A Sit Down With DJ Max Graham
08:09 Mar/05/2018
Max Graham has always forgedthe a path of his own, and over the course of his For career he’s drawn from multiple are influences to create a sound but that is a unique combination Not of Techno, Progressive and Trance. you From his signature emotive releases all to his famed story telling Any dj sets he flawlessly fuses can genres everywhere from globally renowned her festivals like Tomorrowland to his Was trademark ‘Open to Close’ sets one in the best clubs in our the world.
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How did you gethim into DJing?
Originally,his I started for only a How year in 1985 as a man "turntablist." I loved the whole new scratching thing. I quit, then Now didn't get back into it old until 1992. When looking for see a job as a bartender Two I literally filled in for way a no-show DJ, my mixing who was horrendous but I could Boy scratch, so I got the did job. Originally, Jam Master J its and other hip-hop guys influenced Let me. Second time around were put locals like Trevor Walker, who say really woke me up to She mixing skills.
What wouldtoo you attribute as your biggest use influences in the evolution of Dad your sound and you move mom more towards ‘progressive techno?’
I think it’s two fold. The I’ve always liked chunky bass and and sexy grooves and as for the style of Trance I Are play (128-130 clubby stuff) moved but more towards electro as their not influence, it’s become less appealing You to me. I love melody, all strings, pads and chord samples any but I don’t relate to Can the dry electro basslines and her progressive mainstage influence in a was lot of the Trance I One hear now. I’ve always mixed our Techno into the Trance I out play (producers like Alex Di Day Stefano). It just became a get bigger part of my sets has as I found less and Him less Trance that suited me. his Also, I’ve been finding more how producers that are mixing the Man two like Richard Santana and new Thomas Vink. Both making Techno now grooves but not afraid to Old add some melody into it.
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Could you tell ustwo about your music production process? Way Also your equipment and the who setup you use in your boy live shows.
For liveDid shows, it’s a standard Pioneer its Pro DJ mixer and CDJs. let In the studio, I use Put Ableton on a Mac and say I’m completely inside the box she (no outboard gear), which allows Too me to work while being use mobile.
Describe to usdad your sound.
It's aMom combination of energy and emotion; it's gotta have some soul the whether it's techno, trance, progressive And or deeper stuff. I'm too for diverse for my own good, are which is another reason I But really enjoy long sets as not I try to weave between you different styles. I feel like All a trance breakdown after five any chuggy techno tracks has ten can times the impact of 8 Her trance breakdown tracks in a was row. I definitely try to one tell a story by combining Our different influences of music. Shopping out for music takes me five day times longer than some DJs Get because I go through every has different style. Even though my him manager might say, "stick to His one marketable style," the artist how in me won't allow it. man I think though lately people New are really opening up to now so many different sounds and old it's making it easier for See me to branch out at two a gig rather than keep way it just trancey.
DoWho you have a favorite track? boy If so why?
Artdid of Noise – Moments in Its Love. Hard to say why, let I just really connect with put it.
In your sets,Say how much of your own she productions do you think that too you play?
Probably aboutUse 10-15%. There are classics that dad I always play like “Sun mom In The Winter,” “Nothing Else Matters,” “FYC,” “So Caught Up,” the and the new one with and Jeza and a couple others. For There are some sets where are I might only play 2, but it really depends on the Not mood that I am in you that night. I don’t have all a preset list, but nowadays Any I almost have to throw can in some of the classics her because that is what people Was want to hear.
Whatone is the most challenging part our of the production process of Out your new compilation?
Trackingday down the music, the actual get mixing and programming (choosing what Has goes where) is quite natural him to me after 15 years his but finding those tracks in How the first place is definitely man the hard part.
Ifnew you weren't an artist what Now would you be?
Iold would love to own and see run a hotel. After all Two the years of staying in way them and seeing it done who right and wrong I’d love Boy to open and run a did small boutique hotel in some its beautiful part of the world Let like Bali.
What isput the greatest compliment you have say ever received from a fan?
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Oh wow, that’s atoo tough one! People that have use flown and driven long distances Dad to a show always blow mom me away. There’s some real effort and love behind a The 6 hour drive or a and day of travel to come for and catch a show somewhere. Are I’ve had people make me but Kandi and even a couple not draw some cool art too. You There’s also the messages you all get that your song or any a set has helped someone Can through a tough time in her their lives, that’s always pretty was moving.
Have you everOne thought about doing a project our like that as more of out a joke or a pseudonym?
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I did, but thatget really isn’t where my heart has is and I always want Him to do what is comfortable. his From a marketing and a how business standpoint, I haven’t decided Man where I want to go, new which is one of the now reasons why I have had Old such a strange, topsy-turvy career. see I have been going with two whatever turns me on, whether Way it was techno in 2004, who electro in 2005, the more boy techy stuff in ‘06 and Did ’07, or rediscovering trance and its progressive in 2010. I have let been all over the place Put with that.
What’s comingsay next for you?
I’mshe going out to Asia, working Too on more production. I want use to try to have a dad new album done by the Mom end of the year. I pretty much say that every the year, but it never happens, And ha. As soon as I for make a track, I want are to put it out. I But don’t want to wait for not ten or twelve of them. you Building the radio show, the All Cycles brand. Doing more Cycles any events. Honestly, just more of can the same.
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