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New Desyn interview - restoring the essence of "Progressive" - from LA Times
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoast...yn-masiello-ho/
Some choice quotes:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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