As electronic dance music artist, you can extract your influences from the limited styles palette in the genre itself or succeed further.
If you are quantic (aka Will Holland), the search for inspiration can even lead you to cross the Atlantic, from England to Colombia, to notice the heritage of folk music in South America.
As an expatriate who lives and is running in Colombia for almost a decade, the British DJ producer has explored classic flavors of local music such as cumbia and salsa through the caleidoscopic objective of the production of electronic fashion music. The new crown in the formidable discography of Quantic is its last long, magnetic player, which will provide Pickle Electric, as well as other cuts to opt for its fusion catalog of Latin-electronic originals.
Before the show, we talked to Quantic to fall in love with Colombian music, the new album and his return to a sound more aimed at the dance floor.
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CrossFade: How did they present you for the first time in Colombia and their musical traditions? What attracted you to this country and its music?
Quantic: I introduced Colombian music while traveling to Porto Rico and New York, it is my advent to Latin music in general. Aware of Latin jazz through paying attention and collecting jazz discs such as Impulse and Blue Note, but until then, I had not had the possibility of paying attention to the roots. After collecting Jukebox forty -five in San Juan, I entered the cumbia led through the accordion of the Atlantic Coast of Colombia, then in the sound of the Medellin study, the most orchestrated and electric recharge of Colombian folklore. From there, I took an invitation from a friend to remain with his circle of relatives in Cali, in the western aspect of Colombia, and then I traveled a lot with my friend Beto Gyemant to look for records in Colombia and Panama.
As DJ and collection, these trips have proven to be very educational and, as a musical producer, they fed my interest in the new sounds and concepts of disposition. After a while, I realize that it is older to live in Colombia and continue my thirst to record a little more. There were things that I looked for to see in the study, and South America gave me the freedom to do so that I could not locate myself in the United Kingdom at that time.
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Tell us about your Sound of the Valley study in Colombia. What do you paint in this corner of the world? How do you motivate and say what you do as an artist?
In Cali, I began to live in the Centennial district and rented a little friend from a friend. I had sent my study apparatus from England and negotiated the acquisition of an acoustic standup piano Wurlitzer. After some recordings there and the final touch of the tropidelic record, I moved to a greater clash in the city center. I had a spare component and that I built the Sunido del Valle studio. We recorded several records there, adding the culture on the transition album, look at the corner of the street with Alice Russell, and the accordion and the cumbia registration the mythical rhythm, which I gathered after learning the accordion with Anibal Velasquez in Barranquilla.
Very remaining in Cali very educational, being in the Corporation of Wonderful Musicians like Alfredo Linares and Wilson Viveros, an exciting one delights and I would like to repeat. Having come from the culture of DJ and the global launch of disc in a musical dance environment, it is a genuine replacement of the rhythm and delight to be among the Latin musical culture, and especially to be informed of its first hand. After this time in Cali, I moved to Bogotá after registering the Ondatropic Registry with Mario Galeano, aka Frente Combiera.
This summer he saw that of your new album, magnetic. How did you deal with song writing and the artistic procedure of the album? Did you have a concept in the brain before going to the study?
Before the recording of the magnetic, a thirst to return to a more electronic sound and connected to the DJ had definitely evolved. People spoke of my return to my electronic roots with this album, but I can’t say that I really had my roots in electronic music. I have balanced my productions with an intelligent dose of live instrumentation and electronic spices. But I think it is an album to return to a more dance sound, directed to the DJ, one for the challenge reading lists and the generation of Soundcloud. I think there are still divisions between those that pay attention to low music, electronic music, EDM (call it what you want) and those who dig salsa, cumbia, reggae, funk, those occasionally seem to be other worlds. So I guess Magnetic was my attempt to join them.
What were some of the most prominent aspects of album production with respect to Colombian musicians in the study and collaboration with them?
It was a genuine dream of running with Fruko on this album. It is a key type for anyone in the Colombian sound of the last century. He played with Los Corraleros, Latin Brothers, and was behind face, black piano and, fundamentally, all the sound of the hip that came out here from the nightclubs of Fuentes. Michi Sarmiento was also an emotion to the paintings with him, he is also a component of the undatropic project. In this album, I also painted with Alice Russell, with whom I collaborated on several albums and is magical.
So what can Miami waiting for your program in Electric Pickle with the neighbors on Saturday? How is DJ technique as excavator and selector?
I intend to play a set basically founded in 45. I have many new productions and plaques to present, as well as Quantic classics and an intelligent variety of things to shake the buttocks.
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Quantic, throughout Mr. Pauper, Methods, Sire and DJ Lumin. Presented through the neighbors and the electricity. Saturday, August 23. Electric Pickle, 2826 N. Miami Ave. , Miami. The screen starts at 10 p. m. And tickets charge $ 15 more . NET resident advisors. 21 years or more. Call 305-456-5613 or a stop at Electricpicklemiami. com.
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