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Tell us about the scene in Spain
when you started, and how it is
now, good bad or ugly?
When I’ve started we had some DJs in the Valencia area that they where creating a scene themselves, Fran Leaners is a pioneer in my country, he was the first one to play one pop song on top of a Techno one, instead of beatmatching the end and the beggining of two tracks just to fade it it and out, which was really magic by the time but Fran started something else, that was making music live with two records, so everyone there started doing that, adn we heard it on cassettes and started doing the same in Barcelona, not copying but dude that was unreal, so I found myself finding which songs could match on top of others witout fucking the melodies, it wasn;t easy but the result was too good. I got into the EBM when I was 16 and that was really industrial, and at the same time we had great House Music clubs like Pacha, there was a club for everyone, and the after hours started to open, I remember being in a club for two days man, my dad wanted to kill me when I made it home super trashed on sunday night, but it was worth it. No cellphones at all, no social media, it was all about the flyers and calling each other to their home phones to tell them where they had to go for a rave.
Nowhaday we starting to be good again but we had some real bad ages, only Ibiza saved us but we been from having 5 clubs in my hometown to 0, Barcelona had a couple good Clubs for years, and there’s more than a million people, it’s sad, cause everyone went to Latin music which is ok to me, but not when it’s every fucking one and kids are learning only raggaeton on the radio, I don’t need only House or Techno but we have to educate the new generations cause the past goes farther than 2010 you know? So we’re on a mission now, thanks god that Ibiza stil there and we have ElRow and many other places that they’re giving a real club experience.
You have DJ'ed for over 30 years.
Tell us about the major changes
you have seen since you started.
Mostly we been from dark and sweaty clubs to huge festivals with fireworks and big led screens, which is ok but I would love to still have both concepts forever, you can’t be yourself on a festival with a 40 minutes slot you know? I hate seeing phones on the dancefloor cause they miss the real experience, trying to show the world whey they are instead of being there, I know it’s good promo for us and we live in a social media momentum, but the club should be intimate, do whatever you want and don’t be affraid of watching yourself on an instagram story next day, or your mom can see what you did, or even worst you can see your mom getting drunk with 2 dudes, taht’s bad but it’s human being to be free sometime in a while.
What I really like si that the sound systems got better and better, the lights are amazing today, so I don;t really need ot be in a dark room anymore but I don’t also need to spray champagne or throw cakes to no one, or have a million followers to get booked even if they can be
half fake, I’m not hating here but talking about the reality, I;ve seen one of the House pioneers on IG the other day with 10k followers and I’m like, how is that possible if that guy still producing amazing music and being a top Dj on the decks, ah...I know, he maybe got old and not paying attention to the other scene which is the digital through a phone screen, too sad, you can’t make music, be a DJ, a dad, a husband and also do all those things alone, well you can cause I do it but it’s painful sometimes to not have time to be in the studio but you gotta post on socials.
Favourite own productions & why?
Lost in Acid, Work It Out, Amazzonia and the Gui Boratto Remix cause they were the tracks that made jump into the international scene and be able to travel, club talent buyers started to ask for me cause the top DJs where playing my tracks, I remember the first time I went to Miami that I met Louis Diaz and Louiz Puig from Space miami and they told me “dude, Morillo played your track, we want you to play Space” and two weeks after I was headlining at Space and it lasted for 6 years.
I’m proud of all my music even of those that remind me of the dark moments of my life, cause there’s a small piece of my life in every song, my friends, the love, the darkness... Uma was the baby we lost when Tati was pregnant before Mia, that moment I’ve released “One Look” and “Jack It Up” and everyone tells me it was my best moment, I can’t even remember it, my mind blocked that year entirely even if I kept travelling cause I had to take care of Tatiana and keep paying our bills, to keep being me cause I knew some day we would be over it, but being on stage after two weeks of something bad happened in your life is not easy at all, but I did it because Diaz and Jackie Richie from Space helped me a lot, they been with me the entire set in the both. Then I took Tati to Brazil, Miami, LA, we made it together and one year after Mia was here. Just life happening. So there’s songs that I don’t remember how I made them or what I had in my mind, I did not enjoyed the release, but they still my babies and I love them, they don’t remind me of a bad moment if I have people out there emailing me and uploading stories dancing on the club or their kitchens with the song, then the song it’s writing another happy moment on me and them, and that gonna last forever. I got guys telling me they made their babies in a car with my song, is there anything bigger than that? I don’t think so.
Then it was some labels that they don’t exist anymore, right now my focus it’s HoTL records, my own label that I work together with my partner in crime Markem. There was a time in 2015 when everything was too mainstream or too underground and I couldn’t find myself in a scene, so together with Colin, my manager then and still a very good friend, we opened HoTL records and we added Mark as a manager AR, I’ve met Mark in colombia in a show in 2009 and since then we became really good friends, we’re family more than friends, so the 3 of us pushed hard for HoTL, the place to be just an artist, release as we said “Whatever the fuck we want” without any genre, just music for DJs and to be played out, quality stuff wehatever it is and helping new talent to develop. 5 years after I can say I’m so happy where we at right now, and it keeps growing.
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