What about your own influences in productions. You mentioned you go the full range in your own mixes, but do you have a certain focus when it comes to music production?
Mostly everything. For example, ten days ago I released a mix for Joseph Capriati and next I’m releasing a track on Hot Creations, then I have a remix for Stephan Bodzin.
So you put Drumcode, Hot Creations and Stephan Bodzin on the same package and they are totally different, right?
Sometimes I also feel I am 4 artists at once. I’m doing an open to close set in Output, probably the hottest club in Brooklyn, they have all the big guys playing there and I have a 6h set, where I think I will open the first hour with ambient music. Music that I want to hear on a club at midnight, music for listening, not for dancing. So I am very very eclectic, going from indie, pop to super techno.
I think it is a natural thing. Why should I like just one sound? Why should I listen or play just techno if house is amazing? I am not searching for my sound. I just love all music. In my itunes you will see trip hop and drum n bass, I like a lot of music and that is what I try to show in a crowd.
Does being eclectic have a downside for you?
I have been working on my album forever, for the last three or four years. But I still don’t know if I am ready to show to the scene all those tracks. Because I have popular music, trip hop, hip hop, it is so open, the range of the genres, I am not even sure if the scene is ready to absorb it. The people that are close to me know that I like a lot of music, but the scene knows that “Coyu is the guy who likes percussion” or “Coyu is the guy who plays groovy” but probably they don’t know I can go full spectrum. That is why my album is a big challenge.
Do you have a set date for your album to come out?
Oh, I don’t know. I have been working on it and I have a lot of tracks. But they are so different there is just no connection. I don’t know, I don’t know… I think I am not ready for someone who doesn’t know me and can grade me as a wannabe, as someone who aims for more than he can reach.
I have been working as a music journalist for 6-7 years, since I was 18 years old. I have made interviews to almost everybody from Loco Dice to David Guetta, so I know that a bad review can hurt a lot for an artist. Because I did it. For me was very easy to say “this track is shit” or “this EP is 1 star”. But I am not ready to get that yet.
Who did you write a bad review for?
I have been working with Spanish magazines for years, I loved it, but only now I know that a bad review could hurt so much. It’s ok since especially with EP’s I’m pretty easy, I don’t care if someone tells me I don’t like this track, but an album is something very personal.
It’s a funny thing my current manager was a producer and a label owner, running the first big label in Spain, it was called Regular, I did bad reviews for him and he remembers.
Nothing else to expect from a Spanish guy, you are massively positive. Nevertheless, what is it that you look most forward to in your career?
I’m trying to enjoy what I’m doing right now, that is something very cool. Im playing on the same line ups in The States with Jackmaster, Luciano and other big guys, Suara is doing very well, I having a good year with my music too. Moby asked me to do a second remix for his new album, it’s all exciting moments. But, of course, I want to be remembered as one of the bigger guys at the end of the day.
I miss my social life. I don’t see my girlfriend so much, or my cats. This DJ life is amazing, but you miss the home part. At the end of the day, I have to be very happy with what I am getting from this world.
Who are the big guys you are talking about, ones you look up to?
I guess when I look back for what he did for the last ten years within the scene I would say it’s Richie Hawtin. Probably, also Ricardo Villalobos, Carl Cox, Laurent Garnier, ten years later now they are still very far from me, but now I am not that far from them, I am a medium class DJ, not Carl Cox for sure, maybe not gonna be him in this life, but gonna try to get the respect of the scene. I would just like to be someone who gives something in the electronic scene.
Coyu – Party Groovers is available TODAY on Suara Music
Tracklist
1. Paul C & Paolo Martini- Catwalk (Original mix) – Suara
2. Sidney Charles- I need you (Original mix) – Truesoul
3. Coyu- Who s Wearing The Trousers (original mix) – Suara
4. Mendo – Don’t Hold Back (Original Mix) – Toolroom Trax
5. Unknown
6. D-Formation, Tini Garcia– Andiamo (Original mix)– Stereo
7. Unknown
8. Arno Stolz- Movers (original mix)– Aella
9. Unknown
10. Macromism- Alphabet (Anna remix)– Octopus Rec.
11. Unknown
12. Tini Garcia– Blue World (Original Mix) – Stereo
13. Copy Paste Soul– In Focus (Original mix)– Intec
14. Ramiro Lopez – Fine (Original mix)– Suara
– Interview By Emilija Kucyte
– Label Showcase By Steve Rickinson