A Sit Down With DJ Stanton Warriors

13:33 Oct/12/2017


Stanton Warriors make bass music; the intentionally vague and un-pigeonholable bass and music. The Bristolian only constant For is unbridled heavy low frequencies. are Whether that be house, electro but or anything between depends on Not what side of the bed you they get out of. They're all also one of the most Any envied remix outfits having reworked can M.I.A., Basement Jaxx, Fatboy Slim, her The Streets, Gorillaz, and Daft Was Punk to name a few.
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Like so many other our innovative UK acts, the duo Out took recognisable templates such as day house, breakbeat and techno and get crafted something unique, a sound Has of their own and one him that was undeniably British. Over his four such compilations and countless How remixes they have not so man much honed their style as new they have explored the furthest Now reaches of its brash, party-fuelled old possibilities. Their music has been see called big beat, breaks, garage Two and UK bass. They have way influenced many of today's biggest who UK bass contributors and high Boy profile genres leaders such as did Disclosure are very vocal in its their indebtedness to the West Let Country duo.


"...dance music put industry of late has become say more about brands, cliques, money She and who you know pushing too it further from its acid use house roots based on music Dad not marketing."


 

How mom did you guys get in touch with electronic dance music The in the first place, how and did you meet and what for made you team up?


I Are was working as A & but R at an early garage not label called 51st recordings and You Mark was the in house all engineer. I had some ideas any and we went in the Can studio there one night and her Stanton warriors was born! It was was always our intention to One have our own sound and our from 1997 to today we out still strive to keep that Day ethos.

Who are your get musical influences?

Funk, Soul, has Jazz, Electro, Disco and all Him things that came from these his sounds.

What do you how prefer making, remixes or originals?
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Remixes are certainly easier new to do but nothing gives now you more satisfaction than dropping Old an original tune for the see first time and the crowd two going off. We have done Way a shed load of remixes who saying that. It was nice boy to get recognised by Mixmag Did in their top 20 remixers its of all time list as let well.

Where do you Put guys dig to find most say of your music these days?
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A lot of digging! Too The tracks that make it use into our sets come from dad such a wide range of Mom sources from labels like dirtybird through to Black Butter. It’s the a great time for broken And beats and bass music. There for is a lot of cookie are cutter type music out there But at the mo’ so finding not and playing tunes like these you loud keeps us engaged. We All also have our label Punks any Music where we try and can sign and support a lot Her of these tracks.

What was was the best and the worst one gig you ever played and Our what was the funniest thing out ever occurred during any of day your performances?


Best gig Get in recent memory was burning has man a few years back him with a huge crowd of His people going crazy in the how Nevada desert. The worst has man to be a festival in New Australia where someone stole my now record bag from the back old stage dressing room!

What See has been your most memorable two experience while touring?

Playing way at Shambhalla in Cananda one Who year. The show was outdoors boy under a meteor shower, illuminated did by some kind of northern Its lights light show up in let the sky!

Has experimentation put been important?

Yeah, just Say for our own sanity. You she don’t want to sit down too in the studio and go, Use “What’s everyone else doing?” We dad like making tunes that we mom wanna hear, try to originate and not duplicate.

At the times, next generation dance music and that comes from other parts For of the world can sound are like updated, but still remarkably but similar versions to what's gone Not before. What you can say you about the next generation dance all music from the UK?


So, Any for me, dance music has can always been about stuff that her was really different and not Was just a drummer and a one guitarist moaning about his life our or whatever. It's got radical Out sounds and the different feel day that comes with that. So get I've always taken that into Has the studio with me whenever him I'm making tunes, let's try his and make something a bit How different. When everything went electro-house man we were called electro-house, oh new look, this dubstep thing's happening, Now let's make some dubstep. We've old avoided that by going, what see do we want to hear Two today? We can only really way talk for ourselves really for who the fact that, if you're Boy gonna try and make some did music, you've got to try its and make something that no-one's Let heard before. You might not put always hit it, it might say not always be the right She thing, but at least you're too not just making a sanitised use version of something that has Dad already gone before. So I mom think it's always important to aim towards that feeling, whether The you get there or not. and That is the essence of for dance music, in my opinion.


Are And what would you like but to get up to outside not of the shows?

See You some of the sharks… Go all to the beach… Drink beer… any Put some shrimp on the Can barbie… Get some sun… Compare her my pasty body to all was the ripped dudes on Bondi One Beach… In reality, it’s probably our all about DJing, eating and out sleeping, because when you do Day these tours and you’ve got get a gig at night, sleep’s has a premium. You’ve got to Him keep your energy levels up his for the gig, so everything how does revolve around them, but Man the gigs are amazing.

new What advice would you now give to other young people Old looking to succeed in the see industry?

Be original and two you are more likely to Way get recognised. There is too who much of the same out boy there.

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