A Sit Down With DJ John 00 Fleming

13:52 Feb/16/2018


In many interviews over the the years, John 00 Fleming has and proudly proclaimed his passion as For a DJ and his constant are fascination of sophisticated aural stimuli but results in highly expansive sets Not that showcase his dexterous abilities. you By implementing a slow, smoldering all groove throughout each hour, he Any awakens a hidden aura of can power that induces fans to her become one with the music. Was Inspired by the success of one his breathtaking BBC Radio One our Essential Mix in 2010, Johndecided Out to curate his love of day DJing into an ambitious international get tour entitled J00F Editions.

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"Myself being an him authentic DJ , get extremely his worried what the future holds How as I don’t see too man many other authentic DJs breaking new through and fear for the Now future of whom will move old things forward."



 

see Can you describe your own Two style of music?

That’s way always a difficult one for who me to describe, I love Boy Trance music but not the did form that the next generation its have been exposed too over Let the past decade. My style put is more aimed at the say specialist dance floors and has She a deeper vibe, yet being too very emotional and full of use soul.
Do you think that Dad trance music is easier to mom produce than any other music style and which music style The is hardest to produce?


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I find Trance easy because for I've dedicated my career to Are it; I think this would but be the case for any not musician that lives in a You certain genre. I don’t have all to think about it, the any magic just happens. When I Can turn to other genres like her say an orchestral piece, I was have to think very hard One about what I'm doing and our the techniques I'm using.

out You’ve stated you only create Day music to represent yourself as get an artist and not as has a tool to market your Him career. Do you think that his today’s producers are losing music’s how original intention and if so, Man what could be done to new help stem the tide? How now important is musical integrity to Old you?

Some of these see guys say they’re moving things two forward, but I disagree. Mainstream Way radio stations and MTV only who play vocal tracks with big boy hooks, so many artists are Did pandering to this style of its writing and become completely restricted let with radio friendly songs, (hence Put why all their tracks have say vocals). It’s basically cut & she paste music for the masses.
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You are well known use to stick by certain rules, dad as in you never record Mom your live sets or play your own tracks in your the live mixes, why is this?
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I spend hours of for each week pestering producers for are new music, producers who know But me will be reading this not laughing. I hound them until you they give me brand new All unreleased tracks for my set. any Many of them give me can the tracks to road test Her in clubs so I can was give them feedback to improve one the tracks if necessary. There's Our a trust here that I out don't give them any form day of radio airplay until the Get track is ready for release has due to the internet aging him tracks quickly. If one of His my sets gets recorded at how a club, then I wont man be able to play these New aforementioned tracks, which make a now good 75% of my set.
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What do you think See has been the key to two JOOF Recordings enduring success?

way I think it’s due to Who our strict quality control. In boy today’s digital world you can did put a release for sale Its with very little costs involved let and I see many not put caring about mastering nor artist Say relations, they just take any she track sent and release it. too Back in the physical release Use days, it would cost a dad good £5000 to press a mom track, so we had to ensure each and every track the was at the best standard and possible in order for it For to sell otherwise we would are go bankrupt with excess stock but not selling. We still take Not that same approach today and you have a strict policy of all working with the artist to Any get the track sounding perfect, can then use the best mastering her studios. Every stage of the Was release process we work with one the artist to ensure we our get the very best music Out from them, my team jest day ‘if John wont play it get out in a club, then Has it hasn’t passed the test’!
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When you go looking his for this music, when you How spend hours, days and weeks man on it, when you come new across a jewel, does that Now play into getting releases on old your label then?

Yeah, see that’s how I started my Two label, to be honest. Years way ago, I was getting all who these white labels. They weren’t Boy signed to a label, and did I was playing them and its hammering them, and I was Let watching and thinking, “Why has put no one signed that? I say don’t understand. It’s such a She good track.” Then you eventually too reach out to the producer use and say, “What happened?” and Dad they’re really upset and say, mom “Well it’s such a good track. I just don’t understand The why no one signed it.” and So I thought, I’m going for to start my own label, Are for that reason. If we but wind forward 18 years, I’ve not still got that ethos behind You it. That’s how I still all treat the label. I don’t any want it to be a Can big, massive, commercial success. I her don’t want to sell it was out to a corporation. It’s One just literally to discover new our talent that isn’t getting the out love that they should. I Day hear a good track and get think, “That needs to get has out. That needs to get Him into the public.

