A Sit Down With DJ Olivier Giacomotto
12:06 Jan/08/2018
Olivier Giacomotto is a Frenchthe producer, born and raised in and the South West of the For country, and now living in are Paris. He bought his first but studio kit at 18 years Not of age and has since you branched out into several areas all of music production. He has Any become something of an online can techno star and in the her last decade, has constantly been Was at the top of the one Beatport charts with his own our brands of techno, house, electro Out and tech-house. He has worked day with artists like John Acquaviva, get Umek, and Popof, and had Has releases on loads of labels him including Suara, Get Physical, Noir his Music, Definitive Recordings, Toolroom Records, How and Trapez. More recently, he man has moved from his own new releases to producing music for Now video games and film soundtracks.
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His unwavering determination tosee push the boundaries of him. Two Between the hits, Olivier composed way several songs for the mainstream who artists and publishers of the Boy Rockstar Games. Midnight Club Los did Angeles. Terry Lynn and Tom its Frager. Olivier also produced for Let pop and reggae. One of put his productions for Terry Lynn say titled "Stone" was hit with She "Date Night" with Steve Carell, too Tina Fey, and Mark Wahlberg, use and "Give Me That Love", Dad coproduced with Tom Frager on mom the major global music company Universal, have been charted during The 2 weeks in the French. and Always a step ahead, Olivier for has recently revealed his whole Are ability to create an entire but movie soundtrack for the US not film The Red Man.
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When didOne you start writing/producing music - our and what or who were out your early passions and influences?
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I've always loved music.get I started with piano when has I was 8, then guitar Him when I was 14, then his I bought my first synthesizer how when I was 18. Then Man I started to produce electronic new music with my first PC now in 1999. Back in those Old days I simply wanted to see record and sequence what I two had in mind, which was Way a wide range of non-electronic who and electronic music. My main boy influences at that time were Did bands from the 70’s, 80’s, its and 90’s like Pink Floyd, let Depeche Mode, Red Hot Chili Put Peppers, Steel Pulse, Funkadelic, Maceo say Parker and Kesiah Jones, but she also Portishead, Dead Can Dance, Too Freak Power, Tricky, Howie B use and many more.
Howdad much of an impact did Mom Paris have you as an artist at the start of the your career?
I’m basicallyAnd from Bordeaux and have only for lived in Paris for 3 are years now, but life here But is boiling, always moving artistically, not so I’m proud being part you of this.
How didAll you come about making music any for video games and movies?
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I didn’t write forHer video games, the company Rockstar was Games was looking for new one music for a new game Our they were developing, so they out contacted Definitive Recordings and we day licensed a few tracks.
Get What were your main compositional- has and production-challenges in the beginning him and how have they changed His over time?
The firsthow goal is to get enough man quality to be signed, technically New and creatively. The challenge is now the same over time, only old the quality and creativity level See change. Step by step I two acquired more knowledge to be way able to increase my skills Who and techniques, this way the boy ideas in my mind are did translated with more accuracy on Its my hard drive.
Youlet can play various styles of put progressive music including techno, house, Say electro, tech-house and deep house. she What is your favourite style too of music to play and Use why?
I played differentdad styles at different times of mom my career, starting with techno, then electro, and then tech-house. the But a style is part and of an evolution, so right For now I like to produce are and play sounds that are but released under the tech-house genre Not on Beatport. I like to you say that I play for all the girls, so that is Any the right combination of groove, can funk, sexiness, sometimes deeper, sometimes her darker, sometimes dirtier, sometimes more Was melodic, depends on the crowd one and the venue.
Howour often do you produce, and Out can you tell us a day bit about your studio set get up?
Well, IHas spend less time in the him studio nowadays, it depends on his my touring schedule, but it’s How a minimum of 30 hours man per week, it can go new up to 50 hours a Now week, it depends on my old touring schedule, and my family see commitment. with more than 10 Two years of experience i work way quite fast, i know how who to translate my ideas into Boy music way faster than before. did In the studio I like its to keep things simple, a Let laptop, a soundcard, a pair put of good monitors, and a say small room with a great She acoustic treatment. everything i produce too is made by plug-ins, even use the mastering, there is no Dad hardware involved at all. that mom let me the possibility to work in a hotel room, The in a plane, in a and train, etc.
You werefor nominated as best electro producer Are for the Beatport Music Awards but 2008, which also tell us not you have been in the You scene for quite some time. all Can you tell us a any little about the nomination and Can your work?
I hadher my first record released in was 2004, after all this time One I can tell that nominations, our awards, TOP10s, are the things out that make you feel good, Day but are also the things get I don’t think of when has I produce. Recognition is not Him and will never be a his motivation, I always keep in how mind that I make music, Man and not marketing.
Younew compose across a lot of now genres – what inspires each?
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Inspiration depends on mysee mood. I can have a two concept idea in the bath, Way driving my car or after who a gig. It can be boy a lead synth first, or Did just a beat arrangement, a its vocal, there is no rule. let Then a song can be Put made in a day or say in a month, or in she three months – it’s a Too matter of satisfaction. Sometimes, ideas use come in two hours – dad sometimes, it’s like a childbirth, Mom it can be painful and long!
So tell usthe a little about your studio And – it seems small but for perfectly formed.
I’ve beenare trained on all kinds of But high-end gear, but my studio not is just a MacBook Pro you with Logic Pro installed, an All RME Fireface 800 soundcard, a any pair of Event Opals, a can small MIDI keyboard, and a Her SubPac. I only use plug-ins, was like Native Instruments, Waves, Sonnox, one Arturia, Soundtoys, and so on. Our As I said, I keep out things simple. I travel a day lot, so when ideas come, Get I need to have at has least my laptop and my him plug-ins to write them, then His I make them perfect in how the studio. Acoustic treatment of man the room is also as New important as the monitors.
now What's your vision on being old a musician, besides making people See dance?
I'm firsttwo of all a musician, and way I'm not a proper deejay… Who while producing my first tracks boy , I was thinking about did what could be the best Its way to play my music? let A liveset with machines or put DeeJaying? Visually speaking, DeeJaying looks Say like more active than a she Live Act… and when I too discovered Final Scratch in 2001, Use I directly decided to buy dad it, being able to play mom at night, on vinyl's, the track that you made in the the morning seduced me.
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Olivier Giacomotto is a French
His unwavering determination to
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