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GEZ VARLEY, Pulzar, MAKING MUSIC ON A BUDGET P2, Moshic, Oldskool Vinyl You Must Have PT2, SAMMY DEAN, DJ CHARTS, Jimster, Music Reviews, SKIRRA, Pascal Kleiman, TECH / SOFTWARE REVIEWS, Robert Haagsma
GEZ VARLEY, Pulzar, MAKING MUSIC ON A BUDGET P2, Moshic, Oldskool Vinyl You Must Have PT2, SAMMY DEAN, DJ CHARTS, Jimster, Music Reviews, SKIRRA, Pascal Kleiman, TECH / SOFTWARE REVIEWS, Robert Haagsma
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Apart from the love of an unconditional crowd that has<br />
followed him for the last 18 years, he has been awarded with<br />
the recognition and respect of many professionals in his field<br />
and some brands that currently collaborate and work with their<br />
full support in the creation and promotion of products 100%<br />
<strong>Wally</strong>. Both Oakley and Vueling Airlines are two of his main<br />
partners with whom he promotes their products or presents<br />
events such as I’m Vueling to Ibiza – which was widely<br />
published in the media in 2008. <strong>Wally</strong> <strong>Lopez</strong> collaborates also<br />
with dance4life in their fight against AIDS; lending his image<br />
and total support to the cause as one of the projects he<br />
personally considers the most important and useful.<br />
Let’s start at the beginning and give<br />
the readers a little context… It’s 2000<br />
and dance music is flying high. Tell us<br />
about life in Mardrid back then, the DJs,<br />
the music, the life.<br />
Well, we began a little earlier, so we were cooking<br />
slowly what happened from 2000 in advance. That was the<br />
exact moment when a whole generation was into the electronic<br />
scene and so many of us were trying to look for our space in<br />
this industry. Some exciting times in Madrid back then.<br />
Being a resident DJ has formed a large<br />
part of your career. Residents are the<br />
backbone of the club but rarely get the<br />
praise they deserve, so who have<br />
been your favourite fellow residents<br />
and what set them apart?<br />
In those times there were no guest DJs, maybe once<br />
in a while as a present to the crowd, but was all about the<br />
residents… For me, they are still the most important of the<br />
club, the OG´s. Oscar Mulero in Madrid was the “light to follow”<br />
for all of us with his music… it was as if he was telling a story<br />
from the beginning till the end of the night.<br />
You’ve been quoted as saying “God<br />
may be a DJ, but DJs aren’t God”, do<br />
you think egos have taken over the<br />
party?<br />
Egos are getting so stupid nowadays, I do understand<br />
that it is very difficult going directly from making or playing<br />
music in your room at your parent's house to headline huge<br />
festivals but, besides that, you are just a regular person that if<br />
you don’t take care of the others you won’t headline anything in<br />
9 or 10 years time… so just relax and enjoy!<br />
Your glasses have always been a point<br />
of interest for fans. Where do you buy<br />
them and do you always go for bright<br />
colours?<br />
Not always, I’m wearing black ones now haha! I was<br />
sponsored by brands the most of those years, so I don’t buy<br />
too many, I even released my own collab with Oakley years<br />
ago.<br />
Social media is something DJs our age<br />
have had to get used to, but some still<br />
actively avoid it and tour and work<br />
constantly. So is online engagement<br />
the benefit we are led to believe it is?<br />
To be honest, I’m not sure. Iit is true that social media<br />
is very important now but you must keep it real with yourself.<br />
If you feel comfortable with it let's go! It can be very beneficial<br />
for sure… but also has a potential problem. You will see<br />
everyone is doing better than you and everyone is younger and<br />
super cool and that is why you need to be strong and know that<br />
everyone lies on socials, Nothing is real. So once you know that<br />
you can really move forward with your career.<br />
Production has been important to your<br />
career from the beginning. With sales<br />
taking a downturn for a long while now<br />
and streaming providing little revenue,<br />
how do you regard your releases<br />
today?<br />
Producing was the most important thing that<br />
I’ve done for my career but I had a moment where I<br />
stopped completely because of this decline in revenues<br />
situation. But I'm back again producing as crazy; just do<br />
It to feed my inner voice I won’t stop making music, it’s<br />
too much fun!<br />
Krafted have released a compilation to<br />
celebrate 10 years. Talk us through the<br />
process of release from having the<br />
idea for the track to delivering it to Paul<br />
and the gang…<br />
I have great connections with the gang, I’ve released<br />
already with them and I love the way they push in every single<br />
project. So once they asked me to be part of it, I began to work<br />
on a very groovy melodic song that I hope you like.<br />
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