the Luciano/Ricardo stuff going around at the moment.

Posted by lenazi on Sep-25-2009 18:32:

i saw him at a local market a few weekends ago. it turns out he lives here now.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Sep-25-2009 18:37:

A good Chilean goat farmer chant really gets me moving.

Posted by refuge on Sep-25-2009 18:52:

quote:
Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
A good Chilean goat farmer chant really gets me moving.

+1

Posted by THE_Chris on Sep-25-2009 18:58:

quote:
Your sound, as I recall it from your mix-CDs, consists of fairly tingly, feel-good electronic music. Has that changed with the global economic downturn.

Thats the most retarded thing I've ever seen in an interview.

Posted by Adam420 on Sep-25-2009 19:30:

quote:
Originally posted by THE_Chris
Thats the most retarded thing I've ever seen in an interview.

lol that's what I thought too

Posted by Adam420 on Sep-25-2009 19:31:

quote:
Originally posted by lenazi
i saw him at a local market a few weekends ago. it turns out he lives here now.

Probably explains how they managed to have him play at Panthere Noir on such short notice when D'Julz wasn't able to make it.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Sep-25-2009 19:34:

Guys, I am so gutted about the global economic depression that I swear to make nothing but noise music and dark dissonant techno until the DOW rises above 13,000 points again.

Posted by enydo on Sep-25-2009 19:42:

I'm only playing epic stadium trance, trying to stimulate the economy and all.

Posted by Scoops on Sep-25-2009 19:47:

used to Desyn at Centro Fly back in the day....

one of the fuckd up DJs i've ever seen...

even at WMC, he looked crackd out of his skull

Posted by Blake_Jarrell on Sep-25-2009 20:23:

that quote is my new sig

and Des is my new hero

Posted by woscar on Sep-25-2009 20:39:

quote:
Originally posted by THE_Chris
Thats the most retarded thing I've ever seen in an interview.

+1

Posted by Clovis on Sep-25-2009 21:47:

Desyn's sound ahead of the curve, ahahahaha

Posted by jupiterone on Sep-25-2009 22:09:

i wouldn't really say the tech-house/minimal sound has a lot of space, quite opposite really

Posted by Clovis on Sep-25-2009 22:16:

This interview is pure jobbery on all fronts.

I like Desyn but I wouldn't call him an authority on electronic music, ever. He plays decent stuff but he never got really deep and I never found him to be one of those guys really playing some of the best music on offer, nor has any set by him ever blown me away in any sense.

Posted by jdat on Sep-25-2009 22:19:

while the line of questionning is kinda retarded at times, Desyn is right on multiple counts IMO

Posted by Clovis on Sep-25-2009 22:22:

quote:
Originally posted by jdat
while the line of questionning is kinda retarded at times, Desyn is right on multiple counts IMO

Of course it is, it's the fucking LA Weekly.

Posted by jdat on Sep-25-2009 22:35:

quote:
Originally posted by Clovis
Of course it is, it's the fucking LA Weekly.

not sure if you're being sarcastic there

but I must say I'm amazed that a thing like LA Weekly would have such an interview, but I am honestly completely clueless regarding that stuff over there.

Posted by Blake_Jarrell on Sep-25-2009 23:06:

quote:
Originally posted by Clovis
I wouldn't call him an authority on electronic music, ever.

I wouldn't call anyone an authority on electronic music. He's just expressing his opinion on the current trends. God forbid.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Sep-25-2009 23:14:

Chilean Goat Farmer House is deep and innovative. Nobody should knock it, man. :-)

Posted by woscar on Sep-26-2009 00:19:

OMG, are Desyn and Luciardo going to have beef now?

Posted by WhooCares on Sep-26-2009 01:53:

quote:
Originally posted by woscar
OMG, are Desyn and Luciardo going to have beef now?

i wonder who would tip more

Posted by Tangil on Sep-26-2009 02:08:

Saw desyn recently, shittest set I've ever heard. Fucking boring music. He didn't ever care about what he was doing, he was on twitter the whole night.

Posted by enydo on Sep-26-2009 03:11:

quote:
Originally posted by Tangil
Saw desyn recently, shittest set I've ever heard. Fucking boring music. He didn't ever care about what he was doing, he was on twitter the whole night.

Richie Hawtin told me this is how the best DJs do it.

Posted by Demoted on Sep-26-2009 03:27:

quote:
Originally posted by Tangil
Saw desyn recently, shittest set I've ever heard. Fucking boring music. He didn't ever care about what he was doing, he was on twitter the whole night.

Pretty much describes what he was like when I saw him a few weeks ago.

What a shit dj he's become since 2005.

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