A Sit Down With DJ Mako

13:27 Oct/24/2017


The story about how LA-based the DJ, producer duo Mako came and to be is one part For fate and one part chance. are Alex Seaver and Logan Light's but fathers were roomates in college Not at Syracuse back in the you 1970s and this formed a all life-long friendship between their two Any families. However the two kids can went on two different paths. her Seaver attended Julliard, the elite Was classical and jazz music school one and Light went to Columbia, our before transfering to Michigan where Out he picked up DJing. Their day paths crossed once again in get Los Angeles after graduation and Has a trip to EDC Las him Vegas opened Seaver's eyes to his the wonders of electronic music. How Their first single "Our Story" man became an internet hit and new fast forward to 2015, the Now pair are working on an old album and have played festivals see like Lollapalooza, Electric Zoo and Two Ultra Music Festival.

The way two come from completely different who musical backgrounds—Seaver originally wanting to Boy play in an orchestra and did Light as a DJ—but together, its they come together to create Let something that is unique, catchy put and is bound to be say stuck in your head after She the first limit.


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When did you both use (Alex Seaver and Logan Light) Dad first meet and how was mom Mako originally formed?

We apparently met in 1993 The at the age of 4 and since our fathers were friends for and college roommates; however, they Are lived in different cities. We but really didn’t connect until we not were 22 or 23 and You just happened to join our all parents at a dinner. I any brought Alex (who had just Can moved to LA) out to her EDC the following week and was from that point forward Mako One was spawned from Alex’s background our in composition and all his out brilliance and my DJing and Day interest in EDM. The name get actually comes from my favorite has video game – Final Fantasy Him 7 (if you haven’t played his it – I highly suggest how it!). We wanted something that Man meant something to us as new kids so we compiled a now giant list and that was Old the name we ended up see using. In Japanese we were two told it meant “magical light” Way which was a nice play who on my last name and boy within the game it serves Did as the life force of its the planet so it had let a good aura around it. Put

What it hard say to become a duo?

she No, the single thing was Too just fun for me, DJing. use I never thought this would dad be what it is today. Mom I did this in my little room in Michigan just the for fun and had fun And jumping around. I met him for it was kind of like, are well if you want to But dig around and try this not let's see what happens. It you kind of took a life All of its own pretty quickly any and I think we are can very combative personalities when it Her comes to each other. We was kind of found our own one niche and made it work Our with what it was and out if one thing isn't working day we adjust. For me I Get was just DJing so it has was always myself, he always him had to work with other His musicians so it was never how a solo venture.

It`s man way different doing this than New it was doing classical music now but I don't think it old was ever difficult because we See complement each other's personalities and two our work styles, but I way think the big adjustment was Who making electronic music.

 
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"...you’re never going to stand did out if you’re just so Its closely replicating another artist so let there has to be that put moment when you decide what Say makes me, me and what she do I wanna say with too my music".


 

You Use guys played EDC Las Vegas. dad Tell me about that experience.
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It wasn’t sweet from 3-5 p.m. though. They brought the us out to sound check and and it was 117 degrees! For I would open the computer are and it would melt down but really quickly, so I’d have Not to reboot it. But after you that, it was great!

all We played the Discovery Stage Any maybe two years ago, so can that was our first taste her of being a part of Was it. Then this year we one were at the 7UP Stage our which was really special. It’s Out such a cool part of day the journey to cross milestones get like that and to revisit Has places that you experienced in him a way different way when his you were starting out.
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Do you ever get man the time to go out new and see other artists very Now often?

I really try old to! I don’t do it see so much because I can Two be a little anti-social and way I just spend all day who and all night in the Boy studio kinda making music. But did it’s really inspiring to go its out to see other artists Let especially as we’re sort of put shifting our whole live show say away from DJ’ing to this She kind of like, live-electronic hybrid too setup… It’s to see what use people are doing and how Dad people are performing their music. mom And there’s a lot of different ways to do it The technologically speaking. And then in and terms of like the Aesthetic, for like the lighting that they Are use or if they use but graphics. And then just seeing not how that translates to an You audience. Because instead of just all a bunch of people jumping any at the drops, it’s a Can music venue you know where her people are listening to music was and just kind of getting One what that kind of relationship our is with the audience has out been a different from our Day background.

