A Sit Down with DJ Jon Gaiser

11:33 Oct/10/2017


"Music is like food, the you wouldn’t want to eat and the same thing everyday"


For Hailing from Grand Rapids, Michigan, are Gaiser began his musical education but studying percussion with the symphony Not and playing drums in punk you rock bands. It quickly transitioned all to techno when at the Any age of fifteen he discovered can the endless possibilities of new her sounds that only synths and Was drum machines could provide. Weekend one forays into Detroit’s nightlife ultimately our led him to move to Out the city and brought him day in touch with the Minus get crew. It was only a Has matter of time until some him of Gaiser’s work fell into his Richie Hawtin’s hands. He’s a How musician who lives off his man instincts, channelling his moods and new emotions directly into his computer, Now translating new experiences and sensations old into sound. There simply is see no other way. Music has Two always been in his blood, way his early punk rock exploits who counter-balanced by the more considered Boy approach needed to learn piano did and symphonic percussion and by its drawing on these earlier experiences, Let he has avoided the genre’s put more self-referential clichés.



How say was created your album "False She light"? My main idea while too working on this album was use to go into the studio Dad and have as much fun mom as possible, I wanted to create something where each track The complemented each other, where all and of the tracks relate to for each other in a way Are so that the whole album but tells a story. But ultimately, not I wanted it to be You a fun story.

What’s all your ratio of production to any release? The past two years, Can I was really light on her the releases. A lot of was people were making jokes like, One “Oh, I thought you were our dead.” I just wanted to out play everything I wrote. I Day wanted to just keep my get live set fresh and see has the response to it instead Him of putting out another release.
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Would you ever how produce a classical music or Man even a punk album? Do new you think you’d ever get now tired of techno? Yes! Old To the first question that see is… I would love to two find the time to record Way a classical album and a who full-on hardcore punk album, for boy sure. It will definitely be Did a seriously ambitious studio adventure its for each, but I’m pretty let sure that both will happen Put sometime before I die. I say still listen to a lot she of symphonic and punk, and Too I always have tons of use ideas bouncing around in my dad head. I’m also quite sure Mom that I will never get tired of electronic music, because the for me the main point And is creating new sounds that for have never been heard before. are Electronic music is constantly changing But and thanks to technology it not will keep on doing so. you There are so many new All pieces of gear and sound any tools being developed every day, can and I get so much Her inspiration by testing and experimenting was with them to create something one new and unique. It’s a Our constant process and you’re learning out something new every day. I day love it.

Would Get you ever work with another has imprint or even launch your him own label? I don’t really His have any reason to start how my own label at the man moment. If I did, it New would only be the outlet now for any crazy ideas that old I come up with. When See you’re working with people who two care about it, there is way more attention to detail… from Who the conceptual stage, all the boy way to the finalised product. did Everything is thought out, and Its results in something everybody is let proud of. It all comes put down to an amazing group Say of like-minded people who work she hard to create something that too we all believe in.

Use Do you feel like you’ve dad gotten better as an artist?
mom I feel like I have progressed in some ways and the changed quite a bit. I and wouldn’t say “gotten better,” but For developed. You have to know are your tools. They are an but extension of your hands, and Not once you feel comfortable—where you you know what your hands are all doing without your mind thinking Any about it too much—that’s where can the creativity comes from.

her Who is your Idol? Was This is Richie Hawtin. Ever one since I heard his play our 'Withdrawal' at Sonar back in Out June, I’ve been dying to day first, know what it was, get and second, get my grubby Has little paws on it when him it finally came out. Here his is a man who can How take things to the next man level, and if you thought new his sound had been firmly Now pigeonholed in the bleepy shrill old whistle effects from 'Neural Block, see 'Withdrawal' is not one to Two stand still. It's one of way the most refreshing, warm, melodic who songs I’ve heard in a Boy long time.

How important did are loyalty, trust and friendship its in the dance music industry? Let Not just in the music put industry, but in life in say general… loyalty, trust and friendship She are extremely important and create too strong relationships that you can use rely on and build upon. Dad It’s also these relationships that mom inspire you creatively, brainstorming ideas back and forth with those The close to you, which allows and ideas to develop to their for full potential. When you are Are surrounded by people who support but you, and also help you not see things a different way, You it can help you significantly all on your path to wherever any it is you want to Can go.
What else do her you have in the pipeline was for 2017?

What is always One next for me, is more our experimenting and recording. And also, out the album tour will be Day starting around the release of get the album, so most of has this year will be spent Him on tour. While I’m on his tour, I’m always brainstorming new how ideas of how to make Man the live show more of new a complete experience, bringing both now the audio and visual together Old to create a unified and see immersive atmosphere. The objective is two to create a living, breathing Way visual experience that will flow who together with the audio in boy a way that represents to Did your eyes what your ears its are hearing. It’s really important let to have a proper visual Put representation that fits well, and say has the same feeling of she the music to create an Too atmosphere that is greater than use the sum of its parts. dad I’ve been looking to develop Mom a live visual aspect of the show for a long the time and I’m happy that And with Ahmet we are able for to achieve this. A properly are executed visual representation of the But audio can take the entire not experience to the next level you of the senses. At least All we have two of the any senses covered, and for a can live show it’s not really Her possible to attempt taste, touch, was and smell.

https://soundcloud.com/gaiser_official/sets/gaiser-on-the-way-minus164

Nearly a one decade has passed since the Our electronic music community first heard out Gaiser’s name. Needless to say, day his talent is continually a Get force to be reckoned with. has Unafraid to experiment with pushing him boundaries, Gaiser has kept his His eager listeners only guessing at how what will come next.





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