James Zabiela face parte din scena muzicii electronice britanice de o perioada buna de timp, iar de cand a fost invitat sa mixeze cateva compilatii pentru Renaissance si-a castigat influenta ca dj.
Acesta vine si acorda pentru Juno Plus un interviu in care se abordeaza perspectiva actuala a scenei muzicii electronice a englezilor, recentul mix realizat pentru Renaissance, The Masters Series, productiile personale, influente, impactul gig-urilor avute asupra sa si planuri de viitor.
Iata si cateva fragmente, intreg interviul il puteti citi pe Juno Plus.
What do you think of the UK electronic scene?
At the moment very healthy, it’s had a hard time with the explosion of the guitar hero generation.The last huge recession in some ways lead to the explosion of the rave scene in the 90s. Recession spawns creativity, so bring on the economic downturn!
What kind of thoughts went into your Renaissance mix? Was it hard to compile and mix?
Yes and no, musically, in a way it was easy because it consists of all stuff that I listen to on my iPod day in, day out. The hard bit was getting so many styles to cohesively work together, then of course going through hours and hours of additional field recordings can be a bit mind numbing.
What is your production process like?
‘Burnt Bridges’ that features on the first disc of ‘Life’ is inspired by Jean Michel Jarre, Moderat and Radiohead.
What influences you to make music?
By experimenting and trying to get an idea from your head into something you can physically hear often spurs happy accidents.
You’re always considered relatively young in the tech/house game, do you feel this benefits/hinders you in any foreseeable ways? And do you feel you have gone past that stage now anyway?
Yes, because already I feel I’ve had years of experience and I now feel I’m that I’m finding my identity musically as a DJ and as an artist but I do think perhaps I wasn’t taken as seriously back at the start of my career being so young, I also felt a lot of things happened too quickly for me and as a result made some mistakes, with my commercially released mix CDs for example.
As you say, I still have a few years to get things right and probably make more mistakes but that’s part of the fun and part of growing as artist.
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