Deckhead 2.0

I have a quick interview to post today! Doorly is currently in Australia on a nation wide tour and I have been given the opportunity to support him (djing) this Saturday night @ the Bourban Kings Cross in Sydney. As a result I have sent him through a couple of questions in relation to his djing and music making and he was kind enough to take a few minutes out of his hectic schedule to answer them and rather than doing some boring and generic answers he has actually given some of the most insightful answers I have received in a long time.

When did you first start DJ’ing and how did it all begin?

About 10 Years ago, I was working behind the bar in a club and had a set of decks, I couldn’t mix properly but one night the DJ didn’t show up so I jumped on and ended up getting the job!!

Who were your main influences when your first started? and which artists are you digging at the moment?

At the time it was all about house music, I was blown away by the way that Erick Morillo used CDJs and also the hip-hop sensibility of DJ’s like Fatboy Slim & Armand Van Helden and later 2manydjs. These days i’m into far too many artists to name right across the genres but the one person that seems to give me so much diversity in his music is Skream, the guy is a modern day genius! As far as live in the clubs the best right now for me are the likes of Fake Blood & Brodinski although the most technically impressive set I’ve seen this year was by Zane Lowe!

How has being a resident in Ibiza influenced your DJing and producing?

It’s definitely helped me to bridge the gap into making and playing a more European sound, there’s so much inspiration on the island and on any night of the week there will be at least 10 world class DJ’s playing locally so its so easy to keep an eye on what’s moving and shaking and stay well ahead of the game musically.

A lot of your recent production has focused on the Dubstep genre, is that

something that you always had an interest in or if not how did you come about producing it?
I fell into dubstep as a happy accident. I was booked for a party that seemed quite heavy on dubstep & drum & bass and I’d been playing a lot of it in my sets at the time but had never produced anything of my own like that. I was on the train on the way to the gig and Zane Lowe played the world exclusive of Dizzee Rascal’s – Bonkers and I thought, “that’s massive” so I ripped the audio from the show and decided to customise it into a dubstep booty for me to play in my set that night. T went down so well that I decided to give it away to the blogs and the rest is history. The track got signed onto the official release and I was then approached by loads of acts to make some dubstep remixes! I still make loads of other genres of music but because of the success of all some of my dub stuff everyone thinks I’m solely a dubstep artist!

You seem to be a man of the people, often sending out your tracks to blogs. What is your opinion on their influence on the music industry, a good or bad thing?

Yeah, blogs are a GREAT thing. It’s a great way for new talent to sidestep label politics and get noticed without having to go about the near impossible task of getting some remix parts or getting a track signed to a label. Before I was known I used to beg labels to listen to my stuff or let me have a go at remixing something, and did a lot for free but they would end up declining my remix and going for the crusty same old remixers over mine because I wasn’t a known producer that would generate big record sales. It’s really satisfying now that those same labels are approaching me all the time these days and will do anything to get me to remix their track. That would have never happened without the Internet being there to showcase what an unknown producer can do without a label backing them.

If you could pick 2 artists (dead or alive) to collaborate with who would they be and why?

Soulwax – because they are so ridiculously talented, everything they make is so well produced, plus Dave and steph are so much fun it would just be an experience!!
Vocalist wise I’d love to work with M.I.A, she’s amazing!

What can people expect to hear when they check you out on your tour of Australia

Just a good party, I’ll probably be playing a bit of everything, testing the water here and there but I’m thinking that big basslines are what are gonna do it here!! Looking forward to partying with you all : )

Doorly

Come catch myself, DCUP, Knife Machine support DOORLY on Saturday night after Good Vibrations at the Bourban in Kings Cross. Leave comments with any names for guestlist

Track time

Doorly Mix, With track listing

♪ Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers (Doorly Remix)

♪ Calvin Harris – Not Alone (Doorly Remix)

♪ http://www.mediafire.com/?zjejzzujtez

I have a sick remix to brighten up this miserable Friday afternoon, it comes from Sydney based DJ Alison Wonderland, who is slowly becoming one of Sydney’s most sought after party starter djs. Her musical background is quit diverse, she started out as a classically trained musician, turned indie bass player, and now ripping up the Sydney scene as a DJ. It comes as no surprise to me and anyone around her that the next path she would follow would be into production and based on this first track I see a bright future.

Born from a late-night revelation on a stormy eastern Sydney shore, Sherlock’s Daughter front woman Tanya Horo weaved the fatasy worlds of the sepia-tinged memories of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, fleeting new-world colonial adventure & ornate pagan ceremonial impressions. Bridging the gap between insanity & parable, the 5 piece knit together a heaving experience of heavy dream pop through shifting frames of multi-instrumentation… The music is replete with diverse elements such as live videogame tweaking, percussive sandpaper, echoing handclaps, marimba, sampled rhythmic scenes and sweet, uneasy harmonies.

♪ Kids (Alison Wonderland Remix) – Sherlock’s Daughter

Links:
Alison Wonderland Myspace
Sherlock’s Daughter Myspace

Back from England with a crush on Big Ben and a huge list of artists and other creative types that I found inspiring in the motherland. But on an unusual note, I thought I’d continue my blogging with one artwork that I didn’t find exactly inspirational, rather, frightening as shit! I was so freaked about Mark Quin’s ‘Self’ artwork, in fact I’m kinda freaked out right now as I Google Image search it. One thing ‘Self’ doesn’t lack is that ‘wow’ factor; located in London’s National Portrait Gallery (Way better then the National Art Gallery itself) ‘Self’ is a 3D model cast of the artist’s head frozen inside a glass and metal container. Where things get interesting is what the cast is made from; a combination of 10 pints of the artist’s own blood (collected over a period of 5 months) with other preservative chemicals. Pretty creepy. Unaware of what it was made of, I initially approached the artwork admiring the mahogany crystal like appearance of the sculpture as it seemed to float within an glass container filled with water…To then be completely repulsed upon reading what it actually was, yet I couldn’t help staring. I hope you find it as hauntingly fascinating as I do.

Alyssa