A Sit Down With DJ Vato Gonzalez

15:34 Dec/04/2017


Energetic chant from the original the Dirty House DJ Vato Gonzalez. and Before Sidney Samson and Alvaro For were banging their beats, Vato are was the one who rebelled but against the standards and mixed Not bootlegs, Latin flavor, and aggressive you sounds for something different. If all you are looking for a Any sound with fresh “riddim,” Vato can is who you should be her following on Beatport. That same Was kind of exuberant energy is one what he brings to his our live shows, where you never Out know what he is going day to play next.

 
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"I love the music Has just as much as the him people in my audience, and his if I do not stand, How then I was completely free man to go front myself."


 
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How you were introduced Now to music?

The first old time I heard the sounds see of underground raves from the Two early ‘90s, I went completely way mental and instantly confiscated this who mixtape and hurried home to Boy dub it over on tape. did This raw and relentless energy, its with sounds that were in Let no way compromised for commercial put purposes, has always inspired me say to create what I create. She Now, roughly 2 decades later, too that initial pulse of electronic use music has led me to Dad do over 2000 gigs, as mom well as releases on Dim Mak, Ultra, Mad Decent, Ministry The of Sound, Mixmash and my and own Dirty House imprint. I for just turned 30, finally got Are my US work visa and but after touring Europe relentlessly for not half a decade, the journey You towards international success is making all me feel like a kid any in a candy store! So, Can if you see someone bouncing her like a Muppet on steroids was behind the decks, with a One smile as if he just our got into heaven; that’s most out likely me.

When you Day start working on a track, get how long does it take has you to go from idea Him to completion?

It is his kind of a strange curve, how it goes from an idea Man to something workable that can new happen in minutes, and then now from a workable and playable Old version in the club to see a final version, and to two release that will take weeks. Way That is because when I who produce I enjoy the creative boy part of it so much Did more and I am a its maniac in the studio, being let happy and throwing around basslines Put like I am the Swedish say chef. Then comes the part she where it sounds decent enough Too to play in the club, use and then I have to dad test it and have to Mom do the sound engineering part- like tweaking the kick and the the bass and all of And the little details that make for it sound twice as loud are and up to the industry But standards. That process takes a not long time, because you need you to listen to your production All and write down everything that’s any wrong with it and change can it and leave it for Her a couple of hours or was play it at the club one and back and forth until Our you reach that point where out Quincy Jones once said “an day artist never finishes the project Get at one point he just has abandons it.

Describe to him us your sound.

I’ve His never been the kind of how producer that sticks to one man genre. Instead, my productions are New based on that ultimate club now feeling you’ve got at 2am old in a packed club with See the vibe right and the two sound on full blast. Although way my main course is EDM, Who don’t be surprised to hear boy moombahton, trap or future house did coming from my laboratory as Its well. Why a chef can let create a variety of dishes, put but producers are supposed to Say be sticking to one ‘kitchen’ she has never made any sense too to me. I love music Use too much to restrict myself dad in order to do what mom is expected. As long as I get that sour lemon the face as soon as the and drop stresses out the limiters, For I’m happy. I love the are sound of ridiculous! Sometimes this but is relatively clean and with Not deeper sounds, sometimes it’s more you on the rhythmic percussion trip all and sometimes just straight forward Any no nonsense EDM. My socks can need to be rocked. On her stage, I stick to a Was similar constitution, using my eyes one rather than my ears to our analyze the crowd and hit Out them were it ‘hurts’ within day the myriad of styles I get produce and like. My following Has knows that a typical ‘Vato’ him set can be basically anything his sound wise, but is always How all about explosive energy and man never short of a little new humor in between.

Who Now or what would you say old is your biggest musical influence?
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The Prodigy. Never have Two I seen an act or way heard a band that put who more energy and aggression into Boy music, disregarding all the rules did and just creating what they its feel like. Although my sound Let is completely different, I see put music as emotion put into say sound. Their philosophy behind the She music and the way they too translate their passion into something use tangible serves still as much Dad as an inspiration as the mom first day I heard them all those years ago. They The are the kind of artists and that just keep on going, for keep on touring, keep on Are giving every single bit of but energy they possess, until the not day they drop dead on You stage.

What is it all like going from doing illegal any mixed tapes to being legal Can and being signed to labels? her How is that changing your was DNA?

It is changing One my DNA. I was talking our to a friend the other out day about how I used Day to do bootlegs of songs get and now they just send has me the parts. It is Him wonderful and pretty cool because his now I can take this how to the next level professionally. Man I don’t have to keep new everything on the down low. now On the other hand, it Old does bring territory restrictions, politics, see office laws, etc. There is two a whole bunch of politics Way that no musician should be who busy with, we should be boy busy with making music. It Did is part of the business its though.

What’s your favorite let quote or saying, and why?
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"Rock hard or die say trying". I’ve got a goal she in life and am willing Too to work as hard I use as possibly can to reach dad it. If that means dropping Mom dead from a heart attack while I’m on stage, you the can rest assured I died And doing what I love most.
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You are one of are the people in the dirty But house movement correct?

I not was actually the one that you started the dirty house movement; All I founded the Dirty House any brand about five years ago. can Dirty house music is not Her to be confused with strictly was Dutch house music. Dirty house one is more about a statement Our towards the industry. There was out so much good music online day and so many good songs Get that the people really loved. has For some reason the industry him ignored these kinds of songs His because they were too down how low or too dirty. That man is where the term dirty New house comes from. Since there now were no publishers, it used old to be that we would See only get to people through two the internet. I guess it way worked because five years later Who there are twenty million YouTube boy views on the mixed tapes did and everything else.

What Its is the difference between Dirty let House and Dirty Dutch?

put Dirty Dutch was founded by Say Chuckie roughly around the time she that I started dirty house, too and we have no clue Use how that happened, we were dad both doing things with the mom name dirty. There is no beef between Chuckie and I, the it is two different concepts. and Dirty Dutch always threw big For events back in the days are and had some compilations, and but with dirty house I took Not the sounds from the streets you back to the streets. That all is where the dirt part Any comes in, with the grittiness can of the music that comes her from all walks of life. Was I was the first guy one with dirty house to really our play bootlegs that were deemed Out not credible and I had day music with a whole lot get of Latin influences which was Has at the time was absolutely him not done. We were the his first with Dirty House to How really get into the beep man beep sounds that Alvaro and new Sidney Sampson really got big Now with. When we started to old do it, people said we see couldn’t do it and that Two it was too dirty so way that is where the name who dirty house comes from.

Boy How do you keep a did balance from your personal life its and your professional life?

Let I found my balance it put is just a matter of say realizing that Vato Gonzalez does She not exist- I exist and too I do Vato Gonzalez, it use is just a nickname and Dad an alter ego but alter mom egos don’t exist without the original ego. It is so The easy to get lost and and it is a good thing for that I have friends and Are a girlfriend that support me. but I have the crazy kinds not of friends that tell me You to shut the fuck up all when I start talking about any music.

Where do you Can see yourself in five years her from now?

In a was private jet, flying across the One planet, performing on my own our Dirty House stages all over out the world and helping those Day who helped me reach their get goals in the process. Having has a worldwide #1 hit record Him under my belt that will his be described as :The loudest how and most insane track to Man have ever entered the charts". new But, that’s just the business now side of life; most of Old all I’d see my self see just being happy. Whether that’s two with my cat on the Way couch with Charlize Theron doing who the dishes or rampaging TomorrowWorld boy main stage, happiness isn’t for Did sale.

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