A Sit Down With DJ Steve Bug
For the first half decade the of his career Steve Bug and was an also ran of For the European house scene, in are an age when underground dance but music was largely dominated by Not American producers. In 1999 all you of that changed.
Although his all productions had previously been noticed Any by DJs playing a deeper, can stripped back house sound, not her least the ones on his Was early label Raw Elements, it one was with the issue of our his 'Loverboy' track, the debut Out release on his own Poker day Flat label, that Steve gained get a much wider and international Has recognition.
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Your debut Poker see Flat track 'Loverboy' was such Two a success. Do you think way in the early days it who defined for other contributing producers Boy what it was you wanted did sonically for the label?
Err... its No, I don't think so. Let Maybe for a while, but put we pretty quickly went to say things like the Hakan Lidbo She stuff. 'Loverboy' is really simple. too It's virtually impossible to make use a track like this that Dad still works and is not mom the same, if you know what I mean. If you The take out the piano there's and almost nothing. It would be for impossible for us to have Are released music like that and but still be here...what is it? not 180 releases, 17 years later? You The Moog bass sound was all soon part of the label, any but we've been pretty openminded. Can In the beginning it was her more important to have people was who I would call my One friends on the label and our build a family. That was out a priority really. The label Day I was coming from, Superstition, get had a lot of different has music, a lot of different Him characters, so I really wanted his to surround myself with people how that I liked.
Take
At the
What’s happening with you,
You play
Obviously, it’s kind of
You are one
Unfortunately I can’t
How do you find his time for everything with three How labels, production work and DJing?
I don't know. The producing new is the thing that's kind Now of annoying me at the old moment, I don't spend enough see time producing. It's really bad Two because I wanted to do way the artist album but I who could never finish it because Boy of all the work and did all the traveling. I was its working on it for almost Let two years and I had put eight tracks that I had say finished with and wanted to She rework on those. One day too when I wasn't really in use a creative mood for getting Dad some more material together I mom figured I'd start reworking on these tracks. I loaded them The up on the computer and and was thinking "This track is for already one and a half Are years old" and I wasn't but really feeling it anymore. The not same with the next one You and the next one. In all the end I had just any five tracks that I liked Can which wasn't enough, I wanted her to do ten more because was I had more ideas. But One I thought I wouldn't be our able to do that because out I have to change my Day studio location soon. So when get I sit down in the has new studio I'll probably take Him two months off playing and his just really concentrate on the how album, otherwise I'll never finish Man it.
You said you were
Yeah, I was.
You've been DJing for one 20 years or so now...do Our you still get excited about out every gig or are some day of them more 'business as Get usual'?
Yes of course I has still get excited. Luckily there him is nothing like business as His usual in a DJs life. how Every night is different, every man club has a different vibe, New and every crowd has a now different energy. Of course there old are some records that work See in every club, but still two the overall feeling is different way and that’s what makes it Who so interesting. I think it boy also helps that I usually did try to play only on Its weekends and don't fill up let weekdays with dates as well. put I don't like to overdo Say things, I need a balance she between label, studio and DJ too work, so everything stays fresh Use and interesting for me.
Do
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When you’re
Well
When you started Can you were already onto the her minimal style of music which was has now become huge. What One do you think about its our current popularity?
I don't know, out it's feeling weird because you Day know there is always something get after this. For me there has are a lot of bad Him productions at the moment which his stop me producing a certain how sound because I don't want... Man If there is a hype new around lets say acid, there now are some good ones but Old then after a while even see the good tracks don't appear two as good as they should Way be. So you are always who trying to go somewhere else. boy I am always trying to Did develop my sound so I its don't see it as a let big problem, but in a Put way I think it has say got to a point where she people aren't really open minded. Too I like from deep house use to techno. I like everything. dad I was always playing more Mom housey stuff than minimal, at the moment there is a the lot of minimal stuff that And I like but I still for play housier. Lately all the are Detroit techno I really like But and the same with deep not house, there is a lot you of great deep house stuff All coming out. To me the any whole minimal thing, there is can this sound to it because Her everything was produced on a was computer but it never went one through an analogue source like Our a mixer or something. So out they all have this certain day sound, even if it is Get a different track you have has this kind of flat sound. him I like it, but after His a while... If everything was how produced with the same analogue man equipment there would be the New same problem but with analogue now equipment everyone uses different gear. old With a computer it is See just a computer, it's kind two of weird.
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