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It was also 1988 when I made my first trip to Ibiza with the school mates and even if we couldn’t make it to any club, of course, the magic of the isnald and that athmosphere opened my eyes really wide, and my heart.
I’ve discovered Electronic Music in the radio when I was at primary 4th or 5th grade, luckily the radio in the 80’s was playing a lot of different stuff and also having my big brother giving me vinyls weekly that made me have a very wide musical spectrum, which allows me to produce and play as I do. I would say my Dj style is what we called Balearic, the early Ibiza days style when there where no genres on a Dj set but just good tracks and emotions to give out to the crowd, so the same hapen when I’m going to the studio, one day I’m House and another I’m techno, but I’m trying to be always myself.
Favourite Club and why?
L’atlantida Sitges. It was the first big club I ever made it to, at the age of 16 and I thought that one day I would love to be the resident Dj there, and I did from 2000 to 2008, then I got an award as the best resident Dj from Dj Magazine, and I thought that was the right time to leave the club and try to focus on a worldwide tour cause I had already some succesfull releases. The venue was amazing, built in the 80’s by Marin Ferrer which later moved to Ibiza to buy Amnesia Ibiza. That was his first club and in a really magic location, near to Barcelona in Sitges, by the beach, we been literally playing with sea views from the booth, outdors club that was gathering 3000 clubbers every night, 7 nights a week. I was doing thursday to sunday every summer. I remember hearing the crowd from the parking lot calling my name and asking me to play songs before we opened doors, so we started the night already before opening while I was playing for the club stuff while they were getting everything ready. We did 12 to 7 am sessions, it was a musical journey and I have the best memories form my career at that place. We been a huge family, the staff and the crowd all united by the music and the good vibes, can you imagine playing under the moon and then see the sun coming up?
Digital, CD, or Vinyl, and why?
Iwasonvinylfor15or18yearstillIhadtomove to CD, which I didn't liked it much but then I realized it was better technical wise, I was already road testing my own productions in CD since a long time but Vinyl was something that was part of my life since I was a kid, and going to 3 record stores every friday and meeting all the other dj’s there was something social. I think since 2010 I’m on a usb stick and it’s the best to me, I don;t like controllers much so I’m still playing like in the old school days but I have no problems of carrying a lot of vinyl boxes, I can edit the tracks in the hotel and then play special editions I made just for that night, bootlegs, loops, cues, it’s amazing and I can say I love it even better than vinyl, when it comes to go working. The music is a way cheaper so we can have a lot of tracks every week instead of just 10 vinyl that was 100 euro a week.
Tell use a crazy story or two about clubland you have experienced?
One night in Brazil we been on a car ride and the police stopped the car behind and the car in front of us, they were looking for some narcos and we found ourselves right in the middle and the police pointing at our heads with their guns, I thought we were going to die for sure so I hold Tatiana’s hand and we looked at each other like “it was beautiful these years, I love you”. But the police officer instantly realized we been just tourists or innocent people so he looked at us and told to just not move at all and everything was going to be fine, he kept pointing that gun on us though, but in a couple minutes he said “you guys should go now”, and we ended up at a friend’s hotel having a wine and laughing at that but I can still feel the adrenaline in my body.
Best event you have DJ'ed & why?
I’ve played lots of venues the last 10 years and really amazing places like Stereo Montreal, Space Miami, Tomorrowland, Pacha Ibiza, Amnesia Ibiza, Ushuaia, but I had amazing experiences in small clubs in the middle of nowhere, so to me is not about the venue but the crowd, but I can say that when you make it to one of those monster clubs with the right crowd it’s nuts!
If you did something else what would it be and why?
There’s no other option to me, I’m a natural born DJ. I been into graphic design for few years when I was 18, I’ve opened a stuio and we were making lots of flyers and record covers, but I was spending more time making music in the computer than designing, so one day I had to choose.
Most influential artist for you, & why?
There’s a lot, when I was a kid it was Jean Michell Jarre but as a teenager I was listening to a lot of post punk and new wave, Peter Murphy is the man to me, Bauhaus, The Sisters Of Mercy, The cure and all that stuff is what it give’s me goosebumps. Being in the music for that many years is something that makes you love an artist and then discover a new one that you think is better for that moment, and then when you look back you realize that it’s all of them that they are so amazing that made the original soundtrack of your life.
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