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If it wasn’t Kerri Chandler, the award for best set of the weekend (if there was one) would have gone to Catz n Dogs. The Pets Recordings label bosses took to the stage like true bosses and performed a masterclass. A solid hour and 45 mins of a style that oozed rhythmic grooves and round basslines, quality techno with a real Berlinesque feel to it. To close the night House & Techno great Kerri Chandler completely bossed it. A real ground hugging performance picking up from where the the queen of jackin house Heidi had left off, taking the floor on a real journey through sound. Kerri had us all within the palm of his hands as he stood a mere few meters away from a room full of dishevelled ravers who had, through the sheer energy and quality of the track selection, mustered enough energy to party right through to 3.30am on a Monday morning ending the Bugged out weekend on a high. We’re already looking forward to more of the same next year. Jozef K is one of the UK’s fastest rising stars who has respectively earned himself a residency at Sankey’s Manchester and Tribal Sessions in London nightclub Fire. We managed to catch up with jozef K for a quick chat after warming the room and opening for DJ Koze. How did you get into the game, how did you start? When I was 17 I went to Sankeys and I just thought, this is for me, this is my domain and I want to be a part of this. After one of the Tribal Sessions nights, they gave out flyers to do work experience in the office, so I applied for that and luckily I was chosen out of 200 applicants. I started working in the office, and though I enjoyed working and learning about the industry I found it really difficult at times - I always did it with the ulterior motive of becoming a full time DJ. Who were the artists around at the time that heavily influenced you? Greg Vickers who was the main resident at Tribal Sessions was somebody always looked up to. At the time I was listening to a lot of Minimal Techno artists like Stephen Bodzin, Magda, Marc Romboy and DJ Koze, who I just 30 www.AudiationMagazine.com
played before at the festival, was really crazy to play before him after originally being a huge fan. Things are always changing within time, do you prefer the old school stuff or the new school stuff? Definitely I have ’thing’ for old school, Detroit and Chicago type records, I feel there is a lot of depth to it. However, bluntly speaking I like emotional music, and I can just as likely find this in new school track as much as older one. Generally all DJs would prefer to play a peak time set to a busy room but in terms of having a range of music to play would you prefer to play a longer opening or a longer closing set? Would the long opening set include some peak time in it? As it does make some difference. Lets say a 3hr opening set or a 3 hr closing set Probably the closing set as I simply love ending the night and think it is one of my strengths as an artist. I did the close last night at Fire. I love to continue the vibe from the previous DJ and then gradually begin to play more emotionally. The musical phrase would be that I like to finish with a ‘diminuendo'. That is probably my favourite time to play, the last hour, when everyone is slowly coming back to reality and I can play some of the records closest to me, that I feel are too precious to play most of the time. Vinyl is making a big comeback, so Vinyl or CDJs? I originally learnt on vinyl but I have become accustomed to using CDJs as I have been using them for 7 years now. I use so many of the functions of Rekordbox (USB mixing software) that it would feel like a step back to go back to mixing records. I feel that whatever medium a person uses it is all good. I have no hang ups with platform choice, I don’t mind if somebody plays off a laptop, I know often people speak badly of laptop DJ’s using the sync function and not learning the fundamentals of DJing but I’m not really bothered as long as the music is right, that is all I care about. I don’t really see what impact it has on me if someone mixes using sync, I just like music at the end of the day. BOW, how was your set for you? 31
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