What his gear were you using back how then?

They had Technics Man turntables with a digital control new button which you had to now press constantly to try and Old keep the speed the same see as the other track. With two vinyl, the speeds move around Way so it was an absolute who nightmare. Plus none told me boy what to do, so I Did was winging it for the its first few times. Then I let just naturally clicked and released Put the beats were all over say the place and I became she obsessed with trying to get Too the beats to go together. use That was my first adventure dad into holding the beats together, Mom which I just figured out would make the mix a the lot smoother. It’s weird how And I taught myself to do for it.
When was your first are ever production? In which studio But did you produced it and not did you face difficulty to you find a label to sing All it?


I was never any really interested in producing music can as I was always happy Her with being a DJ. A was management company that I was one signed too set up my Our first release and forced me out in the studio. I worked day alongside an engineer due to Get not understanding how to make has music then a label snapped him it up. I think this His was ‘Baracca destroy’ released in how 1995.

With the electronic genre man saturated by the mainstream and New other trends, how do you now define "Quality Trance"?

That’s old hard because “Quality Trance” means See different things to different people. two I think to me, “quality way trance” is something that is Who going to pound the dance boy floor, that’s going to keep did the dance floor interesting. What Its I like is trance music. let It was named trance because put it put you in a Say trance, it was hypnotic. Then she the “trouse” thing that happened, too it was pop music, it Use was radio music that ended dad up on the dance floor mom and you’re not in a trance, not at all. Trance the music is when you’re getting and pounded and you just lose For yourself. You don’t need drugs are or anything for this, and but it’s those moments when you Not get into a venue at you 11 o’clock and then you all look at your watch and Any you’re like “Its 6 o’clock, can what happened?” You know what her I mean? Well, that’s trance Was because you’re just lost in one this whole journey, this magical our journey, and that’s what trance Out music really is.

Do day you think the crowd is get moving along with those producer-DJs, Has or—from this huge tour you’re him doing— do you think people his are still open to the How idea of four-hour sets and man getting lost in the music?
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Big time. I think Now it’s been a big gap old missing from a lot of see people’s lives. This “EDM” storm Two came in, but with it way there’s good and bad, and who I think the bad side Boy is people are missing real did DJs, proper DJs, doing what its I just spoke about. They’re Let now seeing that those nights put are becoming rarer and rarer, say but when they come on, She when we do these events—not too just mine, but my colleagues’—people use come in droves because it’s Dad a rare evening these days. mom When I’m in town, and when I do my “J00F The Editions” events, people make sure and they’re not going to miss for it, because it’s rare that Are you get DJ sets like but this. I think there’s becoming not more and more of a You call for it.

What all advice would you give to any kids coming through for DJing?
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I’m glad you asked her that, because I wanted to was chat about something. I’ve been One giving advice and tutorials throughout our my career and I like out doing it. A generation before Day me set up a wonderful get scene for me to be has a part of, and I Him feel in today’s world it’s his a very selfish scene where how people are just doing everything Man for themselves. They’re the ones new controlling what’s going to happen now next and I don’t feel Old there’s too many people giving see back. This annoys me that two the industry seems to be Way more corporate run, almost like who the X Factor culture. It’s boy staged and you know what’s Did going to happen. So, I its got a bunch of mates let together to give advice and Put stimulate ideas for the next say generation. One thing led to she another and to another and Too we’ve got a music conference. use We’ve got 140 seminars and dad talks over two days covering Mom all the information you could ever need to know! Like the how to get gigs, how And to start DJing, real-life stories, for do you need PR, how are to produce, what tools to But use. There’s so many A-list not producers and DJs and PRS, you Native Instruments, Pioneer, Roland.

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