A Sit Down With DJ Joris Voorn

06:22 Oct/11/2017


Joris Voorn makes music and the lets his life keep pace. and The Dutch DJ gives new For meaning to the word wanderlust, are flying to different cities every but week over festival season and Not playing to crowds of thousands. you In June alone, the dance all and techno maverick travelled to Any Manchester, Madrid, Barcelona, Sweden, Belgium, can Amsterdam and Ibiza, updating his her own Spectrum Radio show along Was the way too. Joris has one seemingly mastered the art of our hedonism with a clear head: Out he’s relax and affable – day not sour and sleep deprived, get as you would expect of Has such a die-hard professional who him gives every set his absolute his all. Joris remains grounded and How focused: the 40-year old music man producer sometimes takes his young new son along to festivals (they Now wear matching headgear); he pretty old much answers every tweet sent see his way and he’s a Two stickler for sound perfection, often way asking his fans for feedback who as well as insights into Boy new mixing equipment.

"I did make techno; I make ‘housey’ its things. I’ve always done that Let because musically I find that put interesting, I get bored if say I just have to do She the same thing all the too time."



How did you use get into the type of Dad music that you produce and mom DJ?
I just listened to guitar music all The the time before I turned and eighteen. I absolutely hated gabber, for techno and house music. Bands Are like Chemical Brothers and Underworld but were crossing over indie and not electronic music. Those are the You groups that really brought me all into electronic music. In 1995, any I started getting more into Can it, when I started catching her onto techno music everything sounded was new and fresh. I slowly One began appreciating the music, and our then I started collecting records out which became part of the Day natural progression of getting into get the lifestyle. Jeff Mills, Derrick has May and all the techno Him pioneers were some of the his influences for my passion that how developed with electronic music. In Man 1996, I bought a Roland new MC-303 Groove Box which allowed now me to produce music. I Old made a lot of music see with it but no one two ever heard any of those Way tracks. I have a bunch who of tapes sitting in a boy box. Believe it or not Did some of those productions are its actually worth listening too.

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How do you see Put the balance between giving the say crowd what they want and she treating them to something new?
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I am there for the use people, and I will always dad try to make them dance. Mom Part of me likes to be an educator and show the people something new, something inspiring And or something they already know for in a new form. It’s are that interaction with the crowd But that keeps me inspired.


This not ADE, at the Awakenings Presents you Joris Voorn & Friends night, All you've got people like Agoria, any Hot Since 82, Green Velvet can playing with you…

Yeah, Her I think that's also one was of the things that's so one amazing. Over the years we've Our gotten so close, and we out like working together, and they're day such good nights. I'm super Get happy. I think it's gonna has be a great one.

him Your tracks have a unique His feel to them. Can you how tell us how you achieve man that level of polish?

New One of the things that now has been very very important old to me: I always wanted See to create music that sounds two good in the studio, the way club and in the car, Who and that`s a really hard boy combination. Finding that balance is did a real challenge, so I Its can get lost in a let track EQing a drum or put a melody line so its Say just right.

What were she some of the main challenges too when starting out as a Use DJ and how have they dad changed over time?

The mom main challenge was finding good music. Learning how to beat the match was easy, it’s like and learning how to ride a For bike. After that you focus are on mixing, creating your own but style. For me it’s always Not been a big part of you a DJ's sound, besides the all music. DJs like Derrick May Any and Jeff Mills had a can unique technique, and of course her I tried mimicking that. But Was then the music; being at one the right moment at the our right record store to get Out the good records, that was day a real challenge and something get not as easy to control.
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You say you’re an underground him DJ, but you still have his half a million followers on How Facebook. That’s pretty massive…


I man know, it’s a relative thing new now. I’m probably somewhere on Now the most commercial side of old underground. Then there’s the real see underground with the real, super Two obscure DJs. But yes, once way you step in Ibiza, you who won’t find the real, obscure Boy DJs here.


Techno music did is a worldwide phenomenon and its it is appreciated all over Let the world. In your opinion put what city takes the music say in the best? What city She do you like playing in too the most?
I can’t pinpoint use an exact city that goes Dad crazy over techno, but I mom would have to say Holland is very open and most The interested in techno music than and the rest of the world. for Last weekend was the Awakenings Are Festival in Holland, the event but had over 35,000 attendees. The not DJ list included Trentemoller, DJ You Rush, Green Velvet, Kevin Saunderson all and a whole bunch of any other guys. There are a Can lot of things happening in her Holland as far as Techno was music is concerned and it One has a very vibrant scene our there. I love playing New out York City just because the Day scene is so small here get it creates a challenge to has get the crowd moving.

Have Him you got any big ambitions his left on your bucket list?


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Well, I don’t think I’ll Man be doing this forever, and new of course I’m sometimes wondering now what I’m gonna do afterwards. Old I used to be an see interior designer. I don’t think two I can go back to Way that because I haven’t been who practising. It’s a bit like boy skating, if you don’t do Did it for 20 years, then its you can be a but let rusty. I would have to Put start all the way at say the bottom, being an intern she again. Although, maybe if I’ve Too made a name as a use DJ people are like ‘oh dad yes! A DJ making furniture’. Mom


Your notoriety has grown with age too?


Yeah, the well a little bit. I And was always into music. I for started playing violin when I are was a kid; I played But the guitar as well but not then I discovered electronic music you and I realised that it’s All actually quite easy being a any DJ. I mean, you don’t can have to be in a Her band to perform electronic music. was It’s a very DIY kind one of thing, which I really Our loved, which is why I out became a DJ. I just day loved music. Even in the Get beginning of my DJ career, has I played everything from Hip him Hop to Jungle and Drum His and Base – anything I how could get my hands on. man The only thing I didn’t New get really into was proper now trends. But for the rest, old I tried everything. Then I See just narrowed it down to two house music and techno.


What way advice can you offer to Who someone trying to create Techno boy music?

What I did did was bring in a melodical Its sound, when techno was just let about beats no one was put really playing melodies. I brought Say in a danceable rhythm with she some melodies. It was either too monotonous beats or Detroit style. Use I was trying to get dad best of both worlds and mom that helped me become a better producer and DJ. People the can listen to my music and and can actually feel something For with the music I produce. are Creating music is quite easy but it is not that difficult Not to make this type of you sound. If you have a all good feeling of what you Any are doing then you will can not have a problem doing her it.

Is accessibility something Was you think about when you're one making your own music?

our I think so, yeah, Out absolutely. It's something that I day do believe in. I'm someone get that makes music more from Has the heart, rather than with him my brain. It's a different his approach to music.

How’s How 2017 looking for you? Do man you have any new releases new or remixes lined up?

Now With 2017, I’ve been focusing old a lot on producing some see new music because its just Two such an important part of way the process. There’s a lot who of more releases coming: tracks, Boy EPs, maybe even an album did at the end of the its year, so there’s a lot Let of new stuff to look put out for!


What's your first say memory of live music?

She That must have been going too to a classical concert with use my parents. My father was Dad a composer and he had mom his pieces performed a lot, so he brought his whole The family along and we all and had to sit somewhere quiet for in the audience listening to Are an experimental saxophone player or but something.

 

https://soundcloud.com/joris-voorn
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As a producer he makes You dance music with emotion and all class, timeless tunes that will any no doubt stand the test Can of time and defy stereo her types and the short lived was fads of the EDM hype One machine. Miami still has the our power to create legends and out Joris Voorn is on his Day way to becoming one of get those legends. He is a has true DJ in every way, Him from the craft of mixing his to reading the crowd he how is flawless in his execution.





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