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feature interview [ireland]
Cathal McGinley AKA Kathel, born 1989, from Buncrana Co. Donegal. He writes lyrics and over the last year he has created interesting and engaging melodies that have caught the attention of many listeners. His lyrics are insightful and evocative and have gained him some life-long fans.
Kathel has unwavering passion about bringing music to life as an EDM track. Working with session singers, and then producing EDM pop style is what gives him excitement and motivates him the most.
Last year he started developing an interest in EDM music production and so merged all the songs he wrote and started developing them into tracks. Since releasing a few tracks has had a lot of positive feedback from other DJ’s and producers, and getting noticed reaching towards the top in the Spinnin' records talent pool charts and contests.
Zone's Paul Newhouse has a chat with this seemingly positive up-comming DJ & Producer from the Green Isle!
Tell us how you got into music, and then EDM?
There was a friend of the family who was a DJ I would watch playing. I also started working part time in a night club so from there listening to people DJ and also watching the film "Its all gone Pete Tong", I developed a fascination with EDM.
I then bought myself a pair of belt driven turntables and mixer and from there started buying and playing records.
Tell us about your writing, what styles you do and what you have done?
When I finished secondary school I did a music technology & performance course, which started my interest in guitar as a result I started to self- teach myself guitar and learning some basic chords.
Then the moment I started to get the chord progressions, I just started writing my own songs to play along with and that’s how it all started with the songwriting. My song writing influence
started at the time with listening to a lot of Damien rice.
Then after a while playing around with the guitar any thoughts or even what someone would say would give me inspiration. Lyrics would come into my head and I would type it in my phone or write it down on a piece of paper then from there I just started using songwriting as a creative output for everything.
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