How have get you guys evolved over the has years?

It’s a cool time Him for electronic artists in general his because the cycles of the how genre come and go and Man we’ve definitely sort of followed new what everyone else is doing. now Right now we’re taking a Old step back, looking at a see blank canvas and making whatever two we feel like it regardless Way of whether it’s in style who right now or what our boy colleagues are doing. It’s been Did a good moment for all its artists when they start to let figure out who they are.


Put Do you tend to take say a different approach when you’re she in the studio providing a Too remix for another artist rather use than producing a solo track dad for Mako?

Absolutely. In Mom some sense making a remix is a hugely relaxing experience. the When you get to use And someone else’s vocal or melody, for that is one aspect of are the song that you don’t But need to account for, and not you can spend the rest you of your creative energy focusing All purely on everything else. It any tends to feel like a can vacation compared to the grueling Her aspects of doing everything from was scratch .

Where does one the name for the album Our come from?

The name out came after thinking a lot day about what kinds of songs Get I was writing for this. has I ended up borrowing a him lot from my life and His experience, and I noticed that how a lot of the songs man dealt with time in some New from whether it was abstract now or more obvious, looking back old to the past, nostalgia about See seeing something in the future two with somebody or living in way the present with somebody. I Who don’t know something about the boy motif of time just kept did popping up and I just Its kind of felt that an let hourglass represents time in a put way that was pretty creative.
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What do you hope she people take from your music, too music videos?

That’s kid Use of the million dollar question dad for us right now. A mom big part of being an artist is having a brand the and a community and building and something. A lot of it For so far has been led are by the music that we but make and we’re trying to Not figure it out. But recently you we’ve really started to cultivate all more of a visual and Any auditory experience for our fans can that’s kind of consistent throughout. her We don’t know exactly how Was to describe it yet, because one we’re kind of poking around, our but I think each of Out these videos is an experiment. day They’re each a learning experience. get It’s kind of like sharing Has a part of ourselves with him our audience and it’s hard.
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What can you share How with us about your experience man working alongside the iconic Steve new Angello?

It was a Now total dream come true. We old idolized Steve as he was see largely responsible for aiding Logan Two in getting me to fall way in love with dance music. who Come time to work with Boy him, it was a surreal did experience having that same guy its sitting across from you in Let a massive studio asking your put opinion on what you are say working on. He was so She gracious and kind as well, too an experience we’ll never forget.
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What would you consider Dad your genre and why did mom you decide to go this route?

I think previously, if The you heard of MAKO before, and I would called it progressive for house or electronic dance music. Are Bizarrely what we’re doing now but is redoing the entire notion not that we were DJ’s at You all and kind of using all a live band now. It’s any an alternative electronic thing with Can our new album.


What do her you attribute your passion and was success to?

The universe One first and foremost. My past our experiences have shaped me and out driven me along this path. Day More recently meeting DLR has get helped a lot with general has vibes and motivation. My lovely Him girlfriend Ash is a massive his inspiration too. She lives in how London and I live in Man Bristol so I’ve had to new move towards a more organized now way of living to make Old sure I spend time with see her and spend as much two time as I can on Way music. Love is a tremendously who motivating force. Imagine, the brain boy is flooded with a desire Did to spend as much time its with your loved one as let possible, but you’re caught in Put a paradox because for the say last five years you’ve felt she the same love for music Too and producing and now time, use or more accurately, how Much dad time you have, becomes the Mom focus. This pretty much goes against most of what I the had been teaching myself through And meditation the last few years for so it has been twisting are up my brain a little. But But this suffering of life not is synonymous with the passion you of life so i’m eternally All grateful for the continued inspiration any that I encounter.

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