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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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You are stranded on an Island and all<br />
you have are a set of decks, and a<br />
sound system, and 5 tracks to listen<br />
to for ever! What are they and why?<br />
Unique 3 - “The theme“, Phuture - “Acid traxs“, 808<br />
State - “Pacific state“, A guy called Gerald - “Voodo Ray“. All<br />
these tracks make the hairs stand up on the back of my head<br />
still, and last but not lest LFO - LFO. Just for the reminder of<br />
the amazing feat that we got it into the UK charts!<br />
What do you think of the dance scene<br />
now and what is coming in the future?<br />
Yeah I think DJ’s should be heard and not seen<br />
to be honest. In the old days the DJ’s were tucked<br />
away in the corner or at the back of the club. Now it’s<br />
all gone crazy with super DJ’s. Hopefully it will get<br />
back to being underground again (fingers crossed )!<br />
You have remixed for many artists.<br />
What has Been your favorite remix<br />
and why? Any advise on remixing<br />
other peoples tracks?<br />
I think the remix for Radio Head was pretty good<br />
and also The remix of “Planet Rock“ for Tommyboy records.<br />
Advice for remixing is use there best bits and inject<br />
your own, after all they want your music mainly not there’s.<br />
Tell us about your best gig and what<br />
happened?<br />
Best gig was my first at the Leeds Warehouse club<br />
April 1990. We were totally scared and played an amazing set<br />
to a club of about 40 people (what a learning curve it was)!<br />
We got paid 4 beers each and taxi fare home! Good times<br />
indeed.<br />
What style of DJ’ing do you prefer; up<br />
& down all night, workin' & controllin'<br />
da crowd, or start slow & build & build,<br />
or just go for It all night?<br />
All depends on the crowd and what time it is.<br />
Normally I like to build a set from slow to fast but if I’m<br />
playing at “peak time“ then it’s straight in “phasers set to<br />
kill“!<br />
Who have been your influences and<br />
mentors and why?<br />
3, 808 State, and Early Street Sounds records UK. All were<br />
big influences for me growing up in Leeds in the 70’s - 80’s,<br />
such a great time for fresh and original sounds.<br />
Festival, Super club, Small club or<br />
house party and why?<br />
Small Clubs and house parties are the best where<br />
you can let your hair down and jam like crazy …. Yes Sir !<br />
You have had a fantastic career so<br />
far, what are your music plans?<br />
I’m slowly getting back into doing gigs again and I’m<br />
also working on my Bandcamp site with releases.<br />
You make music for other industries,<br />
tell us about this and how that<br />
happened?<br />
I’ve done some computer game music over the<br />
years and also a few TV adverts for companies like “Rockstar<br />
Games“, "Volkswagen" Germany. Also done LFO on a film<br />
called “Beats“ about the rave scene. Right now I’m working<br />
on some retro game music for a project on the Vectrex<br />
system.<br />
Tell us what you think of all these fake<br />
DJ’s and so blatantly getting caught<br />
out!<br />
Yeah it’s a shame but these things happen world<br />
wide. There’s always been an underground in all scenes<br />
which will eventually get taken and abused. Happened in<br />
Punk, Disco, Hip Hop, electro, Techno and house to name but<br />
a few.<br />
You have worked with many labels,<br />
who have been the best, most<br />
supportive and what advise would<br />
you give to labels and producers?<br />
Just about all labels suck .. only met a few over the<br />
years which were nice Swim record and Force inc … spring to<br />
mind. My advise to producers is do as much as you can<br />
alone.<br />
Any last words?<br />
Thanks for the interview. Live long and prosper!<br />
Much love G-Man!<br />
Yeah, Juan Atkins, Kraftwerk, Brain Eno, Karl Bartos<br />
(who we worked with in the early 90’s), Derrick May, Unique