A Sit Down With DJ Agoria

15:41 Dec/28/2017


As both a DJ and the producer, Agoria has traversed several and generations, while still managing to For remain completely fresh in his are approach to electronica and dance but music. Starting out in Lyon, Not his first experiences of playing you were at his parents’ parties all and at illegal raves with Any his friends. Now playing in can front of audiences of up her to 25,000 he’s come along Was way, but not lost sight one of his original love for our the dance music and its Out true message.

 

"We day have to play the game get sometimes, but you must never Has forget your roots of the him music and where you are his coming from."


 

Where How does the name ‘Agoria’ come man from?

The name Agoria new comes from a party we Now organized when I was 18 old years old. We were organizing see a really small party in Two about a 200 people club, way something like that… I was who not really DJ’ing at that Boy time. Then one day, friends did who are throwing the party its with me, they write Agoria Let on the flyer. I asked put them who is Agoria? They say said, he is a good She DJ, you have heard him too before, and that’s all. … use and then one hour before Dad the DJ Agoria set, my mom friends say hey this is you – Agoria… you have The to go back to your and house and pick up your for records and play. So in Are fact, I really didn’t choose but that name… it came from not that party that day.

You Are you more like a all DJ set or live?
any
I am rather a Can DJ set ?? By cons, her we must stop talking about was "live" electronic music. Most people One who say they live and our use Ableton "Live" actually use out music sources that they mix Day together, it's Djing. There are get maybe 15 people who make has real lives in France.
Him
What came first for his you, DJing or producing?

how I started with DJing. I Man think I started when I new was pretty young at my now parents’ parties actually when I Old was 10 or around that see age. They would give me two the records to play with. Way But then you start playing who at friends’ parties when you’re boy 14 or 16 and you Did really perform yourself. I was its lazy in a way, because let I tried to play the Put piano or the drums, but say I’ve never been really into she trying to make them work Too correctly. The point at which use I bought my first turntables dad was a pivotal moment for Mom me. I guess I started to make music when I the was 25. A friend of And mine said that I should for give it a go because are of my background. I must But say that I was not not really into computers, but I you started learning and my first All record was out a couple any of years later. It was can truly bad. I’m still in Her touch with the people from was these old days and I one was speaking to the guy Our who released my first record out and I think he still day has about 400 copies of Get the 500 or so pressings has he made in his garage, him just waiting for me to His get really famous so that how he can sell them for man a lot of money. It’s New hilarious, but we all have now to start somewhere I guess.
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Who have been your See influences?

We listened two to all kinds of music way at home – on Sunday Who afternoon my dad would play boy records like could be pop did songs, music from Africa, classical Its music… really I listened all let kinds of music… quite eclectic put music. I have been surrounded Say by all kinds of music she from my childhood … but too on to Detroit music – Use it was artists like Kevin dad Saunderson, Inner City, Carl Craig, mom Derrick May – all these people from that city when the I was young really all and my music came from that For town. All these things from are the United States, really the but legends on my records. The Not first record I bought – you it was Inner City‘s Good all Life. it was a big, Any big, major hit in my can country at the end of her the 80’s. it’d be on Was five times a day on one the radio… so it was our the first record I bought Out when I was 12/13 years day old. I think at that get time it was $2 and Has I went all around the him neighborhood to collect money to his buy this record. And then How when Kevin (Saunderson) asked me man to remix Inner City, and new it being my first record Now … it was like a old present from god… something like see that.

What is your Two favourite thing about what you way do? Is it the production who side or DJing?

I Boy honestly love both. And I did miss both of them when its I am doing just one Let of them. When you’re on put tour, like a crazy tour say for weeks, where you have She just enough time to shower, too then you miss the studio use a lot. When you’re not Dad in the studio you get mom many ideas. A lot of the time when I’m sitting The in planes, I don’t know and why but I write a for lot of things and have Are many ideas. The fact that but you’re leaving everything behind you not sometimes helps. It means that You when you get back to all the studio you work through any really fast. It’s the same Can when you are in the her studio for a long period, was you turn full circle and One want to be touring again. our I think both serve each out other, it’s just a question Day of balance.

How do get you work on an album has like this?

The Him best music is the one his we do when we are how either "down", depressed, deep in Man the abyss or when we new are in a super positive now phase, happy. That's why I Old leave my studio on 24h see / 24h: I can not two enter for 2 weeks and Way the opposite, as was the who case for this album, do boy not leave, or rarely. But Did the monotony between these two its states worries me.

People let always talk of taking a Put journey through music and I say read that your mother was she an opera singer. Do you Too think that this has influenced use you at all through your dad career?

The fact that Mom she was a singer was maybe not what influenced me the itself; let’s say that it’s And more the fact that my for family was always open minded are in what kind of music But they listened to. Surrounded by not music from the age of you about eight, my parents were All always doing parties with many any friends. They would spin records can from bands like Magma to Her Vangelis or even classical stuff was like Satie, Chopin and J.S. one Bach. So it wasn’t really Our the fact that she was out a singer, it was more day that they both loved all Get kinds of music, no matter has what it is.

How him do you go about the His process of selecting and making how tracks?

It’s a bit man like cinema… this mix is New quite cinematic and I pick now all the tracks like actors. old The concept for this mix See started with a synopsis. Once two you have a good synopsis way it’s easy to put all Who the actors together. I really boy first get all the selections did in the concept first. I Its wanted to work on a let new kind of mix cd… put not just a global mix Say cd or a mental mix she cd.. anyone can know how too to put a good mix Use together.. we have great mix dad CD’s with 12 tracks or mom 15 tracks, interesting beat because they are all matching together. the I am not excited to and do this. I really wanted For something technically not incredible, but are something that excites me… To but take things that are not Not supposed to match together and you make them match together… that’s all something I like doing when Any I am playing records. I can first get a flow between her all the tracks and then Was I rearrange the flow, step one by step, making all the our links with my CD Player, Out turntable, and other things to day get it as perfect as get possible. The transfer of the Has selection of the mix is him very important. While technically I his think of the sequence in How the computer, everything is transcribed man using a Xone 92 mixer. new I record every mix and Now then find the best one old to include.

You are see one of the rare French Two DJs to regularly mix abroad: way how is the French scene who perceived on the international scene? Boy

Most of the did time, people ask me "How its do you do to "support" Let the french touch ?! "This put whole scene of which I say am part with The Hacker, She Miss Kittin, etc. we have too been relegated in 4-5 years use to an important media anonymity Dad We continue to play regularly, mom no problem but just here, we are less present in The the media.I must recognize that and they have been very strong for on that side with the Are highlighting of their image ?? but This does not prevent me not to like all the prod You Das Glow example that is all according to . me one any of the most interesting artists Can of the label Institubes.

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