Q: You are two guys in Djuma Soundsystem , you have two
more aliases Ben Horn and Def Jaguar , from when are
you two together , how did you met?
Both Lars B and me have been DJs since we were kids,
but didn't produce music before we meet around 6 years
ago. Lars just lost his best friend, and I just lost
my scolarship for my university, so we both were a
little lost and needed something new in our life. I
met Lars while dj'ing at a famous club in Copenhagen
called Rust (witch burned down last year), were the
both of us got hired as residents. We always had a
dream of making music, and sort of thought each other
how to. After this we've never parted, so I guess you
could call us a great team.
Q: With the other two names , you make different music
then when you are Djuma Soundsystem ? Funk ?
Breakbeat?
We have always just made music without thinking to
much about what to do with it, or which hype it
belongs to, and then afterwards we raised the qestions
on which category to place it in. So it just came
natural to make up some different names for different
projects. I think we have released under 8 different
aliases all together. Now we try to scale it down to
as few names as possible. Ben Horn as our funky
outlet, were we just have remixed a danish band called
"Analogik" and Gotan Projects Phillip Cohen Solal, and
have a release out on "Auditory Design" next month,
with Danish singer Ane Trolle (known from
Trentemшller) plus a remix from Ursula 1000. As Def
Jaguar we make funky club music; we had a singel out
recently called "Chick 1" on British label "IO", plus
a colaboration with our friend, Flip out on "Brut".
But Djuma Soundsystem is surely our main focus, where
we try to make sort of a deep techno sound of our own,
that still fits our label, Get Physicals, profile.
Q: You have new release on the label Brut , called This
sound ? Do you smell one more hit?
We are a little pissed on the label, bacause it's NOT
a Djuma Soundsystem release, it's Def Jaguar, in a
colaboration with our friend Flip. I suspect that they
added the Djuma name to sell some extra copies, and
that's not cool at all. It's not a "hit" type of
track, just a good club track. It gets a lot of great
feedback from DJs, and is already at no 14 on beatport
the first week, so we're really happy with that off
course, but we still feel cheated.
Q: When you do a dj set , so , you dont play together
then , do you play similar music , or the style that
you play has nothing to do with Lars's choice of music?
We have very much the same taste of music, and are
very much in tune when we play together! I don't like
too much to play back to back, because often it gets
too random and messy. But I know Lars, and he knows
me, so well, that we give eachother lots of energy, in
stead of "playing against eachother". On a good day
we're like a two headed octapus. I also like to be in
charge, cause it gives more control. So often I will
start the night to play half an hour like, and then
Lars gets the same, and then we do a back to back when
we're both gotten warm and in a good party mood.
Q: Is it better to do live playing your tracks ? Or you
think that its better when you mix tracks that someone
else created?
For me personaly, it's not "creative" to DJ, it's a
craft! So is playing your music out I guess. Making
music in the studio is creating! It's still special to
perform your own music. That's the only time you
really get a confirmation if your music works or not.
Q: What is your favourite place that you have ever played
? And at this point you like more playing on festivals
where the big crowd is or in small clubs with chosen
people?
I like both! Of course it's a more grand experience to
play a festival in front of thousands of people, but
in many ways it's more intense to play for a small
crowd, its much easyer to feel totaly in tune with a
smaller crowd, and it's more personal.
Q: How is it to be signed for Get Physical , one of the
most successful labels these days?
It's a bit strange having your heroes as bosses, ha
ha! We've always been huge fans of the label, and
maybe especially Booka Shade, so we had to pinch our
selves to believe it when G P called and wanted to
sign us.
Q: Your world famous track Les Djinns is the most sold
track on Beatport ever!! That is one huge success ,
how did you get long with that , did something changed
after that ? More bookings ? More myspace requests?
:)))
Of course it opend some doors for us! We are now on
our favourite booking agency, Wilde bookings, and get
to play all over the world! We are very greatful for
that! It's my dream coming true, to travel a lot, see
strange places and meet a lot of cool people. I'm not
sure if I would come to see Macedonia for instance, if
it haden't been for my job.
Q: The same track was released on EMI the biggest label
in Denmark, before Get Physical , was it so sold then
also?
No, the track was signed to EMI just in those days
that all of those "major" labels suffered, so it was
released in Denmark, and promoes were given to UK DJs,
and then the track was cancelled (as EMI dropped
almost 1/3 of all their artists), and we bought it
back. The funny thing is that we got our good friend
Anders to do a remix of the track, and it got no
response at all. Four years later it was released
again, and his name, Trentemшller was better
known...and the rest is history ;)
© Katerina Mileska [Miss Flooder]
www.skopjeclubbing.com.mk 2008 |
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