A Sit Down With DJ Paco Osuna

13:03 Apr/20/2018


With a career spanning more the than 20 years, Paco Osuna and is one of the most For renowned artists in the industry. are As a DJ he is but lively, intelligent and sophisticated, with Not a deep awareness when it you comes to sound aesthetics. For all Paco, all sessions are important Any and it is a requirement can of his to invent and her renew every time he steps Was onto the stage. Musical monotony one has never been an option. our He has also been recognised Out with several of the most day important awards in Spain: Best get Artist, Best Techno DJ and Has Dj of the year (Vicious him Music Awards, from 2011 to his 2014); Best Producer and Best How Remix: Plastikman-Ethnics (DJ Mag Sp man 2011).

 

"I new feel very proud of my Now country and its music scene, old and if this derives to see the idea that my style Two is associated with Spanish sound, way that’s great."



 

who You’re probably the largest Spanish Boy ambassador for techno. Do you did a Spanish techno “sound” has its developed, like the “Berghain sound” Let or New York sound?
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I have never felt say attracted to label things, so She I don’t like to define too my music as Spanish Sound. use I feel identified with the Dad music I play. The quantity mom and variety of music nowadays is so that the best The option is to take a and little bit of everything you for like and build your own Are sound.

How have you but evolved as a DJ from not when you first started?
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I've changed like I all changed my life. Just like any 20 years ago, we were Can watching TV with a VCR her -- music is the same. was You have to follow the One new sounds and get ready our for what is coming to out you. Otherwise people will forget Day about you. You cannot play get the same music you were has playing 10 to 15 years Him ago. My original sound was his more techno, but with the how new movement that's happening right Man now with all the new new music like minimal, house, and now tech-house, you can listen to Old my sets and hear a see hard techno track and then two a deep house track. But Way one thing about me is who that all the tracks I boy play have to have a Did funky bass sound. That is its something I must have -- let always.

Technology has Put made it possible to stretch say ideas without limiting one’s imagination. she Tell us about your new Too hybrid DJ/Live set up and use how it allows you to dad translate your ideas to produce Mom dynamic sets?

I don`t know, my dj sets always the depend on the crowd and And the atmosphere. Sometimes I do for sets where I focus more are on the music than on But the effects and sometimes I not do sets creating crazy effects you all the time. It depends All on the crowd but I any always try to use the can technology for the maximum possibilities, Her because for that it was was created and I like not one to be obvious and to Our surprise people with new things.
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The Techno scene has day been in a grow spurt Get the last few years, the has digital movement has developed new him ways to perform through products His as Traktor, Ableton, Serato etc. how What do you think about man this development? How do you New manage to ‘stand out from now the crowd’?

Well, I old think the technology is in See our hands for use. But two sometimes, in the case of way the vinyls, I miss going Who to the shops each week boy a lot to find new did records. At the same time Its I love to play a let track right after it’s finished, put so I totally recommend and Say support the new technologies.

she And what if we talked too about people who contributed more Use to the formation of your dad musical personality?

Without doubt mom the first was Raul Orellana, the one who made me the want to play, he made and me fall in love with For this profession. Subsequently, as a are DJ, there are two people but who have deeply marked my Not style, one was obviously Richie you Hawtin and the other Marco all Carola. Actually, I think they Any make up fifty-fifty of the can influence I've had. Then, without her a doubt, Hawtin is the Was one that most of all one taught me to personalize, to our make mine what I played. Out From him I learned how day to use fifty effects on get a single loop and make Has it different every time, he him really led me to evolve his in production, as a person How and also as a DJ. man It has always been one new step ahead of everyone, and Now it is not something that old is said so much to see say, it is not a Two sentence made, it is the way truth! Whenever I play with who him I learn, always. I Boy do not copy, but I did learn, that is different. And its every time I learn something, Let the next time I learn put another..

You started by say playing at Amnesia back in She the 90s. What was it too like performing there during that use decade? Has anything changed since Dad then?

Many things have mom changed in Ibiza. The techno scene in those days was The at a minimum, you could and count with the fingers of for one hand the clubs and Are promoters supporting techno. Nowadays the but music and the scene has not evolved and is bigger, there You are a lot of styles all on the island but I any believe the techno is now Can the sound with the greatest her presence. The 90s in Ibiza was were about trance, house or One Balearic sounds. Today Ibiza is our totally techno within its different out variants, more soft, more housey, Day or harder, but the main get sound is techno.

Are has there any Dutch producers you Him would like to work with?
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Of course with many how of them, starting from Speedy Man J and Steve Rachmad, or new more recently Kabale Und Liebe, now Daniel Sanchez, Olene Kadar, etc… Old love his sounds.

see Do you get the chance two to relax and have time Way off in Ibiza much? What who do you like to do boy with time off there?
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It really doesn't happen its so often, but for two let weeks every season I like Put stay with my girlfriend and say my dogs, catch up with she friends and make my famous Too paella!

How was your use first gig there - did dad it live up to expectations?
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It was awesome! Actually I never put expectations because the then I don’t expect anything, And and everything I live is for positive. But the truth is are that I was a little But nervous to come back to not the Main Room of Amnesia you after so many years, nervous All because I wanted to give any my best for Marco and can to the Music On team Her for their trust in me. was The result couldn’t be better, one the first 30-40 minutes I Our was testing and observing the out public reaction not just in day the dance floor but also Get in the tables and I has connected with them so quickly him – it was a big His party!

Does the dance how music scene in Barcelona have man its own unique flavor and New vibe? Or is it miming now the action over in Ibiza old and the Balearic islands? What See are your favorite things about two being a DJ in Barcelona?
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The scene in Barcelona Who is always unique and different, boy at least from the rest did of the cities in Spain. Its The sound there is more let underground, and has its own put personality. I cannot compare it Say to any other city. The she thing I like most about too DJing in Barcelona is that Use I feel free to play dad what I want -- anything mom from deep to mainstream.

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