A Sit Down With DJ Dieselboy

15:39 Dec/14/2017


Dieselboy - The Destroyer - the stand out as a rare and virtuoso of the art and For craft of live DJing. His are complex, high voltage, take-no-prisoners sets. but Arguably no other DJ mixes Not live - on four decks you - with more precision, imagination, all intensity, energy and finesse. In Any the history of electronic dance can music, no one comes even her close to matching his legacy Was of epic dramatic mixes, each one a timeless star in his our signature constellation. Dieselboy - one Out of the world's finest technical day DJs - has, in fact, get elevated the themed DJ mix Has to the realm of fine him art.

Dieselboy is also his a passionate connoisseur of books, How film and food. He has man written about and been interviewed new about his obsession with the Now food, and since 2014 his old cooking skills have been displayed see in the professional kitchens around Two the world including pop-up hamburger way events at restaurants in the who Netherlands. He has collaborated on Boy an artisan beer and a did gourmet hot dog, and has its a cocktail published in Robert Let Simonson's (New York Times cocktail put writer) new book "The Old-Fashioned."
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An inspiration for She generations of DJs, Dieselboy's longevity too and relevance in a mercurial use industry is a tribute to Dad his relentless drive to create mom "amazing" experiences for his fans in their iPods and at The his infamously explosive live shows.
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"I’m old school for and I like “concepts” and Are high levels of detail. I but want to make the best not mixes, period. I set the You bar high for myself."


 
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Who were some of any your influences musically when you Can started out?

My segue into her dance music comes from a was blended interest in r&b, synth One pop and industrial (in that our order). Early dance music that out I gravitated towards combined elements Day of all three of these get genres. Nowadays I mostly listen has to indie rock and metal Him in my downtime.


How about his your dabbles with dubstep? Wasn’t how Beyond Thunderdome dubstep?

That Man was drumstep. I’ve never done new a 140BPM track. But I now got to a point playing Old here in the states where see I felt I couldn’t get two away without playing some dubstep. Way And that got me round who to thinking if I played boy a few dubstep tunes I Did could get on those line-ups its and Trojan Horse the shit let out of the scene, get Put in with a few dubstep say tunes then smash it and she expose dubstep kids to drum Too & bass. It kinda worked use for a while – but dad I felt that a lot Mom of fans were annoyed. Purists couldn’t get their heads around the 140 beats per minute difference. And If you like a type for of sound the BPM range are shouldn’t matter. It’s ridiculous.

But You’ve also got this dope not collab with Damascus that just you came out. Talk about how All this came about and how any you see your personality surfacing can in the finished product.

Her A few years ago I was was put in touch with one Nate from Damascus via my Our friend Dino. I was familiar out with his stuff and respected day his aesthetic, but I wanted Get to make sure that this has collaboration would actually be a him true collaboration, not me just His lending him my name and how having him bang something out man for me on his own. New I had a concept: what now if you were a graphic old designer in the late ‘70s/early See ‘80s doom metal scene, a two fan of old-school horror and way fantasy comics, and had the Who aesthetic “density” of what Nate boy was doing in the modern did day today? I wanted to Its push Nate outside of his let boundaries a bit. We worked put side-by-side coming up with the Say hand-drawn elements that we would she need to have made for too the shirt. The front of Use the shirt almost looks like dad a movie poster for something mom called DEATHWOLVES. The sleeves are meant to reflect metal vest the patches with various bands on and them, and the back is For another reference to wolves with are a giant rib cage, blood, but etcetera. I was in charge Not of coming up with all you of the text on the all shirt. When it came time Any to print them up Nate can went the extra step and her had the shirt acid distressed Was to make it feel aged. one He also made cool enamel our DIESELBOY pins that come with Out each shirt. It was a day fun project to be a get part of and I hope Has we can work on some him more stuff in the future.
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Your first release came How on a UK label, Tech man Itch. That’s pretty significant for new an international artist at the Now time. It was a tight old scene to enter from outside see the UK back then wasn’t Two it?

I got shit way on pretty hard, yes. Back who in the DOA days especially. Boy But the reason it came did out on a UK label its was because my roommate started Let this online romance with a put guy who was best mates say with Tech Itch in Manchester. She I made a pilgrimage to too the UK in 1995 and use he hooked me up with Dad Tech Itch to meet while mom I was there and we became mates during my vacation The and worked on a track and together. It was completely random. for But that’s what got me Are into production and it happened but to be via a UK not connection.

