A Sit Down With DJ The Martinez Brothers
13:14 Feb/20/2018
If you know anything aboutthe modern house music, you're familiar and with the name Martinez Brothers. For The 20-something producers are the are original EDM child stars. They but were working with dance legends Not like Dennis Ferrer when you you were trying to get a all date to Homecoming.
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How areour the London scenes different to Out New York in your experience? day And how do they cross get over? London is so creative Has and diverse. How’s your city him impacted what you do?
his London was a place where How British dance music really kicked man off, from drum'n'bass, jungle, garage, new house. There was something for Now everyone and some proper underground old raves going on which were see very diverse and brought many Two cultures together. It’s interesting because way the last few times we’ve who been to New York we’ve Boy ended up in very similar did raves to London!
its Tell me a bit about Let the lineup you’ve curated. There put are two rooms with a say distinct sound to each. One She more techy and one more too “melodic”. How did this come use together?
One thing that’sDad always been great about MMW mom is the diversity. Everyone from around the world comes to The check out all kinds of and dance music. For a 24 for hour party, it’s important we Are include everyone. Space helped us but put this together so we not will have a nice crowd You and a lot of our all homies come through. At the any end of the day, we’re Can all going to be going her from one room to the was another. That’s the fun of One Space. It’s so big so our you can just wander around out and get lost in it.
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Do you ever getget so exhausted that you wonder has if it’s all worth it?
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The only whack parthis is the travelling aspect, obviously, how but we love what we Man do. I wouldn’t trade it new for anything, you know what now I’m saying? It can be Old difficult sometimes, not being with see family, not being at home two and stuff like that. But Way we’ve been doing it since who we were kids so we’ve boy kind of adjusted to this Did lifestyle.
How do youits feel about the shift we’ve let seen towards mainstream dance, and Put EDM?
If you’re listeningsay to EDM now, maybe a she few years from now you’ll Too be more open to hearing use underground artists. Now that I dad think about it, at this Mom point it seems like everyone’s gonna end up listening to the house because I see the And EDM stuff everywhere. I’m glad for it’s out there.
Howare do you guys stay true But to the drum’n’bass scene while not at the same time nailing you commercial success? Do you feel All like you have to make any artistic compromises in order to can make your brand fit with Her mainstream culture?
Rudimental haswas always been a multi-genre band one inspired by our influences and Our surroundings. We’ve never actually claimed out to be a drum'n'bass band, day we just get labelled that Get because we have had some has drum'n'bass hits. From early days him on pirate radio we were His playing Rudimental tracks that worked how on many platforms. So a man track like "No Fear" is New very true to our roots.
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Speaking of labels, you’veold gone from producer Dennis Ferrer’s See Objektivity imprint to Parirs-based Real two Tone Records over the years. way How did you sort out Who those releases?
We wereboy just lucky enough to have did Dennis as a mentor, as Its well as an outlet to let release music, you know? Anytime put we wanted to release a Say track, as long as we she were ready, he was always too willing to help us get Use them out there. That was dad a real blessing early on. mom Then Real Tone came about because we have a relationship the with those guys.
Soand everyone knows the story that For you hit. Dennis Ferrer on are MySpace and that's how the but relationship started. Were there other Not people that you also contacted you to help you out with all your careers?
We weren’tAny really looking for anybody to can help us out. We were her just hitting up producers with Was fan mail! Like, “I like one your stuff man, keep doing our what you’re doing.” It was Out him, it was Quentin [Harris], day Louie [Vega] – it was get everybody that we were hitting Has up. It just so happened him that Dennis said something like, his “Who are these two kids How that like my music, what man the hell is that all new about? The next day, my Now brother was talking to him old on AIM just bs’ing, and see Dennis asked him to send Two him a mix. The very way night he got the mix, who he invited us to play Boy at the Shelter in New did York. Upstairs was Timmy [Regisford] its of course, and downstairs they Let were doing a special party. put That party man, I’ll never say forget it! It was the She first time we ever played too at a club and it use was just bonkers. People running Dad downstairs wondering who the hell mom these two freaking kids were. It was really crazy – The to the point that they and had to shut us down!
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Proudest or most memorableAre moment?
Our first gigbut was memorable, so hanging out not at Club Shelter, at the You legendary Club Shelter. That’s the all first club we ever played any at, so that was a Can great moment for sure.
her You guys are really into was your visuals. What role does One visual art play in your our output?
Art always kindout of played a part, especially Day during our childhood. We were get always drawing and doodling or has whatever. I don’t really draw, Him I just doodle.
Whathis do you see yourself doing how five years and ten years Man from now?
Five yearsnew from now… we should definitely now have our own label by Old then. Ten years from now, see I’m only going to be two 31, so I’m still going Way to be pretty young. 30 who is the new 20.
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