Q: You are two guys in Djuma Soundsystem , you have two more aliases Ben Horn and Def Jaguar , from when are you two together , how did you met?
Both Lars B and me have been DJs since we were kids, but didn't produce music before we meet around 6 years ago. Lars just lost his best friend, and I just lost my scolarship for my university, so we both were a little lost and needed something new in our life. I met Lars while dj'ing at a famous club in Copenhagen called Rust (witch burned down last year), were the both of us got hired as residents. We always had a dream of making music, and sort of thought each other how to. After this we've never parted, so I guess you could call us a great team.
Q: With the other two names , you make different music then when you are Djuma Soundsystem ? Funk ? Breakbeat?
We have always just made music without thinking to much about what to do with it, or which hype it belongs to, and then afterwards we raised the qestions on which category to place it in. So it just came natural to make up some different names for different projects. I think we have released under 8 different aliases all together. Now we try to scale it down to as few names as possible. Ben Horn as our funky outlet, were we just have remixed a danish band called "Analogik" and Gotan Projects Phillip Cohen Solal, and have a release out on "Auditory Design" next month, with Danish singer Ane Trolle (known from Trentemшller) plus a remix from Ursula 1000. As Def Jaguar we make funky club music; we had a singel out recently called "Chick 1" on British label "IO", plus a colaboration with our friend, Flip out on "Brut". But Djuma Soundsystem is surely our main focus, where we try to make sort of a deep techno sound of our own, that still fits our label, Get Physicals, profile.
Q: You have new release on the label Brut , called This sound ? Do you smell one more hit?
We are a little pissed on the label, bacause it's NOT a Djuma Soundsystem release, it's Def Jaguar, in a colaboration with our friend Flip. I suspect that they added the Djuma name to sell some extra copies, and that's not cool at all. It's not a "hit" type of track, just a good club track. It gets a lot of great feedback from DJs, and is already at no 14 on beatport the first week, so we're really happy with that off course, but we still feel cheated.
Q: When you do a dj set , so , you dont play together then , do you play similar music , or the style that you play has nothing to do with Lars's choice of music?
We have very much the same taste of music, and are very much in tune when we play together! I don't like too much to play back to back, because often it gets too random and messy. But I know Lars, and he knows me, so well, that we give eachother lots of energy, in stead of "playing against eachother". On a good day we're like a two headed octapus. I also like to be in charge, cause it gives more control. So often I will start the night to play half an hour like, and then Lars gets the same, and then we do a back to back when we're both gotten warm and in a good party mood.
Q: Is it better to do live playing your tracks ? Or you think that its better when you mix tracks that someone else created?
For me personaly, it's not "creative" to DJ, it's a craft! So is playing your music out I guess. Making music in the studio is creating! It's still special to perform your own music. That's the only time you really get a confirmation if your music works or not.
Q: What is your favourite place that you have ever played ? And at this point you like more playing on festivals where the big crowd is or in small clubs with chosen people?
I like both! Of course it's a more grand experience to play a festival in front of thousands of people, but in many ways it's more intense to play for a small crowd, its much easyer to feel totaly in tune with a smaller crowd, and it's more personal.
Q: How is it to be signed for Get Physical , one of the most successful labels these days?
It's a bit strange having your heroes as bosses, ha ha! We've always been huge fans of the label, and maybe especially Booka Shade, so we had to pinch our selves to believe it when G P called and wanted to sign us.
Q: Your world famous track Les Djinns is the most sold track on Beatport ever!! That is one huge success , how did you get long with that , did something changed after that ? More bookings ? More myspace requests? :)))
Of course it opend some doors for us! We are now on our favourite booking agency, Wilde bookings, and get to play all over the world! We are very greatful for that! It's my dream coming true, to travel a lot, see strange places and meet a lot of cool people. I'm not sure if I would come to see Macedonia for instance, if it haden't been for my job.
Q: The same track was released on EMI the biggest label in Denmark, before Get Physical , was it so sold then also?
No, the track was signed to EMI just in those days that all of those "major" labels suffered, so it was released in Denmark, and promoes were given to UK DJs, and then the track was cancelled (as EMI dropped almost 1/3 of all their artists), and we bought it back. The funny thing is that we got our good friend Anders to do a remix of the track, and it got no response at all. Four years later it was released again, and his name, Trentemшller was better known...and the rest is history ;)
© Katerina Mileska [Miss Flooder]
www.skopjeclubbing.com.mk 2008
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