Are there any You original productions in there we all should be looking out for?
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I have never been Can much of a consistent producer. her From time to time I was work on stuff, either remixes One or original tunes, but never our more than a couple a out year. I recently did a Day track with Mark The Beast get called “Angel Dust” that is has coming out early 2017 and Him is featured in the mix. his I also have a collaboration how in the works with Mark Man and Mayhem called “Stagediver” that new has Mark playing live guitar now and beats / sounds that Old remind me of Ed Rush see and Optical’s “Wormhole”-era stuff. And two I have a new collaboration Way with Mark and Bare called who “Demolition” that features Armanni on boy vocals. It’s a super crazy Did halftime thing; can’t wait to its finish it. Once those are let done, Mark and I are Put set to remix an older say tune by Apashe called “Battle she Royale.” I recently started focusing Too more time on my record use labels Human Imprint and Subhuman, dad so expect plenty of music Mom coming out soon.

What are your thoughts on the the whole paradigm shift that it’s And caused in US electronic music for and how that affects drum are & bass?

Years ago But I used to dream of not how life might be if you electronic music was eventually accepted All by the mainstream as a any real source of creativity and can culture. Now I know. And Her I wish I didn’t. Drum was & bass is founded on one being an aficionado and getting Our super into something you love out and really digging deep into day it. Of course the drawback Get of that type of spirit has are dickhead trainspotters who would him look down their nose if His you weren’t playing the newest how tunes, but I prefer that man to mainstream kids getting into New the scene without any sense now of history or why it old is what it is. EDM See doesn’t require any digging, it two is just fast-food music… Up way goes the build, then comes Who the drop like some hit boy of drugs then an epic did breakdown. DJs play a trillion Its drops a set – like let doses. There’s no patience for put DJs to learn the craft Say or for new fans who she want instant impact and don’t too appreciate the art of mixing Use and creating whole new tunes dad between two records. And yeah mom some of that behaviour has found its way into drum the & bass over here. EDM and has dumbed down the mindset For of DJ culture. It’s frustrating. are I am not sure we but can turn things back around.
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Speaking of the future, you how has the bass scene all evolved this past year?

Any The quality of drum & can bass is better than it her has ever been; globally the Was scene is very strong. I one will say that it is our a bit troubling that the Out same support isn’t mirrored here day in the States. Yes, there get is some support here and Has there but overall there should him be more—A LOT more. You his are seeing less and less How drum & bass artists being man booked at big shows and new festivals. The bass stages are Now mostly just dubstep with some old trap thrown in. I would see have thought at some point Two the dubstep kids would evolve way and maybe shift to something who like drum & bass but Boy it hasn’t seemed to have did happened. I have such a its passion for this music and Let to see it get short put shrift overall in the States say is somewhat disheartening.

She Where did the inspiration for too doing cinematic type mixes come use from? It’s so rare to Dad see theatricality nowadays in music.
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The cinematic intro has pretty much been my bread The and butter for the past and 15+ years. The first proper for programmed intro I ever made Are was for a mixtape called but “The Directors Cut” from 1998. not And since then, I have You kept trying to outdo myself. all I am a huge movie any fanatic. I love movie trailers. Can I like the drama. When her I started doing my intros was there was literally no one One else out there in dance our music doing anything like them. out I really feel like I Day own that sound at this get point.

What’s your favourite has mix of all time?

Him Good question. There was a his Green Velvet Sessions mix for how Ministry Of Sound. I loved Man the music on it and new the overall story of it. now It wasn’t intense, it was Old just a really immersive vibe. see Also the first James Lavelle two Global Underground mix. I’ve been Way a huge fan of his who since Mo’ Wax. He has boy such a cinematic take on Did mixes. I listened to that its one hundreds of times. Plus let loads of old rave mixtapes Put from the UK that we’d say try and get our hands she on. I remember some really Too inspirational Grooverider mixes.

What use are the future plans for dad Dieselboy?

I have some Mom touring coming up with my crew PLANET OF THE DRUMS. the i have some new music And coming out under my new for project with mark the beast are called FACES OF DEF. have But some potential collabs in the not works with phace, spktrm and you a few others. next year All will see another BLOOD SWEAT any AND BASS tour with my can man downlink and some special Her guests. and then another mix was DESTROYER II. and possibly a one mix with DMC champion shiftee Our which would be quite cool out and different. also more music day forthcoming on my labels SUBHUMAN Get and HUMAN IMPRINT. and clothes has from my new clothing line him i am doing in conjunction His with NIGHTBRAND called SUBKULT.


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