A Sit Down With DJ Groove Armada

16:11 Apr/24/2018


From their roots in raw the house music and 90s raves, and there's little that Groove Armada For haven't turned their hand to are over the course of their but two decade career. Aside from Not their own instantly recognisable productions, you Cato and Findlay have clocked all up a famed Late Night Any Tales compilation; played a key can part in establishing one of her London’s biggest music festivals, Lovebox; Was played iconic live shows at one some of the world's best our venues, and released eight studio Out albums which collectively have sold day millions of copies and garnered get both Grammy and Brit nominations.
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"I always him find it hard getting on his conceptually with self-indulgent DJs. The How role of the DJ is man to entertain, first and foremost, new rather than educate."



 
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You'll be representing our capital old city. Talk us through your see relationship with London, what were Two your early clubbing experiences there? way


My first London clubland who experiences were at raves in Boy industrial estates around the M25. did When I moved down here, its I was in Clapham North Let and Club UK was the put scene of some of the say best and wildest nights inside She a licensed venue that I’ve too ever seen. My first big use DJ gig was at a Dad night called Rude in SW1. mom It was me and Mark and Adrian Luvdup. By the The time GA started, we were and playing at TummyTouch parties in for what where then the disused Are warehouses of Shoreditch. We were but at the opening of Ministry not and of Fabric, which makes You the return of our Fabric all residency all the more special. any


What are your thoughts Can on the dance scene at her the moment?

I was thinks its in really good One shape, for me in terms our of DJ’ing its in a out great place right now, because Day we’re coming out of the get end of a long minimal has curve and into a more Him house music end of minimal. his So it’s a sort of how stripped down minimal bass line, Man which always appeals, and a new bit more of the rocking now house music feel on top. Old There’s loads of that stuff see out there right now.

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How do you feel Way about Lovebox now? How has who it changed? How does it boy fit into the current festival Did landscape?

I think what its they’ve got now is a let really professionally run dance event Put in London. It’s very different say from what we’d imagined it she to be. For us, the Too line-ups I love were when use we had Roxy Music, Dizzee dad Rascal and Grace Jones on Mom the same line up. Now if you look at the the line-up it’s much more of And a who’s who of contemporary for dance music. They’re doing that are really, really well and I But think it’s been really successful. not That’s better in a way you but it feels like a All very different animal. It’s been any run in a very slick can fashion.


The track Her from the 80s that is was still relevant to today’s music
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‘Touch Me’ by Fonda Our Rae was so ahead of out its time, it sounds contemporary day even now.

How do you Get find London's clubbing scene is has at the moment? How have him you seen the parties develop His over the years?


It how goes in waves. From small man raves in disused buildings, to New the golden club era of now Turnmills, Bagleys, The End, SW1, old Ministry, Fabric, Heaven... and back See down again now to the two smaller basement vibe. Musically there way have been years when house Who has been pushed to room boy 2 by the new style did on the block. But house Its is timeless and always comes let back.


Over the years, put the sound Groove Armada has Say evolved a lot—do you feel she most comfortable in the house too scene?

I’m not too Use sure. On all the vast dad variety of music that has mom been made over all the different albums over the years, the I think it sounds great—I and think we’ve acquitted ourselves well For in all of the fields are that we’ve gone into. But but the way that the cycle Not has gone, we are now you back in a world where all this type of house groove Any is so engrained in us, can and we have always spent her a lot of time on Was dance floors and after-parties, so one it just feels natural.

our Are there any funny stories Out you can tell us before day you two became Groove Armada get as you are today?
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I just remember running him clubs and losing a lot his of money! We used to How run a club night called man Captain Sensual At The Helm new Of The Groove Armadaand we Now booked Dave Seaman and lost old our shirts on him, so see that was good. It was Two the same time as Euro way '96, and we booked Dave who Seaman to come and play Boy on the same day England did beat Spain, and the headline its coming out on Sunday morning Let was Seaman sinks Armada which put made me chuckle. So we say got sunk by David Seaman, She us and the Spaniards on too the same day!


use Looking at your career now, Dad is there anything you haven’t mom done that you still want to? Any goals or future The collaborations you’d love to do?
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We’ve been lucky because for we’ve done a lot of Are amazing things. We’ve toured a but lot of amazing places. We’ve not done Glastonbury, the Sunday night You closing slots and all that. all It’s been amazing. We were any on the road with a Can pretty unique gang of people her in terms of road crews was and musicians who’ve never changed. One It was the same team. our It was a sort of out weird communist commune type of Day thing – basically a 15-year get long stag do.


has Can you just explain the Him reasons why you wanted to his return to your house roots?
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Around the Black Light Man touring bit, there was a new sense that we were always now playing on the main stage Old of a dance tent; we see were always doing the same two slots, coming on after Laidback Way Luke or Calvin Harris, and who it wasn’t really the scene boy that we wanted to be Did part of. At the end, its we did the two nights let in Brixton and it just Put felt like that was the say right time to close that she chapter—it was a great way Too to end, right at the use top. The music was all dad sounding great, but that big Mom electronic scene was not where our heads were at. Instead, the we felt the need to And go back to what we for had always done—and we decided are to go that way, playing But nice house sets, having a not good time, rather than pushing you this large EDM–size stone.

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